Macavity Award Nominees

As presented by the Mystery Readers Journal. The winners, too, will be announced at Bouchercon:

Best Mystery Novel:

• Reed Farrel Coleman: Soul Patch   (Bleak House)
• John Connolly: The Unquiet  (Hodder & Stoughton*/Atria)
• David Corbett: Blood of Paradise  (Ballantine Mortalis)
• Deborah Crombie: Water Like a Stone (Morrow)
• Laura Lippman: What the Dead Know  (Morrow)

Best First Mystery:

• Tana French: In the Woods (Hodder & Stoughton*/Viking)
• Joe Hill: Heart-Shaped Box   (William Morrow)
• Lisa Lutz: The Spellman Files   (Simon & Schuster)
• Tim Maleeny: Stealing the Dragon (Midnight Ink)

• Matt Beynon Rees: The Collaborator of Bethlehem   (Soho)

   

Best Mystery Short Story:

• Donna Andrews: “A Rat’s Tale”  (EQMM, Sep-Oct 2007)
• Rhys Bowen: “Please Watch Your Step”   (The Strand Magazine, Spring 2007)
• Jon L. Breen: “The Missing Elevator Puzzle”  (EQMM, Feb 2007)
• Beverle Graves Myers: “Brimstone P.I.”  (AHMM, May 2007)

• Gillian Roberts: “The Old Wife’s Tale” (EQMM, Mar-Apr 2007)

   

Best Mystery Non-Fiction:

• Barry Forshaw: Rough Guide to Crime Fiction   (Penguin Rough Guides)
• Jean Gould O’Connell: Chester Gould: A Daughter’s Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy (McFarland & Company)
• Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley, editors: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (HarperPress*/Penguin)
• Lee Lofland: Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers (Howdunit Series, Writers Digest Books)
• Roger Sobin, editor/compiler: The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians (Poisoned Pen Press)

Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery:

• Rhys Bowen: Her Royal Spyness (Penguin)
• Ariana Franklin: Mistress of the Art of Death  (Putnam)
• Jason Goodwin: The Snake Stone (Faber & Faber*/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Clare Langley-Hawthorne: Consequences of Sin (Viking*/Penguin)
• Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger’s Daughter (HarperCollins Ecco)

Congratulations to all the nominees!