2019 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Dodging and Burning
John Copenhaver
2018 Macavity Award – First Mystery
The Lost Ones
Sheena Kamal
2017 Macavity Award – First Mystery
IQ
Joe Ide
2016 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Past Crimes
Glen Erik Hamilton
2015 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Invisible City
Julia Dahl
2014 Macavity Award – First Mystery
A Killing at Cotton Hill
Terry Shames
2013 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Don’t Ever Get Old
Daniel Friedman
2012 Macavity Award – First Mystery
All Cry Chaos
Leonard Rosen
2011 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Rogue Island
Bruce DeSilva
2010 Macavity Award – First Mystery
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
2009 Macavity Award – First Mystery
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
2008 Macavity Award – First Mystery
In the Woods
Tana French
2007 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Mr. Clarinet
Nick Stone
2006 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Immoral
Brian Freeman
2005 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Dating Dead Men
Harley Jane Kozak
2004 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
2003 Macavity Award – First Mystery
In the Bleak Midwinter
Julia Spencer-Fleming
2002 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Open Season
C.J. Box
2001 Macavity Award – First Mystery
A Conspiracy of Paper
David Liss
2000 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Inner City Blues
Paula L. Woods
1999 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Sympathy for the Devil
Jerrilyn Farmer
1998 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Dead Body Language
Penny Warner
1997 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Death in Little Tokyo
Dale Furutani
1996 Macavity Award – First Mystery
The Strange Files of Fremont Jones
Dianne Day
1995 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Do Unto Others
Jeff Abbott
1994 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Death Comes As Epiphany
Sharan Newman
1993 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Blanche on the Lam
Barbara Neely
1992 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Murder on the Iditarod Trail
Sue Henry
1991 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Postmortem
Patricia Cornwell
1990 Macavity Award – First Mystery
Grime and Punishment
Jill Churchill
1989 Macavity Award – First Mystery
The Killings at Badger’s Drift
Caroline Graham
1988 Macavity Award – First Mystery
The Monkey’s Raincoat
Robert Crais
1987 Macavity Award – First Mystery
