Preisträger – Macavity Awards

		Bestes Buch		Bestes erstes Buch
1987		P.D. James A Taste for Death		Faye Kellerman The Ritual Bath Marilyn Wallace A Case of Loyalties
1988		Nancy Pickard Marriage Is Murder		Robert Crais The Monkey’s Raincoat
1989		Tony Hillerman A Thief of Time		Caroline Graham The Killings at Badger’s Drift
1990		Carolyn G. Hart A Little Class on Murder		Jill Churchill Grime and Punishment
1991		Sharyn McCrumb If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O		Patricia Cornwell Postmortem
1992		Nancy Pickard I.O.U.		Sue Henry Murder on the Iditarod Trail Mary Willis Walker Zero at the Bone
1993		Marget Maron The Bootlegger’s Daughter		Barbara Neely Blanche on the Lam
1994		Minette Walters The Sculptress		Sharan Newman Death Comes as Epiphany
1995		Sharyn McCrumb She Walks These Hills		Jeff Abbott Do Unto Others
1996		Mary Willis Walker Under the Beetle’s Cellar		Dianne Day The Strange Files of Fremont Jones
1997		Peter Lovesey Bloodhounds		Dale Furutani Death in Little Tokyo
1998		Deborah Crombie Dreaming of the Bones		Penny Warner Dead Body Language
1999		Michael Connelly Blood Works		Jerrilyn Sympathy for the Devil
2000		Sujata Massey The Flower Master		Paula L. Woods Inner City Blues
2001		Val McDermid A Place of Execution		Davis Liss A Conspiracy of Paper
2002		Laurie R. King Folly		C.J. Box Open Season
2003		S.J. Rozan Winter and Night		Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter
2004		Peter Lovesey The House Sitter		Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs
2005		Ken Bruen The Killing of the Tinkers		Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men
2006		Michael Connelly The Lincoln Lawyer		Brian Freeman Immoral
2007		Nancy Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains		Nick Stone Mr Clarinet
2008		Laura Lipman What the Dead Know		Tina French In the Woods