マカヴィティ賞候補作発表

Mystery Readers International/Mystery Readers Journal announces the 2012 Macavity Award Nominees. This award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Books/Stories were published in the U.S. in 2011.

Best Mystery Novel

1222 by Anne Holt, translated by Marlaine Delargy (Scribner)

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (Mulholland Books)

The Ridge by Michael Koryta (Little, Brown)

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey (Dutton)

Hell & Gone by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland Books)

Best First Mystery Novel

Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)

Nazareth Child by Darrell James (Midnight Ink)

Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante (Atlantic Monthly)

All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (Permanent Press)

The Informationist by Taylor Stevens (Crown)

Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson (Harper)

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction

Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz (Linden)

Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran (HarperCollins)

Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A.B. Emrys (McFarland)

The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (William Morrow)

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

Best Mystery Short Story

“Disarming” by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2011)

“Facts Exhibiting Wantonness” by Trina Corey (EQMM, Nov. 2011)

“Palace by the Lake” by Daryl Wood Gerber (Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, Wildside Press)

“Truth and Consequences” by Barb Goffman (Mystery Times Ten, Buddhapuss Ink)

“Heat of Passion” by Kathleen Ryan (A Twist of Noir, Feb. 14, 2011)

“The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train” by Peter Turnbull

(EQMM, March/April 2011)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award

Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)

Narrows Gate by Jim Fusilli (AmazonEncore)

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson (Thomas Dunne/Minotaur)

Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen)

Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur)

A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)

The winners will be announced during Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in Cleveland, Ohio coming October.

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