Annal:2007 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel

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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 2007. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

Mr Clarinet: A Max Mingus Thriller

Nick Stone

It was a job Miami private investigator Max Mingus found hard to refuse: $10 million to locate billionaire’s son Charlie Carver—missing now for over three years.

Young Charlie disappeared on the island of Haiti, where over the decades scores of children have vanished. In a country dominated by voodoo, rumours abound of black magic and a mythical figure called “Mr Clarinet”, who for years has been tempting children away from their families.

But could the truth be even more shocking than the legend?

To find out, Max will have to succeed where previous detectives have not only failed—but where some have died. And suddenly, this job isn’t all about finding Charlie or his killers for the money—it’s just about staying alive…

 

47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers

Troy Cook

What if your father raised you to be a bank robber? Instead of Barbie & Ken, you played with Smith & Wesson? And now youre twenty-two and ready to flee the nest, but your homicidal pop won’t let you go? Thats the simple part of Taras life. When she and her dad score their biggest heist ever, Taras life of adventure takes a frightening turn. Theyre pursued by a couple of dangerous ex-partners and a special task force of federal agents. Thats when Tara falls for the son of the local sheriff. Like her daddy says, Its always something.

 

Consigned to Death: A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery

Jane K. Cleland

Josie Prescott’s friends thought she was nuts when she left her high-paying New York auction house job to live on the beautiful New Hampshire coast. Truth is, Josie wondered herself—nevermind that her peripheral involvement in a high profile price-fixing scandal made the idea of a new start enticing.

And things are looking up—that is, until she gets mixed up in murder, and the eligible but emotionally distant local police chief pegs her as a suspect. Josie suddenly has a lot to lose, and no desire to leave her new life—and the possibility of a little romance—behind. So she sets out to find the killer. After all, Josie is grateful for her second chance…even with a killer on the loose.

 

A Field of Darkness: A Novel

Cornelia Read

Madeline Dare isn’t your average detective. Born into a blue-blood family, she followed her heart to marry ruggedly handsome Dean, a farmboy-genius investor. Now Maddie’s stuck in the post-industrial wasteland of Syracuse, New York, while her husband spends weeks on the road. She can handle churning out lightweight features for the local paper—it’s the Dean-less nights in their dingy, WASP-castoff-crammed apartment that Maddie can’t stomach.

Obsession trumps angst when a set of long-buried dog tags link her favorite cousin to the scene of a vicious double homicide. Drawn by the desire to clear her cousin’s name, Maddie uncovers a startling web of intrigue and family secrets that could prove even more deadly.

 

The King of Lies: A Novel

John Hart

John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack.

Work’s troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel.

 
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