BEST ACTION ADVENTURE

The Medina Device / T. J. Champitto

Hot Flash Decisions / Shirley B. Garrett

Dead Men’s Silence / James Lindholm

Trojan Horse / S. Lee Manning

      The Crow’s Nest / Richard Meredith

BEST COMEDY

 Con Me Once / J. L. Delozier

 Risky Whiskey / Lucy Lakestone

Once is Never Enough / Haris Orkin

  Slightly Murderous Intent / Lida Sideris

Murder by Milk Bottle / Lynne Truss

BEST COZY

Winter Witness / Tina deBellegarde

Dead Man’s Watch / Kay DiBianca

      Three Treats Too Many / Debra H. Goldstein

Family Twist / Bonita Y. McCoy

   Murder in First Position / Lori Robbins

Larceny at the Library / Colleen J. Shogan

Seas the Day / Maggie Toussaint

   Dr. Shine Cracks the Case / Cathy Tully

   Rose by Any Other Name / Becki Willis

    A Sew Deadly Cruise / Lois Winston

BEST HISTORICAL

 Copy Boy / Shelley Blanton-Stroud

  Dark Secrets of the Bayou / Kim Carter

A Child Lost / Michelle Cox

The Lost Wisdom of the Magi / Susie Helme

  Death on the Homefront / Frances McNamara

BEST INVESTIGATOR

Narco Noir / Carmen Amato

   The Last Scoop / R. G. Belsky

   Within Plain Sight / Bruce Robert Coffin

The Vultures / Mark Hannon

 The Garbage Man / Candace Irving

    A Palette for Love and Murder / Saralyn Richard

Stardust Trail / J. R. Sanders

  Facets of Death / Michael Stanley

In Twilight’s Hush / Laurie Stevens

All We Buried / Elena Taylor

Dirty Old Town / Gabriel Valjan

BEST JUVENILE / Y.A.

The Crossingway / Lynn H. Elliott

  Irish Town / Matthew John Meagher

     Kassy O’Roarke Treasure Hunter / Kelly Oliver

Astrobia / James C. Paavola

      Someone is Burning My Lord, Kumbaaya / Fiza Pathan and Michaelangelo Zane

BEST MYSTERY

    Every Kind of Wicked / Lisa Black

     Dark Secrets of the Bayou / Kim Carter

Travels of Quinn / Sasscer Hill

    Three Houses on a Hill / Nicholas Holloway

Relative Silence / Carrie Stuart Parks

  Calling for the Money / Cathy Perkins

Love Power / Martha Reed

   Murder, Forgotten / Deb Richardson-Moore

Code Gray / Benny Sims

Murder at Lolly Beach / Jane Suen

BEST NONFICTION

 The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands / Jon Billman

    The Five Core Conversations for Couples / David and Julie Bulitt

Words Whispered in Water / Sandy Rosenthal

BEST SCI-FI / FANTASY

Jeremy and the Witches Medallion / Randy Gauthier

Servant of the Crown / Duncan M. Hamilton

 In the Shadow of a Valiant Moon / Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington

  Otaku / Chris Kluwe

      Odyssey Tale / Cody Schlegel

BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION / ANTHOLOGY

  Crossing Borders / Lisa Brackmann & Matt Coyle

   Judge Lu’s Case Files, Stories of Crime & Mystery in Imperial China / P.A. De Voe

Minnesota Not So Nice: Eighteen Tales of Bad Behavior / Barbara Merritt Deese, Pat Dennis, Michael Allan Mallory, and Timya Owen

Couch Detective Book 2 / James Glass

 Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies / John Langan

BEST SUPERNATURAL

Slipping into Darkness / D. M. Bourgeois

    Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht / Catherine Moore

Wonderland / Zoje Stage

Sisters of the Moon / Alexandrea Weis

  Borrowed Memories / Christine Mager Wevik

Inn the Spirit of Competition / Becki Willis

BEST SUSPENSE

Inherent Fate / Alicia Anthony

Purgatory, A Progeny’s Quest / T.M. Brown

The Stepdaughter / Georgina Cross

Athena’s Dilemma / Donna Del Oro

A Thousand Miles from Spokane / S. D. Goldman

  Ring of Conspiracy / J. Robert Kinney

Trojan Horse / S. Lee Manning

The Golden Girl / Dana Perry

Last Call / Cathi Stoler

     Let the Guilty Pay / Rick Treon

BEST THRILLER

   Collateral / Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson

Bakersfield Boys Club / Anne Da Vigo

Blind Edge / Candace Irving

The Venezuelan / Bill King

Fall / Leslie McCauley

   Percentages of Guilt / Michael Niemann

Ripple in the Sea / Charley Pearson

Hot Ice, Cold Blood / Holly Spofford

The Divine Devils / R. Weir

Scorpion Scheme / Melissa Yi