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
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
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
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