The Macavity Award, named after T.S. Eliot's "mystery cat" in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is given each year by members of Mystery Readers International for books published in the previous year.
2007 Award Winners are NANCY PICKARD for The Virgin of Small Plains for Best Novel, and NICK STONE for Mr. Clarinet for Best First Novel.
Stone's book also won 2007 International Thriller Writer's Best First Novel Award.
