Macavity Award Winners

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The Macavity Awards are a literary award for mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers...more

Winners

	A Trace of Smoke (Hannah Vogel, #1) by Rebecca Cantrell (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 411 ratings Macavity Award for Sue Feder Historical Mystery (2010)	My rating:
	Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James 3.61 avg rating — 450 ratings Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction (2010)	My rating:
	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 30,359 ratings Macavity Award for Best First Novel (2010)	My rating:
	Tower by Ken Bruen 3.77 avg rating — 100 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2010)	My rating:
	A Royal Pain (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #2) by Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 1,871 ratings Macavity Award for Sue Feder Historical Mystery (2009)	My rating:
	African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction (2009)	My rating:
	Where Memories Lie (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #12) by Deborah Crombie 4.07 avg rating — 1,041 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2009)	My rating:
	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson 4.01 avg rating — 398,703 ratings Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2009)	My rating:
	Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1) by Ariana Franklin 3.90 avg rating — 10,589 ratings Macavity Award for Sue Feder Historical Mystery (2008)	My rating:
	The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians by Roger M Sobin 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Nonfiction (2008)	My rating:
	What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 5,564 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2008)	My rating:
	In The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French 3.63 avg rating — 36,575 ratings Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2008)	My rating:
	Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone 3.76 avg rating — 389 ratings Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2007)	My rating:
	The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard 3.81 avg rating — 2,360 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2007)	My rating:
	Oh Danny Boy (Molly Murphy Mysteries #5) by Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 682 ratings Macavity Award for Sue Feder Historical Mystery (2007)	My rating:
	Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers by Jim Huang (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction (2007)	My rating:
	The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller #1) by Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 32,295 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2006)	My rating:
	Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 945 ratings Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction (2006)	My rating:
	Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3) by Jacqueline Winspear 4.03 avg rating — 4,693 ratings Macavity Award for Sue Feder Historical Mystery (2006)	My rating:
	Immoral (Jonathan Stride, #1) by Brian Freeman 3.81 avg rating — 1,138 ratings Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2006)	My rating:
	Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak 3.38 avg rating — 728 ratings Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2005)	My rating:
	Forensics for Dummies by D.P. Lyle 3.89 avg rating — 76 ratings Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction (2005)	My rating:
	The Killing Of The Tinkers (Jack Taylor, #2) by Ken Bruen 4.07 avg rating — 518 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2005)	My rating:
	Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1) by Jacqueline Winspear 3.88 avg rating — 10,872 ratings Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2004)	My rating:
	The House Sitter (Peter Diamond, #8) by Peter Lovesey 3.67 avg rating — 169 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2004)	My rating:
	Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction (Genreflecting Advisory Series) by Gary Warren Niebuhr 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings Macavity Award for Best Critical/Biographical Mystery Work (2004)	My rating:
	They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels by Jim Huang (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings Macavity Award for Best Critical/Biographical Mystery Work (2003)	My rating:
	In the Bleak Midwinter (Rev. Clare Fergusson, #1) by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 2,377 ratings Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2003)	My rating:
	Winter And Night (Lydia Chin & Bill Smith #8) by S.J. Rozan (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 314 ratings Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2003)	My rating:
	Writing The Mystery: A Start To Finish Guide For Both Novice And Professional by G. Miki Hayden 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings Macavity Award for Best Critical/Biographical Mystery Work (2002)	My rating: