Nominees for the 2015 Macavity Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2015 Macavity Awards have been announced by Mystery Readers International and chosen by members of the organization. The winners will be announced at Bouchercon in the Fall.

And the nominees are …

Best Mystery Novel:
• The Missing Place by Sophie Littlefield (Gallery)
• The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood (Penguin)
• The Lewis Man by Peter May (Quercus)
• The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
• The Long Way Home by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• The Last Death of Jack Harbin by Terry Shames (Seventh Street Books)

Best First Mystery Novel:
• Blessed Are the Dead by Kristi Belcamino (Witness Impulse)
• Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman (W. W. Norton)
• Invisible City by Julia Dahl (Minotaur Books)
• Someone Else's Skin by Sarah Hilary (Penguin)
• Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little (Viking)
• The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)

Best Mystery-Related Non-Fiction:
• The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson (McFarland)
• Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey by Hank Phillippi Ryan, editor (Henery Press)
• Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker (Countryman)
• 400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman by Adam Plantinga (Quill Driver)

Best Mystery Short Story:
• "Honeymoon Sweet" by Craig Faustus Buck (Murder at the Beach, The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, edited by Dana Cameron; Down & Out Books)
• "The Shadow Knows" by Barb Goffman (Chesapeake Crimes)
• "Howling at the Moon" by Paul D. Marks (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014)
• "The Proxy" by Travis Richardson (Thuglit #13, Sept./Oct. 2014)
• "The Odds Are Against Us" by Art Taylor (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award:
• Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Things Half in Shadow by Alan Finn (Gallery)
• An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris (Knopf)
• A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books)
• Present Darkness by Malla Nunn (Atria)
• Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd (William Morrow)