TOP 10 Macavity Awards For Best First Mystery Novel Results at 10Bestify.com

  • Dead Joker: Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Five (A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel 5)

    From Norway’s bestselling female crime writer, this installment in the Edgar-nominated mystery series featuring the whip-smart detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is “an ideal read-alike for fans of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole and Karin Fossum’s Inspector Sejer” (Booklist).Chief Public Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud’s wife is found brutally decapitated in front of the fireplace in the family living room. Her husband, who claims he witnessed the grisly murder and is himself covered in blood, immediately falls under suspicion, though he insists his wife’s killer was Ståle Salvesen, a businessman he’d prosecuted years before for insider dealing. Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is called in to lead the investigation with her old colleague, Billy T. Despite the circumstantial evidence, Ha... [Read More]
    Macavity Awards For Best First Mystery Novel

    • ASIN: B01EG7A7UU
    • ASIN: B01EG7A7UU
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Yesterday's Echo (The Rick Cahill Series)

    Rick Cahill was never convicted of his wife's murder, but he was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife's death. When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive TV reporter, he sees a chance to love again. When she is arrested for murder and asks Rick for help, the former cop says no, but the rest of him says yes and he grasps at a chance for redemption. But Rick's attempt to help turns terribly wrong, and he becomes a suspect in the murder and the target of a police manhunt. On the run, Rick encounters desperate people who'll kill to keep their pasts buried. Before Rick can save himself and bring down a murderer, he must confront the truth abo... [Read More]
    Macavity Awards For Best First Mystery Novel

    • ASIN: 1608090760
    • ASIN: 1608090760
    • ISBN: 1608090760
    • Brand: Brand: Oceanview Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Oceanview Publishing

  • The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volumes 1-4 : The First Four Novels

    The perfect gift for Longmire fans: a boxed set of the first four mysteries in the New York Times bestselling Longmire Mystery series With the hit television series Longmire capturing millions of viewers and Craig Johnson's last seven books hitting the New York Times bestseller list, Walt Longmire is a name on everyone's lips and has earned his star. As Longmire devotees eagerly await the launch of the fifth season on Netflix, they can delve into the first four novels in the series and keep abreast of the latest goings-on in the world of their favorite straight-talking
    Macavity Awards For Best First Mystery Novel
    The perfect gift for Longmire fans: a boxed set of the first four mysteries in the New York Times bestselling Longmire Mystery series With the hit television series Longmire capturing millions of viewers and Craig Johnson’s last seven books hitting the New York Times bestseller list, Walt Longmire is a name on everyone’s lips and has earned his star. As Longmire devotees eagerly await the launch of the fifth season on Netflix, they can delve into the first four novels in the series and keep abreast of the latest goings-on in the world of their favorite straight-talking

    • UPC: 21671321
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel

    "Oprah's Book Club 2016 selection"--Sticker on jacket.
    Macavity Awards For Best First Mystery Novel
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and

    • UPC: 54040274
    • Rating: 4.198

  • The Crow Trap : The First Vera Stanhope Mystery

    An early book in award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life by Brenda Blethyn in the hit TV series
    Macavity Awards For Best First Mystery Novel
    From Ann Cleeves, winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger Award, comes The Crow Trap: the debut book in the Vera Stanhope series now available for the first time in the U.S.Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey on the Northumberland countryside. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception

    • UPC: 54979062
    • Rating: 4.286

  • Tea for Three : The First Three Tea Shop Mysteries

    "Includes a new foreword and 16 new recipes!"--Cover.
    Macavity Awards For Best First Mystery Novel
    NOW IN ONE VOLUME—A DEADLY BLEND OF THE FIRST THREE TEA SHOP MYSTERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LAURA CHILDSCharleston tea shop owner Theodosia Browning always seems to find herself steeped in mystery and murder.Death by Darjeeling Theo is serving tea for two hundred or so at the annual historic homes garden party when one guest is found dead clutching a teacup.Gunpowder Green While unveiling her newest flavor of tea at a yacht race, Theo hears the crack of an antique gun and a member of Charleston’s elite falls dead.Shades of Earl Grey Theo attends the engagement soiree of

    • UPC: 23257697

  • Melissa Craig Mystery: Murder in Langley Woods: A Completely Addictive Cozy Mystery Novel (Paperback)

    A body is found near a picture-perfect Cotswolds village... but the upstanding local residents couldn't possibly be involved, could they? Murder is the very last thing on Melissa Craig's mind when one of her neighbours pops in to complain loudly about a minor local robbery. She's far too busy thinking about her next book... But when the evening paper lands, there is a shocking headline. A young woman's body has been found in the nearby woods, and it seems the local robbery may offer a crucial clue. Suddenly the whole village is talking about the murder, but none of Melissa's
    Macavity Awards For Best First Mystery Novel
    A body is found near a picture-perfect Cotswolds village... but the upstanding local residents couldn't possibly be involved, could they? Murder is the very last thing on Melissa Craig's mind when one of her neighbours pops in to complain loudly about a minor local robbery. She's far too busy thinking about her next book... But when the evening paper lands, there is a shocking headline. A young woman's body has been found in the nearby woods, and it seems the local robbery may offer a crucial clue. Suddenly the whole village is talking about the murder, but none of Melissa's

    • UPC: 359784460

  • Women in Crime Fiction II

    Back by popular demand! The second installment of this wildly popular panel celebrated the best in contemporary women writers of crime, mystery and thriller genres. We were joined by Susan Isaacs, ...
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    Agatha Award-Winning Mystery Novel: Death of a Cozy Writer

    A Christmas-time reunion in an English manor house...and a frightfully inconventient murder. This debut mystery novel was chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best books of 2008. It has won t...
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    Mystery Monday #11: Ordinary Grace

    In which I review Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, the winner of the 2014 Edgar Award for best novel, the 2014 Anthony Award for best novel, the 2014 Dilys Award and the 2014 Macavity Award ...