Annal:1993 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1993 Anthony-Novel winner
- 1993 Edgar–Novel winner
- 1993 Macavity-Novel winner
- 1992 Agatha–Novel winner
- Score: 40.43
Unconventional, still unwed (at the ripe old age of 34) North Carolina attorney Deborah Knott has done the unthinkable: tossed her hat into the heated race for district judge of old boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she’s busy defending indigent clients and reeling in voters. Then suddenly, the young daughter of Janie Whitehead begs her to help solve Janie’s senseless, never-solved, eighteen-year-old murder. Deborah takes on the case; following twisted, typically Southern bloodlines, turning up dangerous, decades-old secrets, and inspiring…
