How’s This for Thrilling?

Today brings the announcement, by the International Thriller Writers (ITW), of its nominees for the 2016 Thriller Awards.

Best Hardcover Novel:
• The Fifth Gospel, by Ian Caldwell (Simon & Schuster)
• Playing with Fire, by Tess Gerritsen (Ballantine)
• The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
• Inspector of the Dead, by David Morrell (Mulholland)
• Pretty Girls, by Karin Slaughter (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 (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)
• The Angel of Eden, by D.J. McIntosh (Penguin Canada)
• Pockets of Darkness, by Jean Rabe (WordFire Press)

Best Short Story:
• “Feeding the Crocodile,” by Reed Farrel Coleman (from Jewish Noir, edited by Kenneth Wishnia; PM Press)
• “Repressed,” Jeffery Deaver (from Killer Nashville Noir: Cold Blooded, edited by Clay Stafford; Diversion)
• “The Water Was Rising,” by Sharon Hunt (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], August 2015)
• “El Cambalache,” by Terrence McCauley (ThugLit 17, edited by
Todd Robinson; ThugLit)
• “Gun Accident: An Investigation,” by Joyce Carol Oates
(EQMM, July 2015)

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 for
Young Readers)
• 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 (AugustBooks)
• The Prisoner’s Gold, by Chris Kuzneski (Chris Kuzneski)
• Deadly Lullaby, by Robert McClure (Alibi)
• Ivory Ghosts, by Caitlin O’Connell (Alibi)
• Lie in Wait, by Eric Rickstad (Witness Impulse)

This year’s award winners will be declared during the ThrillerFest XI convention, to be held in New York City from July 5 to 9.