2018 Barry Award Nominations

Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine have announced the Barry Award Nominees. Winners will be announced September 6, 2018 at the St. Petersburg Bouchercon Opening Ceremonies.

Best Novel 
The Late Show by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne (Putnam)
Exit Strategy by Steve Hamilton (Putnam)
The Force by Don Winslow (Morrow)
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr (A Marian Wood Book)
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (Harper)

Best First Novel 
The Dry by Jane Harper (Flatiron)
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper (Ecco)
The Lost One by Sheena Kamal (Morrow)
The Irregular by H. P. Lyle (Quercus)
A Rising Man Abir Mukherjee (Pegasus)
My absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (Riverhead)

Best Paperback Original 
Safe from Harm by R. J. Bailey (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Deep Dark descending by Allen Eskens (Seventh Street)
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett (Midnight Ink)
The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day (Morrow)

Blessed are the Peacemakers by , Kristi Belcamino (CreateSpace)
Super Con by James Swain (Thomas & Mercer)

Best Thriller 
Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney (Berkley)
Spook Street by Mick Herron (Soho)
The Freedom Broker by K. J. Howe (Quercus)
The Old Man by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press)
Uunsub by Meg Gardiner (Dutton)
Trap the Devil by Ben Coes (St. Martin’s)

Congratulations to all!