2017 Thriller Award Nominations

The International Thriller Writers announced the 2017 Thriller Award Nominations.  The 2017 ITW Thriller Award Winners will be announced at ThrillerFest XII, 15 July 2017 at the Grand Hyatt, New York City.

Congratulations to all!

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott (Little, Brown and Company)

Where it Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Grand Central Publishing)
Arrowood by Laura McHugh (Spiegel & Grau)
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (Mulholland Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Deadly Kiss by Bob Bickford (Black Opal Books)
Type and Cross by J.L. Delozier (WiDo Publishing)
Recall by David McCaleb (Lyrical Underground)
The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Palindrome by E.Z. Rinsky (Witness Impulse)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL
In The Clearing by Robert Dugoni (Thomas & Mercer)
The Body Reader by Anne Frasier (Thomas & Mercer)
The Minoan Cipher  by Paul Kemprecos (Suspense Publishing)
Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Salvage by Stephen Maher (Dundurn)

BEST SHORT STORY

“The Business of Death” by Eric Beetner UNLOADED: CRIME WRITERS WRITING WITHOUT GUNS (Down & Out Books)

“The Peter Rabbit Killers” by Laura Benedict (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)

“The Man from Away” by Brendan DuBois (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)

“Big Momma” by Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine) 
“Parallel Play” by Art Taylor CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: STORM WARNING (Wildside Press)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Holding Smoke by Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion)
Steeplejack by A.J. Hartley (TOR Teen)
Thieving Weasles by Billy Taylor (Dial Books)
The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas Delacorte Press)

BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Romeo’s Way by James Scott Bell (Compendium Press)
The Edge of Alone by Sean Black (Sean Black)
Untouchable by Sibel Hodge (Wonder Women Publishing)
Destroyer of Worlds by J.F. Penn (J.F. Penn)
Breaker by Richard Thomas (Alibi)