SMFS Member Nominees for the 2024 Macavity Awards

 

The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year The Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal, and friends and supporters of MRI who all nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in five categories. The full list of the 2024 nominees can be found at the Mystery Fanfare website. The SMFS list members that reported being nominated and their works are:

 

 

Best First Mystery 

Josh Pachter with Dutch Threat (Genius Book Publishing).

 

Best Mystery Short Story 

Barb Goffman with “Real Courage” (Black Cat Mystery Magazine #14, Oct. 2023). 

Curtis Ippolito with “Green and California Bound” (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: September/October 2023). 

Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski with “Ticket to Ride.” (Happiness is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, Editor. Josh Pachter, Down & Out Books) 

Stacy Woodson with “One Night in 1965” (More Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties, Editor Michael Bracken, Down & Out Books)