2017 ITW Thriller Awards Nominees

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL

Megan Abbott -- YOU WILL KNOW ME (Little, Brown and Company)
Reed Farrel Coleman -- WHERE IT HURTS (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Noah Hawley -- BEFORE THE FALL (Grand Central Publishing)
Laura McHugh -- ARROWOOD (Spiegel & Grau)
Ben H. Winters -- UNDERGROUND AIRLINES (Mulholland Books)


BEST FIRST NOVEL

Bob Bickford -- DEADLY KISS (Black Opal Books)
J.L. Delozier -- TYPE AND CROSS (WiDo Publishing)
David McCaleb -- RECALL (Lyrical Underground)
Nicholas Petrie -- THE DRIFTER (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
E.Z. Rinsky -- PALINDROME (Witness Impulse)


BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL

Robert Dugoni -- IN THE CLEARING (Thomas & Mercer)           
Anne Frasier -- THE BODY READER (Thomas & Mercer)
Paul Kemprecos -- THE MINOAN CIPHER (Suspense Publishing)
Jonathan Maberry -- KILL SWITCH (St. Martin’s Griffin) 
Stephen Maher -- SALVAGE (Dundurn)


BEST SHORT STORY

Eric Beetner -- “The Business of Death” UNLOADED: CRIME WRITERS WRITING WITHOUT GUNS (Down & Out Books)
Laura Benedict -- “The Peter Rabbit Killers” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
Brendan DuBois -- “The Man from Away” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)                     
Joyce Carol Oates -- “Big Momma” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)                           
Art Taylor -- “Parallel Play” CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: STORM WARNING (Wildside Press)


BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Pierce Brown -- MORNING STAR (Del Rey)         
Elle Cosimano -- HOLDING SMOKE (Disney-Hyperion)  
A.J. Hartley -- STEEPLEJACK (TOR Teen)
Billy Taylor -- THIEVING WEASELS (Dial Books)          
Kara Thomas -- THE DARKEST CORNERS (Delacorte Press)


BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL

James Scott Bell -- ROMEO’S WAY (Compendium Press) 
Sean Black -- THE EDGE OF ALONE (Sean Black)
Sibel Hodge -- UNTOUCHABLE (Wonder Women Publishing)     
J.F. Penn -- DESTROYER OF WORLDS (J.F. Penn)          
Richard Thomas -- BREAKER (Alibi)

Congratulations to all the nominees.