2024 SILVER FALCHION & CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS: Killer Nashville

Winners of the 2024 Killer Nashville Awards were announced at the final night of the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference held on August 24^th. Awards were given for both the Silver Falchion & Claymore Award in their respective categories. The Silver Falchion Award celebrates the best books of 2023. The Claymore Award for the best first fifty pages of an unpublished manuscript at the time of submission. 

 

 

  

2022 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards

2022 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards. Winners were announced at Killer Nashville.

Thanks, Clay Stafford, for all you do!

Best Action Adventure 

The Pilate Scroll / M.B. Lewis 

Best Attendee Action Adventure 

Killers!: A Natalie McMasters Mystery / Thomas A. Burns, Jr. 

Best Comedy

Big Fat F@K Up/Lawrence Allan

Best Cozy

Suitable for Framing / Lori Roberts Herbst 

Best Attendee Cozy 

Murder in the Master – A Chesapeake Bay Mystery / Judy L Murray 

Best Historical 

After Alice Fell / Kim Taylor Blakemore 

Best Investigator 

Girl Missing / Kate Gable 

 

Best Attendee Investigator 

10 Days: A Dee Rommel Mystery / Jule Selbo 

Best Juvenile / YA 

Leisha’s Song / Lynn Slaughter 

Best Attendee Juvenile / YA 

Leisha’s Song / Lynn Slaughter 

Best Mystery 

An Ambush of Widows / Jeff Abbot 

Best Attending Mystery 

Bluff/ John De Dakis

Best Nonfiction  

The Home for Friendless Children / C.L. Olsen 

Best Sci-fi / Fantasy 

Tomb of the Queen / Joss Walker 

Best Short Story Collection / Anthology 

House of Crows / Lisa Unger 

Best Southern Gothic 

A Curse of Silver and Blood / Kimberly A Banks 

 

Best Attendee Southern Gothic

A Curse of Silver and Blood / Kimberly A Banks 

Best Supernatural 

Our Trespasses / Michael Cordell 

Best Suspense 

The Reunion / Kiersten Modglin 

Best Attendee Suspense  

The Next Wife / Kaira Rouda 

Best Thriller 

The General's Briefcase/ Ray Collins

Best Attendee Thriller 

Fallen Star: The Divine Devils Book 2 / R Weir

2020 KILLER NASHVILLE SILVER FALCHION AWARD FINALISTS

2020 KILLER NASHVILLE SILVER FALCHION AWARD FINALISTS

A Dream of Death Connie Berry The White Heron Carl and Jane Bock The Mammoth Murders Iris Chacon Blood Moon Rising Richard Conrath Fake John DeDakis   Lovely Digits Jeanine Englert The Marsh Mallows Henry Hack Murder at the Candlelight Vigil Karen McCarthy Murder Creek Jane Suen The Deadliest Thief June Trop

Thriller

Red Specter Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson All Hollow Simeon Courtie Deadly Obsession Shirley B. Garrett The Gryphon Heist James R. Hannibal Low Country Blood Sue Hinkin  Hyperion's Fracture Thomas Kelso Rise Leslie McCauley The Secret Child Caroline Mitchell The Silent Victim Dana Perry Downhill Fast Dana J. Summers

Suspense

Fade to the Edge Kathryn J. Bain   Below the Fold R.G. Belsky Murder on the Third Try K.P. Gresham Queen’s Gambit Bradley Harper The Strange Disappearance of Rose Stone J.E. Irvin   Revenge in Barcelona Kathryn Lane The Daughter of Death Dianne McCartney VIPER, A Jessica James Mystery Kelly Oliver Downhill Fast Dana J. Summers The Scions of Atlantis Claudia Turner

Action or Adventure Westfarrow Island Paul A. Barra The Measure of Ella Toni Bird Jones Dangerous Conditions Jenna Kernan The Best Lousy Choice Jim Nesbitt Angel in the Fog Tj Turner Cozy   Two Bites Too Many Debra H. Goldstein A Sip Before Dying Gemma Halliday Bad Pick Linda Lovely The Fog Ladies Susan McCormick Twisted Plots Bonita McCoy

Procedural or P.I. Russian Mojito Carmen Amato Apprehension Mark Bergin The Things That Are Different Peter W.J. Hayes Paid in Spades Richard Helms The Dead of Summer Jean Rabe Juvenile or Y.A. Daughter Undisclosed Susan K. Flach Speak No Evil Liana Gardner The Clockwork Dragon James R. Hannibal Kassy O'Roarke, Cub Reporter Kelly Oliver This Dark and Bloody Ground Lori Roberts

Short Story Anthology or Collection Couch Detective James Glass Words on Water Harpeth River Writers A Midnight Clear Lindy Ryan Last Call Manning Wolf & Laura Oles The Muse of Wallace Rose Bill Woods Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror The Line Between Tosca Lee A Single Light Tosca Lee To the Bones Valerie Nieman Moon Deeds Palmer Pickering Dreamed It Maggie Toussaint

KILLER NASHVILLE SILVER FALCHION AWARDS

2019 KILLER NASHVILLE SILVER FALCHION AWARD WINNERS

Book of the Year

Baron Birtcher Fistful of Rain

Action Adventure

Baron Birtcher Fistful of Rain

Cozy

Phyllis Gobbell Treachery in Tuscany

Juvenile/Y.A.

Julianne Lynch Beneath the Lighthouse

Mystery

Bradley Harper A Knife in the Fog

Non-Fiction

Gretchen Rose Dancing with the Devil

Procedural

Bruce Robert Coffin Beyond the Truth

Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror

Maggie Toussaint Confound It

Short Stories

Carmen Amato The Artist

Suspense

D.E. Funk Silent Rage

Thriller (tie)

Michael Niemann Illegal Holdings

Charley Pearson Scourge

Joyce Carol Oates was honored as this year's recipient of the John Seigenthaler Legends Award, bestowed upon "an individual within the publishing industry who has championed First Amendment Rights to ensure that all opinions are given a voice, has exemplified mentorship and example to authors, supporting the new voices of tomorrow, and/or has written an influential canon of work that will continue to influence authors for many years to come."

HT: BV Lawson: In Reference to Murder

KILLER NASHVILLE SILVER FALCHION AWARD FINALISTS

Killer Nashville announced the finalists for the Silver Fanchion Awards. Congratulations to All!

Silver Falchion Awards: Killer Nashville Awards

Killer Nashville winners 2015 Silver Falchion Readers Choice Awards. This is a partial list gleaned from Facebook and Twitter. I haven't seen the complete list or press release yet.


Best Novel: Romantic Suspense: Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge)

Best Novel: Cozy/Traditional: Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd (Morrow)

Best Novel: Historical: Death on Blackheath by Anne Perry (Ballantine)

Best Novel: Private Detective/Police Procedural: Field of Prey by John Sandford (Putnam)

Best Novel: Speculative: Fear City by F. Paul Wilson (Tor)

Best Novel: Literary Suspense: The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)

Best First Novel: Literary Suspense: The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh

Best Novel: Political Thriller/Adventure: I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (Atria/Emily Bestler)

Best Novel: Crime Thriller: In the Blood by Lisa Unger (Touchstone)

Best First Novel: Mystery Thriller: The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day

Best First Novel: Cozy/Traditional/Historical: The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Claymore Award: The Boy Who Swallows Flies by Michael Stewart

Seigenthaler Award: Robert K. Tanenbaum

Best Attending Author Award: Palmetto Poisons by C. Hope Reed

Readers Choice: Bloodline

Best Nonfiction: True Crime: The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths are Solving America's Coldest Cases by Deborah Halber

Best Nonfiction Academic: The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson

Best Nonfiction: Memoir/Biography: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abnott

View the rest of the categories and nominees HERE. I will update the rest of the winners when I find them. I haven't seen an 'official' press release yet.