Macavity Award
The Macavity Award is an American literary award for crime fiction . It is awarded by the Mystery Readers International (MRI), a US-based open association of crime fans and readers worldwide. Works in four categories have been awarded annually since 1987 and five categories since 2006. The award winners are chosen by the members of Mystery Readers International .
The award ceremony takes place every fall at the largest crime festival in the United States, the Bouchercon . The award is named after a character from the humorous poetry collection Old Possum's Book for Practical Cats by TS Eliot , which was also the model for the musical Cats . Macavity is the name of the "gangster cat" that repeatedly evades the pursuit of Scotland Yard .
Current categories
| category | Original title | awarded since |
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| Best novel | Best mystery novel | 1987 |
| Best first novel | Best First Mystery Novel | 1987 |
| Best short story | Best mystery short story | 1987 |
| Best historical detective novel | Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award | 2006 |
| Best biographical or critical non-fiction book | Best Mystery Nonfiction to 2004: Best Bio / Critical Mystery Work |
1987 |
Best novel - Best Mystery Novel
| year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
| 1987 | PD James | A Taste for Death Faber & Faber, London 1986 |
The aftertaste of death Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988 |
| 1988 | Nancy Pickard | Marriage is Murder Scribner’s, New York 1987 |
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| 1989 | Tony Hillerman | A Thief of Time Harper & Row, New York 1988 |
Who steals the past Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990 |
| 1990 | Carolyn Hart | A Little Class on Murder Doubleday, New York 1989 |
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| 1991 | Sharyn McCrumb | If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O Scribner’s, New York 1990 |
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| 1992 | Nancy Pickard | IOU Pocket Books, New York 1991 |
Anything but an accident dtv, Munich 1993 |
| 1993 | Margaret Marron | Bootlegger's Daughter Mysterious Press, New York 1992 |
The Shadows of the South Econ, Düsseldorf 1994 |
| 1994 | Minette Walters | The Sculptress Macmillan, London 1993 |
The sculptor Goldmann, Munich 1995 |
| 1995 | Sharyn McCrumb | She Walks These Hills Scribner’s, New York 1994 |
Shadows over the mountains Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995 |
| 1996 | Mary Willis Walker | Under the Beetle's Cellar Doubleday, New York 1995 |
Under the Käfer Keller C. Bertelsmann, Munich 1996 |
| 1997 | Peter Lovesey | Bloodhounds Little, Brown, London 1996 |
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| 1998 | Deborah Crombie | Dreaming of the Bones Scribner’s, New York 1997 |
The lost poem Goldmann, Munich 1998 |
| 1999 | Michael Connelly | Blood Work Little, Brown, Boston 1998 |
The second heart Heyne, Munich 1999 |
| 2000 | Sujata Massey | The Flower Master HarperCollins, New York 1999 |
Bitter Almond Blossoms Piper, Munich 2002 |
| 2001 | Val McDermid | A Place of Execution HarperCollins, London 1999 |
A place for eternity Droemer, Munich 2000 |
| 2002 | Laurie R. King | Folly Bantam Books, New York 2001 |
The island of whispering voices Wunderlich, Reinbek 2002 |
| 2003 | SJ Rozan | Winter and Night St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2002 |
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| 2004 | Peter Lovesey | The House Sitter Little, Brown, London 2003 |
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| 2005 | Ken Bruen | The Killing of the Tinkers Brandon Books, Dingle, Co. Kerry / Ireland 2002 |
Jack Taylor is wrong Atrium, Zurich 2010 |
| 2006 | Michael Connelly | The Lincoln Lawyer Little, Brown, Boston 2005 |
The client Heyne, Munich 2007 |
| 2007 | Nancy Pickard | The Virgin of Small Plains Ballantine Books, New York 2006 |
Snow blossom Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007 |
| 2008 | Laura Lippman | What the Dead Know William Morrow, New York 2007 |
What the dead know Goldmann, Munich 2009 |
| 2009 | Deborah Crombie | Where Memories Lie William Morrow, New York 2008 |
Wen memory deceives Goldmann, Munich 2009 |
| 2010 | Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman | Tower Busted Flush Press, Huston / Texas 2009 |
Tower Rotbuch, Berlin 2012 |
| 2011 | Louise Penny | Bury Your Dead Sphere, London 2010 |
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| 2012 | Sara Gran | Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston / MA 2011 |
The city of the dead Droemer Knaur, Munich 2012 |
| 2013 | Louise Penny | The Beautiful Mystery St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2012 |
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| 2014 | William Kent Krueger | Ordinary Grace Atria Books, New York 2013 |
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| 2015 | Alex Marwood | The Killer Next Door Penguin Books, New York 2014 |
The killer next door Heyne, Munich 2015 |
| 2016 | Lou Berney | The Long and Faraway Gone William Morrow, New York 2015 |
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| 2017 | Louise Penny | A Great Reckoning Minotaur Books, New York 2016 |
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| 2018 | Anthony Horowitz | Magpie Murders Harper, New York 2017 |
The murders of Pye Hall Island, Berlin 2018 |
| 2019 | Lou Berney | November Road William Morrow, New York 2018 |
Destination Dallas HarperCollins, Hamburg 2019 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Best First Mystery Novel
| year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
| 1987 | Faye Kellerman | The Ritual Bath Arbor House, New York 1986 |
Don't go to Mikwe Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988 |
| Marilyn Wallace | A Case of Loyalties St. Martin's Press, New York 1986 |
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| 1988 | Robert Crais | The Monkey's Raincoat Bantam Books, New York 1987 |
The dangerous ways of Elvis Cole Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989 |
| 1989 | Caroline Graham | The Killing at Badger's Drift Century, London 1987 |
The riddle of Badger's Drift Goldmann, Munich 1997 |
| 1990 | Jill Churchill | Grime and Punishment Bantam Books, New York 1989 |
Dirt and Atonement Econ, Düsseldorf 1994 |
| 1991 | Patricia Cornwell | Postmortem Scribner’s, New York 1990 |
Murder on Saturday morning Droemer Knaur, Munich 1992 |
| 1992 | Sue Henry | Murder on the Iditarod Trail Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 1991 |
Race through the white hell Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1992 |
| Mary Willis Walker | Zero at the Bone St. Martin's Press, New York 1991 |
Predator feeding Goldmann, Munich 1994 |
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| 1993 | Barbara Neely | Blanche on the Lam St. Martin's Press, New York 1992 |
Night Girl Orlanda, Berlin 1993 |
| 1994 | Sharan Newman | Death Comes as Epiphany Tor Books, New York 1993 |
The secret of Abelard and Heloīse Econ, Düsseldorf 1994 |
| 1995 | Jeff Abbott | Do Unto Others Ballantine Books, New York 1994 |
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| 1996 | Dianne Day | The Strange Files of Fremont Jones Doubleday, New York 1995 |
Spies and Black Toads Econ, Düsseldorf 1997 |
| 1997 | Dale Furutani | Death in Little Tokyo St. Martin's Press, New York 1996 |
Death in Little Tokyo Scherz, Bern a. a. 1999 |
| 1998 | Penny Warner | Dead Body Language Bantam Books, New York 1997 |
Body language of a dead Signum, Seedorf 1999 |
| 1999 | Jerrilyn Farmer | Sympathy for the Devil Avon Books, New York 1998 |
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| 2000 | Paula L. Woods | Inner City Blues W.W. Norton, New York 1999 |
Old wounds don't heal Droemer Knaur, Munich 2002 |
| 2001 | David Liss | A Conspiracy of Paper Random House, New York 2000 |
The Goldmann Paper Conspiracy, Munich 2001 |
| 2002 | CJ box | Open Season G.P. Putnam's, New York 2001 |
No closed season Blanvalet, Munich 2003 |
| 2003 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | In the Bleak Midwinter St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2002 |
The white dress of death Knaur, Munich 2005 |
| 2004 | Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs Soho Press, New York 2003 |
Maisie Dobbs - Forgivable Lies Wunderlich, Reinbek 2006 |
| 2005 | Harley Jane Kozak | Dating Dead Men Doubleday, New York 2004 |
My first corpse BLT, Bergisch Gladbach 2005 |
| 2006 | Brian Freeman | Immoral St. Martin's Minotaur 2005 |
Immoral Bertelsmann Book Club, Rheda-Wiedenbrück 2005 |
| 2007 | Nick Stone | Mr. Clarinet Michael Joseph, London 2006 |
Voodoo Goldmann, Munich 2007 |
| 2008 | Tana French | In the Woods Viking, New York 2007 |
Grabesgrün Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2008 |
| 2009 | Larsson rose | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2008 |
Veneering Heyne, Munich 2006 |
| 2010 | Alan Bradley | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Delacorte Press, New York 2009 |
Flavia de Luce, Murder in the Gurkenbeet Penhaligon, Munich 2009 |
| 2011 | Bruce DeSilva | Rogue Island Forge, New York 2010 |
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| 2012 | Leonard Rosen | All Cry Chaos The Permanent Press, New York 2011 |
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| 2013 | Daniel Friedman | Don't Ever Get Old Minotaur Books, New York 2012 |
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| 2014 | Terry Shames | A Killing at Cotton Hill Seventh Street Books, New York 2013 |
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| 2015 | Julia Dahl | Invisible City Minotaur Books, New York 2014 |
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| 2016 | Glen Erik Hamilton | Past Crimes William Morrow, New York 2015 |
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| 2017 | Joe Ide | IQ Mulholland Books, New York 2017 |
IQ Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016 |
| 2018 | Sheena Kamal | The Lost Ones William Morrow, New York 2017 |
Shallows Ullstein, Berlin 2017 |
| 2019 | John Copenhaver | Dodging and Burning Pegasus Books, 2019 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Best Short Story - Best Mystery Short Story
EQMM = Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | AHMM = Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
| year | Award winners | Short story title | Anthology (publisher) |
| 1987 | Sue Grafton | The Parker Shotgun | |
| 1988 | Robert Barnard | The Woman in the Wardrobe | |
| 1989 | Doug Allyn | Déjà-vu | |
| 1990 | Nancy Pickard | Afraid all the time | |
| 1991 | Joan Hess | Too much to bare | |
| 1992 | Margaret Marron | Deborah's Judgment | |
| 1993 | Carolyn Hart | Henrie O's Holiday | |
| 1994 | Susan Dunlap | Check out | |
| 1995 | Deborah Adams | Cast Your Fate to the Wind | |
| Jan Burke | Unharmed | ||
| 1996 | Colin Dexter | Evans Tries at O-Level | Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories (Crown) |
| 1997 | Carolyn Wheat | Cruel & Unusual | Guilty As Charged (Pocket) |
| 1998 | Peter Robinson | Two Ladies of Rose Cottage | Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books) |
| 1999 | Barbara D'Amato | Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable | EQMM, November 1998 |
| 2000 | Kate Grilley | Maubi and the Jumbies | Murderous Intent, Fall 1999 |
| 2001 | Reginald Hill | A candle for Christmas | EQMM, January 2000 |
| 2002 | Jan Burke | The Abbey Ghosts | AHMM, January 2001 |
| 2003 | Janet Dawson | Voice Mail | Scam and Eggs (Five Star) |
| 2004 | Sandy Balzo | The Grass Is Always Greener | EQMM, March 2003 |
| 2005 | Terence Faherty | The Widow of Slane | EQMM, March / April 2004 |
| 2006 | Nancy Pickard | There Is No Crime on Easter Island | EQMM, September / October 2005 |
| 2007 | Tim Maleeny | Til Death Do Us Part |
MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder (Little, Brown) |
| 2008 | Rhys Bowen | Please watch your step | The Strand Magazine, No. 21, February-May 2007 |
| 2009 | Dana Cameron | The Night Things Changed |
Charlaine Harris, Toni LP Kelner (Eds.): Wolfsbane & Mistletoe (Penguin Books, 2008) (German werewolves for Christmas . German TV, Munich 2009) |
| 2010 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | On the house | Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers. (Level Best Books, November 2009) |
| 2011 | Dana Cameron | Swing shift |
Charlaine Harris (Ed.): Crimes by Moonlight (Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2010) |
| 2012 | Dana Cameron | Disarming | EQMM, June 2011 |
| 2013 | Barb Goffman | The Lord Is My Shamus |
Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, Marcia Talley (Eds.): This Job Is Murder (Wildside, Rockville / Maryland) |
| 2014 | Art Taylor | The Care and Feeding of Houseplants | EQMM, March / April 2013 |
| 2015 | Craig Faustus Buck | Honeymoon Sweet |
Dana Cameron (Ed.): Murder at the Beach (Down & Out Books, Lutz / FL 2014) |
| 2016 | Megan Abbott | The Little Men | Bookshop, New York 2015 |
| 2017 | Art Taylor | Parallel play |
Storm Warning: Chesapeake Crimes (Wildside Press, Rockville / Maryland 2016) |
| 2018 | Paul D. Marks | Windward |
Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea Down & Out Books, Tampa / Florida 2017 |
| 2019 | Art Taylor | English 398: Fiction Workshop | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July / Aug 2018 |
Best Historical Detective Novel - Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award
In memory of the editor, critic and founder of the American Historical Mystery Appreciation Society (HMAS), Sue Feder, who died on September 9, 2005, the MRI has been awarding another prize since 2006: the best historical crime thriller is the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award excellent.
| year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
| 2006 | Jacqueline Winspear | Pardonable Lies - A Maisie Dobbs Novel Henry Holt, New York 2005 |
Maisie Dobbs - Forgivable Lies Wunderlich, Reinbek 2006 |
| 2007 | Rhys Bowen | Oh Danny Boy St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2006 |
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| 2008 | Ariana Franklin | Mistress of the Art of Death G.P. Putnam's, New York 2007 |
The death reader Droemer, Munich 2007 |
| 2009 | Rhys Bowen | A Royal Pain Berkley, New York 2008 |
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| 2010 | Rebecca Cantrell | A Trace of Smoke Forge, New York 2009 |
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| 2011 | Kelli Stanley | City of Dragons Minotaur Books, New York 2010 |
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| 2012 | Catriona McPherson | Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2011 |
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| 2013 | Charles Todd | To Unmarked Grave William Morrow, New York 2012 |
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| 2014 | David Morrell | Murder As a Fine Art Little, Brown & Co., New York 2013 |
The opium killer Knaur, Munich 2015 |
| 2015 | Catronia McPherson | A Deadly Measure of Brimstone Minotaur Books, New York 2014 |
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| 2016 | Susanna Calkins | The Masque of a Murderer Minotaur Books, New York 2015 |
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| 2017 | James W. Ziskin | Heart of Stone Seventh Street Amherst / NY 2016 |
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| 2018 | Rhys Bowen | In Farleigh Field Lake Union Publishing, Seattle / Washington 2017 |
Lord Westerham's Daughters Ink & Pen, Luxembourg 2018 |
| 2019 | Sujata Massey | The Widows of Malabar Hill Soho Crime, New York 2018 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Best Biographical or Critical Nonfiction Book - Best Mystery Nonfiction
(The award was given under the title Best Bio / Critical Mystery Work until 2004 )
| year | Award winners | Original title | German title |
| 1987 | Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini | 1001 midnights | |
| 1988 | Bill Pronzini | Son of Gun in Cheek | |
| 1989 | Victoria Nichols & Susan Thompson | Silk stalkings | |
| 1990 | HRF Keating | The Bedside Companion to Crime | |
| 1991 | Gillian Gill | Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries |
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| 1992 | Tony Hillerman & Ernie Bulow | Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman |
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| 1993 | Ellen Nehr | Doubleday Crime Club Compendium | |
| 1994 | Ed Gorman | The Fine Art of Murder | |
| 1995 | Dean James & Jean Swanson | By a woman's hand | |
| 1996 | Willetta Heising | Detecting Women | |
| 1997 | Wiletta Heising | Detecting Women 2 | |
| 1998 | Jan Grape , Dean James & Ellen Nehr | Deadly Women | |
| 1999 | Jean Swanson & Dean James | Killer Books | |
| 2000 | Tom Nolan | Ross Macdonald | |
| 2001 | Marvin Lachman | The American Regional Mystery | |
| 2002 | G. Miki Hayden | Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional |
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| 2003 | Jim Huang | They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels |
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| 2004 | Gary Warren Niebuhr | Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction |
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| 2005 | DP Lyle | Forensics for Dummies | |
| 2006 | Melanie Rehak | Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her |
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| 2007 | Jim Huang & Austin Lugar | Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers |
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| 2008 | Roger Sobin | The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors and Librarians |
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| 2009 | Frankie Y. Bailey | African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study |
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| 2010 | PD James | Talking about Detective Fiction | |
| 2011 | John Curran | Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mystery in the Making |
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| 2012 | Charlaine Harris | The Sookie Stackhouse Companion | |
| 2013 | John Connolly and Declan Burke | Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels |
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| 2014 | Daniel Stashower | The Hour of Peril | |
| 2015 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey | |
| 2016 | Martin Edwards | The Golden Age of a Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story |
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| 2017 | Margaret Kinsman | Sara Paretsky : A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | |
| 2018 | Martin Edwards | The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books Poisoned Pen / British Library |
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| 2019 | Sarah Weinman | The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World HarperCollins, New York 2018 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ appeared under the pseudonym Janice Young Brooks
- ↑ later also under the title Jagdopfer bei Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-43430-1 .