2023 MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED
（マカヴィティ賞候補作発表）
The Mystery Readers International has announced the nominees for the 2023 Macavity Awards as follows:
BEST MYSTERY NOVEL (6):
Back to the Garden, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
Two Nights in Lisbon, by Chris Pavone (MCD)
A World of Curiosities, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
A Heart Full of Headstones, by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)
Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
Secret Identity, by Alex Segura (Flatiron Books)
BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL (5):
Before You Knew My Name, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Atria/EmilyBestler)
Shutter, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
Devil’s Chew Toy, by Rob Osler (Crooked Lane Books)
The Verifiers, by Jane Pek (Vintage Books)
The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
BEST MYSTERY SHORT STORY (7):
“The Landscaper’s Wife,” by Brendan DuBois (Mystery Tribune, August-September 2022)
“Beauty and the Beyotch,” by Barb Goffman (Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, January 2022)
“First You Dream, Then You Die,” by Donna Moore (in Black is the Night: Stories Inspired by Cornell Woolrich, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, Titan Books)
“Schrodinger, Cat,” by Anna Scotti (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March-April 2022)
“Stockholm,” by Catherine Steadman (Amazon Original Stories)
“The Angel of Rome,” by Jess Walter (in The Angel of Rome and Other Stories, Harper)
“My Two-Legs,” by Melissa Yi (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine,
September-October 2022)
BEST NONFICTION/CRITICAL (4):
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, edited by Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations, by David Geherin (McFarland)
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)
BEST HISTORICAL MYSTERY (6):
The Lindbergh Nann, by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur)
In Place of Fear, by Catriona McPherson (Hodder & Stoughton)
Anywhere You Run, by Wanda M. Morris (William Morrow)
The Secret in the Wall, by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
One-Shot Harry, by Gary Phillips (Soho Crime)
Lavender House, by Lev AC Rosen (Forge)
The winners will be announced on Thursday, August 31 at opening ceremonies of Bouchercon 2023 to be held in San Diego from August 30 thru September 03.
（受賞作の発表は8月31日）