Annal:1997 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1997. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Death in Little Tokyo: A Ken Tanaka Mystery
- 1997 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 1997 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 1996 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 26.47
When mystery buff Ken Tanaka masquerades as a private investigator at his local mystery club’s weekend event, a femme fatale right out of an old Bogart movie asks him for a favor. Ken takes the case as a joke—but there’s nothing to laugh about when his sleuthing leads him to a dead man in a Little Tokyo hotel room. Suddenly entangled in a real-life murder, Ken and his girlfriend, Mariko Kosaka, have to negotiate the unfamiliar streets and traditional customs of Los Angeles’s Japanese-American enclave.
