Finalists for the 2008 Thriller Awards! By Joe Moore Drum
roll please!
After much arduous and painstaking labor by our three panels
of esteemed judges--overseen and orchestrated by this year's
Award Chair, the talented Vicki Hinze--the nominees for this
year's "Thriller" awards have been selected. Out of a field
of over five hundred books, the list has been winnowed down
to five titles in each of the following categories:
Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Paperback
Original.
The winners will be announced this summer at Thrillerfest
2008 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City during a gala
banquet on Saturday, July 12th.
But why keep you in the dark any longer? Without
further ado, here is the list of nominees in each
category:
BEST NOVEL 2008
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Bantam) The Watchman
by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster) The Ghost by Robert
Harris (Simon & Schuster) The Crime Writer by Gregg
Hurwitz (Viking) Trouble by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)
BEST FIRST NOVEL 2008
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton)
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (William Morrow) From
the Depths by Gerry Doyle (McBook Press) Volk's Game by Brent
Ghelfi (Henry Holt and Co.) Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
(William Morrow)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL 2008
The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco (Ballantine) A
Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish (Pocket) The Midnight Road by
Tom Piccirilli (Bantam) The Queen of Bedlam by Robert
McCammon (Pocket) Shattered by Jay Bonansinga
(Pinnacle)
And lastly, I wanted to pass on a special thank-you and
acknowledgment to this year's panel of judges. They
each deserve a huge congratulation for all the hard work and
sleepless nights during this year-long judging process.
Without their painstaking labor, none of this would have
happened. So if you see them at ThrillerFest, pat them
on the back, buy them a drink, or order one of their
books...or better yet, do all of the above!
Award Chair Vicki Hinze
BEST NOVEL Joseph Finder, Chief Judge Jeff Ayers Carolyn
Haines Lisa Unger Allen Wyler
BEST FIRST NOVEL Allison Brennan, Chief Judge Nelson Erlick
Elaine Flinn David Montgomery Patricia Rosemoor
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Phillip Margolin, Chief Judge Lisa
Scottoline Liam Jackson Deborah LeBlanc C.J. Lyons
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The Strand Critics Award Takes a Bow
I know, it's yet another award nomination list, but this time
_the Strand Magazine_ has assembled an impressive list of
judges including David Montgomery, Hallie Ephron, Patrick
Anderson, Dick Lochte, Larry Gandle, Oline Cogdill and myself
[Sarah Weinnman], along with the magazine's publisher Andrew
Gulli. Here are the nominees:
Best Novel Down River by John Hart (St Martin's Minotaur) The
Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston (Ballantine Books) The
Strangler by William Landay (Delacorte Press) The Watchman by
Robert Crais (Simon and Schuster) What the Dead Know by Laura
Lippman (William Morrow)
Best First Novel The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey (St.
Martin's Minotaur) In the Woods by Tana French (Viking) The
Mark by Jason Pinter (Mira Books) Missing Witness by Gordon
Campbell (William Morrow) When One Man Dies by Dave White
(Crown Publishing)
The winners in both categories will be announced in New York
on July 9.
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