The Choice Is Yours

With the end of this year (too) fast approaching, the Amazon-owned social cataloguing Web site Goodreads is back with its annual Choice Awards competition. There are 17 categories of nominees, with the winners to be determined through two rounds of public voting. The 20 contenders for “Best Mystery & Thriller” honors are:

• Jackal, by Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
• The Book of Cold Cases, by Simone St. James (Berkley)
• A Flicker in the Dark, by Stacy Willingham (Minotaur)
• The Family Remains, by Lisa Jewell (Atria)
• Things We Do in the Dark, by Jennifer Hillier (Minotaur)
• All Good People Here, by Ashley Flowers (Bantam)
• The Family Game, by Catherine Steadman (Ballantine)
• The Violin Conspiracy, by Brendan Slocumb (Anchor)
• Wrong Place, Wrong Time, by Gillian McAllister (Morrow)
• The It Girl, by Ruth Ware (Scout Press)
• The Golden Couple, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (St. Martin’s Press)
• Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
• More Than You’ll Ever Know, by Katie Gutierrez (Morrow)
• The Overnight Guest, by Heather Gudenkauf (Park Row)
• Daisy Darker, by Alice Feeney (Flatiron)
• The Housemaid, by Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
• The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley (Morrow)
• The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
• The Bullet That Missed, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman/Viking)
• The Night Shift, by Alex Finlay (Minotaur)

Click here to select your favorite novel from among those 20.

So you have between now and Sunday, November 27, to cast your ballots in this opening elimination round. The final voting will take place from November 29 through December 4, with winners in each category to be announced on Thursday, December 8.

(Hat tip to Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine.)