Macavity Awards

Mystery Readers International announces the Nominees for the 2003 Macavity Awards:

BEST MYSTERY NOVEL

The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt (Putnam)

For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin’s)

The Guards by Ken Bruen (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Done for a Dime by David Corbett (Ballantine)

The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (Soho)

BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL

Night of the Dance by James Hime, St. Martin’s Minotaur

Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca C. Pawel (Soho)

The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho press)

BEST NON-FICTION

Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol. 3 by Colleen A Barnett (Poisoned Pen Press)

A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers by Jo Grossman & Robert Weibezahl (Poisoned Pen Press)

Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction by Gary Warren Niebuhr (Libraries Unlimited)

Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)

BEST SHORT STORY

“The Grass Is Always Greener” by Sandy Balzo (EQMM, March 2003)

“Rogues Gallery” by Robert Barnard (EQMM,_March 2003)

“Texas Two-Step” by Diana Deverell (AHMM, February 2003)

“No Man’s Land” by Beth Foxwell (Blood On Their Hands, ed. by Lawrence Block, Berkley Prime Crime)

“War Crimes” by G. Miki Hayden (A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, ed. by Jeffery Deaver, Berkley Prime Crime)

“Child Support,” by Ronnie Klaskin (A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime,

ed. by Jeffery Deaver, Berkley Prime Crime)

“Red Meat” by Elaine Viets (Blood On Their Hands, ed. by Lawrence

Block, Berkley Prime Crime)

The Macavity Awards will be given at Bouchercon, the World Mystery convention, in October in Toronto. Congratulaions to all the nominees.