Macavity Award – Bestes Erstes Buch – die Nominierten

1998		* Penny Warner Dead Body Language
		Lee Child Killing Floor
		Aljean Harmetz Off the Face of the Earth
		Laura Lippman Charm City
		Sujata Massey The Salaryman’s Wife
1999		* Jerrilyn Farmer Sympathy for the Devil
		Jacqueline Fiedler Tiger’s Palette
		Robin Hathaway The Doctor Digs a Grave
2000		* Paula L. Woods Inner City Blues
		Donna Andrews Murder, With Peacocks
		Cara Black Murder in the Marais
		Kris Neri Revenge of the Gypsy Queen
2001		* David Liss A Conspiracy of Paper
		Julie Wray Herman Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death
		Kate Grilley Death Dances to a Reggae Beat
		Marcia Simpson Crow in Stolen Colors
2002		* C.J. Box Open Season
		Denise Hamilton The Jasmine Trade
		Karin Slaughter Blindsighted
		M.K. Preston Perhaps She’ll Die
2003		* Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter
		Radine Trees Nehring A Valley to Die For
		Eddie Muller The Distance
		Jonathon King The Blue Edge of Midnight
2004		* Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs
		James Hime The Night of the Dance
		Olen Steinhauer The Bridge of Sighs
		Rebecca Pawel Death of a Nationalist
2005		* Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men
		Sandra Balzo Uncommon Grounds
		J.A. Konrath Whiskey Sour
		Naomi Hirahara The Summer of Big Bachi
		Dylan Schaffer Misdemeanor Man
2006		* Brian Freeman Immoral
		Mike Harrison All Shook Up
		Randall Hicks The Baby Game
		Peter May The Firemaker
2007		* Nick Stone Mr. Clarinet
		Troy Cook 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers
		Jane K. Cleland Consigned to Death
		Cornelia Read A Field of Darkness
		John Hart The King of Lies
2008		Tana French In the Woods
		Tim Maleeny Stealing the Dragon
		Matt Beynon Rees The Bethlehem Murders
		Joe Hill Heart-Shaped Box
		Lisa Lutz The Spellman Files

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