We are now entering the second round of mystery oriented awards.We just found out the winners of the Edgars, the Agathas and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. (I hope everyone sent their congratulations to these winners!)Now it’s time to find out the year’s other nominees. The nominations for the Anthony, which, of course, is given out at Bouchercon, are to be announced next week to the public.(HA!….I already know one nominee and I am thrilled for this author!)Here’s the list of the Macavity Award nominations, and, boy, is it a good list!The Macavity Awards are nominated by and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International and subscribers to Mystery Reader Journal.The awards also will be presented in October at Bouchercon in Indianapolis.As ever, congratulations to all the nominees and good luck to all.Best Mystery NovelTrigger City by Sean Chercover (Wm. Morrow)Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie (Wm. Morrow)The Dying Breed (UK)/ The Price of Blood (US) by Declan Hughes (John Murray/ Wm. Morrow)The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason (Minotaur)Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (Minotaur)The Fault Tree by Louise Ure (Minotaur)BEST FIRST NOVELFinding Nouf  by Zoe Ferraris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet (Midnight Ink)Calumet City by Charlie Newton (Simon & Schuster)An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt (Onyx)A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley (Harper; Headline)The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell (Minotaur) Best NONFICTION/CRITICALAfrican American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey (McFarland)Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto (Columbia Univ.)How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson (Perseverance Press)Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction by David Geherin (McFarland)Edgar Allan Poe : An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Harry Lee Poe (Metro)The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale (Walker)BEST STORY STORY“The Night Things Changed” by Dana Cameron (Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, ed. by Harris & Kelner, Penguin)”A Sleep Not Unlike Death” by Sean Chercover (Hardcore Hardboiled, ed. by Todd Robinson, Kensington)”Keeping Watch Over His Flock” by Toni L. P. Kelner (Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, ed. by Harris & Kelner, Penguin)”Scratch a Woman” by Laura Lippman (Hardly Knew Her, Wm. Morrow)”Between the Dark and the Daylight” by Tom Piccirilli (EQMM, Sep/Oct 2008) Sue Feder Memorial Historical MysteryA Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)Stealing Trinity by Ward Larsen (Oceanview)The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss (Thorndike/ Random House UK)Veil of Lies by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur)Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (Michael Joseph/ Delacorte)Nox Dormienda by Kelli Stanley (Five Star)

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