Who Carried Off the Falchions?

Winners of the 2022 Silver Falchion Awards were announced over this last weekend at the Killer Nashville convention. There were 21 categories of nominees, covering everything from adventure fiction and science fiction to historical yarns and juvenile tales. Below are two that I think will be of interest to Rap Sheet readers.

Best Mystery: An Ambush of Widows, by Jeff Abbot (Grand Central)

Also nominated: Red Rabbit on the Run, by Jodi Bowersox (Independently published); Bluff, by John DeDakis (Speaking Volumes); A Killer’s Daughter, by Jenna Kernan (Bookouture); When Silence Screams, by Mark Edward Langley (Independently published); The Dark Remains, by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin (Europa); Spirit, by Elle Andrews Patt (Blue Beech Press); The Archivist, by Rex Pickett (Blackstone); The Scorpion’s Tail, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central); Grave Reservations, by Cherie Priest (Atria); The Ruthless, by David Putnam (Oceanview); Hunted in the Holler, by Drew Strickland (Independently published); Death and Consequences, by Cheril Thomas (Tred Avon Press); The First Day of Spring, by Nancy Tucker (Riverhead); and Bye, Buy Baby, by Becki Willis (Clear Creek)

Best Investigator: Girl Missing, by Kate Gable (Byrd)

Also nominated: All That Fall, by Kris Calvin (Crooked Lane); The Blessed Bones, by Kathryn Casey (Bookouture); Be Mine Forever, by D.K. Hood (Bookouture); In the Name Of, by Candace Irving (Blind Edge Press); Now & Then, by Justin M. Kiska (Level Best); The Lost Dragon Murder, by Michael Allan Mallory (Booklocker); The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon, by Marcy McCreary (CamCat); Striking Range, by Margaret Mizushima (Crooked Lane); Hide in Place, by Emilya Naymark (Crooked Lane); At First Light, by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer); The Labyrinth, by Owen Parr (Independently published); and The Winter Girls, by Roger Stelljes (Bookouture)

Click here to find a full list of this year’s Silver Falchion winners. The previous list of nominees in all 21 categories is available here.