2010 Macavity Award Winners

Categories and winners are in bold.

Best First Mystery Novel:

• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti
• A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
• The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
• A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

Best Mystery Novel:

• Tower by Ken Bruen & Reed Farrel Coleman*
• Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
• Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie
• Nemesis by Jo Nesbø; translated by Don Bartlett
• The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
• The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award:

• A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell
• In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
• A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd
• Serpent in the Thorns by Jeri Westerson
• Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear

Best Mystery Nonfiction:

• Talking about Detective Fiction by P.D. James
• L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City by John Buntin*
• Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life by Craig McDonald*
• The Line Up: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler
• Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury & Aly Sujo
• Dame Agatha's Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion by Elena Santangelo*

* denotes available via Prospector