Silver Falchion Award Nominees: Killer Nashville

Founder Clay Stafford of the Killer Nashville International Writers' Conference  announced this year's Silver Falchion Award Finalists. The Silver Falchion Award is given for the Best Book in each category for the previous year (2024). Winners in each category will be announced at the annual Killer Nashville Awards Dinner taking place on August 23rd in Franklin, TN. 

For the complete category and nominee lists, go Here.

Best Action Adventure 
 
JERICHO BURNING  by T.G. Brown
 
THE GENERAL’S GOLD by Bruce Robert Coffin and LynDee Walker
 
DESPERATE MEASURES by Ley Esses
 
WHERE LOVE MEANS NOTHING by Howard Gimple 
 
THE NORTH LINE  by Matt Riordan 
 
Best Comedy

THE PRINCESS SHOPPE 
Kerry Blaisdell
 
SWIPED by L.M. Chilton
 
GET GRIBNITZ by Howard Gimple 
 
MODEL GHOST  by TK Sheffield 
 
SORRY, KNOT SORRY by Lois Winston 
 
Best Cozy

BEESWAX BEWITCHMENT  by S.E. Babin 
 
ELIZABETH SAILS by Kristin Owens 
 
STUDY GUIDE FOR MURDER by Lori Robbins 
 
FRAMED FOR MURDER  by Marla White 
 
WHEELING AND DEALING  by Becki Willis 
 
Best Historical 
 
EMPOWERED BY THE DREAM: A JOURNEY OF RESILIENCE
Gladys A. Barrio 
 
THE PARIS MISTRESSb y Mally Becker 
 
A KILLING ON THE HILL  by Robert Dugoni 
 
FIND YOUR WAY TO MY GRAVE by Chris Keefer 
 
WHAT ONCE WAS PROMISED by Louis Trubiano 
 
Best Investigator
 
THE THINGS THAT CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN  by Peter W.J. Hayes
 
LAST DOG OUT  by Candace Irving 
 
BLACK & WHITE  by Justin M. Kiska 
 
TIGER CLAW by Michael Allan Mallory 
 
MURDER OUTSIDE THE BOX by Saralyn Richard 
 
Best Juvenile / Y.A.
 
BEYOND THE CEMETERY GATE: THE SECRET KEEPER’S DAUGHTER by Valerie Biel 
 
DEAD GIRL  by Kerrie Faye 
 
STEALING TIME  by Norman Birnbach and Tilia Klebenov Jacobs 
 
SNOWED by Twist Phelan 
 
STAR BROTHER by Maxine Rose Schur 
 
 
Best Mystery 
 
DROP DEAD SISTERS by Amelia Diane Coombs 
 
OBEY ALL LAWS by Cindy Goyette 
 
AT FIRST I WAS AFRAID  by Marty Ludlum 
 
A WORLD OF HURT  by Mindy Mejia 
 
SCORCHED: BURN ME ONCE…by Cam Torrens 
 
 
Best Short Story Collection / Anthology

NEVER TELL COLLECTION, edited by Kjiersti Egerdahl
 
DAY, edited by Patrick Kitson (author)
 
DEEDS OF DARKNESS, William Burton McCormick (author)
 
6-LANE HIGHWAY, Sean Mitchell (author)
 
LARCENY & LAST CHANCES: 22 STORIES OF MYSTERY & SUSPENSE, edited by Judy Penz Sheluk
 
Best Suspense
 
A FRIEND IN THE DARK by Samantha M. Bailey
 
IF YOU TELL A LIE by Lucinda Berry
 
THE NEXT MRS. PARRISH  by Liv Constantine
 
LOST TO DUNE ROAD by Kara Thomas
 
THE LAST PARTY by AR Torre
 
Best Thriller
 
RICH JUSTICE by Robert Bailey
 
THE DREDGE by Brendan Flaherty
 
THE MECHANICS OF MEMORY  by Audrey Lee
 
A FORGOTTEN KILL by Isabella Maldonado
 
THE ASCENT  by Adam Plantinga