Nominees for the 2014 Thriller Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2014 Thriller Awards have been announced by the International Thriller Writers organization. The winners will be announced at ThrillerFest IX on July 12th, 2014 in New York City.

Best Novel Nominees …
• Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo (Minotaur Books)
• Never Go Back by Lee Child (Delacorte Press)
• Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner (Dutton)
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Scribner)
• Criminal Enterprise by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam)
• White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central)
• The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster)

Best First Novel Nominees …
• Montana by Gwen Florio (Permanent Press)
• Resolve by J. J. Hensley (Permanent Press)
• Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (Minotaur Books)
• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Scribner)
• The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton (Minotaur Books)
• Out of Range by Hank Steinberg (William Morrow)
• The Intercept by Dick Wolf (Harper)

Best Paperback Original Nominees …
• Cold Snap by Allison Brennan (Minotaur Books)
• Buried by Kendra Elliot (Montlake Romance)
• His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam)
• The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon (William Morrow)
• Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus (Minotaur Books)
• Deadly Harvest by Michael Stanley (Harper)

Best Short Story Nominees …
• "Baggage of Eternal Night" by Eric Guignard (JournalStone)
• "Waco 1982" by Laura Lippman (Grand Central)
• "The Gallows Bird" by Kevin Mims (Ellery Queen)
• "Footprints in the Water" by Twist Phelan (Ellery Queen)
• "Doloroso" by Stephen Vessels (Ellery Queen)

Best Young Adult Nominees …
• The Rules For Disappearing by Ashley Elston (Hyperion)
• Scorched by Mari Mancusi (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader (Merit Press)
• All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill (Hyperion)
• I Am The Weapon by Allen Zadoff (Little, Brown)

Best eBook Original Nominees …
• The World Beneath by Rebecca Cantrell (Rebecca Cantrell)
• The Burning Time by J. G. Faherty (JournalStone)
• Terminus by Joshua Graham (Redhaven Books)
• No Dawn For Men by James Lepore and Carlos Davis (The Story Plant)
• Out of Exile by Luke Preston (Momentum)