…and your Macavity Award Winners

Courtesy Mystery Readers Journal, who awarded them last night:

Best Novel: THE VIRGIN OF SMALL PLAINS, Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)

Best First Novel: MR. CLARINET, Nick Stone (Penguin/Michael Joseph)

Best Nonfiction: Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers edited by Jim Huang and Austin Lugar (Crum Creek)

Best Short Story: “Til Death Do Us Part” by Tim Maleeny (MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben; Little, Brown)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery: Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen (Minotaur)

Once again, congratulations to all the winners.