2016 MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEES
（マカヴィティ賞候補作発表）
Mystery Readers International has announced the nominees for the 2016 Macavity Awards as follows:
Best Mystery:
- Little Black Lies, by Sharon Bolton (Minotaur)
- The Long and Faraway Gone, by Lou Berney (Morrow)
- The Hot Countries, by Tim Hallinan (Soho)
- The Child Garden, by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
- Life or Death, by Michael Robotham (Mulholland)
- The Cartel, by Don Winslow (Knopf)
Best First Mystery:
- Concrete Angel, by Patricia Abbott (Polis)
- Past Crimes, by Glen Erik Hamilton (Morrow)
- The Killing Kind, by Chris Holm (Mulholland)
- Where All Light Tends to Go, by David Joy (Putnam)
- The Unquiet Dead, by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Minotaur)
- On the Road with Del and Louise, by Art Taylor (Henery)
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 Sigma)
- Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited by Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan (Arcade)
- Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime, by Val McDermid (Grove)
- The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett, by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury)
Best Short Story:
- “The Little Men,” by Megan Abbott (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road)
- “On Borrowed Time,” by Mat Coward (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2015)
- “Sob Sister,” by Loren D. Estleman (Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen, Tyrus)
- “A Year Without Santa Claus,” by Barb Goffman (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2015)
- “Quack and Dwight,” by Travis Richardson (Jewish Noir, ed. Kenneth Wishnia, PM Press)
- “A Joy Forever,” by B.K. Stevens (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March 2015)
Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award:
- The Masque of a Murderer, by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur)
- A Gilded Grave, by Shelley Freydont (Berkley Prime Crime)
- 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)
- Dreaming Spies, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
The winners will be announced at opening ceremonies at Bouchercon in New Orleans this September.
（受賞作は９月にニューオーリンズで開催されるバウチャーコンにて発表される）