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Macavity Award - First Mystery Novel (Awarded by Mystery Readers International)

Awards List

2024

The Peacock and the Sparrow
(Winner)
I.S. Berry

Dutch Threat
(Nominee)
Josh Pachter
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Scorched Grace
(Nominee)
Margot Douaihy

The Golden Gate
(Nominee)
Amy Chua

Mother-Daughter Murder Night
(Nominee)
Nina Simon

Murder by Degrees
(Nominee)
Ritu Mukerji

2023

The Maid
(Winner)
Nita Prose

Before You Knew My Name
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Bublitz

Devil's Chew Toy
(Nominee)
Rob Osler

The Verifiers
(Nominee)
Jane Pek

Shutter
(Nominee)
Ramona Emerson

Five Moves of Doom
(Nominee)
A.J. Devlin

2022

Arsenic and Adobo
(Winner)
Mia P. Manansala

Girl A
(Nominee)
Abigail Dean

Who is Maud Dixon?
(Nominee)
Alexandra Andrews

Deer Season
(Nominee)
Erin Flanagan

All Her Little Secrets
(Nominee)
Wanda M. Morris

2021

Winter Counts
(Winner)
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
(Nominee)
Deepa Anappara

Darling Rose Gold
(Nominee)
Stephanie Wrobel

The Thursday Murder Club
(Nominee)
Richard Osman

Murder in Old Bombay
(Nominee)
Nev March

2020

One Night Gone
(Winner)
Tara Laskowski

American Spy
(Nominee)
Lauren Wilkinson

Call Me Evie
(Nominee)
J.P. Pomare

My Lovely Wife
(Nominee)
Samantha Downing

Miracle Creek
(Nominee)
Angie Kim

The Ninja Daughter
(Nominee)
Tori Eldridge

2019

Dodging and Burning
(Winner)
John Copenhaver

The Chalk Man
(Nominee)
C.J. Tudor

Something in the Water
(Nominee)
Catherine Steadman

Where the Crawdads Sing
(Nominee)
Delia Owens

My Sister, the Serial Killer
(Nominee)
Oyinkan Braithwaite

2018

The Lost Ones
(Winner)
Sheena Kamal

The Dry
(Nominee)
Jane Harper

The Last Place You Look
(Nominee)
Kristen Lepionka

She Rides Shotgun
(Nominee)
Jordan Harper

Hollywood Homicide
(Nominee)
Kellye Garrett

Lost Luggage
(Nominee)
Wendall Thomas

2017

IQ
(Winner)
Joe Ide

The Widow
(Nominee)
Fiona Barton

Design for Dying
(Nominee)
Renee Patrick

Dodgers
(Nominee)
Bill Beverly

Under the Harrow
(Nominee)
Flynn Berry

2016

Past Crimes
(Winner)
Glen Erik Hamilton

The Unquiet Dead
(Nominee)
Ausma Zehanat Khan

Concrete Angel
(Nominee)
Patricia Abbott

Where All Light Tends to Go
(Nominee)
David Joy

The Killing Kind
(Nominee)
Chris Holm

On the Road with del & Louise
(Nominee)
Art Taylor

2015

Invisible City
(Winner)
Julia Dahl

Blessed are the Dead
(Nominee)
Kristi Belcamino

Someone Else's Skin
(Nominee)
Sarah Hilary

The Black Hour
(Nominee)
Lori Rader-Day

Dry Bones in the Valley
(Nominee)
Tom Bouman

Dear Daughter
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Little

2014

A Killing at Cotton Hill
(Winner)
Terry Shames

Cover of Snow
(Nominee)
Jenny Milchman

Rage Against the Dying
(Nominee)
Becky Masterman

Yesterday's Echo
(Nominee)
Matt Coyle

Norwegian by Night
(Nominee)
Derek Miller

2013

Don't Ever Get Old
(Winner)
Daniel Friedman

The Expats
(Nominee)
Chris Pavone

Mr. Churchill's Secretary
(Nominee)
Susan Elia MacNeal

Lowcountry Boil
(Nominee)
Susan M. Boyer

2012

All Cry Chaos
(Winner)
Leonard Rosen

The Informationist
(Nominee)
Taylor Stevens

Learning to Swim
(Nominee)
Sara J. Henry

Before I Go to Sleep
(Nominee)
S.J. Watson

Turn of Mind
(Nominee)
Alice LaPlante

Nazareth Child
(Nominee)
Darrell James

2011

Rogue Island
(Winner)
Bruce DeSilva

A Thousand Cuts
(Nominee)
Simon Lelic

The Poacher's Son
(Nominee)
Paul Doiron

The Damage Done
(Nominee)
Hilary Davidson

Full Mortality
(Nominee)
Sasscer Hill

2010

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
(Winner)
Alan Bradley

A Beautiful Place to Die
(Nominee)
Malla Nunn

Running from the Devil
(Nominee)
Jamie Freveletti

A Bad Day for Sorry
(Nominee)
Sophie Littlefield

The Ghosts of Belfast
(Nominee)
Stuart Neville

2009

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(Winner)
Stieg Larsson

Calumet City
(Nominee)
Charlie Newton

A Carrion Death
(Nominee)
Michael Stanley

The Blood Detective
(Nominee)
Dan Waddell

Finding Nouf
(Nominee)
Zoe Ferraris

Death of a Cozy Writer
(Nominee)
G.M. Malliet

An Innocent Client
(Nominee)
Scott Pratt

2008

In the Woods
(Winner)
Tana French

The Collaborator of Bethlehem
(Nominee)
Matt Beynon Rees

Heart-Shaped Box
(Nominee)
Joe Hill

Stealing the Dragon
(Nominee)
Tim Maleeny

The Spellman Files
(Nominee)
Lisa Lutz

2007

Mr. Clarinet
(Winner)
Nick Stone

Consigned to Death
(Nominee)
Jane K. Cleland

47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers
(Nominee)
Troy Cook

A Field of Darkness
(Nominee)
Cornelia Read

The King of Lies
(Nominee)
John Hart

2006

Immoral
(Winner)
Brian Freeman

All Shook Up
(Nominee)
Mike Harrison

The Baby Game
(Nominee)
Randall Hicks

2005

Dating Dead Men
(Winner)
Harley Jane Kozak

Summer of the Big Bachi
(Nominee)
Naomi Hirahara

Misdemeanor Man
(Nominee)
Dylan Schaffer

Whiskey Sour
(Nominee)
J.A. Konrath

Uncommon Grounds
(Nominee)
Sandra Balzo

2004

Maisie Dobbs
(Winner)
Jacqueline Winspear

The Bridge of Sighs
(Nominee)
Olen Steinhauer

Death of a Nationalist
(Nominee)
Rebecca Pawel

The Night of the Dance
(Nominee)
James Hime

2003

In the Bleak Midwinter
(Winner)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

The Distance
(Nominee)
Eddie Muller

The Blue Edge of Midnight
(Nominee)
Jonathon King

A Valley to Die for
(Nominee)
Radine Trees Nehring

2002

Open Season
(Winner)
C.J. Box

The Jasmine Trade
(Nominee)
Denise Hamilton

Perhaps She'll Die
(Nominee)
M.K. Preston

Blindsighted
(Nominee)
Karin Slaughter

2001

A Conspiracy of Paper
(Winner)
David Liss

Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death
(Nominee)
Julie Wray Herman

Crow in Stolen Colors
(Nominee)
Marcia Simpson

Death Dances to a Reggae Beat
(Nominee)
Kate Grilley

2000

Inner City Blues
(Winner)
Paula L. Woods

Murder With Peacocks
(Nominee)
Donna Andrews

Murder in the Marais
(Nominee)
Cara Black

Revenge of the Gypsy Queen
(Nominee)
Kris Neri

1999

Sympathy for the Devil
(Winner)
Jerrilyn Farmer

Tiger's Palette
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Fiedler

The Doctor Digs a Grave
(Nominee)
Robin Hathaway

1998

Dead Body Language
(Winner)
Penny Warner

Killing Floor
(Nominee)
Lee Child

The Salaryman's Wife
(Nominee)
Sujata Massey

Off the Face of the Earth
(Nominee)
Aljean Harmetz

Charm City
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

1997

Death in Little Tokyo
(Winner)
Dale Furutani

1996

The Strange Files of Fremont Jones
(Winner)
Dianne Day

1995

Do Unto Others
(Winner)
Jeff Abbott

1994

Death Comes As Epiphany
(Winner)
Sharan Newman

1993

Blanche on the Lam
(Winner)
Barbara Neely

1992

Murder on the Iditarod Trail
(Winner)
Sue Henry

Zero at the Bone
(Winner)
Mary Willis Walker

1991

Postmortem
(Winner)
Patricia Cornwell

1990

Grime and Punishment
(Winner)
Jill Churchill

1989

The Killings at Badger's Drift
(Winner)
Caroline Graham

1988

The Monkey's Raincoat
(Winner)
Robert Crais

1987

A Case of Loyalties
(Winner)
Marilyn Wallace

The Ritual Bath
(Winner)
Faye Kellerman

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Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery

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