2015 Silver Falchion Nominees
Best Novel
Cozy / Traditional Mystery
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Book | Author | Publisher |
An Unwilling Accomplice | Charles Todd | William Morrow |
Angelica’s Smile | Andrea Camilleri | Penguin Books |
Antiques Con | Babara Allan | Kensington Publishing |
Black Thursday | Linda Joffe Hull | Midnight Ink |
Boiled Over | Barbara Ross | Kensington Publishing |
Broken Trust | Shannon Baker | Midnight Ink |
Bubbles, Roses, and Rump | Marilyn Bos | Flat Sole Studio |
Catwalk | Sheila Webster Boneham | Midnight Ink |
Caught Dead Handed | Carol J. Perry | Kensington Publishing |
Chorus Line, Caviar, and Corpses | Mary McHugh | Kensington Publishing |
Dead in the Water | Lesley A. Diehl | Camel Press |
Death of a Policeman | M.C. Beaton | Grand Central Publishing |
Death Runs Adrift | Karen MacInerney | Midnight Ink |
Designated Daughters | Margaret Maron | Grand Central Publishing |
Dying for a Dude | Cindy Sample | Cindy Sample Books |
Fish Springs: Beneath the Surface | Michael Manuel & Larry C. Timbs, Jr. | Ingalls Publishing Group, Inc. |
Hanging by a Hair | Nancy J. Cohen | Five Star |
Hell on Wheels | Sue Ann Jaffarian | Midnight Ink |
Hell With the Lid Blown Off | Donis Casey | Poisoned Pen Press |
Hunting Season | Andrea Camilleri | Penguin Books |
Hunting Shadows | Charles Todd | William Morrow |
If the Shoe Kills | Lynn Cahoon | eKensington |
If You’ve Got It, Haunt It | Rose Pressey | Kensington |
Island Casualty | D.R. Ransdell | Oak Tree Press |
January Thaw | Jess Lourey | Midnight Ink |
Lost Under a Ladder | Linda O. Johnston | Midnight Ink |
Mission to Murder | Lynn Cahoon | eKensington |
Murder on the Ile Sordou | M.L. Longworth | Penguin Books |
Nantucket Sawbuck | Steven Axelrod | Poisoned Pen Press |
Palmetto Poison | C. Hope Clark | Bell Bridge Books |
Remote Consequences | Kerri Nelson | Gemma Halliday Publishing |
Safari | Parnell Hall | Pegasus Books |
Sinking Suspicions | Sara Sue Hoklotubbe | University of Arizona Press |
Sticks & Stones | R. Franklin James | Camel Press |
The Alpine Yeoman | Mary Daheim | Ballantine Books |
The Artful Goddaughter | Melodie Campbell | Orca Book Publishers |
The Bodies Were Burned | Barbara A. Martin | Barbara A. Martin |
The Boom Room | Rick Blechta | Orca Book Publishers |
The Cat Sitter’s Nine Lives | Blaize and John Clement | Thomas Dunne Books |
The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice | Waverly Curtis | Kensington Publishing |
The Choking Game | Martha Reed | Buccaneer/KMA Pittsburgh |
The Laws of Murder | Charles Finch | Minotaur Books |
The Perfect Stranger | Wendy Corsi Staub | Harper |
The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent | Susan Elia MacNeal | Bantam Dell |
The Question of the Missing Head | E.J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen | Midnight Ink |
The White Magic Five and Dime | Lisa Falco and Steve Hockensmith | Midnight Ink |
This Private Plot | Alan Beechey | Poisoned Pen Press |
To Helen Back | Susan McBride | Witness Impulse |
Two Dogs Lie Sleeping | Lia Farrell | Camel Press |
Crime Thriller
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Book | Author | Publisher |
A Billion Ways to Die | Chris Knopf | The Permanent Press |
A Tightly Raveled Mind | Diane Lawson | Cinco Punto Press |
Binds That Tie | Kate Moretti | Red Adept Publishing |
Blood Always Tells | Hilary Davidson | Forge Books |
Bone Deep | Randy Wayne White | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Bred in the Bone | Christopher Brookmyre | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Cabin Fever | James M. Jackson | Barking Rain Press |
Cobra | Deon Meyer | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Cold Shot | Mark Henshaw | Touchstone |
Cop Town | Karin Slaughter | Delacorte Press |
Dakota | Gwen Florio | The Permanent Press |
Desperate | Daniel Palmer | Kensington |
Dial M For Matrimony | Carroll McKnight | Pulpwood Press |
Dick Francis’s Damage | Felix Francis | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Dog Beach | John Fusco | Touchstone |
Don’t Ever Look Back | Daniel Friedman | Thomas Dunne Books |
Everyone Lies | A.D. Garrett | Minotaur Books |
Fear Nothing | Lisa Gardner | Dutton |
Flesh and Blood | Patricia Cornwell | William Morrow |
From the Dead | Mark Billingham | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Gangsterland | Tod Goldberg | Counterpoint |
Gulf Boulevard | Dennis Hart | The Permanent Press |
Haunted | Randy Wayne White | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
House Reckoning | Mike Lawson | Atlantic Monthly Press |
If It Bleeds | Linda L. Richards | Orca Book Publishers |
In the Blood | Lisa Unger | Touchstone |
Juba Good | Vicki Delany | Orca Book Publishers |
Kill Fee | Owen Laukkanen | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Lion Plays Rough | Lachlan Smith | The Mysterious Press |
Mike Hammer: King of the Weeds | Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins | Titan Books |
Missing You | Harlan Coben | Dutton |
Natchez Burning | Greg Iles | William Morrow |
Never Coming Back | Tim Weaver | Viking |
Original Sin | DP Lyle | Reputation Books |
Out of the Game | David DeLee | Dark Road Publishing |
Parker Field | Howard Owen | The Permanent Press |
Prayer | Philip Kerr | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Providence Rag | Bruce DeSilva | Forge Books |
Reckless Disregard: A Parker Stern Novel | Robert Rotstein | Seventh Street Books |
Resurrection Bay | Wayne McDaniel and Steven Womack | Midnight Ink |
Secret Assault | Don Helin | Headline Books |
Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box | George Mann | Titan Books |
Stone Cold | C.J. Box | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Suspicion | Joseph Finder | Dutton |
Terminal City | Linda Fairstein | Dutton |
Terminated | Ray Daniel | Midnight Ink |
The Bone Orchard | Paul Doiron | Minotaur Books |
The Bones Beneath | Mark Billingham | Atlantic Monthly Press |
The Cold Nowhere | Brian Freeman | Quercus |
The Culling | Robert Johnson | The Permanent Press |
The Execution | Dick Wolf | William Morrow |
The Keeper | John Lescroart | Atria Books |
The Kennedy Connection | R.G. Belsky | Atria |
The Last Dead Girl | Harry Dolan | Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam |
The Skeleton Road | Val McDermid | Atlantic Monthly Press |
The Stranger You Know | Jane Casey | Minotaur Books |
The Two Sisters of Borneo | Ian Hamilton | Spiderline |
Tokyo Kill | Barry Lancet | Simon & Schuster |
Vertigo 42 | Martha Grimes | Scribner |
Voodoo Ridge | David Freed | The Permanent Press |
Vulture au Vin | Lisa King | The Permanent Press |
Walt | Russell Wangersky | Spiderline |
When Shadows Fall | J.T. Ellison | Mira Books |
Windigo Island | William Kent Krueger | Atria Books |
Wolf | Mo Hayder | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Historical
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Book | Author | Publisher |
A New York Christmas | Anne Perry | Ballantine Books |
A Song to Die For | Mike Blakely | Forge Books |
An Air of Treason | P.F. Chisholm | Poisoned Pen Press |
Blacklist | Jerry Ludwig | Forge |
Blood on the Water | Anne Perry | Ballantine Books |
De Potter’s Grand Tour | Joanna Scott | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Death at Chinatown | Frances McNamara | Allium Press of Chicago |
Death on Blackheath | Anne Perry | Ballantine Books |
Ragtime Cowboys | Loren D. Estleman | Forge |
Riders on the Storm | Ed Gorman | Pegasus Books |
Shall We Not Revenge | D.M. Pirrone | Allium Press of Chicago |
Street Justice | Kris Nelscott | WMG Publishing, Inc. |
The Auschwitz Escape | Joel Rosenberg | Tyndale House Publishers |
The Baklava Club | Jason Goodwin | Sarah Crichton Books/FSG |
The Blood of Alexander | Tom Wilde | Forge |
The Devil’s Workshop | Alex Grecian | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
The Hour of Lead | Bruce Holbert | Counterpoint |
The Johnstown Girls | Kathleen George | University of Pittsburgh Press |
The Reckoning | Rennie Airth | Viking |
The Secret of Magic | Deborah Johnson | Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam |
The Smoke at Dawn | Jeff Shaara | Ballantine Books |
The Wrong Man | Laura Wilson | Felony & Mayhem Press |
Tradition of Deceit | Kathleen Ernst | Midnight Ink |
Zodiac Deception | Gary Kriss | Forge |
Literary Mystery / Suspense / Thriller
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Book | Author | Publisher |
A Better World | Marcus Sakey | Thomas & Mercer |
A Circle of Waves | Alice LaPlante | Grove Press |
A Cold and Broken Hallejujah | Tyler Dilts | Thomas & Mercer |
Abroad | Katie Crouch | Sarah Crichton Books/FSG |
Apple Tree Yard | Louise Doughty | Sarah Crichton Books/FSG |
Area X | Jeff VanderMeer | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Assault with a Deadly Lie | Lev Raphael | Terrace Books |
Bagmen | William Lashner | Thomas & Mercer |
Baudelaire’s Revenge | Bob Van Laerhoven | Pegasus Books |
Before Nightfall | Rachel Amphlett | Rachel Amphlett |
Beware Beware | Steph Cha | Thomas Dunne Books |
Bittersweet | Miranda Beverly-Whittemore | Crown |
Block 10 | Stacy Childs with David Niall Wilson | Crossroad Press |
Blue Labyrinth | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | Grand Central Publishing |
Butterfly Skin | Sergey Kuznetsov | Titan Books |
Chance | Kem Nunn | Scribner |
CHECKMATE | Steven James | Signet |
Chump Change | G.M. Ford | Thomas & Mercer |
Cipher | John Jantunen | ECW Press |
Circle of Wives | Alice LaPlante | Grove Press |
Cornered | Alan Brenham | Black Opal Books |
Courier | Terry Irving | Ronin Robot Press |
Dancer in the Dust | Thomas H. Cook | The Mysterious Press |
Dark Road, Dead End | Philip Cioffari | Livingston Press/ University of West Alabama |
Darkness, Darkness | John Harvey | Pegasus Books |
Dead Water | Ann Cleeves | Thomas Dunne Books |
Deadly Bonds | LJ Sellers | Thomas & Mercer |
Desperate Deeds | Patricia Gligor | Post Mortem Press |
Dry Bones in the Valley | Tom Bouman | Norton Trade |
Fifty Mice | Daniel Pyne | Blue Rider Press |
Graveyard of Memories | Barry Eisler | Thomas & Mercer |
Half World | Scott O’Connor | Simon & Schuster |
Hard Return | J. Carson Black | Thomas & Mercer |
Hoaxers | Edward J. McFadden III | Crossroad Press |
I Can See in the Dark | Karin Fossum | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Interference | Michelle Berry | ECW Press |
Keep Your Friends Close | Paula Daly | Grove Press |
Land of Careful Shadows | Suzanne Chazin | Kensington Publishing |
Lucifer’s Promise | Alan Thompson | W & B Publishers, Inc. |
Midnight Plan of the Repo Man | W. Bruce Cameron | Forge |
Mind of Winter | Laura Kasischke | Harper Adult |
Moriarty | Anthony Horowitz | Harper |
Murder in Retribution | Anne Cleeland | Kensington Books |
My Sister’s Grave | Robert Dugoni | Thomas & Mercer |
One Kick | Chelsea Cain | Simon & Schuster |
Plaster City | Johnny Shaw | Thomas & Mercer |
Presumption of Guilt | Marti Green | Thomas & Mercer |
Red 1-2-3 | John Katzenbach | The Mysterious Press |
Revival | Stephen King | Scribner |
Rivers to Blood | Michael Lister | Pulpwood Press |
Shirley | Susan Scarf Merrell | Blue Rider Press |
Sometimes the Wolf | Urban Waite | William Morrow |
South, America | Rod Davis | New South Books |
Strong Darkness | Jon Land | Forge Books |
Swann’s Lake of Despair | Charles Salzberg | Five Star |
Tehran at Twilight | Salar Abdoh | Akashic Books |
The Accident | Chris Pavone | Crown |
The Black-Eyed Blonde | Benjamin Black | Henry Holt and Company |
The Boy Who Stole From the Dead | Orest Stemlach | Thomas & Mercer |
The Catch | Taylor Stevens | Crown |
The Conan Doyle Notes | Diane Madsen | MX Publishing |
The Cove | Rick Hautala | Crossroad Press |
The Day She Died | Catriona McPherson | Midnight Ink |
The Dead Will Tell | Linda Castillo | Minotaur Books |
The Disposables | David Putnam | Oceanview |
The Empire of Night | Robert Olen Butler | The Mysterious Press |
The Farm | Tom Rob Smith | Grand Central Publishing |
The Forgers | Bradford Morrow | The Mysterious Press |
The Girl in the Woods | Gregg Olsen | Pinnacle |
The Girl Next Door | Ruth Rendell | Scribner |
The Girl With a Clock for a Heart | Peter Swanson | William Morrow |
The Good Girl | Mary Kubica | Mira Books |
The Killer Next Door | Alex Marwood | Penguin Books |
The Last Time I Died | Joe Nelms | Tyrus Books |
The Laughing Monsters | Denis Johnson | Farrar,Straus and Giroux |
The Merry-Go-Round Man | John B. Rosenman | Crossroad Press |
The Murder of Harriet Krohn | Karin Fossum | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
The Mystery of the Invisible Hand | Marshall Jevons | Princeton University Press |
The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band | Frances Washburn | University of Arizona Press |
The River Is Dark | Joe Hart | Thomas & Mercer |
The Secret History of Las Vegas | Chris Abani | Penguin Books |
The Secret Place | Tana French | Viking |
The Seeker | R.B. Chesterton | Pegasus Books |
The Shield | Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore | Stone Creek Books |
The Stone Boy | Sophie Loubiere | Grand Central Publishing |
The Third Sin | Elsa Klensch | Forge |
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair | Joel Dicker | Penguin Books |
The Way Of All Fish | Martha Grimes | Scribner |
Third Rail | Rory Flynn | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
This Dark Road to Mercy | Wiley Cash | William Morrow |
Trapline | Mark Stevens | Midnight Ink |
Under Your Skin | Sabine Durrant | Emily Bestler (Atria Books) |
Unraveled Visions | Nina Milton | Midnight Ink |
Waiting for Wednesday | Nicci French | Pamela Dorman Books |
Wayfaring Stranger | James Lee Burke | Simon & Schuster |
Political / Adventure / Espionage Thriller
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Book | Author | Publisher |
24: Deadline | James Swallow | Forge |
Adobe Flats | Colin Campbell | Midnight Ink |
Ark Storm | Linda Davies | Forge |
Assassin’s Game | Ward Larsen | Forge |
Black Skies | Leo J. Maloney | Kensington |
Blood Pact | David Hagberg | Forge |
Blue Warrior | Mike Maden | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Border War | Lou Dobbs and James O. Born | Forge |
Burned | Valerie Plame | Blue Rider Press |
Dark Spies | Matthew Dunn | William Morrow |
Deadliest of Sins | Sallie Bissell | Midnight Ink |
Deadout | Jon McGoran | Forge |
End Game | John Gilstrap | Pinnacle |
I Am Pilgrim | Terry Hayes | Atria Books |
Inside Man | Jeff Abbott | Grand Central Publishing |
Killing Pilgrim | Alen Mattich | Spiderline |
Killing the Curse | Dennis Hetzel with Rick Robinson | Headline Books |
Margaret Truman’s Undiplomatic Murder | Donald Bain | Forge |
Montecito Heights | Colin Campbell | Midnight Ink |
Night Heron | Adam Brookes | Redhook |
No Time to Die | Kira Peikoff | Pinnacle |
Now and in the Hour of Our Death | Patrick Taylor | Forge |
Rain on the Dead | Jack Higgins | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ascendancy | Eric Van Lustbader | Grand Central Publishing |
Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Option | Paul Garrison | Grand Central Publishing |
Sabotage | Matt Cook | Forge |
Sand and Fire | Tom Young | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
The Counterfeit Agent | Alex Berenson | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
The Escape | David Baldacci | Grand Central Publishing |
The Hilltop | Assaf Gavron | Scribner |
The Last Shootist | Miles Swarthout | Forge |
The Lie | Hesh Kestin | Scribner |
The Lost Island | Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | Grand Central Publishing |
The Madmen of Benghazi | Gérard de Villiers | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
The Madness of July | James Naughtie | The Overlook Press |
The Red Room | Ridley Pearson | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
The Target | David Baldacci | Grand Central Publishing |
Warriors | Ted Bell | William Morrow |
Weapon of Vengeance | Mukul Deva | Forge |
Written In My Own Heart’s Blood | Diana Gabaldon | Delacorte Press |
Private Detective / Police Procedural / Mystery
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Book | Author | Publisher | |
Any Other Name | Craig Johnson | Viking | |
Black Rock | John McFetridge | ECW Press | |
Bitter Crossing | D.A. Keeley | Midnight Ink | |
Brainquake | Samuel Fuller | Hard Case Crime | |
Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart | Christopher Fowler | Bantam | |
By Any Means | Chris Culver | Grand Central Publishing | |
By Its Cover | Donna Leon | Atlantic Monthly Press | |
Critical Damage | Robert K. Lewis | Midnight Ink | |
Dead Lil’ Hustler | Victoria Houston | Tyrus Books | |
Dead Man’s Fancy | Keith McCafferty | Viking | |
Deadline | John Sandford | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
Deadly Puzzles | Terry Odell | Terry Odell | |
Don’t Look for Me | Loren D. Estleman | Forge | |
Easy Death | Daniel Boyd | Hard Case Crime | |
Field of Prey | John Sandford | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
Frenzy | John Lutz | Pinnacle | |
Identity | Ingrid Thoft | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
Kill Game | Dean Wesley Smith | WMG Publishing, Inc. | |
Lake of Tears | Mary Logue | Tyrus Books | |
Murder in the Arts District | Greg Herren | Bold Strokes Books | |
Murder on Edisto | C. Hope Clark | Bell Bridge Books | |
Nature of the Beast | Roland Keller | Excelsior Editions | |
Remains of Innocence | J.A. Jance | William Morrow | |
River of Glass | Jaden Terrell | The Permanent Press | |
Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot | Reed Farrel Coleman | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
Robert B. Parker’s Cheap Shot | Ace Atkins | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
Saints of New York | R.J. Ellory | The Overlook Press | |
Search and Rescue | Gail Anderson-Dargatz | Orca Book Publishers | |
Sorrow Bound | David Mark | Blue Rider Press | |
Strangers | Bill Pronzini | Forge | |
Sweet Sunday | John Lawton | Atlantic Monthly Press | |
The Assassins’ Ball | Patrick Thomas and John L. French | Gray Rabbit Publishing | |
The Big Hello | Michael Lister | Pulpwood Press | |
The Bone Seeker | M.J. McGrath | Viking | |
The Forsaken | Ace Atkins | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
The Hard Way | Cathi Stoler | Camel Press | |
The Hollow Girl | Reed Farrel Coleman | Tyrus Books | |
The House That Jack Built | Jakob Melander | Spiderline | |
The Killing: Uncommon Denominator | Karen Dionne | Titan Books | |
The Night Searchers | Marcia Muller | Grand Central Publishing | |
The Skin Collector | Jeffery Deaver | Grand Central Publishing | |
The Splintered Paddle | Mark Troy | Five Star Publishing | |
Unnatural Murder | Connie Dial | The Permanent Press | |
With Intent To Deceive | David DeLee | Dark Road Publishing | |
Wrong Quarry | Max Allan Collins | Hard Case Crime | |
You Know Who Killed Me | Loren D. Estleman | Forge |
Romantic Suspense
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Book | Author | Publisher |
Awakened | Virna DePaul | Bantam |
Bluffing Is Murder | Tace Baker | Barking Rain Press |
Confession | Carey Baldwin | Witness Impulse |
Death of a High Maintenance Blonde | Debra Gaskill | D’Llama Publishing |
Guarded | Mary Behre | Berkley |
Judgement | Carey Baldwin | Witness Impulse |
Know When to Run | Connie Flynn | Connie Flynn |
Love Game | Elise Sax | Ballantine Books |
Mercy | B.J. Daniels | Harlequin |
Montana Bride | Joan Johnston | Bantam Dell |
Nefarious | Tina DC Hayes | Hazy Moon Ink |
Power Play | Catherine Coulter | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Spirited | Mary Behre | Berkley |
Sweet Damage | Rebecca James | Bantam Books |
The Black Rose | Sam Berretti | Media Masters Productions, LLC |
The Job | Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg | Bantam |
The Lost Key | Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
The Silver Promise | William C. Walker | CreateSpace |
Top Secret Twenty-One | Janet Evanovich | Bantam |
Truth Be Told | Hank Phillippi Ryan | Forge |
Windswept Danger | Terry Odell | Terry Odell |
Speculative / Horror / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Book | Author | Publisher |
City of Stairs | Robert Jackson Bennett | Broadway Books |
Clockwork Angels | Kevin J. Anderson | ECW Press |
Coldbrook | Tim Lebbon | Titan Books |
Conquest | John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard | Atria Books |
Dawn’s Bright Talons | Nerine Dorman | Crossroad Press |
Ecko Burning | Danie Ware | Titan Books |
Fear City | F. Paul Wilson | Tor |
Land of Shadows | Rachel Howzel Hall | Forge |
Like a Mighty Army | David Weber | Forge Books |
Lock In | John Scalzi | Tor |
Lockdown: Star Wars | Joe Schreiber | Del Rey/ LucasBooks |
Love Bites | Sheri Broadbent | Amazon |
Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | Scribner |
My Lady of the Bog | Peter Hayes | The Permanent Press |
N.D.E. | Steven Savile and David Sakmyster | Crossroad Press |
Pillar to the Sky | William R. Forstchen | Forge |
Red Devil 4 | Eric c. Leuthardt | Forge |
Skin of the Wolf | Sam Cabot | Blue Rider Press |
Slimy Underbelly | Kevin J. Anderson | Kensington Publishing |
The Book of Life | Deborah Harkness | Viking |
The Boy Who Drew Monsters | Keith Donohue | Picador USA |
The Boy Who Killed Demons | Dave Zeltserman | The Overlook Press |
The Burning Dark | Adam Christopher | Tor |
The Enemy Within | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | WMG Publishing, Inc. |
The Golem of Hollywood | Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
The Grey Matter | Billie Sue Mosiman | Post Mortem Press |
The Kraken Project | Douglas Preston | Forge |
The Pierced Heart | Lynn Shepherd | Bantam |
The String Diaries | Stephen Lloyd Jones | Little, Brown Publishing |
The Ultra Thin Man | Patrick Swenson | Tor |
The Voices | F.R. Tallis | Pegasus Books |
The Wolves of London | Mark Morris | Titan Books |
Yesterday’s Hero | Jonathan Wood | Titan Books |
Long-Form Novelty Fiction: Poetry/Graphic/Experimental
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Book | Author | Publisher/ Editor |
Notes From the Cat House | Jack Ketchum | Crossroad Press |
The Undertaking of Lily Chen | Danica Novgorodoff | First Second |
Best First Novel
Cozy / Traditional / Historical
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Book | Author | Publisher |
Dying to Know | TJ O’Connor | Midnight Ink |
Final Rights | Tena Frank | Grateful Steps Foundation |
Honor Above All | J. Bard Collins | Allium Press of Chicago |
Kilmoon | Lisa Alber | Muskrat Press, LLC |
Lane Changes | S.L. Ellis | Black Opal Books |
Limestone Gumption | Bryan Robinson | Gale/Cengage |
Murder at Honeychurch Hall | Hannah Dennison | Thomas Dunne Books |
Murder Strikes A Pose | Tracy Weber | Midnight Ink |
The Life We Bury | Allen Eskens | Seventh Street Books |
To Fudge or Not to Fudge | Nancy Coco | Kensington |
While Beauty Slept | Elizabeth Blackwell | Putnam |
Literary Suspense
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Book | Author | Publisher |
B.O.Q. | N.P. Simpson | John F. Blair |
Consumed | David Cronenberg | Scribner |
Decoded | Mai Jia | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Deep Winter | Samuel Gailey | Blue Rider Press |
Forty Days Without Shadow | Olivier Truc | Grand Central Publishing |
Going Home | Sharon Marchisello | Sunbury Press, Inc. |
HYDE | Daniel Levine | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Never Alone | C.J. Carpenter | Midnight Ink |
The Devil Takes Half | Leta Serafirm | Coffetown Press |
The Weight of Blood | Laura McHugh | Spiegel & Grau |
Wolf in White Van | John Darnielle | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
Thriller / Mystery
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Book | Author | Publisher | |
A Cry From the Dust | Carrie Stuart Parks | Thomas Nelson | |
Baghdad Central | Elliott Colla | Bitter Lemon Press | |
Blood Line | John J. Davis | Simon & Winter, Inc. | |
Catch A Falling Star | Laurel Heidtman | Laurel Heidtman | |
City of Devils | Diana Bretherick | Pegasus | |
Criminal Gold | Ann Aptaker | Bold Strokes Books | |
Dangerous Denial | Amy Ray | Barking Rain Press | |
Dear Daughter | Elizabeth Little | Viking | |
Expedition Indigo | Stacy Allen | Fiery Seas Publishing | |
Four Corners | Wally Rudolph | Soft Skull Press | |
Go Go Gato | Max Everhart | Camel Press | |
Hotlanta! | Mark Nielsen | Headline Books | |
Imogene in New Orleans | Hunter Murphy | Rolltop Publishing | |
Indefensible | Lee Goodman | Atria Books | |
Invisible City | Julia Dahl | Minotaur Books | |
Last Words | Rich Zahradnik | Camel Press | |
North of Boston | Elisabeth Elo | Pamela Dorman Books | |
Played to Death | BV Lawson | Crimetime Press | |
Prodigious Savant | J.J. White | Black Opal Books | |
Ride the Lightening | Dietrich Kalteis | ECW Press | |
Shovel Ready | Adam Sternbergh | Crown | |
Someone Else’s Skin | Sarah Hilary | Penguin Books | |
The American Mission | Matthew Palmer | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
The Black Hour | Lori Rader-Day | Seventh Street Books | |
The Cottoncrest Curse | Michael H. Rubin | LSU Press | |
The Darkest Hour | Tony Schumacher | William Morrow | |
The Family | EDI Wilson | Bookbaby | |
The Golden Hour | Todd Moss | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
The Hawley Book of the Dead | Chrysler Szarlan | Ballantine Books | |
The Intern’s Handbook | Shane Kuhn | Simon & Schuster | |
The Last Breath | Kimberly Belle | Mira Books | |
The Martian | Andy Weir | Crown | |
The Monarch | Jack Soren | Witness Impulse | |
The Morning Line | Tom Kenny | Createspace | |
The Mystery of the Trinity | Richard Gid Powers | Caravel Books | |
The Siegel Dispositions | David E. Grogan | Camel Press | |
The Ways of the Dead | Neely Tucker | Viking | |
The White Van | Patrick Hoffman | Atlantic Monthly Press | |
Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Thomas Sweterlitsch | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Best Nonfiction
Academic
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Book | Author | Publisher |
A Tail of Hope’s Faith | Diane Weinmann | Hay House |
Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem, An Annotated Repertoire | Amnon Kabatchnik | Scarecrow Press |
Bloody Italy: Essays on Crime Writing in Italian Settings | Patricia Prandini Buckler | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
Brainstorm | Daniel J. Seigel | Tarcher |
Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s | Julie H. Kim | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
German Feminist Queer Crime Fiction: Politics, Justice and Desire | Faye Stewart | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | Jim Mancall | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
Jolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age | Bruce Shaw | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene | Curtis Evans | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview | Barbara Pezzotti | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
The Executioner’s Toll, 2010: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States | Matthew T. Mangino | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis | Charles Brownson | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
The Sixth Extinction | Elizabeth Kolbert | Henry Holt |
The Villainous Stage: Crime Plays on Broadway and in the West End | Marvin Lachman | McFarland & Company, Inc. |
Truth in a Culture of Doubt | Andreas Kostenberger, Darrell Bock and Josh Chatraw | B&H Publishing Group |
Your Next Mission | Lida Citroen | Palisades Publishing |
Craft and Business of Writing
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Book | Author | Publisher |
Mainstream Crime Reference
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Book | Author | Publisher |
400 Things Cops Know | Adam Plantinga | Quill Driver Books |
The Art of the English Murder | Lucy Worsley | Pegasus Books |
Memoir / Biography
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Book | Author | Publisher |
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade | Waltern Kirn | Liveright Publishing Corporation |
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby | Sarah Churchwell | Penguin Press |
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy | Karen Abbott | Harper |
Love! Laugh! Panic! Life With My Mother | Rosemary Mild | Magic Island Literary Works |
Love, Freedom & The Art Of Getting There | Robert Gross | Park Bench Press |
Miraculous Journey | Anne Strieber and Whitley Strieber | Crossroad Press |
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe | J.W. Ocker | The Countryman Press |
The Good Spy | Kai Bird | Crown Trade |
The Perfect Kill | Robert Baer | Blue Rider Press |
True Crime
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Book | Author | Publisher |
A Deadly Wandering | Matt Richtel | William Morrow |
Bad Paper | Jake Halpern | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Dead of Night | Gary C. King with Shelia Johnson | Pinnacle |
Hidden Harvest: The Rise and Fall of North America’s Biggest Cannabis Grow Op | Mark Coakley | ECW Press |
I’ll Take Care of You | Caitlin Rother | Pinnacle |
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America | Kevin Cook | Norton Trade |
Law of the Jungle | Paul M. Barrett | Crown |
Life Real Loud: John Lefebvre, Neteller and the Revolution in Online Gambling | Bill Reynolds | ECW Press |
Obsessed | M. William Phelps | Kensington |
Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting | John Shiffman | Simon & Schuster |
Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers | Donald B. Kraybill | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Star-Crossed Killers | Robert Scott | Pinnacle |
The Killing Kind | M. William Phelps | Kensington |
The Other Side | Lacy M. Johnson | Tin House Books |
The Phantom Killer: Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders: The Story of a Town in Terror | James Presley | Pegasus Books |
The Skeleton Crew | Deborah Halber | Simon & Schuster |
Tinseltown | William J. Mann | Harper |
War of the Whales: A True Story | Joshua Horwitz | Simon & Schuster |
When Nashville Bled: The Untold Stories of Serial Killer Paul Dennis Reid | Judith A. Yates | Judith A. Yates |
Whitey on Trial | Margaret McLean and Jon Lieberman | Forge |
Best Picture Book / Chapter Book / Middle Grade / YA
Children’s Picture Book
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Book | Author/ Illustrator | Publisher |
Adventures with Barefoot Critters | Teagan White | Tundra Books |
An Armadillo in Paris | Julie Kraulis | Tundra Books |
Bob Goes to Mars | Katie Mary Wilson | Crossroad Press |
Bob’s Hungry Ghost | Genevieve Cote | Tundra Books |
Do Witches Take Baths? | Christopher David Connor | Createspace(Amazon) |
Edie’s Ensembles | Ashley Spires | Tundra Books |
For Such A Time As This | Angie Smith | B&H Publishing Group |
Hope Springs | Eric Walters | Tundra Books |
If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur | Linda Bailey | Tundra Books |
Julia, Child | Kyo Maclear | Tundra Books |
Nancy Knows | Cybele Young | Tundra Books |
Nine Words Max | Dan Bar-el | Tundra Books |
Spic-and Span! Lillian Gilbreth’s Wonder Kitchen | Monica Kulling | Tundra Books |
The Bambino and Me | Zachary Hyman | Tundra Books |
The Fly | Elise Gravel | Tundra Books |
The Highest Number in the World | Roy MacGregor | Tundra Books |
The Rat | Elise Gravel | Tundra Books |
The Skeleton Inside Me | David Niall Wilson | Crossroad Press |
The Slug | Elise Gravel | Tundra Books |
The Worm | Elise Gravel | Tundra Books |
Who Needs a Desert? | Karen Patkau | Tundra Books |
Who Needs a Prairie? | Karen Patkau | Tundra Books |
Who Needs a Reef? | Karen Patkau | Tundra Books |
Children’s Chapter Book
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Book | Author/ Illustrator | Publisher |
Cassie and Jasper to the Rescue | Bryn Fleming | WestWinds Press |
The Case of the Buried Bones | Lewis B. Montgomery | Kane Press, Inc. |
The Diamond Mystery | Martin Widmark | Grosset & Dunlap |
The Frankenstein Journals | Scott Sonneborn | Capstone Young Readers |
The Haunted Library | Dori Hillestad Butler | Grosset & Dunlap |
The Secret of the Sea Creature | Laurie S. Sutton | Capstone Young Readers |
Middle Grade
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Book | Author | Publisher |
A Growing Suspicion | Jacqueline Dembar Greene | American Girl Publishing |
A Snicker of Magic | Natalie Lloyd | Scholastic |
Ameri-Scares: California: From the Pit | Elizabeth Massie | Crossroad Press |
Andi Under Pressure | Amanda Flower | Zonderkidz |
Audrey | Dan Bar-el | Tundra Books |
Millhouse | Natale Ghent | Tundra Books |
Ollie and the Science of Treasure Hunting | Erin Dionne | Dial Books for Young Readers |
Still Life | Jacqueline West | Dial Books for Young Readers |
The ACB with Honora Lee | Kate De Goldi | Tundra Books |
The Boston Breakout | Roy MacGregor | Tundra Books |
The Dark Lady | Irene Adler | Capstone Young Readers |
The Desperate Diva Diaries | Angie Spady | B&H Publishing Group |
The Faire Pendant | Leah Price | Talebearers Publishing |
The Finisher | David Baldacci | Scholastic |
The Magnificent Lizzie Brown and the Mysterious Phantom | Vicki Lockwood | Capstone Young Readers |
The Mystery of the Russian Ransom | Roy MacGregor | Tundra Books |
The One Safe Place | Tania Unsworth | Algonquin Books/ Workman Publishing |
The Swallow: A Ghost Story | Charis Cotter | Tundra Books |
Treason | Jo Macauley | Capstone Young Readers |
Viminy Crowe’s Comic Book | Marthe Jocelyn and Richard Scrimger | Tundra Books |
Zombie Elementary | Howard Whitehouse | Tundra Books |
Young Adult
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Book | Author | Publisher |
10 Things for Teen Girls | Kate Connor | B&H Publishing Group |
About That Night | Norah McClintock | Orca Book Publishers |
Always Emily | Michaela MacColl | Chronicle Books |
Astray | Amy Christine Parker | Random House Children’s Books |
Blur | Steven James | Skyscape |
Changing Michael | Jeff Schilling | Bancroft Press |
Dark Tide | Greg Herren | Bold Strokes Books |
Death Spiral | Janie Chodosh | The Poisoned Pencil |
Disconnected | Lisa Cronkhite | The Poisoned Pencil |
Every Breath | Ellie Marney | Tundra Books |
Falconer | Elizabeth May | Chronicle Books |
Falwyn: A Fairy Tale | Ashley L. Knight | Crossroad Press |
Fire & Flood | Victoria Scott | Scholastic |
Grunge Gods and Graveyards | Kimberly G. Giarratano | Red Adept Publishing |
Haze | Paula Weston | Tundra Books |
How We Fall | Kate Brauning | Merit Press |
Jesus Jackson | James Ryan Daley | The Poisoned Pencil |
Jex Malone | C.L. Gaber and V.C. Stanley | Merit Press |
Mr. Samuel’s Penny | Treva Hall Melvin | The Poisoned Pencil |
Nearly Gone | Elle Cosimano | Kathy Dawson Books |
Safe | Mark Zubro | MLR Press, LLC |
Spiritglass Charade | Colleen Gleason | Chronicle Books |
Still Photo | Kim Harnes | Evernight Teen |
The Art of Secrets | James Klise | Algonquin Books/ Workman Publishing |
The Killing Woods | Lucy Christopher | Scholastic |
The Number 7 | Jessica Lidh | Merit Press |
The Voice Inside My Head | S.J. Laidlaw | Tundra Books |
The World Outside | Eva Wiseman | Tundra Books |
Unaccompanied Minor | Hollis Hillespie | Merit Press |
Uncovered | S.X. Bradley | Evernight Teen |
Wanted: Dead or In Love | Kym Brunner | Merit Press |
What We Hide | Marthe Jocelyn | Tundra Books |
Where the Rock Splits the Sky | Philip Webb | Scholastic |
Who R U Really? | Margo Kelly | Merit Press |
Zomburbia | Adam Gallardo | Kensington Publishing |
Best Anthology / Collection
Multi-Author Anthology
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Book | Edited By | Publisher |
Best New England Crime Stories 2015: Rogue Wave | Mark Ammons, Katherine Fast, Barbara Ross, Leslie Wheeler | Level Best Books |
Faceoff | Lee Child and Others | Simon & Schuster |
Fiction River: Past Crime | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | WMG Publishing, Inc. |
Fiction River Special Edition: Crime | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | WMG Publishing, Inc. |
Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War | Presented by MWA/ Edited by Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson | Grand Central Publishing |
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon | Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger | Pegasus Books |
Single-Author Collection
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Book | Author | Publisher |
High Crime Area | Joyce Carol Oates | The Mysterious Press |
Love, Life, and the Art of Food | Robert N. Gross | Park Bench Press |
Seeing Red | Terry Odell | Terry Odell |
Shark’s Tooth | Michael Guillebeau | Ardent Writer Press |
Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country | C.J. Box | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
The Misadventures of Slim O. Wittz, Soft-Boiled Detective | Rosemary & Larry Mild | Magic Island Literary Works |
Trouble in Mind | Jeffery Deaver | Grand Central Publishing |
Wait For Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories | Craig Johnson | Viking |