Louise Penny’s highly acclaimed novel, Bury Your Dead, gained yet another accolade at Bouchercon 2011. This sixth novel in Penny’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series – having already received this year’s Agatha Award for Best 2010 Novel, Dilys Award from the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association and the Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award – also won the 2011 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel.
Penny’s award led a list of Macavity winners whose names Janet Rudolph announced during the opening ceremonies of Bouchercon 2011. Rudolph is founder and editor of Mystery Readers International, a journal whose subscribers annually select the Macavity winners.
The following list of the winners of the 2011 Macavity Awards appeared Sept. 16 on Rudolph’s Mystery Fanfare blog. Mystery Fanfare had also listed all the Macavity nominees on June 28.
- Best Mystery Novel – Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (Minotaur: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. book 6)
- Best First Mystery Novel – Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Forge-Tom Doherty Associates). Rogue Island also won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author.
- Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction – Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins). This work had previously won an Agatha Award.
- Best Mystery Short Story – “Swing Shift” by Dana Cameron in Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side (Berkley)
- Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery – City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley (Minotaur: Miranda Corbie Mystery, book 1)
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