Annal:2001 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2001 Anthony-Novel winner
- 2001 Macavity-Novel winner
- 2000 Barry-British winner
- 2000 LATimes–Mystery winner
- 2001 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 46.51
On a freezing day in December 1963, thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same again for the inhabitants of the isolated hamlet in the English countryside. A young George Bennett, a newly-promoted inspector, he is determined to solve this case—even if it just to bring home a daughter’s dead body to her mother.
As days progress, the likelihood that Alison has been murdered increases when a gruesome discovery is made in a cave. But with no corpse, the barest of clues, and an investigation that turns up more…
Guns and Roses: A Modern Mystery Set in Colonial Willamsburg
- 2001 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2000 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.51
Strange things are happening on the History and Gardens of Virginia Tour. Are they odd misadventures? Harmless pranks? Or does somebody have murder in mind? Ex-Texas cop Roxanne Prescott thought she’d moved into a more genteel line of work, leading the well-heeled on educational tours for her aunt’s travel agency. But as the group, which she has mentally nicknamed the Guns and Roses Tour, moves from Mount Vernon to Monticello, a practical joker targets the tourists. In Colonial Williamsburg the pranks escalate with deadly results. Roxanne must figure out which of…
- 2001 Edgar–Novel winner
- 2001 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2001 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2000 Hammett nominee
- 2000 IHG–Novel nominee
- Score: 34.51
Today, the Sabine River runs as before, yet the bottoms have been drained. Long gone are the alligators, and the few birds that take to the air cast tiny shadows over concrete surfaces.
But way back then, during the thick of the Great Depression that squeezed Deep East Texas in its impoverishing grip, a boy could hear the crickets and the frogs in the star-studded southern night. And in this primordial time a killer stalked the land.
When young Harry Crane discovers the black woman’s body, mutilated and bound to a tree with barbed wire, he unwittingly…
- 2001 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2001 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.51
Whether real like Ted Bundy, or imagined like Hannibal Lecter, few killers of our time are in the same league as Raymond Raintree. And as he stands flanked by lawyers in a Florida courtroom, waiting to be convicted for the murder of Natalie Mae McCullen, Marie Lightfoot is taking it all in. A small, gutsy blonde renowned for her true-crime bestsellers, Marie knows the graphic and disturbing case will make her best book yet—because Raintree’s shocking crime, vile beyond imagining, is also impossible to turn away from. But there is something about the case—and…
Half Moon Street: A Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novel
- 2001 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot immediately ascertain exactly what segment of society the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames came from, but the sight of him is unforgettable. He lies in a battered punt drifting through the morning mist, his arms and legs chained to the boat’s sides. He is clad in a torn green gown and flowers bestrew his battered body.
Is he, as Pitt fears, a French diplomat who has gone missing? Or merely someone who greatly resembles him? Pitt’s determined search for answers leads him deep into London’s bohemia to the theatre…
