{"id":176,"date":"2008-03-20T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-03-20T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T17:28:51","slug":"international-thriller-writers-2008-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/20\/international-thriller-writers-2008-award-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"International Thriller Writers 2008 Award Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

click to visit the International Thriller Writers website<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Finalists for the 2008 Thriller Awards!<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Joe Moore<\/a> <\/span> |<\/span> Permalink<\/a><\/p>\n

Drum roll please! <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"thriller-award.jpg\"<\/span>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<\/strong>–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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But why keep you in the dark any longer? Without further ado, here is the list of nominees in each category:<\/p>\n

BEST NOVEL 2008<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

No Time For Goodbye<\/em> by Linwood Barclay (Bantam)
\nThe Watchman<\/em> by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster)
\nThe Ghost<\/em> by Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster)
\nThe Crime Writer<\/em> by Gregg Hurwitz (Viking)
\nTrouble<\/em> by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)<\/p>\n

BEST FIRST NOVEL 2008<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

Interred With Their Bones<\/em> by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton)
\nBig City, Bad Blood<\/em> by Sean Chercover (William Morrow)
\nFrom the Depths<\/em> by Gerry Doyle (McBook Press)
\nVolk’s Game<\/em> by Brent Ghelfi (Henry Holt and Co.)
\nHeart-Shaped Box<\/em> by Joe Hill (William Morrow)<\/p>\n

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL 2008<\/font><\/strong>
\n
\nThe Last Nightingale<\/em> by Anthony Flacco (Ballantine)
\nA Thousand Bones<\/em> by P.J. Parrish (Pocket)
\nThe Midnight Road<\/em> by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
\nThe Queen of Bedlam<\/em> by Robert McCammon (Pocket)
\nShattered<\/em> by Jay Bonansinga (Pinnacle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

click to visit the International Thriller Writers website Finalists for the 2008 Thriller Awards! By Joe Moore | Permalink 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}