All Awards/Macavity Award

Award

Macavity Award

24 years tracked (1987–2017), 70 entries total.

2017

Before the Fall

Noah Hawley · Best Novel

2016

The Long and Faraway Gone

Louis Berney · Best Mystery

2015

The Killer Next Door

Alex Marwood · Best Mystery

2014

Murder as a Fine Art

David Morrell · Sue Feder Historical Mystery

2013

The Beautiful Mystery

Louise Penny · Best Novel

2012

A Trick of the Light

Louise Penny · Best Mystery Novel

Before I Go to Sleep

S.J. Watson · Best First Mystery Novel

The House of Silk

Anthony Horowitz · Best Mystery Novel

The Informationist

Taylor Stevens · Best First Mystery Novel

Alice LaPlante · Best First Mystery Novel

2011

Louise Penny · Best Mystery Novel

Tana French · Best Mystery Novel

The Glass Rainbow

James Lee Burke · Best Mystery Novel

The Scent of Rain and Lightning

Nancy Pickard · Best Mystery Novel

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell · Sue Feder Historical Mystery

2010

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley · Best First Mystery Novel

A Beautiful Place To Die

Malla Nunn · Best First Mystery Novel

Jo Nesbø · Best Mystery Novel

The Brutal Telling

Louise Penny · Best Mystery Novel

The Ghosts of Belfast

Stuart Neville · Best First Mystery Novel

2009

Company of Liars

Karen Maitland · Sue Feder Historical Mystery

Curse of the Spellmans

Lisa Lutz · Best Mystery Novel

Zoë Ferraris · Best First Mystery Novel

The Cruelest Month

Louise Penny · Best Mystery Novel

The Draining Lake

Arnaldur Indriðason · Best Mystery Novel

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

Kate Summerscale · Best Nonfiction/Critical

2008

Tana French · Best First Mystery Novel

Mistress of the Art of Death

Ariana Franklin · Sue Feder Historical Mystery

What the Dead Know

Laura Lippman · Best Mystery Novel

Heart-Shaped Box

Joe Hill · Best First Mystery Novel

Her Royal Spyness

Rhys Bowen · Sue Feder Historical Mystery

The Gravedigger's Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates · Sue Feder Historical Mystery

The Spellman Files

Lisa Lutz · Best First Mystery Novel

2007

The Virgin of Small Plains

Nancy Pickard · Best Mystery Novel

A Field of Darkness

Cornelia Read · Best First Mystery Novel

All Mortal Flesh

Julia Spencer-Fleming · Best Mystery Novel

The Janissary Tree

Jason Goodwin · Best Mystery Novel

2006

Brian Freeman · Best First Mystery Novel

Pardonable Lies

Jacqueline Winspear · Sue Feder Historical Mystery

The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly · Best Mystery Novel

Lee Child · Best Mystery Novel

Solomon vs. Lord

Levine, Paul · Best Mystery Novel

The Power of the Dog

Don Winslow · Best Mystery Novel

The Valley of Fear

Arthur Conan Doyle · Best Nonfiction

Tess Gerritsen · Best Mystery Novel

2005

California Girl

T. Jefferson Parker · Best Mystery Novel

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeffry P. Lindsay · Best Mystery Novel

2004

Jacqueline Winspear · Best First Mystery Novel

2003

In the Bleak Midwinter

Julia Spencer-Fleming · Best First Mystery Novel

Michael Connelly · Best Mystery Novel

Mary Kay Andrews · Best Mystery Novel

2002

Laurie R. King · Best Mystery Novel

C. J. Box · Best First Mystery Novel

Karin Slaughter · Best First Mystery Novel

Dennis Lehane · Best Mystery Novel

Harlan Coben · Best Mystery Novel

Linda Fairstein · Best Mystery Novel

2001

A Conspiracy of Paper

David Liss · Best First Mystery Novel

Joe R. Lansdale · Best Mystery Novel

2000

Robert Crais · Best Mystery Novel

Murder With Peacocks

Donna Andrews · Best First Mystery Novel

1999

Michael Connelly · Best Mystery Novel

Nevada Barr · Best Mystery Novel

1998

Lee Child · Best First Mystery Novel

Michael Connelly · Best Mystery Novel

1991

Patricia Cornwell · Best First Mystery Novel

1989

The Killings At Badger's Drift

Caroline Graham · Best First Mystery Novel

1988

The Monkey's Raincoat

Robert Crais · Best First Mystery Novel

1987

A Taste for Death

p.d. james · Best Mystery Novel

The Ritual Bath

Faye Kellerman · Best First Mystery Novel