The Macavity Awards
THE SECRET LIFE OF ANNA BLANC has been nominated for the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award by the members of Mystery Readers International.
It's a huge honor! Thank you Mystery Readers International!!!!
Here are the nominees.
Susanna Calkins: The Masque of a Murderer (Minotaur)
Shelley Freydont: A Gilded Grave (Berkley Prime Crime)
C. Joseph Greaves: Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) (Bloomsbury)
Philip Kerr: The Lady from Zagreb (Putnam)
Jennifer Kincheloe: Secret Life of Anna Blanc (Seventh Street
Laurie R. King: Dreaming Spies (Bantam)
Congratulations to all the Macavity Award Nominees. They are listed below.
Best Mystery Novel:
Sharon Bolton: Little Black Lies (Minotaur)
Lou Berney: The Long and Faraway Gone (Morrow)
Tim Hallinan: The Hot Countries (Soho)
Catriona McPherson: The Child Garden (Midnight Ink)
Michael Robotham: Life or Death (Mulholland)
Don Winslow: The Cartel (Knopf)
Best First Mystery:
Patricia Abbott: Concrete Angel (Polis)
Glen Erik Hamilton: Past Crimes (Morrow)
Chris Holm: The Killing Kind (Mulholland)
David Joy: Where All Light Tends to Go (Putnam)
Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Unquiet Dead (Minotaur)
Art Taylor: On the Road with Del and Louise (Henery)
Best Critical/Biographical:
Martin Edwards: The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story (HarperCollins)
Kathryn Harkup: A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie (Bloomsbury Sigma)
Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan, editors: Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald (Arcade)
Val McDermid: Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime (Grove)
Nathan Ward: The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett (Bloomsbury)
Best Short Story:
Megan Abbott: “The Little Men” (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road)
Mat Coward: “On Borrowed Time” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2015)
Loren D. Estleman: “Sob Sister” (Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen, Tyrus)
Barb Goffman: “A Year Without Santa Claus” (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2015)
Travis Richardson: “Quack and Dwight” (Jewish Noir, ed. Kenneth Wishnia, PM Press)
B.K. Stevens: “A Joy Forever” (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March 2015)