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Finalists for the 2008 Thriller Awards!
Drum roll please!
After much arduous and painstaking labor by our three panels of esteemed judges–overseen and orchestrated by this year’s Award Chair, the talented Vicki Hinze–the nominees for this year’s “Thriller” awards have been selected. Out of a field of over five hundred books, the list has been winnowed down to five titles in each of the following categories: Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Paperback Original.
The winners will be announced this summer at Thrillerfest 2008 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City during a gala banquet on Saturday, July 12th.
But why keep you in the dark any longer? Without further ado, here is the list of nominees in each category:
BEST NOVEL 2008
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Bantam)
The Watchman by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster)
The Ghost by Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster)
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz (Viking)
Trouble by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)
BEST FIRST NOVEL 2008
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton)
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (William Morrow)
From the Depths by Gerry Doyle (McBook Press)
Volk’s Game by Brent Ghelfi (Henry Holt and Co.)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL 2008
The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco (Ballantine)
A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish (Pocket)
The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon (Pocket)
Shattered by Jay Bonansinga (Pinnacle)