Annal:2006 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Immoral: A Novel
- 2006 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 2006 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- Score: 34.56
In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first page to the last.
Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of déjà vu. For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota—gone without a trace, like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn’t be more…
All Shook Up: An Eddie Dancer Mystery
- 2006 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
This hard-edged, energetic mystery features Eddie Dancer—Canada’s newest and toughest private eye. Two years as a city cop have convinced Eddie he is better off working for himself as a private investigator. When he is hired to track down a tough, professional bank robber, Eddie has no idea he is about to pry the lid off a very nasty can of worms. When he runs up against a pair of disgraced ex-bikers, he uncovers a macabre connection between the ex-bikers and the “fate worse than death” that has befallen many of the city’s hookers—a fate that leaves them,…
- 2006 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 18.56
A new attorney, Toby Dillon, hedges his bets by remaining the part-time tennis pro at the country club. Then his idyllic life changes when his two childhood friends, Brogan and Rita, Hollywood’s glamour couple, ask his help in adopting a baby. The media’s feel good story curdles into danger when the baby is kidnapped. When the expected ransom demand never arrives and the police turn up nothing, Toby and Brogan try to find answers on their own. First they think the baby’s birth mother is responsible, but suddenly she’s missing too, and their suspects start turning…
The Firemaker: A Mystery
- 2006 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 12.56
Margaret Campbell, a Chicago forensic pathologist, has been invited by the Chinese government to teach at the Beijing police university. She has accepted the six-week assignment with misgivings but is desperate to escape a troubled life in America. Arriving in Beijing, she checks “nothing to declare” on the health declaration they gave her on the plane—nothing, that is, “except a broken heart and a wasted life, neither of which was contagious.”
She gets off to a bad start when her car knocks senior detective Li Yan off his bicycle. In a furious clash, he…
