Annal:1991 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
- 1991 Macavity-Novel winner
- Score: 10.41
Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.
When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace.
Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Those days are best left forgotten for Spencer Arrowood, too. But sometimes the past can’t rest, and those who try…
