Nominees for the 2014 Macavity Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2014 Macavity Awards have been announced by Mystery Readers International. The winners, chosen by members of the organization, will be announced at Bouchercon 2014: Murder at the Beach in Long Beach, California on November 13th, 2014.

And the nominees are …

Best Mystery Novel:

• Sandrine's Case by Thomas H. Cook (Mysterious Press)
• Dead Lions by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
• The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin Books)
• How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)

Best First Mystery:

• Yesterday's Echo by Matt Coyle (Oceanview Publishing)
• Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (Minotaur Books)
• Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman (Ballantine Books)
• Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller (Faber & Faber)
• A Killing at Cotton Hill by Terry Shames (Seventh Street Books)

Best Non-Fiction:

• The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece by Roseanne Montillo (William Morrow)
• Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard by Charles J. Rzepka (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)

Best Mystery Short Story:

• "The Terminal" (Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler) by Reed Farrel Coleman (Thomas & Mercer)
• "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" (Bibliomysteries: Short Tales about Deadly Books, edited by Otto Penzler) by John Connolly (Bookspan)
• "The Dragon's Tail" (Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueño and Bascom Short Stories) by Martin Limon (Soho Books)
• "The Hindi Houdini" (Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long) by Gigi Pandian (Wildside Press)
• "Incident on the 405" (The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Clare Toohey) by Travis Richardson (Macmillan)

The Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award:

• The Care and Feeding of Houseplants by Art Taylor (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013)
• A Murder at Rosamund's Gate by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books)
• Saving Lincoln by Robert Kresge (ABQ Press)
• Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books)
• Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell (Little, Brown)
• Ratlines by Stuart Neville (Soho Crime)

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