The Macavity Award is named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in four categories.
Mystery Readers International website
Year | Best Novel | Best First Novel | Best Nonfiction |
2007 | The Virgin of Small Plains Nancy Pickard | Mr. Clarinet |
Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers |
2006 | The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly | Immoral Brian Freeman | Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her Melanie Rehak |
2005 | Killing of the Tinkers Ken Bruen | Dating Dead Men Harley Jane Kozak | Forensics for Dummies D.P. Lyle |
2004 | House Sitter Peter Lovesey | Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear | |
2003 | Winter and Night S J Rozan | In the Bleak Midwinter Julia Spencer-Fleming | |
2002 | Folly Laurie R. King | Open Season David Ellis | |
2001 | Place of Execution Val McDermid | Conspiracy of Paper David Liss | |
2000 | Flower Master Sujata Massey | Inner City Blues Paula L. Woods |