* = winner
Best Attending
Authors
Expedition
Indigo by Stacy Allen
The Kennedy Connection by R.G. Belsky
Dark Road, Dead End by Philip
Cioffari
*Palmetto Poison by C. Hope
Clark
Unnatural Murder by Connie Dial
A Billion Ways to Die by Chris
Knopf
Limestone Gumption by Bryan E.
Robinson
Reckless Disregard: A Parker Stern
Novel by Robert Rotstein
Swann’s Lake of Despair by
Charles Salzberg
Last Words by Rich Zahradnik
Best Novel: Romantic
Suspense
Judgment by
Carey Baldwin
The Lost Key by Catherine
Coulter and J.T. Ellison
Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet
Evanovich
Sweet Damage by Rebecca James
*Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi
Ryan
Best Novel:
Cozy/Traditional
Angelica’s Smile by Andrea
Camilleri
The Question of the Missing Head by
E. J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen
The Alpine Yeoman by Mary Daheim
Designated Daughters by Margaret
Maron
*Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd
Best Novel:
Historical
The Reckoning by
Rennie Airth
An Air of Treason by P.F.
Chisholm
The Johnstown Girls by Kathleen
George
The Devil’s Workshop by Alex Grecian
Death on Blackheath by Anne
Perry
Best Novel: Private
Detective/Police Procedural
The Forsaken by
Ace Atkins
The Hollow Girl by Reed Farrel
Coleman
Bryant & May and the Bleeding
Heart by Christopher Fowler
Sorrow Bound by David Mark
*Field of Prey by John Sandford
Best Novel:
Speculative
The String
Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Coldbrook by Tim Lebbon
Lock In by John Scalzi
*Fear City by F. Paul Wilson
Yesterday’s Hero by Jonathan
Wood
Best Novel: Literary
Suspense
The Dead Will
Tell by Linda Castillo
Red 1-2-3 by John Katzenbach
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
*The Day She Died by Catriona
McPherson
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
Best Novel: Political
Thriller/Adventure
Night Heron by
Adam Brookes
Dark Spies: A Spycatcher Novel by
Matthew Dunn
The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron
*I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Assassin’s Game by Ward Larsen
Best Novel: Crime
Thriller
The Bone Orchard by
Paul Doiron
Dakota by Gwen Florio
Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg
The Keeper by John Lescroart
*In the Blood by Lisa Unger
Best First Novel:
Cozy/Traditional/Historical
Honor Above All by
J. Bard-Collins
To Fudge or Not to Fudge by Nancy
Coco
Murder at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah
Dennison
*The Life We Bury by Allen
Eskens
Dying to Know by TJ O’Connor
Best First Novel:
Literary Suspense
Dry Bones in the
Valley by Tom Bouman
Wolf in White Van by John
Darnielle
Deep Winter by Samuel W. Gailey
*The Weight of Blood by Laura
McHugh
Forty Days Without Shadow by Oliver
Truc
The Devil Takes Half by Leta
Serafim
Best First Novel:
Mystery/Thriller:
Someone Else’s
Skin by Sarah Hilary
Hotlanta! By Mark Nielsen
The American Mission by Matthew
Palmer
*The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day
The Hawley Book of the Dead by Chrysler
Szarlan
The Ways of the Dead by Neely
Tucker
The Martian by Andy Weir
Best Children’s
Picture Book
Nine Words Max by
Dan Bar-El, Illustrated by David Huyck
The Bambino and Me by Zachary
Hyman, Illustrated by Zachary Pullen
*An Armadillo in Paris by Julie
Kraulis
Spic-and-Span! Lillian Gilbreth’s Wonder
Kitchen by Monica Kulling, Illustrated by David Parkins
Hope Springs by Eric Walters,
Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes
Best Children’s
Chapter Book
Range Riders: Cassie
& Jasper to the Rescue by Bryn Fleming
The Milo & Jazz Mysteries: The Case
of the Buried Bones by Lewis B. Montgomery, Illustrated by Amy Wummer
The Frankenstein Journals: Volume 1 by
Scott Sonneborn, Illustrated by Timothy Banks
The Whodunit Detective Agency: The
Diamond Mystery by Martin Widmark, Illustrated by Helena Willis
*The Haunted Library by Dori
Hillestad Butler, Illustrated by Aurore Damant
Best Middle Grade
Audrey (Cow) by
Dan Bar-El, Illustrated by Tatjana Mai-Wyss
The Swallow: A Ghost Story by Charis
Cotter
The ACB with Honora Lee by Kate
De Goldi, Illustrated by Gregory O’Brien
The One Safe Place by Tania
Unsworth
*Still Life (The Books of Elsewhere,
Book #5) by Jacqueline West
Best Young Adult
How We Fall by
Kate Brauning
Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano
*Grunge Gods and Graveyards by Kimberly
G. Giarratano
Unaccompanied Minor by Hollis
Gillespie
The Voice Inside My Head by S.J.
Laidlaw
Best Nonfiction:
Mainstream Crime Reference
*400 Things Cops
Know by Adam Plantinga
The Art of the English Murder by Lucy
Worsley
Best Single-Author
Collection
Shots Fired: Stories
from Joe Pickett Country by C.J. Box
Trouble in Mind: The Collected Stories,
Volume 3 by Jeffery Deaver
Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire
Stories by Craig Johnson
High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and
Dread by Joyce Carol Oates
*Seeing Red: From the Case Files of
Detective James T. Kirkland by Terry Odell
Best Multi-Author
Anthology
Rogue Wave: Best New
England Crime Stories - Edited by Mark Ammons, Katherine Fast, Barbara
Ross, and Leslie Wheeler
Faceoff – Edited by David
Baldacci
Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold
War – Edited by Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson
*In the Company of Sherlock Holmes:
Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon – Edited by Laurie R. King and
Leslie S. Klinger
Fiction River Special Edition:
Crime – Edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Best Long-form
Novelty Fiction/Poetry/Graphic/Experimental
Notes from the Cat
House by Jack Ketchum (Poems)
*The Undertaking of Lily Chen by
Danica Novgorodoff (Graphic Novel)
Best Nonfiction:
Memoir/Biography
*Liar, Temptress,
Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of
Robert Ames by Kai Bird
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the
Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell
The Other Side: A Memoir by Lacy
M. Johnson
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar
Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker
Best Nonfiction:
Academic
*The Figure of the
Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson
Bloody Italy: Essays on Crime Writing in
Italian Settings by Edited by Patricia Prandini Buckler
Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas
G. Greene by Edited by Curtis Evans
Blood on the Stage 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.:
Milestone Plays on Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem by Amnon Kabatchnik
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural
History by Elizabeth Kolbert
James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery
Fiction by James Mancall
Best Nonfiction: True
Crime
Kitty Genovese: The
Murder, the Bystanders, The Crime that Changed America by Kevin Cook
*The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths
Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases by Deborah Halber
War of the Whales by Joshua
Horwitz
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness
at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and
Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel
