Annal:1992 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1992 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 1992 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- Score: 20.42
The winner of Alaska’s world-famous Iditarod—a grueling, eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness—takes home a $250,000 purse. But this year, the prize is survival.
Only the toughest and the most able come to compete in this annual torturous test of endurance, skill, and courage. Now, suddenly and inexplicably, the top Iditarod contestants are dying one by one in bizarre and gruesome ways. Jessie Arnold, Alaska’s premier female “musher,” fears she may be the next intended victim, but nothing is going to prevent her from aggressively…
- 1992 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 1991 Agatha–1st Novel winner
- 1992 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 26.42
Katherine Driscoll is just three weeks away from disaster: foreclosure on her home and business, even the sale of her beloved dog. She has no hope of raising the $91,000 she so desperately needs—until the father she hasn’t seen for thirty years writes to her, offering her enough money to solve her problems…if she will do one thing in return.
But Katherine may never learn what that is. When she arrives in Austin, she is hours too late: her father has died in a bizarre accident. As she sifts through the cryptic notes he left behind, she finds herself caught up…
