Macavity Award - Mystery Short Story (Awarded by Mystery Readers International)

Awards List

2022

SWEEPS WEEK
(Winner)
Richard Helms
  • / Private Investigator
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Curious Incidents
(Nominee)
Steve Hockensmith

Julius Katz and the Two Cousins
(Nominee)
Dave Zeltserman

The Locked Room Library
(Nominee)
Gigi Pandian

Lucky Thirteen
(Nominee)
Tracy Clark

The Road to Hana
(Nominee)
R.T. Lawton

2021

Elysian Fields
(Winner)
Gabriel Valjan

The Boy Detective & The Summer of '74
(Nominee)
Art Taylor

Dear Emily Etiquette
(Nominee)
Barb Goffman

Dog Eat Dog
(Nominee)
Elaine Viets

The 25 Year Engagement
(Nominee)
James W. Ziskin
in In League with Sherlock Holmes

2020

Better Days
(Winner)
Art Taylor

Alex's Choice
(Nominee)
Barb Goffman
in Crime Travel

Brother's Keeper
(Nominee)
Dave Zeltserman

The Cardboard Box
(Nominee)
Terence Faherty

Whiteout
(Nominee)
G.M. Malliet

2019

English 398: Fiction Workshop
(Winner)
Art Taylor
  • / Mystery
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All God's Sparrows
(Nominee)
Leslie Budewitz
  • / Mystery
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Bug Appetit
(Nominee)
Barb Goffman
  • / Mystery
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Race to Judgment
(Nominee)
Craig Faustus Buck
  • / Mystery
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Three-Star Sushi
(Nominee)
Barry Lancet
  • / Mystery
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The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories
(Nominee)
Gigi Pandian

2018

Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea
(Winner)
Paul D. Marks

2017

Blood on the Bayou
(Nominee)
Greg Herren

In Sunlight or in Shadow
(Nominee)
Lawrence Block

2016

The Little Men
(Winner)
Megan Abbott

Detroit Is Our Beat
(Nominee)
Loren D. Estleman

2013

Blind Justice
(Nominee)
Jim Fusilli
in Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

The Unremarkable Heart
(Nominee)
Karin Slaughter
in Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

2011

Swing Shift
(Winner)
Dana Cameron
in Crimes by Moonlight

2010

On the House
(Winner)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away
(Nominee)
Marcus Sakey
in Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

2009

The Night Things Changed
(Winner)
Dana Cameron
in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

Keeping Watch Over His Flock
(Nominee)
Toni L.P. Kelner
in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

Scratch a Woman
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

2006

Everybody's Girl
(Nominee)
Robert Barnard
in Mysterious Pleasures

2003

Voice Mail
(Winner)
Janet Dawson

Too Many Cooks
(Nominee)
Marcia Talley

Boot Scoot
(Nominee)
Diana Deverell

Award Categories

First Mystery Novel

Mystery Novel

Mystery Short Story

Nonfiction

Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery

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