Der Macavity Award

Der Macavity Award ist nach der "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats benannt. Der Preis wird für das beste Buch des vergangenen Jahres verliehen.

Best First Mystery Novel	Best Novel	Best Short Story
2011 Bruce DeSilva Rogue Island	Louise Penny Bury your Dead	Dana Cameron Swing Shift
2010 Alan Bradley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie	Ken Bruen/Reed Farrell Coleman: Tower	Hank Philppi Ryan: On The House
2009 Stieg Larsson: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo	Deborah Crombie:Where Memories Lie	Dana Cameron: The Night Things Changed
2008 Tana French: *In the Woods*	Laura Lippman: *What the Dead Know*	Rhys Bowen: "Please Watch Your Step"
2007 Nick Stone Mr. Clarinet	Nancy Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains	Tim Maleeny: Til Death Do Us Part
2006 Brian Freeman Immoral	Michael Connelly: The Lincoln Lawyer	Nancy Pickard: There Is No Crime on Easter Island
2005 Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men	Ken Bruen: The Killing of the Tinkers	Terence Faherty: The Widow of Slane
2004 Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs	Peter Lovesey The House Sitter	Sandy Balzo The Grass Is Always Greener
2003 Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter	S.J. Rozan : *Winter and Night*	Janet Dawson: Voice Mail
2002 C. J. Box: Open Season	Laurie R. King: Follyburke.html	Jan Burke :The Abbey Ghosts
2001 David Liss: A Conspiracy of Paper	Val McDermid: A Place of Execution	Reginald Hill: A Candle for Christmas
2000 Paula L. Woods: Inner City Blues	Sujata Massey: *The Flower Master*	Kate Grilley: Maubi and the Jumbies
1999 Jerrilyn Farmer: Sympathy for the Devil	Michael Connelly: Blood Work	Barbara D'Amato:Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable
1998 Penny Warner: Dead Body Language	Deborah Crombie: *Dreaming of the Bones*	Peter Robinson: Two Ladies of Rose Cottage
1997 Dale Furutani: Death in Little Tokyo	Peter Lovesey: Bloodhounds	Carolyn Wheat: Cruel & Unusual
1996 Dianne Day: The Strange Files of Fremont Jones	Mary Willis Walker: *Under the Beetle's Cellar*	Colin Dexter: Evans Tries an O-Level
1995 Jeff Abbott: Do Unto Others	Sharyn McCrumb: *She Walks These Hills*	Jan Burke: Unharmed ; Deborah Adams: Cast Your Fate to the Wind
1994 Sharan Newman: Death Comes as Epiphany	Minette Walters: *The Sculptress*	Susan Dunlap: Checkout
1993 Barbara Neely: Blanche on the Lam	Margaret Maron: *Bootlegger's Daughter*	Carolyn Hart: *Henrie O's Holiday*
1992 Mary Willis Walker: Zero at the Bone	Nancy Pickard: I.O.U.	Margaret Maron: Deborah's Judgment
1991 Patricia Cornwell: Postmortem	Sharyn McCrumb: If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O	Joan Hess: Too Much to Bare
1990 Jill Churchill :Grime and Punishment	Carolyn Hart: *A Little Class on Murder*	Nancy Pickard: Afraid All the Time
1989 Caroline Graham: The Killings at Badger's Drift	Tony Hillerman: A Thief of Time	Doug Allyn: Deja Vu
1988 Robert Crais: The Monkey's Raincoat	Nancy Pickard: *Marriage is Murder*	Robert Barnard: The Woman in the Wardrobe
1987 Faye Kellerman: A Ritual Bath; Marilyn Wallace: A Case of Loyalties	P.D. James: A Taste for Death	Sue Grafton: The Parker Shotgun