Nominees for the 2016 Thriller Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2016 Thriller Awards were announced earlier this week by the International Thriller Writers. The winners will be announced at ThrillerFest XI, July 9th, 2016, at the Grand Hyatt (New York City).

And the nominees are …

Best Hardcover Novel:
• The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell (Simon & Schuster)
• Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine)
• The Girl on the Train by Paul Hawkins (Riverhead Books)
• Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell (Mulholland Books)
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (William Morrow)

Best First Novel:
• Little Black Lies by Sandra Block (Grand Central)
• The Drowning Game by L. S. Hawker (Witness Impulse)
• What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan (William Morrow)
• Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich (Putnam)
• The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young (Putnam)

Best Paperback Original Novel:
• Day Zero by Marc Cameron (Pinnacle)
• Against All Enemies by John Gilstrap (Pinnacle)
• Name of the Devil by Andrew Mayne (Bourbon Street Books)
• The Angel of Eden by D. J. McIntosh (Penguin)
• Pockets of Darkness by Jean Rabe (WordFire Press)

Best Short Story:
• "Feeding the Crocodile" by Reed Farrel Coleman (Jewish Noir, PM Press)
• "Repressed" by Jeffery Deaver (Diversion Books)
• "The Water Was Rising" by Sharon Hunt (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
• "El Cambalache" by Terrence McCauley (Thuglit)
• "Gun Accident" by Joyce Carol Oats (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)

Best Young Adult Novel:
• Code of Honor by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
• The Forgetting by Nicole Maggi (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Pretending to be Erica by Michelle Painchaud (Viking Books)
• Half in Love with Death by Emily Ross (Merit Press)
• The Dogs by Allan Stratton (Sourcebooks Fire)

Best E-Book Original Novel:
• Jack and Joe by Diane Capri (August Books)
• The Prisoner's Gold by Chris Kusneski (Chris Kuzneski)
• Deadly Lullaby by Robert McClure (Alibi)
• Ivory Ghosts by Caitlin O'Connell (Alibi)
• Lie In Wait by Eric Rickstad (Witness Impulse)