The Macavity Awards, established in 1987, are a group of literary awards presented annually to mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the "mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.[1] The award is given in four categories—best novel, best first novel, best nonfiction, and best short story. The Sue Feder Historical Mystery has been given in conjunction with the Macavity Awards.
The Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel was first awarded in 1987. To be eligible for the award, the mystery novel must have been published in the previous calendar year.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Result | ||
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| 1987 | Winner | ||||
| When the Sacred Ginmill Closes | Finalist | ||||
| The Million-Dollar Wound | Finalist | ||||
| Come Morning | Finalist | ||||
| Beyond Blame | Finalist | ||||
| Skinwalkers | Finalist | ||||
| The Perfect Spy | Finalist | ||||
| Deadfall | Finalist | ||||
| Lady Killer | Finalist | ||||
| Night Games | Finalist | ||||
| 1988 | Marriage Is Murder | Winner | |||
| Primary Target | Finalist | ||||
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| Venetian Mask | Finalist | ||||
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| Bitter Medicine | Finalist | ||||
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| 1989 | Winner | ||||
| Murder Unrenovated | Finalist | ||||
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| E Is for Evidence | Finalist | ||||
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| Blood Shot | Finalist | ||||
| 1990 | Winner | ||||
| Black Cherry Blues | Finalist | ||||
| Bone | Finalist | ||||
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| 1991 | If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O | Winner | |||
| Well-Schooled in Murder | Finalist | ||||
| Deadly Valentine | Finalist | ||||
| Burn Marks | Finalist | ||||
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| 1992 | I.O.U. | Winner | |||
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| 1993 | Bootlegger's Daughter | Winner | [2] | ||
| Booked To Die | Finalist | ||||
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| White Butterfly | Finalist | ||||
| 1994 | Winner | ||||
| Missing Joseph | Finalist | ||||
| Dead Man’s Island | Finalist | ||||
| Old Enemies | Finalist | ||||
| To Live and Die in Dixie | Finalist | ||||
| 1995 | She Walks These Hills | Winner | |||
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| Playing for the Ashes | Finalist | ||||
| Scandal in Fair Haven | Finalist | ||||
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| 1996 | Under the Beetle's Cellar | Doubleday | Winner | ||
| Hard Christmas | Finalist | ||||
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| Bookman’s Wake | Finalist | ||||
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| 1997 | Bloodhounds | Mysterious Press | Winner | ||
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| Two for the Dough | Finalist | ||||
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| Hearts and Bones | Finalist | ||||
| 1998 | Dreaming of the Bones | Scribner | Winner | ||
| Hocus | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | |||
| Trunk Music | Little Brown & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Harcourt Brace | Finalist | ||||
| Mysterious Press | Finalist | ||||
| 1999 | Blood Work | Little Brown & Co. | Winner | [3] | |
| Blind Descent | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Finalist | |||
| Butchers Hill | Avon | Finalist | [4] | ||
| Home Fires | Mysterious Press | Finalist | |||
| Blue | Mysterious Press | Finalist | |||
| 2000 | Knopf | Winner | |||
| River of Darkness | Viking Press | Finalist | |||
| L.A. Requiem | Doubleday | Finalist | |||
| In a Dry Season | Avon | Finalist | |||
| 2001 | Berkley Books | Winner | |||
| Guns and Roses | Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Mysterious Press | Finalist | ||||
| Half Moon Street | Ballantine Books | Finalist | |||
| Pocket Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2002 | Folly | Winner | [5] | ||
| Tell No One | Delacorte Press | Finalist | |||
| Scribner | Finalist | ||||
| Mystic River | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Silent Joe | Hyperion | Finalist | |||
| 2003 | Winter and Night | Intrigue | Winner | ||
| Savannah Blues | HarperCollins | Finalist | |||
| Jolie Blon's Bounce | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | |||
| Nine | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | |||
| City of Bones | Little, Brown & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2004 | St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Winner | |||
| G. P. Putnam's Sons | Finalist | ||||
| For the Love of Mike | St. Martin's | Finalist | |||
| St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Done for a Dime | Ballantine Books | Finalist | |||
| 2005 | Little, Brown & Co. | Winner | |||
| Cold Case | Avon | Finalist | |||
| Darkly Dreaming Dexter | Doubleday | Finalist | |||
| High Country Fall | Mysterious Press | Finalist | |||
| California Girl | HarperCollins | Finalist | |||
| Playing with Fire | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2006 | Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Winner | [6] [7] | ||
| One Shot | Delacorte Press | Finalist | |||
| Plume | Finalist | ||||
| Vanish | Ballantine Books | Finalist | |||
| Solomon vs. Lord | Bantam Books | Finalist | |||
| Strange Affair | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Knopf | Finalist | ||||
| 2007 | Thorndike/ Random House UK | Winner | |||
| Christine Falls | Henry Holt/Picador | Finalist | |||
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||||
| Bantam Books | Finalist | ||||
| Piece of My Heart | McClelland & Stewart | Finalist | |||
| All Mortal Flesh | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| 2008 | What the Dead Know | William Morrow & Co. | Winner | ||
| Soul Patch | Midnight Ink | Finalist | |||
| Ballantine Books | Finalist | ||||
| Blood of Paradise | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | |||
| Water Like a Stone | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2009 | Where Memories Lie | St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Winner | ||
| Trigger City | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| (UK) / The Price of Blood (US) | John Murray/ William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| UK: The Price of Blood | Finalist | ||||
| Curse of the Spellmans | Doubleday | Finalist | |||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| HarperCollins | Finalist | ||||
| 2010 | and Reed Farrel Coleman | Tower | Busted Flush Press | Winner | [8] |
| Bury Me Deep | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | |||
| Necessary as Blood | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| with Don Bartlett (trans.) | Nemesis | HarperCollins | Finalist | ||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2011 | Bury Your Dead | Minotaur Books | Winner | [9] [10] | |
| Simon & Schuster | Finalist | ||||
| Faithful Place | Viking Press | Finalist | |||
| HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| Thirteen Hours | Grove Atlantic | Finalist | |||
| Ballantine Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2012 | Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Winner | [11] [12] | |
| with Marlaine Delargy (trans.) | 1222 | Scribner | Finalist | ||
| Mulholland Books | Finalist | ||||
| Little, Brown, & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Dutton | Finalist | ||||
| Hell & Gone | Mulholland Books | Finalist | |||
| 2013 | Minotaur | Winner | [13] | ||
| Gone Girl | Crown | Finalist | |||
| Silver Oak | Finalist | ||||
| Forge Books | Finalist | ||||
| Algonquin Books | Finalist | ||||
| Hard Case Crime | Finalist | ||||
| Quirk Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2014 | Ordinary Grace | Atria Books | Winner | [14] [15] | |
| Sandrine's Case | Mysterious Press | Finalist | |||
| Dead Lions | Soho Crime | Finalist | |||
| Penguin Books | Finalist | ||||
| How the Light Gets In | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Standing in Another Man's Grave | Reagan Arthur Books | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | Penguin Books | Winner | [16] | ||
| Gallery | Finalist | [17] | |||
| Quercus | Finalist | ||||
| Midnight Ink | Finalist | ||||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Seventh Street Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2016 | William Morrow & Co. | Winner | [18] | ||
| Little Black Lies | Minotaur Books | Finalist | [19] | ||
| Soho Press | Finalist | ||||
| Midnight Ink | Finalist | ||||
| Life or Death | Mulholland Books | Finalist | |||
| Alfred A. Knopf | Finalist | ||||
| 2017 | Minotaur Books | Winner | |||
| You Will Know Me | Little, Brown, & Co. | Finalist | [20] | ||
| Dark Fissures | Oceanview | Finalist | |||
| Before the Fall | UK: Hodder & Stoughton US: Grand Central Publishing | Finalist | |||
| Real Tigers | UK: John Murray US: Soho Press | Finalist | |||
| Wilde Lake | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2018 | Magpie Murders | Harper | Winner | [21] | |
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| Bluebird, Bluebird | Mulholland Books | Finalist | |||
| Glass Houses | Minotaur | Finalist | |||
| Mysterious Press | Finalist | ||||
| William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| 2019 | November Road | William Morrow & Co. | Winner | [22] | |
| If I Die Tonight | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Flat Iron Books | Finalist | ||||
| Jar of Hearts | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Hiroshima Boy | Prospect Park Books | Finalist | |||
| Under My Skin | Harlequin – Park Row Books | Finalist | |||
| 2020 | Mulholland Books | Winner | [23] | ||
| Your House Will Pay | Ecco Press | Finalist | [24] | ||
| This Tender Land | Atria | Finalist | |||
| Lady in the Lake | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Forge Books | Finalist | [25] | |||
| Sarah Jane | Soho Crime | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | Blacktop Wasteland | Flatiron Books | Winner | [26] | |
| Before She Was Helen | Ecco Press | Finalist | |||
| Blind Vigil | Oceanview Publishing | Finalist | |||
| All the Devils Are Here | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| These Women | Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist | |||
| When She Was Good | Scribner | Finalist | |||
| 2022 | Razorblade Tears | Flatiron Books | Winner | [27] [28] | |
| Little, Brown, & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| 1979 | Atlantic Monthly | Finalist | |||
| Bobby March Will Live Forever | World Noir | Finalist | |||
| We Begin at the End | Henry Holt & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Harlem Shuffle | Doubleday | Finalist |
The Macavity Award for the Best First Mystery Novel was awarded in 1987.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Result | ||
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| 1987 | Winner | ||||
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| Too Late To Die | Finalist | ||||
| Floater | Finalist | ||||
| Dead Air | Finalist | ||||
| From a High Place | Finalist | ||||
| Kiss Me Once | Finalist | ||||
| 1988 | Winner | [29] | |||
| Death on the Rocks | Finalist | ||||
| Death on Demand | Finalist | ||||
| Fetish | Finalist | ||||
| Unquiet Grave | Finalist | ||||
| Where Lawyers Fear To Tread | Finalist | ||||
| Neon Flamingo | Finalist | ||||
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| Presumed Innocent | Finalist | ||||
| 1989 | Winner | ||||
| Murder Once Done | Finalist | ||||
| 1990 | Grime and Punishment | Winner | [30] | ||
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| 1991 | Postmortem | Winner | [31] | ||
| Catering to Nobody | Finalist | ||||
| Kindred Crimes | Finalist | ||||
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| 1992 | Murder on the Iditarod Trail | Winner | |||
| Zero at the Bone | Winner | ||||
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| Roman Blood | Finalist | ||||
| Flowers for the Dead | Finalist | ||||
| 1993 | Blanche on the Lam | Winner | [32] [33] [34] | ||
| Aunt Dimity’s Death | Finalist | ||||
| Every Crooked Nanny | Finalist | ||||
| 1994 | Death Comes as Epiphany | Winner | |||
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| Child of Silence | Finalist | ||||
| 1995 | Do Unto Others | Winner | |||
| One for the Money | Finalist | ||||
| Murder in the Place of Anubis | Finalist | ||||
| North of Montana | Finalist | ||||
| 1996 | Doubleday | Winner | |||
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| Horse of a Different Killer | Finalist | ||||
| Death in Bloodhound Red | Finalist | ||||
| 1997 | Death in Little Tokyo | St. Martin's | Winner | ||
| Final Jeopardy | Finalist | ||||
| Murder on a Girls’ Night Out | Finalist | ||||
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| 1998 | Dead Body Language | Bantam Books | Winner | ||
| Killing Floor | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Finalist | |||
| Off the Face of the Earth | Scribner | Finalist | |||
| Charm City | Avon | Finalist | |||
| HarperPaperbacks | Finalist | ||||
| 1999 | Sympathy for the Devil | Avon | Winner | ||
| Tiger's Palette | Pocket Books | Finalist | |||
| St. Martin's | Finalist | ||||
| 2000 | Inner City Blues | Soho Press | Winner | ||
| Murder with Peacocks | St. Martin's | Finalist | |||
| Murder in the Marais | Soho Press | Finalist | |||
| Revenge of the Gypsy Queen | Rainbow Books | Finalist | |||
| 2001 | St. Martin's | Winner | |||
| Death Dances to a Reggae Beat | Berkley Prime Crime | Finalist | |||
| Crow in Stolen Colors | Berkley Prime Crime | Finalist | |||
| Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death | Silver Dagger Mysteries | Finalist | |||
| 2002 | Open Season | Henry Holt & Co. | Winner | [35] [36] | |
| Scribner | Finalist | ||||
| Perhaps She'll Die | Intrigue | Finalist | |||
| Blindsighted | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2003 | In the Bleak Midwinter | Hodder & Stoughton/Viking | Winner | ||
| Dutton | Finalist | ||||
| Scribner | Finalist | ||||
| St. Kitts Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2004 | Maisie Dobbs | Libraries Unlimited | Winner | [37] [38] | |
| Night of the Dance | St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Death of a Nationalist | Soho Press | Finalist | |||
| St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2005 | Dating Dead Men | Midnight Ink | Winner | ||
| Uncommon Grounds | Five Star | Finalist | |||
| Summer of the Big Bachi | Delta | Finalist | |||
| Whiskey Sour | Hyperion | Finalist | |||
| Misdemeanor Man | Bloomsbury Publishing | Finalist | |||
| 2006 | Immoral | St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Winner | ||
| All Shook Up | ECW Press | Finalist | |||
| Baby Game | Wordslinger Press | Finalist | |||
| 2007 | Mr. Clarinet | Crum Creek | Winner | ||
| Consigned to Death | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers | Capital Crime Press | Finalist | |||
| King of Lies | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Mysterious | Finalist | ||||
| 2008 | In the Woods | W. W. Norton & Co. | Winner | [39] [40] [41] | |
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Heart-Shaped Box | Penguin | Finalist | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton/Atria | Finalist | ||||
| Stealing the Dragon | Oceanview | Finalist | |||
| 2009 | HarperCollins / Ecco | Winner | [42] | ||
| Finding Nouf | Bantam Books | Finalist | |||
| Death of a Cozy Writer | Metro | Finalist | |||
| Calumet City | McFarland & Company | Finalist | |||
| Ballantine Books | Finalist | ||||
| Random House | Finalist | ||||
| Soho Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2010 | Delacorte Publishing | Winner | |||
| Running from the Devil | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | [43] | ||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Soho Crime | Finalist | ||||
| Picador | Finalist | ||||
| 2011 | Rogue Island | Forge Books/Tom Doherty Associates | Winner | [44] [45] | |
| Forge Books | Finalist | ||||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Full Mortality | Wildside Press | Finalist | |||
| Viking Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2012 | All Cry Chaos | Permanent Press | Winner | [46] | |
| Learning to Swim | Crown | Finalist | |||
| Nazareth Child | Midnight Ink | Finalist | |||
| Turn of Mind | Atlantic Monthly | Finalist | |||
| Crown | Finalist | ||||
| Before I Go to Sleep | Harper | Finalist | |||
| 2013 | Don't Ever Get Old | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books | Winner | ||
| Low Country Boil | Henery Press | Finalist | |||
| Mr. Churchill's Secretary | Random House – Bantam Books | Finalist | [47] | ||
| Crown | Finalist | ||||
| 2014 | Seventh Street Books | Winner | |||
| Yesterday's Echo | Oceanview Publishing | Finalist | [48] | ||
| Rage Against the Dying | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Cover of Snow | Ballantine Books | Finalist | |||
| Norwegian by Night | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | Invisible City | Minotaur Books | Winner | ||
| Blessed Are the Dead | Witness Impulse | Finalist | |||
| Dry Bones in the Valley | W. W. Norton & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Someone Else's Skin | Penguin Books | Finalist | |||
| Dear Daughter | Viking Press | Finalist | |||
| Seventh Street Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2016 | Past Crimes | William Morrow & Co. | Winner | ||
| Concrete Angel | Polis | Finalist | |||
| Mulholland Books | Finalist | ||||
| Where All Light Tends to Go | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Finalist | |||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| On the Road with Del and Louise | Henery | Finalist | |||
| 2017 | IQ | Mulholland Books | Winner | ||
| UK: Bantam Books US: NAL | Finalist | ||||
| Under the Harrow | Penguin Books | Finalist | |||
| Dodgers | No Exit Press | Finalist | |||
| Design for Dying | Forge Books | Finalist | |||
| 2018 | William Morrow & Co. | Winner | |||
| Hollywood Homicide | Midnight Ink | Finalist | |||
| Flatiron Books | Finalist | ||||
| She Rides Shotgun | Ecco Press | Finalist | |||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Lost Luggage | Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist | |||
| 2019 | Dodging and Burning | Pegasus Books | Winner | [49] | |
| My Sister, the Serial Killer | Doubleday | Finalist | |||
| Where the Crawdads Sing | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Finalist | |||
| Something in the Water | Ballantine Books | Finalist | |||
| Crown | Finalist | ||||
| 2020 | One Night Gone | Graydon House Books | Winner | ||
| My Lovely Wife | Penguin Books | Finalist | |||
| Agora Books | Finalist | ||||
| Miracle Creek | Sarah Crichton Books | Finalist | |||
| Call Me Evie | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Finalist | [50] | ||
| American Spy | Random House | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | Winter Counts | Ecco Press | Winner | ||
| Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Random House | Finalist | |||
| Murder in Old Bombay | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Pamela Dorman Books | Finalist | ||||
| Darling Rose Gold | Berkley Books | Finalist | |||
| 2022 | Arsenic and Adobo | Berkley Books | Winner | ||
| Who Is Maude Dixon? | Little, Brown, & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Girl A | Viking Press | Finalist | |||
| Deer Season | University of Nebraska Press | Finalist | |||
| All Her Little Secrets | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist |
The Macavity Award for Best Mystery Non-fiction/Critical Book was established in 1987. This category has had multiple names since its inception and reviews the best mystery-related critical, biographical, and otherwise nonfiction titles.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Result | ||
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| 1987 | and Bill Pronzini | 1001 Midnights | Winner | ||
| 1988 | Son of Gun in Cheek | Winner | |||
| 1989 | and Susan Thompson | Silk Stalkings | Winner | ||
| 1990 | Winner | ||||
| 1991 | Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries | Winner | |||
| 1992 | and Ernie Bulow | Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman | Winner | ||
| 1993 | Doubleday Crime Club Compendium | Doubleday | Winner | ||
| 1994 | (ed.) | Winner | |||
| 1995 | and Jean Swanson | By a Woman's Hand | Winner | ||
| 1996 | Detecting Women | Purple Moon | Winner | ||
| 1997 | Detecting Women 2 | Purple Moon Press | Winner | ||
| 1998 | ,, and Ellen Nehr | Deadly Women | Carroll & Graf | Winner | |
Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Finalist | |||
| and Carol Kay | G Is for Grafton | Henry Holt & Co. | Finalist | ||
| Guilty Parties: A Mystery Lover's Companion | Thames & Hudson | Finalist | |||
| 1999 | and | Killer Books | Berkley Books | Winner | |
| Mystery Reader's Walking Guide to Washington, DC | Passport Books | Finalist | |||
| and Martin Greenberg | Speaking of Murder | Berkley Books | Finalist | ||
| Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir | St. Martin's | Finalist | |||
| and Susan Thompson | Silk Stalkings II | Scarecrow | Finalist | ||
| 2000 | Ross Macdonald | Penguin Rough Guides | Winner | ||
| and Robert Weibezahl (eds.) | Dell | Finalist | |||
| Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle | Henry Holt & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2001 | Minotaur Books | Winner | |||
| Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| essays | Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Women of Mystery: the Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 2000 | Finalist | |||
| (ed.) | 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century | Crum Creek Press | Finalist | ||
| 2002 | Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional | Howdunit Series, Writers Digest Books | Winner | ||
| Collectors Press | Finalist | ||||
| My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb | Cumberland House | Finalist | |||
| Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir | HarperCollins | Finalist | |||
| Who Was that Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery | Delphi Books | Finalist | |||
| 2003 | (ed.) | They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels | William Morrow & Co. | Winner | |
| Carroll & Graf | Finalist | ||||
| Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel | Deadly Alibi Press | Finalist | |||
| The Overlook Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2004 | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Winner | |||
| Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol. 3 | Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist | |||
| and Robert Weibezahl | Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist | |||
| Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | Bloomsbury Publishing | Finalist | |||
| 2005 | , MD | Forensics for Dummies | William Morrow & Co. | Winner | [51] |
| and Steven Chermak | Famous American Crimes & Trials, Vol. 1 | Praeger Publishers | Finalist | ||
| Just the Facts: True Tales of Cops & Criminals | Deadly Serious Press | Finalist | |||
| W. W. Norton | Finalist | ||||
| Latin American Mystery Writers: An A-to-Z Guide | Greenwood Press | Finalist | |||
| 2006 | Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her | Columbia University Press | Winner | ||
| Tracks to Murder | Kent State University Press | Finalist | |||
| with Laurie Roberts (photo) | Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed | Hothouse Press | Finalist | ||
| (ed.) | New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels | W. W. Norton & Co. | Finalist | ||
| W. W. Norton & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| 2007 | and Austin Lugar (eds.) | Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers | Five Star | Winner | |
| Don't Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript From Ending Up D.O.A. | Bella Rosa Books | Finalist | |||
| Dutton | Finalist | ||||
| 2008 | (ed.) | Harcourt | Winner | ||
| Rough Guide to Crime Fiction | McFarland & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy | Michael Joseph/ Delacorte | Finalist | |||
| , Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley (eds.) | Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters | Walker | Finalist | ||
| Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers | HarperPress/Penguin | Finalist | |||
| 2009 | African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study | Onyx | Winner | ||
| Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories | Finalist | [52] | |||
| How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries | St. Martin's | Finalist | |||
| Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction | Bleak House Books | Finalist | |||
| Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finalist | |||
| Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2010 | Talking About Detective Fiction | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner | ||
| L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City | Random House | Finalist | |||
| Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life | Bleak House Books | Finalist | |||
| (ed.) | Little, Brown, & Co. | Finalist | |||
| and Aly Sujo | Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art | Penguin Books | Finalist | ||
| Dame Agatha's Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion | Bella Rosa Books | Finalist | |||
| 2011 | Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making | HarperCollins | Winner | ||
| Penguin Books | Finalist | ||||
| Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History | W. W. Norton & Co. | Finalist | |||
| (ed.) | Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction | New Holland | Finalist | ||
| and Hank W. Wagner (eds.) | Thrillers: 100 Must Reads | Oceanview Publishing | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | Ace Books | Winner | |||
| Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure | Linden | Finalist | |||
| Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks | HarperCollins | Finalist | |||
| Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel | McFarland & Company | Finalist | |||
| William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| 2013 | and Declan Burke (eds.) | Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels | Simon & Schuster – Atria/Emily Bestler | Winner | |
| Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China | Penguin Books | Finalist | |||
| (ed.) | In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero | BenBella/Smart Pop | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Minotaur Books | Winner | |||
| William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard | Johns Hopkins University Press | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | (ed.) | Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey | Henery Press | Winner | |
| McFarland & Company | Finalist | ||||
| Countryman | Finalist | ||||
| 400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman | Quill Driver | Finalist | |||
| 2016 | HarperCollins | Winner | |||
| Bloomsbury Sigma | Finalist | ||||
| and Tom Nolan (eds.) | Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald | Arcade | Finalist | ||
| Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime | Grove Press | Finalist | |||
| Bloomsbury Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| 2017 | Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | McFarland & Company | Winner | [53] | |
| Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories that Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seats | Writer's Digest Books | Finalist | |||
| Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | Liveright Publishing | Finalist | |||
| Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula | Liveright Publishing | Finalist | |||
| The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer | Penguin Books | Finalist | |||
| 2018 | Poisoned Pen Press/British Library | Winner | |||
| From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon | Mysterious Press | Finalist | |||
| Chester B. Himes: A Biography | W. W. Norton & Co. | Finalist | |||
| and Rachel McCarthy James | Scribner | Finalist | |||
| Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes | Bloomsbury | Finalist | |||
| Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History | Harper Perennial | Finalist | |||
| 2019 | HarperCollins | Winner | |||
| McFarland & Company | Finalist | ||||
| Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer | Random House | Finalist | |||
| Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s | Pegasus Books | Finalist | |||
| HarperCollins | Finalist | ||||
| Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life | Pegasus Books | Finalist | |||
| 2020 | Hitchcock and the Censors | University Press of Kentucky | Winner | ||
| Frederic Dannay | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story, McFarland & Company | Finalist | |||
| Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan | Bloomsbury Publishing | Finalist | |||
| Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery | American History, Counterpoint | Finalist | |||
| Basic Books | Finalist | ||||
| Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall | Counterpoint | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | H.R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime | Level Best Books | Winner | ||
| Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy | Seal Press | Finalist | |||
| (ed.) | Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club | HarperCollins | Finalist | ||
| Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | McFarland & Company | Finalist | |||
| Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand | Oldcastle Books | Finalist | |||
| 2022 | with Laurie R. King | How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America | Scribner | Winner | |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World | HarperCollins | Finalist | |||
| Random House | Finalist | ||||
| W. W. Norton & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| Tony Hillerman: A Life | University of Oklahoma Press | Finalist | |||
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||||
| W. W. Norton & Co. | Finalist |
The Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story was first awarded in 1987.
| Author | Title | Publication | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Mean Streets | Winner | |||
| 1988 | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine', December 1987 | Winner | |||
| 1989 | Deja Vu | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 1988 | Winner | ||
| Fatherly Love | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1988 | Finalist | |||
| 1990 | Afraid All the Time | Sisters in Crime | Winner | ||
| Fire Burning Bright | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Winter 1989 | Finalist | |||
| One Eye Open | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1989 | Finalist | |||
| Too Many Crooks | Playboy, August 1989 | Finalist | |||
| 1991 | Too Much to Bare | Sisters in Crime 2 | Winner | [54] | |
| 1992 | Deborah's Judgement | Winner | |||
| Dance of the Dead | , Spring 1991 | Finalist | |||
| Life, for Short | Sisters in Crime 4 | Finalist | |||
| 1993 | Henrie O's Holiday | Malice Domestic 1 | Winner | ||
| Malice Domestic 1 | Finalist | ||||
| , Fall 1992 | Finalist | ||||
| 1994 | Checkout | Malice Domestic 2 | Winner | ||
| Kim’s Game | Malice Domestic 2 | Finalist | |||
| 1995 | Cast Your Fate to the Wind | Malice Domestic 3 | Winner | ||
| Unharmed | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mid-December 1994 | Winner | |||
| 1996 | Evans Tries an O-Level | Morse's Greatest Mystery (Crown) | Winner | ||
| Rule of Law | Malice Domestic 4 | Finalist | |||
| Cupid’s Arrow | Crimes of the Heart | Finalist | |||
| 1997 | Cruel & Unusual | Guilty As Charged (Pocket Books) | Winner | ||
| Takeout | Malice Domestic 5 | Finalist | |||
| Malice Domestic 5 | Finalist | ||||
| Red Clay | Murder for Love | Finalist | |||
| New Mystery, Number 9, 1996 | Finalist | ||||
| 1998 | Two Ladies of Rose Cottage | Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books) | Winner | ||
| Real Bullets This Time | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1997 | Finalist | |||
| Find Miriam | New Mystery Magazine, Summer 1997 | Finalist | |||
| and Peter Lovesey | Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books) | Finalist | |||
| Etiquette Lesson | Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine | Finalist | |||
| 1999 | Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 98 | Winner | ||
| Sleeping Dogs Lie | Canine Crimes (Ballantine Books) | Finalist | |||
| Malice Domestic 7 (Avon) | Finalist | ||||
| Malice Domestic 7 (Avon) | Finalist | ||||
| 2000 | Maubi and the Jumbies | The Strand Magazine, Spring 2007 | Winner | ||
| Paleta Man | Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins) | Finalist | |||
| Heroes | Murder & Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler (Delacorte Press) | Finalist | |||
| Show Me the Bones | Diagnosis Dead, edited by Jonathan Kellerman (Pocket Books) | Finalist | |||
| 2001 | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep-Oct 2007 | Winner | |||
| Malice Domestic 9 (Avon) | Finalist | ||||
| Unholy Orders (Intrigue Press) | Finalist | ||||
| 2002 | The Abbey Ghosts | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003 | Winner | ||
| Malice Domestic 10, edited by Nevada Barr (Avon) | Finalist | ||||
| My Bonnie Lies | The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, edited by Michael Hemmingson (Carroll & Graf) | Finalist | |||
| Bitter Waters | Criminal Kabbalah, edited by Lawrence W. Raphael (Jewish Lights) | Finalist | |||
| 2003 | Voice Mail | Harper / Headline | Winner | ||
| Boot Scoot | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 2002 | Finalist | |||
| Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, November 2002 | Finalist | ||||
| Bible Belt | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2002 | Finalist | |||
| Too Many Cooks | Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime) | Finalist | |||
| Murder, My Dear Watson, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower (Carroll & Graf) | Finalist | ||||
| 2004 | The Grass Is Always Greener | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Feb 2007 | Winner | ||
| Rogues Gallery | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003 | Finalist | |||
| Texas Two-Step | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 2003 | Finalist | |||
| No Man's Land | Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block (Berkley Prime Crime) | Finalist | [55] | ||
| War Crimes | A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by Jeffery Deaver (Berkley Prime Crime) | Finalist | |||
| Child Support | A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by Jeffery Deaver (Berkley Prime Crime) | Finalist | |||
| Red Meat | Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block (Berkley Prime Crime) | Finalist | |||
| 2005 | The Widow of Slane | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct 2005 | Winner | ||
| Viscery | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2004 | Finalist | |||
| Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Winter 2004 | Finalist | ||||
| 2006 | There Is No Crime on Easter Island | Scam and Eggs, Five Star | Winner | ||
| Everybody's Girl | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2005 | Finalist | |||
| It Can Happen | San Francisco Noir, Akashic Books | Finalist | |||
| Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2005 | Finalist | ||||
| 2007 | Til Death Do Us Part | MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories About Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben (Little, Brown & Co.) | Winner | ||
| Provenance | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jul 2006 | Finalist | |||
| Disturbance in the Field | Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw (Level Best Books) | Finalist | |||
| 2008 | Please Watch Your Step | Hardly Knew Her (William Morrow & Co.) | Winner | ||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2007 | Finalist | ||||
| Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Harris & Kelner (Penguin) | Finalist | ||||
| Brimstone P.I. | Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Harris & Kelner (Penguin) | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2004 | Finalist | ||||
| 2009 | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mar/Apr 2007 | Winner | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep/Oct 2008 | Finalist | ||||
| Keeping Watch Over His Flock | Murderous Intent, Fall 1999 | Finalist | |||
| Scratch a Woman | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan 2001 | Finalist | |||
| Between the Dark and the Daylight | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2007 | Finalist | |||
| 2010 | On the House | Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers, Level Best Books | Winner | ||
| Last Fair Deal Gone Down | Crossroad Blues, Busted Flush Press | Finalist | |||
| Femme Sole | Boston Noir, Akashic Books | Finalist | |||
| Digby, Attorney at Law | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2009 | Finalist | |||
| Your Turn | Two of the Deadliest, Harper | Finalist | |||
| Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down, Mira | Finalist | ||||
| Amapola | Phoenix Noir, Akashic Books | Finalist | |||
| 2011 | Swing Shift | Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side, Berkley Books | Winner | ||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| Devil's Pocket | Philadelphia Noir, Akashic Books | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Finalist | ||||
| Bookworm | Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin, Wildside Press | Finalist | |||
| 2012 | Disarming | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011 | Winner | ||
| Facts Exhibiting Wantonness | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2011 | Finalist | |||
| Palace by the Lake | Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, Wildside Press | Finalist | |||
| Truth and Consequences | Mystery Times Ten, Buddhapuss Ink | Finalist | |||
| Heat of Passion | A Twist of Noir, Feb. 14, 2011 | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011 | Finalist | ||||
| 2013 | Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, Wildside Press | Winner | |||
| The Strand Magazine, November 2012-February 2013 | Finalist | ||||
| Blind Justice | Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, Little, Brown, & Co. – Mulholland Books | Finalist | |||
| Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, Little, Brown, & Co. – Mulholland Books | Finalist | ||||
| Thea's First Husband | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 2012 | Finalist | |||
| When Duty Calls | Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, Wildside Press | Finalist | |||
| 2014 | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013 | Winner | |||
| Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler, Thomas & Mercer | Finalist | ||||
| Bibliomysteries: Short Tales About Deadly Books, edited by Otto Penzler, Bookspan | Finalist | ||||
| Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories, Soho Books | Finalist | ||||
| Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long, Wildside Press | Finalist | ||||
| Incident on the 405 | The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Clare Toohey, Macmillan | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | Honeymoon Sweet | Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, edited by Dana Cameron, Down & Out | Winner | ||
| Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley, Wildside Press | Finalist | ||||
| Howling at the Moon | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014 | Finalist | |||
| Thuglit #13, Sept./Oct. 2014 | Finalist | ||||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014 | Finalist | ||||
| 2016 | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | Winner | |||
| On Borrowed Time | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2015 | Finalist | |||
| Sob Sister | Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen, Tyrus | Finalist | |||
| Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2015 | Finalist | ||||
| Quack and Dwight | Jewish Noir, edited by Kenneth Wishnia, PM Press | Finalist | |||
| Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2015 | Finalist | ||||
| 2017 | Parallel Play | Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press | Winner | [56] | |
| Autumn at the Automat | In Sunlight or in Shadow, Pegasus Books | Finalist | |||
| Blank Shot | Black Coffee, Darkhouse Books | Finalist | |||
| Survivor's Guilt | Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016, Down & Out Books | Finalist | |||
| Ghosts of Bunker Hill | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2016 | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2016 | Finalist | ||||
| 2018 | Windward | Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books | Winner | [57] | |
| As Ye Sow | Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017, Down and Out Books | Finalist | |||
| Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books | Finalist | ||||
| Infinite Uticas | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017 | Finalist | |||
| Whose Wine Is it Anyway? | 50 Shades of Cabernet, Koehler Books | Finalist | |||
| Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books | Finalist | ||||
| 2019 | English 398: Fiction Workshop | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jul/Aug 2018 | Winner | ||
| Race to Judgment | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018 | Finalist | |||
| All God's Sparrows | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/Jun 2018 | Finalist | |||
| Bug Appétit | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018 | Finalist | |||
| Three-Star Sushi | Down & Out: The Magazine, Vol.1, No. 3 | Finalist | |||
| The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories | Finalist | ||||
| 2020 | Better Days | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019 | Winner | ||
| West Texas Barbecue | The Eyes of Texas, edited by Michael Bracken (Down & Out Books) | Finalist | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019 | Finalist | ||||
| Alex's Choice | Crime Travel, edited by Barb Goffman(Wildside Press) | Finalist | |||
| Whiteout | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019 | Finalist | [58] | ||
| Brother's Keeper | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019 | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | Elysian Fields | California Schemin': The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, edited by Art Taylor (Wildside Press) | Winner | ||
| Dear Emily Etiquette | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2020 | Finalist | |||
| Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2020 | Finalist | ||||
| Dog Eat Dog | , edited by Josh Pachter (Untreed Reads Publishing) | Finalist | |||
| In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon, edited by Laurie R. King (Pegasus Crime) | Finalist | ||||
| 2022 | Sweeps Week | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021 | Winner | ||
| Lucky Thirteen | Midnight Hour (Crooked Lane Books) | Finalist | |||
| Curious Incidents | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021 | Finalist | |||
| Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2021 | Finalist | ||||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021 | Finalist | [59] | |||
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021 | Finalist | ||||
| Julius Katz and the Two Cousins | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021 | Finalist |
The Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award was established in 2006 to honor Sue Feder, "a reviewer, scholar and dedicated mystery fan, who had founded the [now defunct] Historical Mystery Appreciation Society."
| Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Pardonable Lies | Scribner | Winner | ||
| In Like Flynn | St. Martin's/Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Spectres in the Smoke | St. Martin's | Finalist | |||
| Finalist | |||||
| Night's Child | McClelland & Stewart | Finalist | |||
| 2007 | Oh Danny Boy | G. P. Putnam's Sons | Winner | ||
| William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| Constable & Robinson | Finalist | ||||
| Dark Assassin | Ballantine Books | Finalist | |||
| Messenger of Truth | Henry Holt | Finalist | |||
| 2008 | Mistress of the Art of Death | Winner | |||
| Her Royal Spyness | Perseverance Press | Finalist | |||
| Simon & Schuster | Finalist | ||||
| Consequences of Sin | Simon & Schuster | Finalist | |||
| Soho Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2009 | McFarland & Co. | Winner | |||
| Stealing Trinity | Crossover Press | Finalist | |||
| Crum Creek Press | Finalist | ||||
| Company of Liars | Viking Press/Penguin | Finalist | |||
| Nox Dormienda | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Veil of Lies | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2010 | Forge Books | Winner | |||
| In the Shadow of Gotham | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| Serpent in the Thorns | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Among the Mad | Henry Holt & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2011 | City of Dragons | Minotaur Books | Winner | ||
| Berkley Books | Finalist | ||||
| Random House | Finalist | ||||
| HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| 2012 | Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains | Thomas Dunne Books/Minotaur | Winner | ||
| Naughty in Nice | Berkley Books | Finalist | |||
| Narrows Gate | AmazonEncore | Finalist | |||
| Mercury's Rise | Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist | |||
| Troubled Bones | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Harper | Finalist | ||||
| 2013 | HarperCollins | Winner | |||
| Forge Books | Finalist | ||||
| Princess Elizabeth's Spy | Random House – Bantam Books | Finalist | |||
| HarperCollins | Finalist | ||||
| Elegy for Eddie | HarperCollins | Finalist | |||
| 2014 | Murder as a Fine Art | Little, Brown, & Co. | Winner | ||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Saving Lincoln | ABQ Press | Finalist | |||
| Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Ratlines | Soho Crime | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | Minotaur Books | Winner | |||
| Queen of Hearts | Berkley Prime Crime | Finalist | |||
| Things Half in Shadow | Gallery | Finalist | |||
| Alfred A. Knopf | Finalist | ||||
| Present Darkness | Atria | Finalist | |||
| Hunting Shadows | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| 2016 | Minotaur Books | Winner | |||
| Berkley Prime Crime | Finalist | ||||
| Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) | Bloomsbury | Finalist | |||
| Marian Wood/G. P. Putnam's Sons | Finalist | ||||
| Secret Life of Anna Blanc | Seventh Street Books | Finalist | |||
| Dreaming Spies | Bantam Books | Finalist | |||
| 2017 | Heart of Stone | Seventh Street Books | Winner | ||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Jane Steele | UK: Headline Review US: G. P. Putnam's Sons | Finalist | |||
| Delivering The Truth | Midnight Ink | Finalist | |||
| US: Minotaur UK: Houghton Stodder | Finalist | ||||
| What Gold Buys | Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist | |||
| 2018 | In Farleigh Field | Lake Union Publishing | Winner | ||
| Soho Crime | Finalist | ||||
| Pegasus | Finalist | ||||
| Dangerous to Know | Forge Books | Finalist | |||
| Racing the Devil | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | |||
| Cast the First Stone | Seventh Street Books | Finalist | |||
| 2019 | Soho Crime | Winner | |||
| Kensington Books | Finalist | ||||
| City of Ink | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Island of the Mad | Bantam Books | Finalist | |||
| Poisoned Pen | Finalist | ||||
| William Morrow & Co. | Finalist | ||||
| 2020 | Vintage | Winner | |||
| Murder Knocks Twice | Minotaur Books | Finalist | |||
| Kensington Books | Finalist | ||||
| Kensington Books | Finalist | ||||
| Soho Crime | Finalist | ||||
| Charity's Burden | Midnight Ink | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | Turn to Stone | Seventh Street Books | Winner | ||
| Berkeley Books | Finalist | ||||
| Minotaur Books | Finalist | ||||
| Quercus | Finalist | ||||
| Mortal Music | Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist | |||
| Constable Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2022 | Clark and Division | Soho Crime | Winner | ||
| Lake Union | Finalist | ||||
| Bantam Books | Finalist | ||||
| Soho Crime | Finalist | ||||
| Velvet was the Night | Del Rey Books | Finalist | |||
| Death at Greenway | William Morrow & Co. | Finalist |