Annal:2002 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2002 Macavity-Novel winner
- Score: 10.52
What Happens If Your Worst Fears Aren’t All In Your Mind?
Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the edge of sanity, on the edge of tragedy, and now on the edge of the world. She has moved to an island at the far reaches of the continent to restore the house of an equally haunted figure, her mysterious great-uncle; but as her life begins to rebuild itself along with the house, his story starts to wrap around hers. Powerful forces are stirring, but Rae cannot see where her reality leaves off and his fate begins.
Fifty-two years old, Rae must battle the…
Mystic River: A Novel
- 2002 Anthony-Novel winner
- 2002 Barry-Novel winner
- 2002 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2001 Hammett nominee
- Score: 32.52
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened—something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay-demons that urge him to do horrific things.
When Jimmy’s daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him…
The Deadhouse: An Alexandra Cooper Mystery
- 2002 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
It’s the holiday season but there’s little reason for cheer at one of New York’s most elite colleges. A respected professor is dead; strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. Lola Dakota’s lifeless fingers clutch a few strands of hair, and a piece of paper in her pocket reads “The Deadhouse.”
What brought a distinguished academic to such a tragic end? Opportunistic murder seems unlikely as assistant DA Alexandra Cooper, working with detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, uncovers a distressing pattern of betrayal and terror.
There’s proof that…
- 2002 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2002 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2002 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2002 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 24.52
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible—that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.
Beck has been…
- 2002 Edgar–Novel winner
- 2001 LATimes–Mystery winner
- 2002 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2002 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2001 Hammett nominee
- Score: 38.52
With the horrible remnants of a childhood tragedy forever visible across his otherwise handsome face, Joe Trona is scarred in more ways than one. Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a charismatic Orange County politician who sensed his dark potential, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father’s illustrious career. Serving as Will’s right-hand man, Joe is trained to protect and defend his father’s territory—but he can’t save the powerful man from his enemies. Will Trona is murdered, and Joe will stop at…
