by Mary Saums
Wow, great news today - nominees for the 2015 Macavity Awards were announced - and some Fab Femmes are on the list!
In the Best Novel Category:
THE DAY SHE DIED by CATRIONA MCPHERSON
Congratulations, Catriona!
In the Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction category:
WRITES OF PASSAGE: ADVENTURES ON THE WRITER'S JOURNEY, edited by HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN
Congratulations, Hank!
Three Femmes edited short story anthologies that included nominees for Best Mystery Short Story:
THE SHADOW KNOWS by Barb Goffman
CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: HOMICIDAL HOLIDAYS
edited by DONNA ANDREWS, Barb Goffman, & MARCIA TALLEY
and
HONEYMOON SWEET by Craig Faustus Buck
MURDER AT THE BEACH, BOUCHERCON 2014
edited by DANA CAMERON
Congratulations, Donna, Marcia and Dana!
And for the Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Fiction:
A DEADLY MEASURE OF BRIMSTONE by CATRIONA MCPHERSON
which may also look like this:
or quite possibly this:
All gorgeous. Congratulations again, Catriona!
And congrats to all the nominees. Here's the complete list:
Best Mystery Novel
The Lewis Man, by Peter May (Quercus)
The Last Death of Jack Harbin, by Terry Shames (Seventh Street)
The Killer Next Door, by Alex Marwood (Penguin)
The Day She Died, by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
The Missing Place, by Sophie Littlefield (Gallery)
The Long Way Home, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Best First Mystery Novel
Invisible City, by Julia Dahl (Minotaur)
The Black Hour, by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street)
Someone Else’s Skin, by Sarah Hilary (Penguin)
Dear Daughter, by Elizabeth Little (Viking)
Blessed Are the Dead, by Kristi Belcamino (Witness Impulse)
Dry Bones in the Valley, by Tom Bouman (W. W. Norton)
Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey, edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Henery Press)
The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis, by Charles Brownson (McFarland)
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, by J. W. Ocker (Countryman)
400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman, by Adam Plantinga (Quill Driver)
Best Mystery Short Story
“Honeymoon Sweet” by Craig Faustus Buck, in Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, edited by Dana Cameron (Down & Out)
“The Shadow Knows” by Barb Goffman, in Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley (Wildside)
“Howling at the Moon” by Paul D. Marks, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014
“The Proxy” by Travis Richardson, in Thuglit #13, Sept./Oct. 2014.
“The Odds Are Against Us” by Art Taylor, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014
Sue Feder Memorial Award: Best Historical Mystery
Queen of Hearts, by Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
Present Darkness, by Malla Nunn (Atria)
A Deadly Measure of Brimstone, by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur)
An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris (Knopf)
Hunting Shadows, by Charles Todd (Wm. Morrow)
Things Half in Shadow, by Alan Finn (Gallery)
Mary, thank you! That was some marvelous sleuthing on the Brimstone jackets.
Posted by: catriona | June 19, 2015 at 08:20 AM
Congratulations to all our talented Femmes. Stylish jackets, Mary.
Posted by: Elaine Viets | June 19, 2015 at 08:30 AM
Thanks, Mary!
Posted by: Barb Goffman | June 19, 2015 at 08:34 AM
Thank you, Mary!
Posted by: Dana | June 19, 2015 at 02:17 PM
You're welcome, ladies! I keep picturing you all like the NBA winners celebrating in the locker room the other night, when they were shaking up champagne bottles and spraying each other. :)
I do love the Brimstone covers. But you know what, the standalone books have great ones too. There are so many super-talented cover artists out there.
Posted by: Mary S. | June 19, 2015 at 06:48 PM
SO happy about this! Thank you! (And yes, we are quite a team, all of us Femmes!)
xoxoo
Posted by: Hank Phillippi Ryan | June 21, 2015 at 06:16 AM