Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food and an immense quiet. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

2006 MACAVITY AWARD WINNERS

The Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International. Winners were announced at Bouchercon in September, 2006

Best Novel
THE LINCOLN LAWYER by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

Best First Novel
IMMORAL by Brian Freeman (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best Nonfiction
GIRL SLEUTH: NANCY DREW AND THE WOMEN WHO CREATED HER by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt)

Best Short Story
"There is No Crime on Easter Island" by Nancy Picard (EQMM, Sept-Oct 2005)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
PARDONABLE LIES by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)


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