Mystery Readers International and Mystery Reader Journal have nominated the following mystery novels for The Macavity Awards.
Awards for 2009 will be presented in October at Bouchercon in Indianapolis.
2009
Best Mystery Novel:
Louise Penny: The Cruelest Month (Minotaur)
Sean Chercover: Trigger City (Wm. Morrow)
Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (Wm. Morrow)
Declan Hughes: The Dying Breed (UK) / The Price of Blood (US) (John Murray/ Wm. Morrow)
Arnaldur Indridason: The Draining Lake (Minotaur)
Lisa Lutz: Curse of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster)
Louise Ure: The Fault Tree (Minotaur)
Best First Mystery:
Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Knopf)
Zoe Ferraris: Finding Nouf (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
G.M. Malliet: Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink)
Charlie Newton: Calumet City (Simon & Schuster)
Scott Pratt: An Innocent Client (Onyx)
Michael Stanley: A Carrion Death (Harper; Headline)
Dan Waddell: The Blood Detective (Minotaur)
Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery:
Kelli Stanley: Nox Dormienda (Five Star)
Rhys Bowen: A Royal Pain (Berkley)
Ward Larsen: Stealing Trinity (Oceanview)
David Liss: The Whiskey Rebels (Thorndike/ Random House UK)
Jeri Westerson: Veil of Lies (Minotaur)
Karen Maitland: Company of Liars (Michael Joseph/ Delacorte)
For past winners and a complete list of categories and nominations for 2009, visit Mystery Readers International:The Macavity Awards
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I read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and really liked it.
ReplyDeleteIt's one I hope to read. I've heard good things about it.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I keep seeing mass paperback copies in the bookstore, but I'm still hoping they'd release a nice trade paperback (or perhaps even a hardcover) soon :)
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