BEST NOVEL

• Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook (Grove Atlantic – The Mysterious Press)
• The Humans by Matt Haig (Simon & Schuster)
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books)
• How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin (Hachette Book Group – Reagan Arthur Books)
• Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA – Dutton Books)

BEST
FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

• The Resurrectionist by Matthew Guinn (W.W. Norton)
• Ghostman by Roger Hobbs (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (Minotaur Books)
• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight (HarperCollins Publishers)

BEST
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

 

• The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow Paperbacks)
• Almost Criminal by E.R. Brown (Dundurn)
• Joe Victim by Paul Cleave (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books)
• Joyland by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
• The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books)
• Brilliance by Marcus Sakey (Amazon Publishing – Thomas and Mercer)

BEST
FACT CRIME

• Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins (Crown Trade Group)
• Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal by Michael D’Antonio (Thomas Dunne Books)
• The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles Graeber (Grand Central Publishing – Twelve)
• The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)
• The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)

BEST
CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

 

• Maigret, Simenon and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories by Bill Alder (McFarland & Company)
• America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture by Erik Dussere (Oxford University Press)
• Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing by Justin Gifford (Temple University Press)
• Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett (St. Martin’s Press)
• Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction by Melissa Schaub (Palgrave Macmillan)

BEST
SHORT STORY

• “The Terminal” – Kwik Krimes by Reed Farrel Coleman (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
• “So Long, Chief” – Strand Magazine by Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane (The Strand)
• “The Caston Private Lending Library & Book Depository” – Bibliomysteries by John Connolly (Mysterious)
• “There are Roads in the Water” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Tina Corey (Dell Magazines)
• “There That Morning Sun Does Down” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Tim L. Williams (Dell Magazines)

BEST
JUVENILE

• Strike Three, You’re Dead by Josh Berk (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf BFYR)
• Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking by Erin Dionne (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dial)
• P.K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man by Caroline Lawrence  (Penguin Young Readers Group – Putnam Juvenile)
• Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (Disney Publishing Worldwide – Disney-Hyperion)
• One Came Home by Amy Timberlake (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf BFYR)

BEST
YOUNG ADULT

• All the Truth That’s In Me by Julie Berry (Penguin Young Readers Group – Viking Juvenile)
• Far Far Away by Tom McNeal (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf BFYR)
• Criminal by Terra Elan McVoy (Simon & Schuster – Simon Pulse)
• How to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller (Penguin Young Readers Group – Razorbill)
• Ketchup Clouds by Amanda Pitcher (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

BEST
TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

• “Episode 3” – Luther, teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC Worldwide)
• “Episode 1” – The Fall, teleplay by Allan Cubitt (Netflix)
• “Legitimate Rape” – Law & Order: SVU, teleplay by Kevin Fox & Peter Blauner (NBC Universal)
• “Variations Under Domestication” – Orphan Black, teleplay by Will Pascoe (BBC Worldwide)
• “Pilot” – The Following, teleplay by Kevin Williamson (Fox/Warner Bros. Television)
  

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