Ah, it is indeed the season of awards.
Mystery Readers International (Mystery Readers Journal) is the lastest to announce its nominees for its top honor, the Macavity Award.
For those of you who may just be discovering Mystery Readers International, I highly recommend this quarterly magazine that explores a different theme each month. During 2008, its essays and columns will include mysteries about history, Ireleand, San Francisco Bay and the holidays.
The awards will be presented during opening ceremonies at Bouchercon, which is the largest mystery writers conference.
This year’s Bouchercon will be Oct. 9-13 in Baltimore.
For more information on the Macavity Award, visit the site or contact: Janet Rudolph at .
The Macavity Nominees:
Best Mystery Novel
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House)
The Unquiet by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton*/Atria)
Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Ballantine Mortalis)
Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie (Morrrow)
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
Best First Mystery
In the Woods by Tana French (Hodder & Stoughton*/Viking)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Morrow)
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)
Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny (Midnight Ink)
The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beynon Rees (Soho)
Best Mystery Short Story
A Rat’s Tale by Donna Andrews (EQMM, Sep-Oct 2007)
Please Watch Your Step by Rhys Bowen (The Strand Magazine, Spring 2007)
The Missing Elevator Puzzle by Jon L. Breen (EQMM, Feb 2007)
Brimstone P.I. by Beverle Graves Myers (AHMM, May 2007)
The Old Wife’s Tale by Gillian Roberts (EQMM, Mar-Apr 2007)
Best Mystery Non-Fiction
Rough Guide to Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw (Penguin Rough Guides)
Chester Gould: A Daughter’s Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O’Connell (McFarland & Company)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley (HarperPress*/Penguin)
Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers by Lee Lofland (Howdunit Series, Writers Digest Books)
The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians, compiled and edited by Roger Sobin (Poisoned Pen Press)
Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen (Penguin)
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (Putnam)
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin (Faber & Faber*/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Consequences of Sin by Clare Langley-Hawthorne (Viking*/Penguin)
The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates (HarperCollins Ecco)
*UK publisher (first edition)
PHOTOS: John Connolly, Deborah Crombie
