Mystery Readers International announces the Nominees for the 2003 Macavity Awards:
BEST MYSTERY NOVEL
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt (Putnam)
For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin's)
The Guards by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Done for a Dime by David Corbett (Ballantine)
The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (Soho)
BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL
Night of the Dance by James Hime, St. Martin's Minotaur
Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca C. Pawel (Soho)
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho press)
BEST NON-FICTION
Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol. 3 by Colleen A Barnett (Poisoned Pen Press)
A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers by Jo Grossman & Robert Weibezahl (Poisoned Pen Press)
Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction by Gary Warren Niebuhr (Libraries Unlimited)
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)
BEST SHORT STORY
"The Grass Is Always Greener" by Sandy Balzo (EQMM, March 2003)
"Rogues Gallery" by Robert Barnard (EQMM,_March 2003)
"Texas Two-Step" by Diana Deverell (AHMM, February 2003)
"No Man's Land" by Beth Foxwell (Blood On Their Hands, ed. by Lawrence Block, Berkley Prime Crime)
"War Crimes" by G. Miki Hayden (A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, ed. by Jeffery Deaver, Berkley Prime Crime)
"Child Support," by Ronnie Klaskin (A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime,
ed. by Jeffery Deaver, Berkley Prime Crime)
"Red Meat" by Elaine Viets (Blood On Their Hands, ed. by Lawrence
Block, Berkley Prime Crime)
The Macavity Awards will be given at Bouchercon, the World Mystery convention, in October in Toronto. Congratulaions to all the nominees.
Go Olen. 2nd time is gotta be the charm.
Tough choice for best novel. Like seeing Dave Corbett up for an award. However, Mr. Bruen your star shines so bright these days.
Posted by: Aldo | June 22, 2004 at 09:55 AM
No, I won't bemoan the lack of online short fiction recognition... even though I want to. Instead, I'll wish Bruen the best of Celtic luck.
Posted by: Ray | June 22, 2004 at 12:18 PM
Amazingly, Ray, I came on to be-moan the same thing. I guess eventually one of us is going to have to get into AHMM, huh?
Posted by: Dave White | June 22, 2004 at 12:35 PM
I know guys, it's getting to be a broken record about the lack of online fiction anywhere. I think that if there's going to be an attitude change, it'll be of the slow-progression type. I mean hey, a year or two ago, who'd have thought that bloggers would be so prevalent amongst the new freelancing crowd?
What I want to know is, considering the bumper crop of first novels last year, the MRI folks could only get four nominees? Hello? Bill Landay, Wallace Stroby, Lono Waiwaiole, and no doubt I'm forgetting others?
The other problem with the awards is that I'm so deep into 2004 books (and starting to think about 2005) that 2003 seems so long ago...mostly because it was.
Posted by: Sarah | June 22, 2004 at 12:48 PM
Congrats to Olen and Ken and David. I'm looking forward to seeing the Anthony nominations too. In fact, I'd better get choosing :o) I DO like awards where I get to nominate and vote.
Donna
Posted by: Donna | June 22, 2004 at 03:32 PM
Congratulations to eveyone who got nominated. I am particularly interested in the Best Non-Fiction and I hope that Colleen Barnett wins this time around. All three volumes of her Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction are a must for those of us that need background information on early female characters. They are amongst the best crime fiction reference books available.
Ayo
Posted by: Ayo Onatade | June 23, 2004 at 08:28 AM