El Premio Macavity (Macavity Award) es un premio literario que se entrega a escritores de misterio. Son nominado y votados anualmente por los miembros de la organización Mystery Readers International, el nombre del premio está inspirado en el poema "Macavity: el Gato Misterio" publicado en El libro de los gatos habilidosos del viejo Possum de T.S. Eliot. El premio se entrega en cuatro categorías: mejor novela, mejor primera novela, mejor historia de no ficción, y mejor historia corta. En años recientes, un nuevo premio, el de mejor novela histórica de misterio "Sue Feder", se ha estado entregando junto con los premios Macavity.
Premios Mejor novela de misterio 2025 - California Bear, Duane Swierczynski 2024 - All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby 2023 - A World of Curiosities, Louise Penny 2022 - Razorblade Tears, S. A. Cosby 2021 - Blacktop Wasteland, S. A. Cosby 2020 - The Chain, Adrian McKinty 2019 - November Road, Lou Berney 2018 - Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz 2017 - A Great Reckoning, Louise Penny 2016 - The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney 2015 – The Killer Next Door, Alex Marwood 2014 – Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger 2013 – The Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny 2012 – Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran 2011 – Bury Your Dead, Louise Penny 2010 - Tower, Ken Bruen y Reed Farrel Coleman 2009 - Where Memories Lie, Deborah Crombie 2008 - What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman 2007 - The Virgin of Small Plains, Nancy Pickard 2006 - The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly 2005 - The Killing of the Tinkers, Ken Bruen 2004 - The House Sitter, Peter Lovesey 2003 - Winter and Night, S. J. Rozan 2002 - Folly, Laurie R. King 2001 - A Place of Execution, Val McDermid 2000 - The Flower Master, Sujata Massey 1999 - Blood Work, Michael Connelly 1998 - Dreaming of the Bones, Deborah Crombie 1997 - Bloodhounds, Peter Lovesey 1996 - Under the Beetle's Cellar, Mary Willis Walker 1995 - She Walks These Hills, Sharyn McCrumb 1994 - The Sculptress, Minette Walters 1993 - Bootlegger's Daughter, Margaret Maron 1992 - I.O.U., Nancy Pickard 1991 - If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O, Sharyn McCrumb 1990 - A Little Class on Murder, Carolyn Hart 1989 - A Thief of Time, Tony Hillerman 1988 - Marriage is Murder, Nancy Pickard 1987 - A Taste for Death, P. D. James
Mejor primera novela de misterio 2025 - Ghosts of Waikiki, Jennifer K. Morita 2024 - The Peacock and the Sparrow, I.S. Berry 2023 - The Maid, Nita Prose 2022 - Arsenic and Adobo, Mia P. Manansala 2021 - Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden 2020 - One Night Gone, Tara Laskowski 2019 - Dodging and Burning, John Copenhaver 2018 - The Lost Ones, Sheena Kamal 2017 - IQ, Joe Ide 2016 - Past Crimes, Glen Erik Hamilton 2015 – Invisible City, Julia Dahl 2014 – A Killing at Cotton Hill, Terry Shames 2013 – Don't Ever Get Old, Daniel Friedman 2012 – All Cry Chaos, Leonard Rosen 2011 – Rogue Island, Bruce DeSilva 2010 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley 2009 - Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres, Stieg Larsson 2008 - In The Woods, Tana French 2007 - Mr. Clarinet, Nick Stone 2006 - Immoral, Brian Freeman 2005 - Dating Dead Men, Harley Jane Kozak 2004 - Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear 2003 - In the Bleak Midwinter, Julia Spencer-Fleming 2002 - Open Season, C. J. Box 2001 - A Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss 2000 - Inner City Blues, Paula L. Woods 1999 - Sympathy for the Devil, Jerrilyn Farmer 1998 - Dead Body Language, Penny Warner 1997 - Death in Little Tokyo, Dale Furutani 1996 - The Strange Files of Fremont Jones, Dianne Day 1995 - Do Unto Others, Jeff Abbott 1994 - Death Comes as Epiphany, Sharan Newman 1993 - Blanche on the Lam, Barbara Neely 1992 - Murder on the Iditarod Trail, Sue Henry y Zero at the Bone, Mary Willis Walker 1991 - Postmortem, Patricia Cornwell 1990 - Grime and Punishment, Jill Churchill 1989 - The Killings at Badger's Drift, Caroline Graham 1988 - The Monkey's Raincoat, Robert Crais 1987 - The Ritual Bath, Faye Kellerman y A Case of Loyalties, Marilyn Wallace
Mejor historia de no ficción Hasta 2004, esta categoría era llamada "Mejor trabajo de misterio crítico o biográfico". 2025: Abingdon’s Boardinghouse Murder, Greg Lilly 2024: Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction, Anjili Babbar 2023: The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, Martin Edwards 2022: How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America, Lee Child y Laurie R. King 2021: H.R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime, Sheila Mitchell 2020: Hitchcock and the Censors, John Billheimer 2019: The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World, Sarah Weinman 2018: The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books, Martin Edwards 2017: Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, Margaret Kinsman 2016: The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story, Martin Edwards 2015: Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey, Hank Phillippi Ryan 2014: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War, Daniel Stashower 2013: Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels, John Connolly y Declan Burke 2012: The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, Charlaine Harris 2011: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries, John Curran 2010: Talking about Detective Fiction, P. D. James 2009: African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study, Frankie Y. Bailey 2008: The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians, Roger Sobin 2007: Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers, Jim Huang y Austin Lugar 2006: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, Melanie Rehak 2005: Forensics for Dummies, D. P. Lyle 2004: Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, Gary Warren Niebuhr 2003: They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels, Jim Huang 2002: Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional, G. Miki Hayden 2001: The American Regional Mystery, Marvin Lachman 2000: Ross Macdonald, Tom Nolan 1999: Killer Books, Jean Swanson y Dean James 1998: Deadly Women, Jan Grape, Dean James y Ellen Nehr 1997: Detecting Women 2, Wiletta Heising 1996: Detecting Women, Willetta Heising 1995: By a Woman's Hand, Dean James y Jean Swanson 1994: The Fine Art of Murder, Edward Gorman 1993: Doubleday Crime Club Compendium, Ellen Nehr 1992: Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman, Tony Hillerman y Ernie Bulow 1991: Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, Gillian Gill 1990: The Bedside Companion to Crime, H. R. F. Keating 1989: Silk Stalkings, Victoria Nichols y Susan Thompson 1988: Son of Gun in Cheek, Bill Pronzini 1987: 1001 Midnights, Marcia Muller y Bill Pronzini
Mejor historia corta 2025: “Home Game”, Craig Faustus Buck 2024: “Ticket to Ride”, Dru Ann Love y Kristopher Zgorski 2023: "Beauty and the Beyotch", Barb Goffman 2022: "Sweeps Week", Richard Helms 2021: "Elysian Fields", Gabriel Valjan 2020: "Better Days", Art Taylor 2019: "English 398: Fiction Workshop", Art Taylor 2018: "Windward", Paul D. Marks 2017: "Parallel Play", Art Taylor 2016: "The Little Men", Megan Abbott 2015: "Honeymoon Sweet", Craig Faustus Buck 2014: "The Care and Feeding of Houseplants", Art Taylor 2013: "The Lord Is My Shamus", Barb Goffman 2012: "Disarming", Dana Cameron 2011: "Swing Shift", Dana Cameron 2010: "On the House", Hank Phillippi Ryan 2009: "The Night Things Changed", Dana Cameron 2008: "Please Watch Your Step", Rhys Bowen 2007: "Til Death Do Us Part", Tim Maleeny 2006: "There Is No Crime on Easter Island", Nancy Pickard 2005: "The Widow of Slane", Terence Faherty 2004: "The Grass Is Always Greener", Sandy Balzo 2003: "Voice Mail", Janet Dawson 2002: "The Abbey Ghosts", Jan Burke 2001: "A Candle for Christmas", Reginald Hill 2000: "Maubi and the Jumbies", Kate Grilley 1999: "Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable", Barbara D'Amato 1998: "Two Ladies of Rose Cottage", Peter Robinson 1997: "Cruel & Unusual", Carolyn Wheat 1996: "Evans Tries an O-Level", Colin Dexter 1995: "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", Deborah Adams y "Unharmed", Jan Burke 1994: "Checkout", Susan Dunlap 1993: "Henrie O's Holiday", Carolyn Hart 1992: "Deborah's Judgement", Margaret Maron 1991: "Too Much to Bare", Joan Hess 1990: "Afraid All the Time", Nancy Pickard 1989: "Deja Vu", Doug Allyn 1988: "The Woman in the Wardrobe", Robert Barnard 1987: "The Parker Shotgun", Sue Grafton
Mejor novela histórica de misterio "Sue Feder" 2025: Fog City, Claire Johnson 2024: The Mistress of Bhatia House, Sujata Massey 2023: Lavender House, Lev A.C. Rosen 2022: Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara 2021: Turn to Stone, James Ziskin 2020: The Secrets We Kept, Lara Prescott 2019: The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey 2018: In Farleigh Field, Rhys Bowen 2017: Heart of Stone, James W. Ziskin 2016: The Masque of a Murderer, Susanna Calkins 2015: A Deadly Measure of Brimstone, Catriona McPherson 2014: Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell 2013: An Unmarked Grave, Charles Todd 2012: Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains, Catriona McPherson 2011: City of Dragons, Kelli Stanley 2010: A Trace of Smoke, Rebecca Cantrell 2009: A Royal Plain, Rhys Bowen 2008: Mistress of the Art of Death, Ariana Franklin 2007: Oh Danny Boy, Rhys Bowen 2006: Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear
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