The Macavity Award is named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot's OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS. Each year, the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in five categories.

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2013 Winners

Best Mystery Novel
THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel
DON'T EVER GET OLD by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books-Thomas Dunne)

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
BOOKS TO DIE FOR: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels, edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke (Simon & Schuster - Atria/Emily Bestler)

Best Mystery Short Story
"The Lord Is My Shamus" by Barb Goffman in CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: This Job Is Murder (Wildside)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
AN UNMARKED GRAVE by Charles Todd (HarperCollins)
 

2013 Nominees

Best Mystery Novel

• GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
• THE BLACK HOUSE by Peter May (Silver Oak)
• THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• THE OTHER WOMAN by Hank Philippi Ryan (Forge)
• THE ART FORGER by B.A. Shapiro (Algonquin Books)
• THE TWENTY YEAR DEATH by Ariel S. Winter (Hard Case Crime)

Best First Mystery Novel

• LOW COUNTRY BOIL by Susan M. Boyer (Henery Press)
• YESTERDAY'S ECHO by Matt Coyle (Oceanview Publishing)
• DON'T EVER GET OLD by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books-Thomas Dunne)
• MR. CHURCHILL'S SECRETARY by Susan Elia MacNeal (Random House -Bantam)
• THE EXPATS by Chris Pavone (Crown)
• THE LAST POLICEMAN by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction

• BOOKS TO DIE FOR: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels, edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke (Simon & Schuster - Atria/Emily Bestler)
• MIDNIGHT IN PEKING: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French (Penguin)
• IN PURSUIT OF SPENSER: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero, edited by Otto Penzler (BenBella/Smart Pop)

Best Mystery Short Story

• "The Lord Is My Shamus" by Barb Goffman in CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: This Job Is Murder (Wildside)
• "The Unremarkable Heart" by Karin Slaughter in MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA PRESENTS VENGEANCE (Little, Brown - Mulholland Books)
• "Thea's First Husband" by B.K. Stevens in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2012
• "When Duty Calls" by Art Taylor in CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: This Job Is Murder (Wildside Press)
• "Blind Justice" by Jim Fusilli in MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA PRESENTS VENGEANCE (Little, Brown - Mulholland Books)
• "The Sequel" (a novella) by Jeffrey Deaver in The Strand Magazine, November-February 2012-2013

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award

• A CITY OF BROKEN GLASS by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)
• PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S SPY by Susan Elia MacNeal (Random House-Bantam)
• THE CONFESSION by Charles Todd (HarperCollins)
• AN UNMARKED GRAVE by Charles Todd (HarperCollins)