Macavity Nominees Summer reading pleasure?

I'm still trying to get started on last year's list of winners.

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Subject: Macavity Nominees
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:43:17 -0700
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Macavity Nominees
June 24, 2008: For immediate release:

Mystery Readers International (Mystery Readers Journal) announces the Macavity Award nominations for  works published in 2007. The awards will be presented during opening ceremonies at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention (Baltimore, October 2008).

For more information on the Macavity Award, go to: http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html or contact: Janet Rudolph at [log in to unmask]

--Janet A. Rudolph, Editor, Mystery Readers Journal
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MACAVITY NOMINEES:

Best Mystery Novel
o     Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House)
o        The Unquiet by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton*/Atria)
o       Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Ballantine Mortalis)
o       Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie (HarperCollins)
o  What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Morrow)

Best First Mystery
o     In the Woods by Tana French (Hodder & Stoughton*/Viking)
o       Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
o       The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)
o       Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny (Midnight Ink)
o       The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beynon Rees (Soho)


Best Mystery Short Story
o       "A Rat's Tale" by Donna Andrews (EQMM, Sep-Oct 2007)
o       "Please Watch Your Step" by Rhys Bowen (The Strand Magazine, Spring 2007)
o      "The Missing Elevator Puzzle" by Jon L. Breen (EQMM, Feb 2007)
o "Brimstone P.I." by Beverle Graves Myers (AHMM, May 2007)
o      "The Old Wife's Tale" by Gillian Roberts (EQMM, Mar-Apr 2007)


Best Mystery Non-Fiction
o       Rough Guide to Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw (Penguin Rough Guides)
o       Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell (McFarland & Company)
o       Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley (HarperPress*/Penguin)
o       Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers by Lee Lofland (Howdunit Series, Writers Digest Books)
o       The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians, compiled and edited by Roger Sobin (Poisoned Pen Press)

Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery
o  Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen (Penguin)
o       Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (Putnam)
o       The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin (Faber & Faber*/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
o       Consequences of Sin by Clare Langley-Hawthorne (Viking*/Penguin)
o       The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates (HarperCollins Ecco)
*UK publisher (first edition)
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Janet Rudolph, Editor, Mystery Readers Journal
http://www.mysteryreaders.org

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