Annal:1996 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Strange Files of Fremont Jones: A Fremont Jones Mystery
- 1996 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.46
Brave, resourceful, adventurous Fremont (née Caroline) Jones is a woman ahead of her time. Hungry for independence, she’s traded in her conventional life in Boston for a career as a “type-writer” in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. But Fremont soon discovers that her clients aren’t always what they appear to be, and that in doing her job she’s transcribing her way into a wealth of mystery—and mortal danger….
Dashing lawyer Justin Cameron well-nigh sweeps Fremont Jones off her feet—and into a situation ripe with perilous intrigue. A client meets an untimely…
