Annal:1996 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1996 Anthony-Novel winner
- 1996 Macavity-Novel winner
- 1995 Hammett winner
- Score: 30.46
Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and eleven of his young charges have been held underground at the group’s highly fortified compound for forty-six days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets outto discover everything she can about the cult’s iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai. And as the clock ticks inexorably, she takes the role of Clarisse Starling opposite Mordecai’s Hannibal Lecter, engaging in a psychological confrontation as harrowing as…
