MACAVITY AWARD NOMINATIONS

The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in five categories.

Mystery Readers International is the largest mystery fan/reader organization in the world, is open to all readers, fans, critics, editors, publishers, and writers. Started by Janet A. Rudolph in Berkeley, California, it now has members in all 50 of the United States and 18 foreign countries. Members vote each year to nominate and select the winners of the Macavity Award.

The year listed is the year of the award, for books published in the previous year.

2018

Best Novel:

Karen Dionne: The Marsh King’s Daughter (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) –

Dionne wordt in het Nederlands uitgegeven door De Fontein

Anthony Horowitz: Magpie Murders (Harper)

Attica Locke: Bluebird, Bluebird (Mulholland)

Louise Penny: Glass Houses (Minotaur)

Thomas Perry: The Old Man (Mysterious Press)

Don Winslow: The Force (Wm. Morrow) –

Winslow wordt in het Nederlands uitgegeven door Lebowski Publishers

Best First Novel:

Kellye Garrett: Hollywood Homicide (Midnight Ink)

Jane Harper: The Dry (Flatiron)

(verscheen al in 2016) vertaald als De Droogte bij Bruna Uitgevers B.V.

Jordan Harper: She Rides Shotgun (Ecco)

Sheena Kamal: The Lost Ones (Wm. Morrow)

Kristen Lepionka: The Last Place You Look (Minotaur)

Wendall Thomas: Lost Luggage (Poisoned Pen)