Mystery Readers International has announced nominations for their annual Macavity Awards to be presented at Bouchercon in San Diego on August 31st.
Best Mystery Novel
• Back to the Garden, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
• Two Nights in Lisbon, by Chris Pavone (MCD)
• A World of Curiosities, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• A Heart Full of Headstones, by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)
• Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
• Secret Identity, by Alex Segura (Flatiron Books)
Best First Mystery
• Before You Knew My Name, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Five Moves of Doom, by A.J. Devlin (NeWest Press)
• Shutter, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
• Devil’s Chew Toy, by Rob Osler (Crooked Lane)
• The Verifiers, by Jane Pek (Vintage)
• The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
Best Mystery Short Story
• “The Landscaper’s Wife,” by Brendan DuBois (Mystery Tribune, August/September 2022)
• “Beauty and the Beyotch,” by Barb Goffman (Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, January 2022)
• “First You Dream, Then You Die,” by Donna Moore (from Black Is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich, edited by Maxim Jakubowski; Titan)
• “Schrödinger, Cat” by Anna Scotti (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2022)
• “Stockholm,” by Catherine Steadman (Amazon Original Stories)
• “The Angel of Rome,” by Jess Walter (from The Angel of Rome and Other Stories, by Jess Walter; Harper)
• “My Two-Legs,” by Melissa Yi (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2022)
Best Mystery Critical/Biographical
• The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
• The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, edited by Mary Anna Evans and J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury Academic)
• The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations, by David Geherin (McFarland)
• Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)
Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery
• The Lindbergh Nanny, by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur)
• In Place of Fear, by Catriona McPherson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Anywhere You Run, by Wanda M. Morris (Morrow)
• The Secret in the Wall, by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
• One-Shot Harry, by Gary Phillips (Soho Crime)
• Lavender House, by Lev A.C. Rosen (Forge)