Macavity Award Nominations Announced

Mystery Readers International has announced its nominees for the 2006 Macavity Awards. Members of that organization both nominate contenders and choose the winners. In the running this year:

Best Novel:
• One Shot, by Lee Child (Delacorte Press)
• The James Deans, by Reed Farrel Coleman (Plume)
• The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
• Vanish, by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine Books)
• Strange Affair, by Peter Robinson (Morrow)
• The Power of the Dog, by Don Winslow (Knopf)
• Solomon vs. Lord, by Paul Levine (Bantam)

Best First Novel:
• Immoral, by Brian Freeman (St. Martin’s)
• All Shook Up, by Mike Harrison (ECW Press)
• Baby Game, by Randall Hicks (Wordslinger Press)
• The Firemaker, by Peter May (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Best Non-fiction:
• Tracks to Murder, by Jonathan Goodman (Kent State University)
• Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed, by Stuart M. Kaminsky; photography by Laurie Roberts (Hothouse Press)
• New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels, edited by Leslie S. Klinger (Norton)
• Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt)
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, by Mary Roach (Norton)

Best Short Story:
• “It Can Happen,” by David Corbett (in San Francisco Noir, edited by Peter Maravelis; Akashic Books)
• “Everybody’s Girl,” by Robert Barnard (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], May 2005)
• “The Big Road,” by Steve Hockensmith (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, May 2005)
• “There Is No Crime on Easter Island,” by Nancy Pickard (EQMM, September-October 2005)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award:
• In Like Flynn, by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Spectres in the Smoke, by Tony Broadbent (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• The War of the World Murder, by Max Allan Collins (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Night’s Child, by Maureen Jennings (McClelland and Stewart)
• Pardonable Lies, by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)

This year’s Macavity winners will be announced during the opening ceremonies at Bouchercon, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, in September.