Thriller Award Nominees 2023: International Thriller Writers

International Thriller Writers

announced the nominees for the 2023 Thriller Awards.

Best Hardcover Novel:
• The Violence, by Delilah S. Dawson (Del Rey)
• Things We Do in the Dark, by Jennifer Hillier (Minotaur)
• The Fervor, by Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• The Children on the Hill, by Jennifer McMahon (Simon & Schuster)
• Two Nights in Lisbon, by Chris Pavone (MCD)
• Sundial, by Catriona Ward (Macmillan)

Best Audiobook:
• Young Rich Widows, by Kimberly Belle, Fargo Layne, Cate Holahan, and Vanessa Lillie; narrated by Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Helen Laser, and Ariel Blake (Audible)

• The Lies I Tell, by Julie Clark; narrated by Anna Caputo and Amanda Dolan (Audible)
• The Photo Thief, by J.L. Delozier; narrated by Rachel L. Jacobs and Jeffrey Kafer (CamCat)
• Things We Do in the Dark, by Jennifer Hillier; narrated by Carla Vega (Macmillan Audio)
• The Silent Woman, by Minka Kent; narrated by Christine Lakin and Kate Rudd (Blackstone)

Best First Novel:
• The Resemblance, by Lauren Nossett (Flatiron)
• Blood Sugar, by Sascha Rothchild (Putnam)
• Dirt Creek (aka Dirt Town), by Hayley Scrivenor (Flatiron)
• A Flicker in the Dark, by Stacy Willingham (Minotaur)
• The Fields, by Erin Young (Flatiron)

Best Paperback Original Novel:
• The Lies I Told, by Mary Burton (Montlake)
• No Place to Run, by Mark Edwards (Thomas & Mercer)
• Unmissing, by Minka Kent (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Housemaid, by Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
• Anywhere You Run, by Wanda Morris (Morrow)
• The Couple Upstairs, by Holly Wainwright (Pan Macmillan)
• The Patient’s Secret, by Loreth Anne White (Montlake)

Best Short Story:
• “Russian for Beginners,” by Dominique Bibeau (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], March/April 2022)
• “The Gift,” by Barb Goffman (from Land of 10,000 Thrills, edited by Greg Herren; Down & Out)
• “Publish or Perish,” by Smita Harish Jain (EQMM, September/October 2022)
• “33 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,” by Joyce Carol Oates (EQMM, March/April 2022)
• “Schrödinger, Cat,” by Anna Scotti (EQMM, March/April 2022)
• “Stockholm,” by Catherine Steadman (Amazon Original Stories)

Best Young Adult Novel:
• Our Crooked Hearts, by Melissa Albert (Flatiron)
• Sugaring Off, by Gillian French (Algonquin Young Readers)
• Daughter, by Kate McLaughlin (Wednesday)
• What’s Coming to Me, by Francesca Padilla (Soho Teen)
• I’m the Girl, by Courtney Summers (Wednesday)

Best E-Book Original Novel:
• Evasive Species, by Bill Byrnes (Self-published)
• The Couple at Causeway Cottage, by Diane Jeffrey (HarperCollins)
• The Seven Truths of Hannah Baxter, by Grant McKenzie 
(Self-published)
• The Hollow Place, by Rick Mofina (Self-published)
• Fatal Rounds, by Carrie Rubin (Self-published)

Charlaine Harris and Walter Mosley will receive 2023 ThrillerMaster Lifetime Achievement Awards. Minotaur Books was named the winner of the 2023 Thriller Legend Award.

Winners will be announced on Saturday, June 3, during ThrillerFest XVIII, in New York City.

HT: The Rap Sheet

ITW Thriller Award Winners 2021

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 International Thriller Writers Awards: 

Best Hardcover: Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby  (Flatiron Books)

Best First Novel: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Ecco)

Best Original Paperback: What Lies Between Us by John Marrs (Thomas & Mercer)

Best Short Story: "Rent Due" by Alan Orloff in Mickey Finn 21st Century Noir (Down & Out Books)

Best Young Adult Novel: Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos (Kids Can Press)

Best E-Book Original Novel: A Killing Game by Jeff Buick (Novel Words)

 

International Thriller Writers Award Nominees 2020

The International Thriller Writers Organization announced the Thriller Award Nominees. Congratulations to all!

2020 ITW Thriller Awards Nominees

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
David Baldacci — ONE GOOD DEED (Grand Central Publishing)
Joe Clifford — RAG AND BONE (Oceanview Publishing)
Blake Crouch — RECURSION (Crown)
Rachel Howzell Hall — THEY ALL FALL DOWN (Forge Books)
Adrian McKinty — THE CHAIN (Mulholland Books)
Denise Mina — CONVICTION (Mulholland Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Samantha Downing — MY LOVELY WIFE (Berkley)
Angie Kim — MIRACLE CREEK (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
John McMahon — THE GOOD DETECTIVE (G.P. Putnam’s Son)
Alex Michaelides — THE SILENT PATIENT (Celadon Books)
Lauren Wilkinson — AMERICAN SPY (Random House)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Max Allan Collins — GIRL MOST LIKELY (Thomas & Mercer)
Alison Gaylin — NEVER LOOK BACK (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Alastair Luft — JIHADI BRIDE (Black Rose Writing)
Dervla McTiernan — THE SCHOLAR (Penguin Books)
Lisa Sandlin — THE BIRD BOYS (Cinco Puntos Press)
Kate White — SUCH A PERFECT WIFE (Harper Paperbacks)

BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Author Brett Battles — NIGHT MAN (Brett Battles)
Sean Black — THE DEEP ABIDING (Sean Black)
Brian Shea — MURDER BOARD (Severn River Publishing)
LynDee Walker — LEAVE NO STONE (Severn River Publishing)
Kerry Wilkinson books — CLOSE TO YOU (Bookouture)

BEST SHORT STORY
Hector Acosta — “Turistas” (Down & Out Books)
Michael Cowgill — “Call Me Chuckles” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
Tara Laskowski — “The Long-Term Tenant” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
Lia Matera — “Snow Job” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
Twist Phelan Author — “Fathers-in-Law” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Jen Conley — SEVEN WAYS TO GET RID OF HARRY (Down & Out Books)
Naomi Kritzer — CATFISHING ON CATNET (Tor Teen)
Natalie Lund — WE SPEAK IN STORMS (Philomel Books/Penguin Young Readers)
Randy Ribay — PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING (Kokila/Penguin Young Readers))
Tom Ryan — KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF (Albert Whitman & Company)

2019 ITW THRILLER AWARDS

2019 ITW Thriller Awards 

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL

Jennifer Hillier — JAR OF HEARTS (Minotaur Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL

C. J. Tudor — THE CHALK MAN (Crown)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL

Jane Harper — THE LOST MAN (Pan Macmillan Australia)     

BEST SHORT STORY

Helen Smith — “Nana” in KILLER WOMEN: CRIME CLUB ANTHOLOGY #2 (Killer Women Ltd.)
                 
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Teri Bailey Black — GIRL AT THE GRAVE (Tor Teen)

BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL

Alan Orloff — PRAY FOR THE INNOCENT (Kindle Press)    

ThrillerMaster Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient:
John Sandford

Silver Bullet Award Recipient: Harlan Coben

Thriller Legend Award Recipient: Margaret Marbury

ThrillerFan Award Recipient: Bookseller “Mystery Mike” Bursaw     

The Winners were announced at ThrillerFest XIV at the Grand Hyatt, New York City (during the Blackout). Congratulations to all!

2018 Thriller Awards Nominees

The International Thriller Writers (ITW) announced the nominees for the 2018 Thriller Awards

Best Hardcover Novel:
• Ill Will, by Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
• The Long Drop, by Denise Mina (Little, Brown)
• The Breakdown, by B.A. Paris (St. Martin’s Press)
• Fierce Kingdom, by Gin Phillips (Viking)
• Final Girls, by Riley Sager (Dutton)

Best First Novel:
• Deep Down Dead, by Steph Broadribb (Orenda)
• Ragdoll, by Daniel Cole (Ecco)
• The Red Line, by Walt Gragg (Berkley)
• The Freedom Broker, by K.J. Howe (Quercus)
• The Lost Ones, by Sheena Kamal (Morrow)

Best Paperback Original Novel:
• Grievance, by Christine Bell (Lake Union)
• Stillhouse Lake, by Rachel Caine (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Resurrector, by Layton Green (Layton Green)
• Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly, by Adrian Mckinty (Seventh Street)
• The Day I Died, by Lori Rader-Day (Morrow)

Best Short Story:
• “Too Much Time,” by Lee Child (from No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories; Delacorte)
• “What Could Possibly Go Boing?” by Mat Coward (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July/August 2017)
• “Charcoal and Cherry,” by Zoë Z. Dean (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017)
• “The Kill Switch,” by Willy Vlautin (from The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads, edited by Patrick Millikin; Hachette)
• “Test Drive,” by Ben H. Winters (from The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads)

Best Young Adult Novel:
• The Rains, by Gregg Hurwitz (Tor Teen)
• The Boy She Left Behind, by Gregg Olsen (Polis)
• To Catch a Killer, by Sheryl Scarborough (Tor Teen)
• The Delphi Effect, by Rysa Walker (Skyscape)
• Proof of Lies, by Diana Rodriguez Wallach (Entangled)

Best E-Book Original Novel:
• Second Chance, by Sean Black (Sean Black)
• Resurrection America, by Jeff Gunhus (Seven Guns Press)
• Trojan, by Alan McDermott (Thomas & Mercer)
• Witness, by Caroline Mitchell (Thomas & Mercer)
• A Fragile Thing, by Kevin Wignall (Thomas & Mercer)

ITW will award the winners on July 14, during ThrillerFest XIII at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.

HT: The Rap Sheet

2013 Thriller Award Nominees

ITW (International Thriller Writers) announced the finalists for the 2013 Thriller Awards. The 2013 Thriller Award Winners will be announced at ThrillerFest VIII, July 13, 2013, at the Grand Hyatt (New York City). Congrats to all.

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
Sean Chercover – THE TRINITY GAME (Thomas & Mercer)
Brian Freeman – SPILLED BLOOD (SilverOak)
Lisa Gardner – CATCH ME (Dutton Books)
Gregg Hurwitz – THE SURVIVOR (St. Martin’s Press)
William Landay – DEFENDING JACOB (Delacorte Press)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Daniel Friedman – DON’T EVER GET OLD (Minotaur Books)
Owen Laukkanen – THE PROFESSIONALS (Putnam Adult)
Chris Pavone – THE EXPATS (Crown)
Matthew Quirk – THE 500 (Reagan Arthur Books)
Michael Sears – BLACK FRIDAYS (Putnam Adult)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Blake Crouch – PINES (Thomas & Mercer)
Sean Doolittle – LAKE COUNTRY (Bantam)
Alison Gaylin – AND SHE WAS (Harper)
Alex Marwood – THE WICKED GIRLS (Penguin Books)
Michael W. Sherer – NIGHT BLIND (Thomas & Mercer)

BEST SHORT STORY
David Edgerley Gates – “The Devil to Pay” (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine)
Clark Howard – “The Street Ends at the Cemetery” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
Dennis Lehane – “The Consumers” (Mulholland Books)
Gordon McEachern – “The History Lesson” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
John Rector – “Lost Things” (Thomas & Mercer)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Michelle Gagnon – DON’T TURN AROUND (HarperCollins)
Andrew Klavan – IF WE SURVIVE (Thomas Nelson)
Dan Krokos – FALSE MEMORY (Hyperion Books CH)
Niall Leonard – CRUSHER (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
William Richter – DARK EYES (Razorbill)

BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Jon Land – PANDORA’S TEMPLE (Open Road E-riginal)
CJ Lyons – BLIND FAITH (CJ Lyons)
Alexandra Sokoloff – HUNTRESS MOON (Alexandra Sokoloff)
Allen Wyler – DEAD END DEAL (Astor + Blue Editions)
Allen Wyler – DEAD WRONG (Astor + Blue Editions)