Annal:1995 Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction

By a Woman's Hand: A Guide to Mystery Fiction by Women

Jean Swanson, Dean James

• 1995 Macavity-Nonfiction winner
• 1994 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
• Score: 20.45

Here are more than 200 clear, concise profiles of women authors of mystery and suspense fiction—including Mary Higgins Clark, Sue Grafton, and many others. Focusing on writers whose work appeared from the 1970s to the present, the volume is arranged alphabetically, with each entry containing the author’s best-known books, mystery heroines, pen names, writing styles, and more.