The Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by members of Mystery
Readers International and are given to works published in the previous
year. Membership is open to all fans, readers, writers, editors and publishers.
Best Mystery Novel
- Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie (Scribner)
- Trunk Music by Michael Connelly (Little Brown)
- The Ax by Donald Westlake ( Mysterious Press )
- Hocus by Jan Burke (Simon & Schuster)
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Harcourt Brace)
Best First Mystery
- Killing Floor by Lee Child (Putnam)
- Off the Face of the Earth by Aljean Harmetz (Scribner)
- Dead Body Language by Penny Warner (Bantam)
- The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey (Harper Paperback)
Best Non-Fiction
- Deadly Women by Jan Grape, Dean James and Ellen Nehr (Carroll & Graf)
- "G" is for Grafton by Natalie Kaufman and Carol Kay (Henry Holt)
- Guilty Parties: A Mystery Lover's Companion by Ian Ousby (Thames & Hudson)
- The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief by Ben Macintyre (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Best Short Story
- "Two Ladies of Rose Cottage" by Peter Robinson (Malice Domestic 6/PocketBooks)
- "The Corbett Correspondence" by Edward Marston & Peter Lovesey (Malice Domestic 6/Pocket Books)
- "Find Miriam" by Stuart Kaminsky (New Mystery Magazine, Summer 1997)
- "Etiquette Lesson" by Polly Whitney (Murderous Intent Magazine)
- "Real Bullets This Time" by William Bankier (EQMM, July 1997)
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