2019 MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEES
(マカヴィティ賞候補作発表)

Mystery Readers International has announced the 2019 Macavity Awards as
follows:

Best Novel:
November Road, by Lou Berney (Morrow)※ハーパーコリンズ・ジャパンより近刊予定
If I Die Tonight, by Alison Gaylin (Morrow)※早川書房より近刊予定
The Lost Man, by Jane Harper (Flat Iron)
Jar of Heart, by Jennifer Hillier (Minotaur)
Hiroshima Boy, by Naomi Hirahara (Prospect Park)
Under My Skin, by Lisa Unger (Park Row Books)

Best First Novel:
My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday)
Dodging and Burning, by John Copenhaver (Pegasus)
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens (Putnam)
Something in the Water, by Catherine Steadman (Ballantine)
The Chalk Man, by C.J. Tudor (Crown)

Best Nonfiction:
The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the
Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction, by Laird R. Blackwell
(McFarland)
Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British
Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer,
by Margalit Fox (Random House)
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s, by Leslie S. Klinger (Pegasus)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State
Killer, by Michelle McNamara (HarperCollins)
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life, by Laura Thompson (Pegasus)
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That
Scandalized the World, by Sarah Weinman (HarperCollins)

Best Short Story:
“Race to Judgment,” by Craig Faustus Buck (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine,
Nov/Dec 2018)
“All God’s Sparrows,” by Leslie Budewitz (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery
Magazine, May/Jun 2018)
“Bug Appetit,” by Barb Goffman (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018)
“Three-Star Sushi,”  by Barry Lancet (Down & Out: The Magazine, Vol.1, No. 3)
“The Cambodian Curse,” by Gigi Pandian (The Cambodian Curse and Other
Stories; Henery Press)
“English 398: Fiction Workshop,” by Art Taylor (Ellery Queen’s Mystery
Magazine, Jul/Aug 2018)※《ミステリマガジン》2019年9月号に訳載(「イングリッシュ398:フィクション・ワークショップ」

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery:
A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder, by Dianne Freeman (Kensington)
City of Ink, by Elsa Hart (Minotaur)
Island of the Mad, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
A Dying Note, by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen)
A Forgotten Place, by Charles Todd (Morrow)

The winners will be announced on October 31 at opening ceremonies at
Bouchercon 2019 to be held in Dallas, Texas.
(受賞作の発表は10月31日)