Killer Nashville has announced the full list of finalists for the 2015 Silver Falchion Readers Choice Awards, which we have below. Congrats to everyone nominated, and make sure you vote for your favorites here! Killer Nashville kicks off on Octobe 29th.
Best Novel: Romantic Suspense
Judgment – Carey Baldwin
The Lost Key – Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison
Top Secret Twenty-One – Janet Evanovich
Sweet Damage – Rebecca James
Truth Be Told – Hank Phillippi Ryan
Best Novel: Cozy/Traditional
Angelica’s Smile – Andrea Camilleri
The Question of the Missing Head – E. J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen
The Alpine Yeoman – Mary Daheim
Designated Daughters – Margaret Maron
Hunting Shadows – Charles Todd
Best Novel: Historical
The Reckoning – Rennie Airth
An Air of Treason – P.F. Chisolm
The Johnstown Girls – Kathleen George
The Devil’s Workshop – Alex Grecian
Death on Blackheath – Anne Perry
Best Novel: Private Detective/Police Procedural
The Forsaken – Ace Atkins
The Hollow Girl – Reed Farrel Coleman
Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart – Christopher Fowler
Sorrow Bound – David Mark
Field of Prey – John Sandford
Best Novel: Speculative
The String Diaries – Stephen Lloyd Jones
Coldbrook – Tim Lebbon
Lock In – John Scalzi
Fear City – F. Paul Wilson
Yesterday’s Hero – Jonathan Wood
Best Novel: Literary Suspense
The Dead Will Tell – Linda Castillo
Red 1-2-3 – John Katzenbach
Mr. Mercedes – Stephen King
The Day She Died – Catriona McPherson
The Farm – Tom Rob Smith
Best Novel: Political Thriller/Adventure
Night Heron – Adam Brookes
Dark Spies: A Spycatcher Novel – Matthew Dunn
The Hilltop – Assaf Gavron
End Game – John Gilstrap
I am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes
Assassin’s Game – Ward Larsen
Best Novel: Crime Thriller
The Bone Orchard – Paul Doiron
Dakota – Gwen Florio
Gangsterland – Tod Goldberg
The Keeper – John Lescroart
In the Blood – Lisa Unger
Best First Novel: Cozy/Traditional/Historical
Honor Above All – J. Bard-Collins
To Fudge or Not to Fudge – Nancy Coco
Murder at Honeychurch Hall – Hannah Dennison
The Life We Bury – Allen Eskens
Dying to Know – TJ O’Connor
Best First Novel: Literary Suspense
Dry Bones in the Valley – Tom Bouman
Wolf in White Van – John Darnielle
Deep Winter – Samuel W. Gailey
The Weight of Blood – Laura McHugh
Forty Days Without Shadow – Oliver Truc
The Devil Takes Half – Leta Serafim
Best First Novel: Mystery/Thriller
Someone Else’s Skin – Sarah Hilary
Hotlanta – Mark Neilson
The American Mission – Matthew Palmer
The Black Hour – Lori Rader-Day
The Hawley Book of the Dead – Chrysler Szarlan
The Ways of the Dead – Neely Tucker
The Martian – Andy Weir
Best Children’s Picture Book
Nine Words Max – by Dan Bar-El, Illustrated by David Huyck
The Bambino and Me – by Zachary Hyman, Illustrated by Zachary Pullen
An Armadillo in Paris – by Julie Kraulis
Spic-and-Span: Lillian Gilbreth’s Wonder Kitchen – by Monica Kulling, Illustrated by David Perkins
Hope Springs – by Eric Walters, Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes
Best Children’s Chapter Book
Range Riders: Cassie & Jasper to the Rescue – Bryn Fleming
The Milo & Jazz Mysteries: The Case of the Buried Bones – Lewis B. Montgomery, Illustrated by Amy Wummer
The Frankenstein Journals: Volume 1 – Scott Sonneborn
The Whodunit Detective Agency: The Diamond Mystery – Martin Widmark
The Haunted Library – Dori Hillestad Butler, Illustrated by Helene Willis
Best Middle Grade
Audrey (Cow) – Dan Bar-El, Illustrated by Tatjana Mai-Wyss
The Swallow: A Ghost Story – Charis Cotter
The ACB with Honora Lee – Katie De Gold, drawings by Gregory O’Brien
One Safe Place – Tania Unsworth
Still Life – Jacqueline West
Best Young Adult
How We Fall – Kate Brauning
Nearly Gone – Elle Cosimano
Grunge Gods and Graveyards – Kimberly G. Giarratano
Unaccompanied Minor – Hollis Gillespie
The Voice Inside My Head – S.J. Laidlaw
Best Nonfiction: Mainstream Crime Reference
400 Things Cops Know – Adam Plantinga
The Art of the English Murder – Lucy Worsley
Best Single-Author Collection
Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Picket Country – C.J. Box
Trouble in Mind – Jeffery Deaver
Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories – Craig Johnson
High Crime Area – Joyce Carol Oates
Seeing Red – Terry Odell
Best Multi-Author Anthology
Rogue Wave: Best New England Crime Stories – Edited by Mark Ammons, Katherine Fast, Barbara Ross, and Leslie Wheller
Faceoff – Edited by David Baldacci
Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War – Edited by Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon – Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Fiction River Special Edition: Crime – Edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Best Long-form Novelty Fiction/Poetry/Graphic/Experimental
Notes from the Cat House – Jack Ketchum (Poems)
Undertaking of Lily Chen – Danica Novgorodoff (Graphic Novel)
Best Nonfiction: Memoir/Biography
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War – Karen Abbott
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames – Kai Bird
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby – Sarah Churchwell
The Other Side: A Memoir – Lacy M. Johnson
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe – J.W. Ocker
Best Nonfiction: Academic
The Figure of the Detective – Charles Brownson
Bloody Italy: Essays on Crime Writing in Italian Settings – Edited by Patricia Prandini Buckler
Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene – Edited by Curtis Evans
Blood on the Stage 400 B.C. to 1600 A.D.: Milestone Plays on Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem – Amnon Kabatchnik
The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert
James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction – James Mancall
Best Nonfiction: True Crime
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, The Crime that Changed America – Kevin Cook
The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases – Deborah Halber
War of the Whales – Joshua Horwitz
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood – William J. Mann
The Killing Kind — M. William Phelps
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention – Matt Richtel
How in the name of every god in every pantheon did I am Pilgrim get nominated for anything other than bird cage liner? Terry Hayes is actually worse than Dan Brown, and I did not believe that such a thing was possible. Even the worst Nick Carter Killmaster epic qualifies as high litereature when compared to this dreck.