Books

Macavity Awards (awards)

This award was given to 303 books.


  1. Rizzoli & Isles: Book 5

    Vanish

    by Tess Gerritsen

    Year: 2206
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  2. The Damage Done

    by Hilary Davidson

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
  3. Full Mortality

    by Sasscer Hill

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
  4. A Thousand Cuts

    by Simon Lelic

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
  5. Rogue Island

    by Bruce DeSilva

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
  6. Mike Bowditch Mystery: Book 1

    The Poacher's Son

    by Paul Doiron

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
  7. Robicheaux: Book 18

    The Glass Rainbow

    by James Lee Burke

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
  8. Dublin Murder Squad: Book 3

    Faithful Place

    by Tana French

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
  9. Poke Rafferty: Book 4

    The Queen of Patpong

    by Timothy Hallinan

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
  10. Thirteen Hours

    by Deon Meyer

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
  11. Armand Gamache: Book 6

    Bury Your Dead

    by Louise Penny

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
  12. The Scent of Rain and Lightning

    by Nancy Pickard

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
  13. Sookieverse: Book 5

    Crimes by Moonlight

    by Charlaine Harris, Parnell Hall

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Short Story
  14. Noir City Series

    Philadelphia Noir (Akashic Noir)

    by Jim Zervanos

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Short Story
  15. Chesapeake Crimes

    Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin'

    by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, Karen Cantwell, Trish Carrico, Mary Ann Corrigan, Carla Coupe, Meriah Crawford, Sasscer Hill, Mary Ellen Hughes, Shelley Shearer

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery Short Story
  16. The Poisoner's Handbook

    Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

    by Deborah Blum

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  17. Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks

    Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making

    by John Curran

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  18. Following the Detectives

    by Maxim Jacubowski

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  19. Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads

    by David Morrell, Hank Wagner

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  20. Charlie Chan

    The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

    by Yunte Huang

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  21. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

    by David Mitchell

    Year: 2011
    Category: Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery
  22. Ian Rutledge: Book 12

    The Red Door

    by Charles Todd

    Year: 2011
    Category: Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery
  23. The Fifth Servant

    by Kenneth Wishnia

    Year: 2011
    Category: Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery
  24. Abigail Adams Mystery: Book 2

    A Marked Man

    by Barbara Hamilton

    Year: 2011
    Category: Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery
  25. Miranda Corbie: Book 1

    City of Dragons: A San Francisco Mystery

    by Kelli Stanley

    Year: 2011
    Category: Sue Feder Memorial History Mystery
  26. Running from the Devil

    by Jamie Freveletti

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  27. Stella Hardesty: Book 1

    A Bad Day for Sorry

    A Crime Novel

    by Sophie Littlefield

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  28. Jack Lennon Investigations: Book 1

    The Ghosts of Belfast

    by Stuart Neville

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  29. Detective Emmanuel Cooper: Book 1

    A Beautiful Place to Die

    by Malla Nunn

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  30. Flavia de Luce: Book 1

    The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

    by Alan C. Bradley

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Mystery Novel
    Rank: 1
  31. L.A. Noir

    The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

    by John Buntin

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Nonfiction
    Finalist
  32. Rogue Males

    by Craig McDonald

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Nonfiction
    Finalist
  33. The Lineup

    The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives

    by Otto Penzler

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Nonfiction
    Finalist
  34. Provenance

    How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

    by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Nonfiction
    Finalist
  35. Dame Agatha's Shorts

    by Elena Santangelo

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Nonfiction
    Finalist
  36. Kincaid and James: Book 13

    Necessary as Blood

    by Deborah Crombie

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  37. Harry Hole: Book 4

    Nemesis

    by Jo Nesbø

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  38. Armand Gamache: Book 5

    The Brutal Telling

    by Louise Penny

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  39. Bill Smith/Lydia Chin: Book 9

    The Shanghai Moon

    by S. J. Rozan

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  40. Bury Me Deep

    by Megan E. Abbott

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Novel
    Finalist
  41. Nick Travers Mystery: Book 1

    Crossroad Blues

    by Ace Atkins

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Short Story
    Finalist
  42. Noir City Series

    Boston Noir

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Short Story
    Finalist
  43. Two of the Deadliest

    New Tales of Lust, Greed, and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery

    by Elizabeth George

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Short Story
    Finalist
  44. Noir City Series

    Phoenix Noir (Akashic Noir)

    by Patrick Millikin

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Mystery Short Story
    Finalist
  45. Tower

    by Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman

    Year: 2010
    Category: Mystery Novel
  46. Talking About Detective Fiction

    by P. D. James

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: 1
  47. Simon Ziele Mysteries: Book 1

    In the Shadow of Gotham

    by Stefanie Pintoff

    Year: 2010
    Category: Sue Feder Historical Mystery
    Finalist
  48. Bess Crawford Mystery: Book 1

    A Duty to the Dead

    by Charles Todd

    Year: 2010
    Category: Sue Feder Historical Mystery
    Finalist
  49. Crispin Guest Medieval Noir: Book 2

    Serpent in the Thorns

    by Jeri Westerson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Sue Feder Historical Mystery
    Finalist

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