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Macavity Awards: Best First Mystery Novel

Nominated and voted for by the Mystery Readers International.

There were ties in 1987 & 1992.

(found at: http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html)
1. The Ritual Bath: The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel
by Faye Kellerman
  
2.
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 A Case of Loyalties
by Marilyn Wallace
  
3. The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole Novels)
by Robert Crais
  
4. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby Mysteries)
by Caroline Graham
  
5. Grime and Punishment (Jane Jeffry Mysteries (Paperback))
by Jill Churchill
  
6. Postmortem
by Patricia Cornwell
  
7. Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Alaska Mysteries (Paperback))
by Sue Henry
  
8.
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 Zero at the Bone: A Mystery
by Mary Willis Walker
  
9.
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 Blanche on the Lam
by Barbara Neely
  
10. Death Comes As Epiphany: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery (Catherine LeVendeur)
by Sharan Newman
  
11. Do Unto Others
by Jeff Abbott
  
12. The Strange Files of Fremont Jones (Fremont Jones Mysteries (Paperback))
by Dianne Day
  
13. Death in Little Tokyo
by Dale Furutani
  
14. Dead Body Language (Crime Line.)
by Penny Warner
  
15. Sympathy for the Devil
by Kent Anderson
  
16. Inner City Blues (Fawcett Book)
by Paula L. Woods
  
17. A Conspiracy of Paper
by David Liss
  
18. Open Season (Joe Pickett Novels (Paperback))
by C. J. Box
  
19. In the Bleak Midwinter (A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery)
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
  
20. Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
  
21. Dating Dead Men: A Novel
by Harley Jane Kozak
  
22. Immoral
by Brian Freeman
  
23. Mr. Clarinet
by Nick Stone
  
24. In the Woods
by Tana French
  
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Created by tassini on May 15, 2007.