Thrilling Results to Come

Thanks to Mystery Fanfare blogger Janet Rudolph, we now have the list of 2017 Thriller Award nominees, in six categories. They are:

Best Hardcover Novel:
• You Will Know Me, by Megan Abbott (Little, Brown)
• Where It Hurts, by Reed Farrel Coleman (Putnam)
• Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley (Grand Central)
• Arrowood, by Laura McHugh (Spiegel & Grau)
• Underground Airlines, by Ben H. Winters (Mulholland)

Best First Novel:
• Deadly Kiss, by Bob Bickford (Black Opal)
• Type and Cross, by J.L. Delozier (WiDo)
• Recall, by David McCaleb (Lyrical Underground)
• The Drifter, by Nicholas Petrie (Putnam)
• Palindrome, by E.Z. Rinsky (Witness Impulse)

Best Paperback Original Novel:
• In the Clearing, by Robert Dugoni (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Body Reader, by Anne Frasier (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Minoan Cipher, by Paul Kemprecos (Suspense)
• Kill Switch, by Jonathan Maberry
(St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Salvage, by Stephen Maher (Dundurn)

Best Short Story:
• “The Business of Death,” by Eric Beetner (from Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns, edited by Eric Beetner;
Down & Out)
• “The Peter Rabbit Killers,” by Laura Benedict (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], July 2016)
• “The Man from Away,” by Brendan DuBois (EQMM, July 2016)
• “Big Momma,” by Joyce Carol Oates (EQMM, March/April 2016)
• “Parallel Play,” by Art Taylor (from Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley; Wildside Press)

Best Young Adult Novel:
• Morning Star, by Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
• Holding Smoke, by Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion)
• Steeplejack, by A.J. Hartley (Tor Teen)
• Thieving Weasels, by Billy Taylor (Dial)
• The Darkest Corners, by Kara Thomas (Delacorte Press)

Best E-Book Original Novel:
• Romeo’s Way, by James Scott Bell (Compendium Press)
• The Edge of Alone, by Sean Black (Sean Black)
• Untouchable, by Sibel Hodge (Wonder Women)
• Destroyer of Worlds, by J.F. Penn (J.F. Penn)
• Breaker, by Richard Thomas (Alibi)

The winners will be declared in New York City on July 15, during the 2017 ThrillerFest. Congratulations to all of the contenders!

FOLLOW-UP: The Gumshoe Site’s Jiro Kimura notes that two other ITV prize winners were previously announced: Lee Child, 2017 ThrillerMaster recipient; and Lisa Gardner, 2017 Silver Bullet recipient.