During a “gala celebration at the Grand Hyatt in New York City” tonight, the International Thriller Writers organization announced the winners of its 2008 Thriller Awards, as follows:
Best Novel: The Ghost, by Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster)
Also nominated: No Time for Goodbye, by Linwood Barclay (Bantam); The Watchman, by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster); The Crime Writer, by Gregg Hurwitz (Viking); and Trouble, by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)
Best First Novel: Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill (Morrow)
Also nominated: Interred With Their Bones, by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton); Big City, Bad Blood, by Sean Chercover (Morrow); From the Depths, by Gerry Doyle (McBook Press); and Volk’s Game, by Brent Ghelfi (Henry Holt)
Best Paperback Original: The Midnight Road, by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
Also nominated: The Last Nightingale, by Anthony Flacco (Ballantine); A Thousand Bones, by P.J. Parrish (Pocket); The Queen of Bedlam, by Robert McCammon (Pocket); and Shattered, by Jay Bonansinga (Pinnacle)
In addition, the ThrillerMaster Award was given to Sandra Brown for “her illustrious body of work and many contributions to the field.” And “the Silver Bullet Award for contribution to the advancement of literacy was presented to both Macy’s and to David Baldacci.”
Sadly, I couldn’t be in Manhattan for this awards event. However, if any of you Rap Sheet readers were able to attend, I invite you to tell us in the Comments section a little bit about the evening’s festivities. The more detail the better.
READ MORE: “More ThrillerFest Post-Game Reactions,” by Sarah Weinman (Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind); “ThrillerFest Overview” and “ThrillerFest Panel: The Writer-Publisher Partnership,” by David J. Montgomery (Crime Fiction Dossier); “ThrillerFest Wrap-up,” by Alexandra Sokoloff (The Dark Salon); “It’s Quarter to Three at ThrillerFest,” by Keith Raffel (Dot Dead Diary).
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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