The Macavity Award winners were announced at the Bouchercon 2016 Opening Ceremonies on September 15, 2016.

The Macavity Awards are nominated on and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal, and friends and supporters of MRI.

For more information, go to MysteryReaders.org

2016 Winners

Best Mystery Novel
THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE by Lou Berney (William Morrow)

Best First Mystery Novel
PAST CRIMES by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)

Best Critical/Biographical
THE GOLDEN AGE OF MURDER: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)

Best Short Story
"The Little Men” by Megan Abbott (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
THE MASQUE OF A MURDERER by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur)
 

2016 Nominees

Best Mystery Novel

• LITTLE BLACK LIES by Sharon Bolton (Minotaur)
• THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
• THE HOT COUNTRIES by Tim Hallinan (Soho)
• THE CHILD GARDEN by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
• LIFE OR DEATH by Michael Robotham (Mulholland)
• THE CARTEL by Don Winslow (Knopf)

Best First Mystery Novel

• CONCRETE ANGEL by Patricia Abbott (Polis)
• PAST CRIMES by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)
• THE KILLING KIND by Chris Holm (Mulholland)
• WHERE ALL LIGHT TENDS TO GO by David Joy (Putnam)
• THE UNQUIET DEAD by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Minotaur)
• ON THE ROAD WITH DEL AND LOUISE by Art Taylor (Henery)

Best Critical/Biographical

• THE GOLDEN AGE OF MURDER: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
• A IS FOR ARSENIC: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup (Bloomsbury Sigma)
• MEANWHILE THERE ARE LETTERS: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald edited by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan (Arcade)
• FORENSICS: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid (Grove)
• THE LOST DETECTIVE: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury)

Best Short Story

• "The Little Men” by Megan Abbott (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road)
• “On Borrowed Time” by Mat Coward (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2015)
• “Sob Sister” by Loren D. Estleman (Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen, Tyrus)
• “A Year Without Santa Claus” by Barb Goffman (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2015)
• “Quack and Dwight” by Travis Richardson (Jewish Noir, ed. Kenneth Wishnia, PM Press)
• “A Joy Forever” by B.K. Stevens (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March 2015)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award

• THE MASQUE OF A MURDERER by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur)
• A GILDED GRAVE by Shelley Freydont (Berkley Prime Crime)
• TOM & LUCKY (AND GEORGE & COKEY FLO) by C. Joseph Greaves (Bloomsbury)
• THE LADY FROM ZAGREB by Philip Kerr (Marian Wood/Putnam)
• SECRET LIFE OF ANNA BLANC by Jennifer Kincheloe (Seventh Street)
• DREAMING SPIES by Laurie R. King (Bantam)