2018 Macavity Award Nominees Announced
(マカヴィティ賞候補作発表)

Mystery Readers International has announced the nominees for the 2018
Macavity Awards as follows:

Best Mystery Novel
The Marsh King’s Daughter, by Karen Dionne (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz (Harper)※東京創元社より翻訳刊行予定
Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke (Mulholland)※早川書房より翻訳刊行予定
Glass Houses, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
The Old Man, by Thomas Perry (Mysterious)
The Force, by Don Winslow (Wm. Morrow)

Best First Mystery Novel
Hollywood Homicide, by Kellye Garrett (Midnight Ink)
The Dry, by Jane Harper (Flatiron)


She Rides Shotgun, by Jordan Harper (Ecco)※早川書房より翻訳刊行予定
The Lost Ones, by Sheena Kamal (Wm. Morrow)
The Last Place You Look, by Kristen Lepionka (Minotaur)
Lost Luggage, by Wendall Thomas (Poisoned Pen)

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an
Icon, by Mattias Bostrom (Mysterious Press)
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books, by Martin Edwards (Poisoned
Pen/British Library)
Chester B. Himes: A Biography, by Lawrence P. Jackson (W.W. Norton)
The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery,
by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James (Scribner)
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes, by Michael
Sims (Bloomsbury)
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History, by Tori Telfer (Harper
Perennial)

Best Mystery Short Story
“As Ye Sow,” by Craig Faustus Buck, in Passport to Murder: Bouchercon
Anthology 2017 (Down and Out Books)
“The #2 Pencil,” by Matt Coyle, in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to
Shining Sea (Down & Out Books)
“Infinite Uticas,” by Terence Faherty (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine,
May/June 2017)
“Whose Wine is it Anyway?” by Barb Goffman, in 50 Shades of Cabernet
(Koehler Books)
“Windward,” by Paul D. Marks, in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to
Shining Sea (Down & Out Books)
“A Necessary Ingredient,” by Art Taylor, in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes
from Sea to Shining Sea (Down & Out Books)

Sue Feder Memorial Award: Best Historical Mystery
Dangerous to Know, by Renee Patrick (Forge)
The Devouring, by James R. Benn (Soho Crime)
In Farleigh Field, by Rhys Bowen (Lake Union Publishing)
Cast the First Stone, by James W. Ziskin (Seventh Street Books)
Racing the Devil, by Charles Todd (Wm. Morrow)
A Rising Man, by Abir Mukherjee (Pegasus)

The winners will be announced at the Bouchercon opening ceremonies on
September 6 to be held in St Petersburg, Florida.
(受賞作の発表は9月6日)