2021 Nominees

The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in five categories. We are highlighting three of them. To see the full list, just click on the Mystery Readers International logo above. On  our list below, you can borrow the book directly from the library when you click on the ones with underlined titles.

Those that are not underlined can be requested through InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

Best Mystery Novel:

• Caroline B. Cooney: Before She Was Helen (Ecco)
• S.A. Cosby: Blacktop Wasteland (Flatiron Books)
• Matt Coyle: Blind Vigil (Oceanview Publishing)
• Louise Penny: All the Devils Are Here (Minotaur)
• Ivy Pochoda: These Women (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Michael Robotham: When She Was Good (Scribner)

Best First Mystery:

• Deepa Anappara: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (Random House)
• Nev March: Murder in Old Bombay (Minotaur)
• Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder Club (Pamela Dorman Books)
• David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Winter Counts (Ecco)
• Stephanie Wrobel: Darling Rose Gold (Berkley

BSue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery:

• Rhys Bowen: The Last Mrs. Summers (Berkeley)
• Elsa Hart: The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne (Minotaur)
• Catriona McPherson: The Turning Tide (Quercus)
• Ann Parker: Mortal Music (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Ovidia Yu: The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Constable)
• James Ziskin: Turn to Stone (Seventh Street Books)