Nominees for the 2013 Barry Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2013 Barry Awards have been announced by Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine honoring the best works published in the field of crime fiction.

The winners will be announced September 19th, 2013 at the Opening Ceremonies of Bouchercon 2013 in Albany, New York. All subscribers and readers of the magazine are eligible to vote.

The nominees are …

Best Novel …
• Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay (NAL)
• Dead Scared by S. J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
• Defending Jacob by William Landay (Delacorte Press)
• Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow)
• The Black House by Peter May (Silver Oak)

Best First Novel …
• The Yard by Alex Grecian (Putnam)
• A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller (Minotaur Books)
• The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam)
• The Dark Winter by David Mark (Blue Ridge Press)
• Sacrifice Fly by Tim O'Mara (Minotaur Books)
• Black Fridays by Michael Sears (Putnam)

Best Paperback Original …
• Pago Pago Tango by John Enright (Thomas & Mercer)
• Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Picador)
• The Other Woman's House by Sophie Hannah (Penguin Press)
• Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam)
• Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn (Washington Square)
• Beneath the Abbey Wall by A. D. Scott (Atria Books)

Best Thriller …
• The Last Refuge by Ben Coes (St. Martin's Press)
• A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming (St. Martin's Press)
• Red Star Burning by Brian Freemantle (Minotaur Books)
• The Right Hand by Derek Haas (Mulholland Books)
• House Blood by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly)
• The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva (Harper)