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FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL 1987-2002 |
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FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL 1987-2002 |
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Nominees for and the winners of the Macavity Awards are voted on by members of Mystery Readers International, the largest mystery fan organization. The Macavity Award is named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). The award for best first mystery novel was first presented in 1987.
| 2002 | C.J. Box | Open Season |
| 2001 | David Liss | A Conspiracy of Paper |
| 2000 | Paula Woods | Inner City Blues |
| 1999 | Jerrilyn Farmer | Sympathy for the Devil |
| 1998 | Penny Warner | Dead Body Language |
| 1997 | Dale Furutani | Death in Little Tokyo |
| 1996 | Dianne Day | The Strange Files of Fremont Jones |
| 1995 | Jeff Abbott | Do Unto Others |
| 1994 | Sharan Newman | Death Comes as Epiphany |
| 1993 | Barbara Neely | Blanche on the Lam |
| 1992 | Sue Henry | Murder on the Iditarod Trail |
| 1991 | Patricia Cornwell | Postmortem |
| 1990 | Jill Churchill | Grime and Punishment |
| 1989 | Caroline Graham | The Killings at Badger's Drift |
| 1988 | Robert Crais | The Monkey's Raincoat |
| 1987 | Fay Kellerman | Ritual Bath |
| 1987 | Marilyn Wallace | A Case of Loyalties |
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