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The International Thriller Writers (ITW) organization today announced its nominees for the 2013 Thriller Awards as follows:

Best Hardcover Novel:

• The Trinity Game, by Sean Chercover (Thomas & Mercer)

• Spilled Blood, by Brian Freeman (SilverOak)

• The Survivor, by Gregg Hurwitz (St. Martin’s Press)

• Catch Me, by Lisa Gardner (Dutton)

• Defending Jacob, by William Landay (Delacorte Press)

Best First Novel:

• Don’t Ever Get Old, by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur)

• The Professionals, by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam)

• The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Crown)

• The 500, by Matthew Quirk (Reagan Arthur)

• Black Fridays, by Michael Sears (Putnam)

Best Paperback Original Novel:

• Pines, by Blake Crouch (Thomas & Mercer)

• Lake Country, by Sean Doolittle (Bantam)

• And She Was, by Alison Gaylin (Harper)

• The Wicked Girls, by Alex Marwood (Penguin)

• Night Blind, by Michael W. Sherer (Thomas & Mercer)

Best Short Story:

• “The Devil to Pay,” by David Edgerley Gates (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, April 2012)

• “The Street Ends at the Cemetery,” by Clark Howard (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], August 2012)

• “The Consumers,” by Dennis Lehane (from Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance, edited by Lee Child; Mulholland Books)

• “The History Lesson,” by Gordon McEachern (EQMM, May 2012)

• “Lost Things,” by John Rector (Thomas & Mercer e-book)

Best Young Adult Novel:

• Don’t Turn Around, by Michelle Gagnon (HarperCollins)

• If We Survive, by Andrew Klavan (Thomas Nelson)

• False Memory, by Dan Krokos (Hyperion)

• Crusher, by Niall Leonard (Delacorte)

• Dark Eyes, by William Richter (Razorbill)

Best E-book Original Novel:

• Pandora’s Temple, by Jon Land (Open Road)

• Blind Faith, by C.J. Lyons (C.J. Lyons)

• Huntress Moon, by Alexandra Sokoloff (Alexandra Sokoloff)

• Dead End Deal, by Allen Wyler (Astor + Blue Editions)

• Dead Wrong, by Allen Wyler (Astor + Blue Editions)

Winners will be singled out on July 13 during ThrillerFest VIII.