North American Hammett Prize Nominees

The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers is pleased to announce nominees for their annual HAMMETT PRIZE for a work of literary excellence in the field of crime writing by a US or Canadian author.  The  nominees are as follows:            

       

Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)

Smoke River by Krista Foss (McClelland & Stewart)

Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg (Counterpoint)

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Scribner)

Goodhouse by Peyton Marshall (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

The HAMMETT PRIZE  winner will be named during  the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association’s (NAIBA) Fall Conference, in Somerset, New Jersey, October 2-4. 

Congratulations to all the nominees.