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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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