Nominations for the 2010 Macavity Awards Announced

Janet Rudolph has posted the nominees for the Macavity Awards on her Mystery Fanfare blog. Voted on by the members of Mystery Readers International in several categories, the winners will be announced this October during Bouchercon in San Francisco.

The nominees are:

Best Mystery Novel
◊ Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
◊ Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrell Coleman (Busted Flush Press)
◊ Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie (William Morrow)
◊ Nemesis by Jo Nesbo  (HarperCollins)
◊ The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ The Shanghai Moon by S. J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel:
◊ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley   (Delacorte Press)
◊ Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti (William Morrow)
◊ A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield  (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville  (Soho Crime)
◊ A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn (Picador)

Best Mystery Non-Fiction:
◊ L. A. Noir by John Buntin (Random House)
◊ Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James (Knopf)
◊ Rogue Males by Craig McDonald (Bleak House Books)
◊ The Line Up by Otto Penzler, ed. (Little, Brown)
◊ Provenance by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo (Penguin)
◊ Dame Agatha's Shorts by Elena Santangelo (Bella Rosa Books)

Best Mystery Short Story:
◊ "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" (Crossroad Blues) by Ace Atkins (Busted Flush Press)
◊ "Femme Sole" (Boston Noir) by Dana Cameron (Akashic Books)
◊ "Digby, Attorney at Law" by Jim Fusilli (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
◊ "Your Turn" (Two of the Deadliest) by Carolyn Hart (Harper)
◊ "On the House" (Quarry) by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Level Best Books)
◊ "The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away" (Thriller 2) by Marcus Sakey (Mira)
◊ "Amapola" (Phoenix Noir) by Luis Alberto Urrea (Akashic Books)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery:
◊ A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)
◊ In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff   (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd (William Morrow)
◊ Serpent in the Thorns by Jeri Westerson (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)

 indicates a review by Mysterious Reviews.