The Macavity Award is named after the mystery cat in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.  It's given annually by the members of Mystery Readers International, an organization of mystery fans and professionals. It honors Best Novel and Best First Novel among other categories.

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2007: The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard. Also won an Agatha Award
Best First Novel:  Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone

2006: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Best First Novel:  Immoral by Brian Freeman

2005: The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen
Best First Novel:  Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak

2004: The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey
Best First Novel:  Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

2003: Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan
Best First Novel:  In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming.  Also won Anthony and Dilys Awards

2002: Folly by Laurie R. King
Best First Novel:  Open Season by C. J. Box.  Also won Anthony Award

2001: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid.  Also won Anthony and Dilys Awards
Best First Novel:  A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss

2000: The Flower Master by Sujata Massey
Best First Novel:  Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods

1999: Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Best First Novel:  Sympathy for the Devil by Jerrilyn Farmer

1998: Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
Best First Novel:  Dead Body Language by Penny Warner

1997: Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey
Best First Novel:  Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani. Also won an Anthony Award

1996: Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker. Also won an Anthony Award
Best First Novel: The Strange Files of Fremont Jones by Dianne Day

1995: She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb. Agatha Award and Anthony Award
Best First Novel: Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott. Also won an Agatha Award

1994: The Sculptress by Minette Walters. Also won an Edgar Award
Best First Novel:  Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman

1993: Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron. Won Agatha, Anthony, Edgar Awards
Best First Novel:  Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely.  Also won an Anthony Award

1992: I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard. Also won an Agatha Award.
Best First Novel: Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry. Also won an Anthony Award
and
Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker.  Also won an Agatha Award.

1991: If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O by Sharyn McCrumb.
Best First Novel: Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

1990: A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn Hart
Best First Novel: Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill.  Also won an Agatha Award.

1989: A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
Best First Novel: The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham

1988: Marriage is Murder by Nancy Pickard
Best First Novel: The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais

1987: A Taste for Death by P. D. James. 
Best First Novel: The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman
and
A Case of Loyalties by Marilyn Wallace

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