Thursday, October 04, 2012

Winners of the 2012 Macavity Awards Announced

Mystery, Suspense and Thriller Book Awards

Bouchercon 2012 is underway in Cleveland this week — Crime Fiction Rocks! — and that means award presentations!

About 10 minutes ago we posted the winners of the Barry Awards; now we have the winners of the Macavity Awards, selected by the members of Mystery Readers International.

• Best Mystery Novel: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• Best First Mystery Novel: All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (Permanent Press)Review of All Cry Chaos by Leonard RosenMysterious Reviews also selected this book as one of the best mysteries of 2011

• Best Mystery-Related Non-Fiction: The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

• Best Mystery Short Story: Disarming by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 2011)

• Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award: Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books)Review of Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson

Special thanks to The Rap Sheet for notifying us of the results.

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