2024 MACAVITY AWARD WINNERS
The Mystery Readers International announced the winners for the 2024 Macavity Awards as follows:
BEST MYSTERY NOVEL (6):
Dark Ride, by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
Hide, by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
WINNER All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
Happiness Falls, by Angie Kim (Hogarth)
Murder Book, by Thomas Perry (Mysterious)
Crook Manifesto, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL (6):
WINNER The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I.S. Berry (Atria)
The Golden Gate, by Amy Chua (Minotaur)
Scorched Grace, by Margot Douaihy (Zando/Gillian Flynn Books)
Murder, by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji (Simon & Schuster)
Dutch Threat, by Josh Pachter (Genius Book Publishing)
Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon (William. Morrow)
BEST MYSTERY SHORT STORY (5):
"Real Courage," by Barb Goffman (Black Cat Mystery Magazine #14, Oct. 2023)
"Green and California Bound," by Curtis Ippolito (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2023)
WINNER "Ticket to Ride," by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski (Happiness is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, ed. Josh Pachter; Down & Out Books)
"Pigeon Tony's Last Stand," by Lisa Scottoline (Amazon Original Stories)
"One Night in 1965," by Stacy Woodson (More Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties, ed. Michael Bracken, Down & Out Books)
SUE FEDER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL MYSTERY (6):
Time's Undoing, by Cheryl Head (Dutton)
Evergreen, by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime)
The River We Remember, by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Our Lying Kin, by Claudia Hagadus Long (Kasva Press)
WINNER The Mistress of Bhatia House, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride (Riverhead Books)
BEST NONFICTION/CRITICAL (5):
WINNER Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction, by Anjili Babbar (Syracuse University Press)
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction, by Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor (Mysterious Press/Penzler Publishers)
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin's Press)
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, by Zeke Faux (Crown Currency)
Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Robert Morgan (LSU Press)
The winners was announced on Monday, October 07 online.
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