Nominees for the 2016 Macavity Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2016 Macavity Awards — named for T.S. Eliot's "mystery car" — have been announced by Mystery Readers International. The winners will be announced at Bouchercon in New Orleans in September.

And they are …

Best Mystery Novel:
• The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
• Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton (Minotaur Books)
• The Hot Countries by Tim Hallinan (Soho Crime)
• The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
• Life or Death by Michael Robotham (Mulholland Books)
• The Cartel by Don Winslow (Knopf)

Best First Mystery Novel:
• Concrete Angel by Patricia Abbott (Polis Books)
• Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)
• The Killing Kind by Chris Holm (Mulholland Books)
• Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy (Putnam)
• The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Minotaur Books)
• On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor (Henery Press)

Best Critical/Biographical:
• The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
• A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup (Bloomsbury)
• Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan, editors (Arcade)
• Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid (Grove Press)
• The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury)

Best Mystery Short Story:
• "The Little Men" by Megan Abbott (Open Road)
• "On Borrowed Time" by Mat Coward (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
• "Sob Sister" by Loren D. Estleman (Detroit Is Our Beat)
• "A Year Without Santa Claus?" by Barb Goffman (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
• "Quack and Dwight" by Travis Richardson (Jewish Noir)
• "A Joy Forever" by B. K. Stevens (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine)

The Sue Feder Historical Memorial Award:
• The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books)
• A Gilded Grave by Shelley Freydont (Berkley)
• Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) by C. Joseph Greaves (Bloomsbury)
• The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr (Putnam)
• Secret Life of Anna Blanc by Jennifer Kincheloe (Seventh Street Books)
• Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King (Bantam)