The following works have been submitted for the 2013 Thriller Awards.
BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
| Jeff | Abbott | Downfall | Grand Central Publishing |
| Elizabeth | Adler | Please Don’t Tell | Minotaur Books |
| Tasha | Alexander | Behind the Shattered Glass | Minotaur Books |
| Annamaria | Alfieri | Blood Tango | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Mark | Alpert | Extinction | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Steve | Alten | The Omega Project | Forge Books |
| Ace | Atkins | The Broken Places | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Ace | Atkins | Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Frankie | Bailey | The Red Queen Dies | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Adam | Baker | Juggernaut | Thomas Dunne Books |
| David | Baldacci | The Hit | Grand Central Publishing |
| David | Baldacci | King and Maxwell | Grand Central Publishing |
| Christine | Barber | When the Devil Doesn’t Show | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Maggie | Barbieri | Ocne Upon a Lie | Minotaur Books |
| Linwood | Barclay | A Tap on the Window | Orion |
| Jefferson | Bass | Cut to the Bone | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| C.C. | Benison | Ten Lords A-Leaping | Delacorte Press |
| Raymond | Benson | The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes | Oceanview Publishing |
| Alex | Berenson | The Night Ranger | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Steve | Berry | The King’s Deception | Random House |
| Lauren | Beukes | The Shining Girls | Mulholland / Little, Brown and Compnay |
| Nancy | Bilyeau | The Chalice | Touchstone/Simon & Schuster |
| Harry | Bingham | Love Story, With Murders | Orion |
| Baron R. | Birtcher | Rain Dogs | The Permanent Press |
| Benjamin | Black | Holy Orders | Henry Holt |
| Robin | Blake | Dark Waters | Minotaur Books |
| Lawrence | Block | Hit Me | Orion |
| Sharon | Bolton | Lost | Minotaur Books |
| Larry | Bond | Shattered Trident | Forge Books |
| CJ | Box | The Highway | Minotaur Books |
| C.J. | Box | Breaking Point | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Alan | Bradley | Speaking from Among the Bones | Delacorte Press |
| Kelly | Braffet | Save Yourself | Crown Publishers |
| Michael | Brandman | Robert B. Parker’s Damned If You Do | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Sandra | Brannan | Noah’s Rainy Day | Greenleaf Book Group Press |
| Rita Mae | Brown | The Litter of the Law | Random House |
| Sandra | Brown | Deadline | Grand Central Publishing |
| Don | Bruns | Reel Stuff | Oceanview Publishing |
| Alafair | Burke | If You Were Here | HarperCollins, Harper |
| Chelsea | Cain | Let Me Go | Minotaur Books |
| Donato | Carrisi | The Lost Girls of Rome | Little, Brown and Company |
| Jane | Casey | The Stranger You Know | Ebury Press |
| Linda | Castillo | Her Last Breath | Minotaur Books |
| R.B. | Chesterton | The Darkling | Pegasus Books |
| Lee | Child | Inherit the Dead | Touchstone/Simon & Schuster |
| Lee | Child | Never Go Back | Delacorte Press |
| Lincoln | Child | White Fire | Grand Central Publishing |
| Tom | Clancy | Command Authority | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Marica | Clark | Killer Ambition | Little, Brown and Company |
| Ann | Cleeves | Silent Voices | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Rory | Clements | The Heretics | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Harlan | Coben | Six Years | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Ben | Coes | Eye For An Eye | St. Martin’s Press |
| Reed Farrel | Coleman | Onion Street | Tyrus Street |
| Max Allan | Collins | Ask Not | Forge |
| Michael | Connelly | The Black Box | Orion |
| John | Connor | The Vanishing | |
| Deborah | Coonts | Lucky Bastard | Forge Books |
| Stephen | Coonts | Pirate Alley | St. Martin’s Press |
| Mike | Cooper | Full Ratchet | Viking Penguin |
| Douglas | Corleone | Good as Gone | Minotaur Books |
| Jack | Coughlin | Time To Kill | St. Martin’s Press |
| Catherine | Coulter | The Final Cut | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Robert | Crais | Suspect | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Martin | Cruz Smith | Tatiana | Simon and Schuster |
| Clive | Cussler | Zero Hour | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Clive | Cussler | The Striker | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Clive | Cussler | The Mayan Secrets | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Clive | Cussler | Mirage | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Mary | Daheim | The Alpine Xanadu | Ballantine Books |
| Sandra | Dallas | Fallen Women | St. Martin’s Press |
| Hilary | Davidson | Evil in All Its Disguises | Forge |
| Jason | Dean | Backtrack | Headline |
| Jeffery | Deaver | The Kill Room | Grand Central Publishing |
| Jeffery | Deaver | The October List | Grand Central Publishing |
| Connie | Dial | Dead Wrong | The Permanent Press |
| John F. | Dobbyn | Deadly Diamonds | Oceanview Publishing |
| Dan | Doeden | Leverage | Five Star Publishing / Cengage |
| Paul | Doiron | Massacre Pond | Minotaur Books |
| Phil | Donlay | Zero Separation | Oceanview Publishing |
| Byron | Dorgan | Gridlock | Forge |
| Matthew | Dunn | Slingshot | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Matthew | Dunn | Sentinel | Orion |
| Åke | Edwardson | Room No. 10 | Simon and Schuster |
| Kevin | Egan | Midnight | Forge |
| David | Ellis | The Last Alibi | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| RJ | Ellory | The Devil and The River | Orion |
| Hallie | Ephron | There Was an Old Woman | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Loren D. | Estleman | The Confessions of Al Capone | Forge Books |
| Janet | Evanovich | Takedown Twenty | Bantam Books |
| Janet | Evanovich | The Heist | Bantam Books |
| Linda | Fairstein | Death Angel | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Michael | Farris Smith | Rivers | Simon and Schuster |
| Tricia | Fields | Scratchgravel Road | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Charles | Finch | An Old Betrayal | Minotaur Books |
| Martin | Fletcher | Jacon’s Oath | Thoams Dunne Books |
| Frederick | Forsyth | The Kill List | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Christopher | Fowler | The Invisible Code | Bantam Books |
| Felix | Francis | Dick Francis’s Refusal | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Tom | Franklin | The Tilted World | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| David | Freed | Fangs Out | The Permanent Press |
| Brian | Freemantle | Red Star Falling | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Lisa | Gardner | Touch & Go | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Elizabeth | George | Just One Evil Act | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Geoffrey | Girard | Cain’s Blood: A Novel | Touchstone/Simon & Schuster |
| Bob | Gleason | The Cure | Forge |
| David | Golemon | Carpathian | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Heywood | Gould | Green Light for Murder | Tyrus Books |
| Sue | Grafton | W is for Wasted | A Marian Wood Book/Putnam |
| Heather | Graham | Let the Dead Sleep | Harlequin |
| Sarah | Graves | A Bat in the Belfry | Bantam Books |
| Chuck | Greaves | Green-Eyed Lady | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Alex | Grecian | The Black Country | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| H. Terrell | Griffin | Fatal Decree | Oceanview Publishing |
| H. Terrell | Griffin | Found | Oceanview Publishing |
| James | Grippando | Blood Money | HarperCollins, Harper |
| Andrew | Gross | No Way Back | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| James W. | Hall | Going Dark | Minotaur Books |
| MR | Hall | The Chosen Dead | Mantle, Pan Macmillan |
| David | Handler | Runaway Man | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Sophie | Hannah | Kind of Cruel | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Mari | Hannah | Monument to Murder | Macmillan, Pan Macmillan |
| Mari | Hannah | Deadly Deceit | Macmillan, Pan Macmillan |
| Tom | Harper | The Orpheus Descent | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Erin | Hart | The Book of Killowen | Scribner |
| Richard | Helms | The Mojito Coast | Five Star Publishing / Cengage |
| Sara J. | Henry | A Cold and Lonely Place | Crown Publishers |
| Tami | Hoag | The 9th Girl | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Linda | Howard | Shadow Woman | Ballantine Books |
| David | Hunt | Terror Red | Forge Books |
| Alaric | Hunt | Cuts Through Bone | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Stephen | Hunter | The Third Bullet | Simon and Schuster |
| Gregg | Hurtwitz | Tell No Lies | St. Martin’s Press |
| Charlie | Huston | Skinner | Little, Brown and Company |
| Arnaldur | Indridason | Black Skies | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Lisa | Jackson | Tell Me | Kensington |
| Alan | Jacobson | No Way Out | Premier Digital Publishing |
| Steven | James | Singularity | Revell |
| Judith | Jance | Deadly Stakes | Touchstone/Simon & Schuster |
| J.A. | Jance | Second Watch | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Siger | Jeffrey | Mykonos After Midnight | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Carolyn | Jess-Cooke | THE BOY WHO COULD SEE DEMONS | Delacorte Press |
| D.E. | Johnson | Detroit Shuffle | St. Martin’s Minotaur Books |
| Melodie | Johnson Howe | City of Mirrors | Pegasus Books |
| Merry | Jones | The Trouble With Charlie | Oceanview Publishing |
| Morag | Joss | Our Picnics in the Sun | Delacorte Press |
| Michael | Kahn | The Flinch Factor | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Daniel | Kalla | Rising Sun, Falling Shadow | Forge |
| Andrea | Kane | The Stranger You Know | Harlequin |
| Glenn | Kaplan | Poison Pill | Forge |
| Alex | Kava | Strande | Doubleday |
| Jonathan | Kellerman | Guilt | Ballantine Books |
| Kathleen | Kent | The Outcasts | Little, Brown and Company |
| Nate | Kenyon | Day One | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Philip | Kerr | A Man Without Breath: A Bernie Gunther Novel | A Marian Wood Book/Putnam |
| Raymond | Khoury | Rasputin’s Shadow | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Raymond | Khoury | Rasputin’s Shadow | Orion |
| Stephen | King | Doctor Sleep | Scribner |
| Laurie R. | King | The Bones of Paris | Bantam Books |
| Susan | Klaus | Secretariat Reborn | Oceanview Publishing |
| Ali | Knight | Until Death | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Chris | Knopf | Cries of the Lost | The Permanent Press |
| Dean | Koontz | Deeply Odd | Random House |
| Ted | Kosmatka | Prophet of Bones | Henry Holt |
| Ed | Kovacs | Burnt Black | Minotaur |
| Justin | Kramon | The Preservationist | Pegasus Books |
| Chris | Kuzneski | The Hunters | Headline |
| Al | Lamanda | Sunrise | Five Star Publishing / Cengage |
| Jon | Land | Strong Rain Falling | Forge |
| Robert | Lange | Angel Baby | Little, Brown and Company |
| Joe | Lansdale | The Thicket | Mulholland / Little, Brown and Compnay |
| Ellen | Larson | In Retrospect | Five Star Publishing / Cengage |
| Owen | Laukkanen | Criminal Enterprise | Putnam |
| Stephen | Leather | Nightshade | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Stephen | Leather | True Colours | Hodder & Stoughton |
| James | Lee Burke | Light of the World | Simon and Schuster |
| Allison | Leotta | Speak of the Devil | Touchstone/Simon & Schuster |
| John | Lindqvist | Let The Old Dreams Die | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Charlotte | Link | The Other Child | Pegasus Books |
| Robert | Littell | A Nasty Piece of Work | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Tom | MacDonald | Beyond the Bridge | Oceanview Publishing |
| Trish | MacGregor | Apparition | Tor Books |
| G. M. | Malliet | Pagan Spring | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Don | Mann | SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Falcon | Mulholland / Little, Brown and Compnay |
| Don | Mann | SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Scorpion | Little, Brown and Company |
| Phillip | Margolin | Sleight of Hand | Harper |
| Melissa | Marr | The Arrivals | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Michael | Marshall | We Are Here | Orion |
| Robert | Masello | The Romanov Cross | Bantam Books |
| AP | McCoy | Taking the Fall | Orion |
| Jon | McGoran | Drift | Forge |
| Claire | McGowan | The Lost | Headline |
| Brad | Meltzer | The Fifth Assassin | Grand Central Publishing |
| Nicholas | Mennuti | Weaponized | Mulholland / Little, Brown and Compnay |
| Kyle | Mills | Robert Ludlum’s The Utopia Experiment | Orion |
| Denise | Mina | Gods and Beasts | Little, Brown and Company |
| Denise | Mina | The Red Road | Orion |
| Adam | Mitzner | A Case of Redemption | Gallery Books |
| Aly | Monroe | Black Bear | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Chris | Morgan Jones | The Jackal’s Share | Mantle, Pan Macmillan |
| Marcia | Muller | The Bughouse Affair | Forge Books |
| Marcia | Muller | The Spook Lights Affair | Forge |
| Carla | Neggers | Declan’s Cross | Harlequin |
| Nele | Neuhaus | Snow White Must Die | Minotaur |
| Maxine | Nunes | Dazzled | Five Star Publishing / Cengage |
| Carol | O’Connell | It Happens in the Dark | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Tim | O’Mara | Crooked Numbers | Minotaur Books |
| Joyce Carol | Oates | The Accursed | HarperCollins, Ecco |
| Weston | Ochs | Age of Blood | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Howard | Owen | The Philadelphia Quarry | The Permanent Press |
| Daniel | Palmer | Stolen | Kensington |
| Dennis | Palumbo | Night Terrors | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Sara | Paretsky | Critical Mass | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| T. Jefferson | Parker | The Famous and the Dead | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Brad | Parks | The Good Cop | Minotaur Books |
| James | Patterson | Second Honeymoon | Little, Brown and Company |
| James | Patterson | Mistress | Little, Brown and Company |
| James | Patterson | Gone | Little, Brown and Company |
| James | Patterson | Alex Cross, Run | Little, Brown and Company |
| James | Patterson | 12th of Never | Little, Brown and Company |
| Ridley | Pearson | Choke Point | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| George | Pelecanos | The Double | Little, Brown and Company |
| Benjamin | Percy | Red Moon | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Anne | Perry | A Christmas Hope | Ballantine Books |
| Anne | Perry | Blind Justice | Ballantine Books |
| Anne | Perry | Midnight at the Marble Arch | Ballantine Books |
| Marisha | Pessl | Night Film | Random House |
| Hank | Phillippi Ryan | The Wrong Girl | Forge |
| Tom | Piccirilli | The Last Whisper in the Dark | Bantam Books |
| Ivy | Pochoda | Visitation Street | HarperCollins, Ecco |
| Daniel | Polansky | She Who Waits | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Julia | Pomeroy | No Safe Ground | Five Star/Cengage |
| Bill | Pronzini | Nemesis | Forge |
| Andrew | Pyper | The Demonologist | Simon & Schuster |
| Ian | Rankin | Saints of the Shadow Bible | Orion |
| Wortham | Reavis | The Right Side of Wrong | Poisoned Pen Press |
| James Rollins | Rebecca Cantrell | The Blood Gospel | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Kathy | Reichs | Bones of the Lost | Scribner |
| Ruth | Rendell | No Man’s Nightingale | Scribner |
| David | Rich | Middle Man | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Karen | Robards | The Last Kiss Goodbye | Ballantine Books |
| Michael | Robertson | The Baker Street Translation | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Jeremy | Robinson | Island 731 | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Peter | Robinson | Watching the Dark | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Linda | Rodriguez | Every Broken Trust | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| James | Rollins | The Eye of God | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| James | Rollins | The Blood Gospel | Orion |
| Leonard | Rosen | The Tenth Witness | The Permanent Press |
| David | Rosenfelt | Airtight | Minotaur Books |
| David | Rotenberg | A Murder of Crows | Simon & Schuster |
| Robert | Rotenberg | Stranglehold | Simon & Schuster |
| Lori | Roy | Until She Comes Home | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| William | Ryan | The Twelfth Department | Mantle, Pan Macmillan |
| Charles | Salzberg | Devil in the Hole | Five Star Publishing / Cengage |
| John | Sandford | Silken Prey | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| John | Sandford | Storm Front | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Jim | Satterfield | Saving Laura | Oceanview Publishing |
| Michael | Savage | A Time For War | St. Martin’s Press |
| Robert J. | Sawyer | Red Planet Blues | Penguin Canada (Viking Canada imprint) |
| John | Searles | Help for the Haunted | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Michael | Sears | Mortal Bonds | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Gerald | Seymour | The Corporal’s Wife | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Lynn | Shepherd | A Fatal Likeness | Delacorte Press |
| Liad | Shoham | Lineup | Harper |
| Sheldon | Siegel | The Terrorist Next Door | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Daniel | Silva | The English Girl | HarperCollins, Harper |
| Dan | Simmons | The Abominable | Little, Brown and Company |
| Karin | Slaughter | Unseen | Delacorte Press |
| Brad | Smith | Shoot the Dog | Simon & Schuster |
| Dan | Smith | The Child Thief | Pegasus Books |
| Wilbur | Smith | Vicious Circle | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Dan | Smith | Red Winter | Orion |
| Julia | Spencer-Fleming | Through the Evil Days | Minotaur |
| Erica | Spindler | Justice For Sara | St. Martin’s Press |
| Chevy | Stevens | Always Watching | St. Martin’s Press |
| Taylor | Stevens | The Doll | Crown Publishers |
| Whitley | Strieber | Alien Hunter | Forge Books |
| Wallace | Stroby | Shoot The Woman First | Minotaur Books |
| Carsten | Stroud | The Homecoming | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Mark | Sullivan | Outlaw | Minotaur Books |
| Mark | Sullivan | Private Berlin | Little, Brown and Company |
| James | Swain | Shadow People | Tor Books |
| Dave | Swavley | Kaleidocide | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Ice | T | Mirror Image | Forge |
| James | Tabor | Frozen Solid | Ballantine Books |
| F.R. | Tallis | The Sleep Room | Pegasus Books |
| Jon | Talton | The Night Detectives | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Patrick | Taylor | Pray for Us Sinners | Forge Books |
| Brad | Taylor | The Widow’s Strike | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Brad | Taylor | Enemy of Mine | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| James | Thompson | Helsinki Blood | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Aimee | Thurlo | Ghost Medicine | Forge |
| Lavie | Tidhar | The Violent Century | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Scott | Turow | Identical | Grand Central Publishing |
| Eric | Van Lustbader | Beloved Enemy | Forge |
| P. D. | Viner | The Last Winter of Dani Lancing | Crown Publishers |
| Urban | Waite | The Carrion Birds | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Walter | Walker | Crime of Privilege | Random House |
| David | Wellington | Chimera | HarperCollins, Harper Voyager |
| James | Wesley Rawles | Expatriates | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Stephen | White | Compound Fractures | Dutton, Penguin Random House |
| Randy Wayne | White | Night Moves | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Randy Wayne | White | Deceived | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Charlotte | Williams | The House on the Cliff | Macmillan, Pan Macmillan |
| F. Paul | Wilson | Dark City | Tor |
| Robert | Wilson | Capital Punishment | Orion |
| Gene | Wolfe | The Land Across | Tor |
| Tom | Young | The Warriors | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL
| Rachel | Abbott | The Back Road | Thomas and Mercer |
| Richard Craig | Anderson | Cobrta Clearance | L&R Publishing/Hellgate Press |
| Joseph | Badal | The Lone Wolf Agenda | Suspense Publishing |
| Tom | Bale | The Catch | Preface Publishing (imprint of Random House UK) |
| Sallie | Bissell | Music of Ghosts | Midnight Ink |
| Peggy | Blair | The Poisoned Pawn | Penguin Canada Books Inc. |
| Lawrence | Block | The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons | Lawrence Block |
| Hilary | Bonner | The Cruellest Game | Pan, Pan Macmillan |
| Gyles | Brandreth | Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol | Touchstone/Simon & Schuster |
| Sandra | Brannan | Noah’s Rainy Day | Greenleaf Book Group Press |
| Terry | Brennan | The Brotherhood Conspiracy | Kregel Publications |
| Allison | Brennan | Cold Snap | Minotaur Books |
| Allison | Brennan | Stolen | Minotaur Books |
| Mary | Burton | No Escape | Kensington |
| Mary | Burton | The Seventh Victim | Kensington |
| Nancy | Bush | Nowhere Safe | Kensington |
| Deb | Caletti | HE’S GONE | Bantam Books |
| Marc | Cameron | State of Emergency | Kensington Publishing, Pinnacle Books imprint |
| Alan | Carter | Getting Warmer | Fremantle Press |
| Ed | Chatterton | Underland | Beverley Cousins |
| Bobby | Cole | Moon Underfoot | Thomas and Mercer |
| Max Allan | Collins | What Doesn’t Kill Her | Thomas and Mercer |
| Glenn | Cooper | The Keepers of the Library | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Conor | Corderoy | The Eden Cypher | Perfect Crime Books |
| Blake | Crouch | Wayward | Thomas and Mercer |
| John T. | Cullen | Doctor Night | Clocktower Books |
| Chris | Culver | The Outsider | Grand Central Publishing |
| Paul | D’Ambrosio | Easy Squeezy | Down the Shore Publishing |
| Aric | Davis | Rough Men | Thomas & Mercer |
| Aric | Davis | The Fort | Thomas & Mercer |
| Cynthia | Eden | Fear For Me | Montlake Romance |
| Kendra | Elliot | Buried | Montlake Romance |
| John | Evans | A Dead Issue | Sunbury Press, Inc. |
| Owen | Fitzstephen | Hammett Unwritten | Seventh Street Books |
| Jaye | Ford | Blood Secret | Beverley Cousins |
| Ramona | Forrest | The Vigilante | Black Opal Books |
| Patrick | Freivald | Blood List | JournalStone |
| Susan | Froetschel | Fear of Beauty | Seventh Street Books |
| David | Gibbins | PHARAOH | Dell Books |
| John | Gilstrap | High Treason | Pinnacle |
| Lee | Gimenez | The Washington Ultimatum | River Ridge Press/Lee Gimenez |
| Leonard | Goldberg | Plague Ship | Midnight Ink |
| C. W. | Gortner | The Tudor Conspiracy | St. Martin’s Griffin |
| Ella | Grace | Midnight Lies | Ballantine Books |
| Ella | Grace | Midnight Secrets | Ballantine Books |
| Heather | Graham | The Night is Forever | Harlequin |
| Heather | Graham | The Night is Alive | Harlequin |
| Heather | Graham | The Night is Watching | Harlequin |
| Layton | Green | The Diabolist | Thomas & Mercer |
| Melissa | Groeling | Lights Out | Black Opal Books |
| Ian | Hamilton | The Scottish Banker of Surabaya | House of Anansi Press |
| Mari | Hannah | Deadly Deceit | Pan Macmillan |
| Jude | Hardin | Key Death | Thomas and Mercer |
| Jude | Hardin | Blood Tattoo | Thomas and Mercer |
| Karen | Harper | Upon A Winter’s Night | Harlequin |
| John | Harwood | The Asylum | Meredith Curnow |
| Elizabeth | Haynes | Human Remains | HarperCollins, Harper Paperbacks |
| Julia | Heaberlin | Lie Still | Bantam Books |
| E. Michael | Helms | Deadly Catch | Seventh Street Books |
| W. | Hock Hochheim | Blood Rust | Lauric Press |
| Anne | Holt | Death of the Demon | Scribner |
| David | Hosp | The Guardian | Pan, Pan Macmillan |
| Bev | Irwin | Without Consent | Black Opal |
| Lisa | Jackson | Ready to Die | Kensington |
| David | Jackson | Marked | Pan, Pan Macmillan |
| Ryan David | Jahn | The Last Tomorrow | Pan, Pan Macmillan |
| Darrell | James | Purgatory Key | Midnight Ink |
| Steven | James | The King | NAL |
| J. Robert | Janes | Tapesty | Mysterious Press |
| J. Robert | Janes | The Hunting Ground | Mysterious Press |
| Pam | Jenoff | The Ambassador’s Daughter | Harlequin |
| J. Sidney | Jones | Ruin Value | Mysterious Press |
| G.B. | Joyce | The Black Ace | Penguin Canada Books Inc. |
| Andrew | Kaplan | Scorpion Deception | HarperCollins |
| Andrew | Kaplan | Homeland: Carrie’s Run | HarperCollins |
| Andrew | Kaplan | Scorpion Deception | HarperCollins, Harper |
| Nicholas | Kaufmann | Dying Is My Business | St. Martin’s Griffin |
| Paul | Kemprecos | The Emerald Scepter | Suspense Publishing |
| Paul | Kemprecos | Grey Lady | Suspense Publishing |
| David Jacob | Knight | The Pen Name | Indepedent |
| William | Lashner | The Accounting | Thomas & Mercer |
| Janice | Law | The Prisoner of the Riviera | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road |
| Adam | LeBor | The Geneva Option | Harper |
| J.M. | LeDuc | Cornerstone | Suspense Publishing |
| Gregory | Lee | The Nero Decree | Thomas and Mercer |
| Melinda | Leigh | She Can Scream | Montlake Romance |
| Melinda | Leigh | Midnight Sacrafice | Montlake Romance |
| Katia | Lief | Watch You Die | Ebury Press (Random House UK) |
| Katia | Lief | The Money Kill | Harper (HarperCollins) |
| Amy | Lignor | The Sapphire Storm | Suspense Publishing |
| Amy | Lignor | The Hero’s Companion | Suspense Publishing |
| Sophie | Littlefield | Garden of Stones | Harlequin |
| Gregg | Loomis | First Casualty | Mysterious Press |
| John | Lutz | Twist | Pinnacle |
| Kfir | Luzzatto | ExtraLife, Inc. | Pine Ten, LLC |
| CJ | Lyons | Black Sheep | Minotaur Books |
| CJ | Lyons | Hollow Bones | Minotaur Books |
| Jonathan | Maberry | Extinction Machine | St. Martin’s Griffin |
| Richard | Mabry | Heart Failure | Thomas Nelson Publishers |
| Richard | Mabry | Stress Test | Thomas Nelson Publishers |
| Susan Elia | MacNeal | His Majesty’s Hope | Bantam Books |
| Leo | Maloney | Silent Assassin | Pinnacle |
| Robert | Marcus | The Far Side of Silence | Mockingbird Lane Press |
| Colby | Marshall | The Trade | Stairway Press |
| Kat | Martin | Against the Mark | Harlequin |
| Kat | Martin | Against the Edge | Harlequin |
| Kat | Martin | Against the Odds | Harlequin |
| Dan | Mayland | The Leveling | Thomas & Mercer |
| Joanie | McDonnell | Bolero | Thomas and Mercer |
| Adrian | McKinty | I Hear the Sirens in the Street | Seventh Street Books |
| Jennifer | McMahon | The One I Left Behind | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| K.C. | McRae | Shotgun Moon | Midnight Ink |
| Jason | Miller | The Revelations of Preston Black | Raw Dog Screaming Press |
| Rick | Mofina | Into the Dark | Harlequin |
| Bill | Moody | The Man in Red Square | Down & Out Books |
| H.B. | Moore | Finding Sheba | StoneHouse Ink |
| Nele | Neuhaus | Snow White Must Die | Pan, Pan Macmillan |
| D.J. | Niko | The Riddle of Solomon | Medallion Press |
| Wilf | Nussey | The Hidden Third | Rebel ePublishers |
| Kevin | O’Brien | Unspeakable | Kensington |
| Laurence | O’Bryan | The Manhattan Puzzle | Avon Harper Collins |
| David | O’Neil | Minding the Store | A-Argus Better Books |
| Gregg | Olsen | Fear Collector | Pinnacle |
| P.J. | Parrish | Heart of Ice | Pocket Books |
| Brownwyn | Parry | Darkening Skies | Hachette Australia |
| Clyde | Philips | Unthinkable | Thomas and Mercer |
| Mark | Pryor | The Crypt Thief | Seventh Street Books |
| Anthony | Quinn | Border Angels | Mysterious Press |
| T.R. | Ragan | A Dark Mind | Thomas & Mercer |
| John | Rector | Out of the Black | Thomas & Mercer |
| Eric | Red | The Guns of Santa Sangre | Samhain Publishing |
| S.B. | Redstone | A Sinister Obsession | Black Opal Books |
| James L. | Ross | The Last Crimes of Charles Mistinguett | Perfect Crime Books |
| Kristine Kathryn | Rusch | Spree | WMG Publishing |
| Kristine Kathryn | Rusch | Snipers | WMG Publishing |
| Sharon | Sala | Going Once | Harlequin |
| Sharon | Sala | Til Death | Harlequin |
| Elise | Sax | Matchpoint | Ballantine Books |
| Elise | Sax | An Affair to Dismember | Ballantine Books |
| William | Scott | The Permit | Pygmy Books, a division of North Slope Publications |
| L.J. | Sellers | Crimes of Memory | Thomas & Mercer |
| L.J. | Sellers | Rules of Crime | Thomas & Mercer |
| Maggie | Shayne | Sleep With the Lights On | Harlequin MIRA |
| Maggie | Shayne | Wake to Darkness | Harlequin |
| Maggie | Shayne | Sleep With the Lights On | Harlequin |
| Yrsa | Sigurdardottir | The Day is Dark | St. Martin’s Griffin |
| Barbara Taylor | Sissel | Evidence of Life | Harlequin |
| Maggie | Skaye | Brilliance | Thomas & Mercer |
| Sean | Slater | The Guilty | Simon & Schuster |
| Jeffrey | Small | The Jericho Deception | West Hills Press |
| Phyllis | Smallman | Long Gone Man | Touchwood Editions |
| Dean Wesley | Smith | Dead Money | WMG Publishing |
| Michael | Stanley | Deadly Harvest | HarperCollins, Harper Paperbacks |
| L.A. | Starks | Strike Price | L&L Dreamspell |
| Wendy Corsi | Staub | Shadowkiller | Harpercollins |
| Wendy Corsi | Staub | The Good Sister | Harpercollins |
| Orest | Stelmach | The Boy from Reactor 4 | Thomas & Mercer |
| Laurie | Stevens | Deep into Dusk | Follow Your Dreams Productions |
| Duane | Swierczynski | Point and Shoot | Mulholland / Little, Brown and Compnay |
| FR | Tallis | The Sleep Room | Pan, Pan Macmillan |
| Nicola | Upson | Fear in the Sunlight | HarperCollins, Harper Paperbacks |
| Antoinette | van Heugten | The Tulip Eaters | Harlequin |
| Yvonne | Walus | Operation: Genocide | Stairway Press |
| Evonne | Wareham | Out of Sight Out of Mind | Choc Lit |
| Kate | Watterson | Charred | Tor |
| Ray | Wenck | Teamwork | Rebel ePublishers |
| Charlie | Williams | Made of Stone | Thomas & Mercer |
| Simon | Wood | No Show | Thomas & Mercer |
| Allen | Wyler | Changes | Stairway Press |
BEST DEBUT NOVEL
| AX | Ahmad | The Caretaker | Minotaur Books |
| Daco | Auffenorde | The Libra Affair | F+W Media, Inc./Crimson Romance |
| Winter | Austin | Relentless | F&W Media |
| E.A. | Aymar | I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead | Black Opal Books |
| Piper | Bayard | Firelands | StoneHouse Ink |
| Maegan | Beaumont | Carved in Darkness | Midnight Ink |
| David | Benjamin | Three’s a Crowd | Event Horizon Press |
| Gordon | Bickerstaff | Deadly Secrets | Endeavour Press Ltd |
| Leslie | Borghini | Angel Heat | Suspense Publishing |
| Diana | Bretherick | City of Devils | Orion |
| Scott | Britz-Cunningham | Code White | Forge Books |
| John | Burley | The Absence of Mercy | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Colin | Campbell | Jamaica Plain | Midnight Ink |
| Sarah | Castille | Legal Heat | Samhain Publishing |
| Tim | Chapman | Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold | Allium Press |
| Christopher | Cox | A Good Death | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Matt | Coyle | Yesterday’s Echo | Oceanview Publishing |
| Jen J. Danna | Ann Vanderlaan | Dead, Without a Stone to Tell It | Five Star Publishing / Cengage |
| Paula Treick | DeBoard | The Mourning Hours | Harlequin |
| Keith | Deininger | The New Flesh | DarkFuse |
| E.C. | Diskin | The Green Line | Thomas & Mercer |
| Gwen | Florio | Montana | The Permanent Press |
| John | Florio | Sugar Pop Moon | Seventh Street Books |
| Kim | Foster | A Beautiful Heist | Kensington Books |
| Patricia | Hale | In the Shadow of Revenge | Carina Press |
| Lotte | Hammer | The Hanging | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| A.S.A. | Harrison | The Silent Wife | Penguin Canada Books Inc. |
| Elizabeth | Heiter | Hunted | MIRA |
| J.J. | Hensley | Resolve | The Permanent Press |
| Diane | Hester | Run to Me | Random House Australia |
| Kay | Kendall | Desolation Row | Stairway Press |
| Arthur | Kerns | The Riviera Contract | Diversion Books |
| Michael | Krikorian | Southside | Oceanview Publishing |
| Barry | Lancet | Japantown | Simon and Schuster |
| Alan L. | Lee | Sandstorm | Forge |
| Robert | Lewis | Untold Damage | Midnight Ink |
| Anya | Lipska | Where The Devil Can’t Go | Harper Collins, The Friday Project |
| San | Lynch | Wounded Prey | Exhibit A/Angry Robot |
| Malcolm | Mackay | The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter | Mantle, Pan Macmillan |
| Mike | Maden | Drone | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| J. Michael | Major | One Man’s Castle | Five Star Publishing |
| Becky | Masterman | Rage Against the Dying | Minotaur Books |
| Becky | Masterman | Rage Against the Dying | Orion |
| Brian | Matthews | Forever Man | JournalStone |
| Jason | Matthews | Red Sparrow | Scribner |
| Kimberly | McCreight | Reconstructing Amelia | HarperCollins, Harper Paperbacks |
| S.L. | Menear | Deadstick Dawn | Suspense Publishing |
| J. Kent | Messum | Bait | Penguin Canada Books Inc. |
| Jenny | Milchman | Cover of Snow | Ballantine Books |
| Mary | Miley | The Impersonator | Minotaur Books |
| Nina | Milton | In the Moors | Midnight Ink |
| Dror | Mishani | The Missing File | Harper |
| Jaime Lee | Moyer | Delia’s Shadow | Tor |
| Dan | Newman | The Clearing | Angry Robot |
| Terri | Nolan | Burden of Truth | Midnight Ink |
| Carla | Norton | The Edge of Normal | Minotaur Books |
| RS | Pateman | The Second Life of Amy Archer | Orion |
| Seth | Patrick | Reviver | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Michael | Pocalyko | The Navigator | Forge |
| Sidney | Poitier | Montaro Caine | Spiegel & Grau |
| Michael | Ponsor | The Hanging Judge | Open Road |
| Lynne | Raimondo | Dante’s Wood | Seventh Street Books |
| David | Riley Bertsch | Death Canyon | Scribner |
| Thatcher | Robinson | White Ginger | Seventh Street Books |
| Robert | Rotstein | Corrupt Practices | Seventh Street Books |
| Michéle | Rowe | What Hidden Lies | Penguin Books South Africa |
| John | Sandrolini | One for Our Baby | Mysterious Press |
| Anthony | Shaffer | The Last Line | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Terry | Shames | A Killing at Cotton Hill | Seventh Street Books |
| Patti | Sheehy | The Boy Who Said No: An Escape To Freedom | Oceanview Publishing |
| Elizabeth L. | Silver | The Execution of Noa P. Singleton | Crown Publishers |
| Susan | Spann | Claws of the Cat | Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Linda | Stasi | Sixth Station | Forge Books |
| Hank | Steinberg | Out of Range | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Stephan | Talty | BLACK IRISH | Ballantine Books |
| Ingrid | Thoft | Loyalty | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
| Sam | Thomas | The Midwife’s Tale | Minotaur Books |
| Pamela | Triolo | Death Without Cause: A Health Care Mystery | Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing |
| Lisa | von Biela | The Genesis Code | DarkFuse |
| Marty | Weiss | The Alchemist Agenda | Graybooks LLC |
| Gregory | Widen | Blood Makes Noise | Thomas & Mercer |
| Dick | Wolf | The Intercept | HarperCollins, William Morrow |
| Koren | Zailckas | Mother Mother | Crown Books |
| James W | Ziskin | Mystery | Seventh Street Books (Prometheus Books) |
| Mary Louis | Kelly | Anonymous Sources | Gallery |
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| Camille | Alexa | A Good Thing and a Right Thing | Dell Magazines |
| Maynard | Allington | The Raffles Intrigue | Dell Magazines |
| Jim | Allyn | Princess Anne | Dell Magazines |
| Doug | Allyn | Borrowed Time | Dell Magazines |
| Doug | Allyn | Blaze of Glory | Dell Magazines |
| Doug | Allyn | Downsized | Dell Magazines |
| Albert | Ashforth | Incident In Kabul | Dell Magazines |
| Sandi | Ault | Wild Justice | Dell Magazines |
| Jefferson | Bass | Jordan’s Stormy Banks | William Morrow |
| Susan Perry | Benson | Tradition | Dell Magazines |
| Steve | Berry | The Tudor Plot: A Cotton Malone Novella | Random House |
| Steve | Berry | Double Jeopardy | Grand Central Publishing |
| Nathan J. | Beyerlein | The Tricky Business in Mai Chau | Dell Magazines |
| J. H. | Bográn | Blame It on the Rain | Pretur via KDP |
| John C. | Boland | Last Night In Cannes | Dell Magazines |
| James O. | Born | The Boca Box | Grand Central Publishing |
| Jay | Brandon | Not Done With the Night | Dell Magazines |
| Allison | Brennan | 36 Hours | The Story Plant |
| Allison | Brennan | Reckless | Minotaur |
| Tony | Broadbent | The Remaining Unknowns | Grand Central Publishing |
| Carole | Bugge | White Noise | China Grove Press |
| Robin | Burcell | The Last Second | William Morrow |
| Jan | Burke | The Amiable Miss Edith Montague | Grand Central Publishing |
| Dana | Cameron | Dialing In | |
| Dana | Cameron | Finals | Dell Magazines |
| Jerome | Charyn | The Major Leaguer | Dell Magazines |
| Lee | Child | High Heat | Delacorte Press |
| Eric | Cline | One of Those Plans-the-Perfect-Crim-But-Then-Something-Goes-Teddibly,-Teddibly-Wrong Stories | Dell Magazines |
| Liza | Cody | I Am Not Fluffy | Dell Magazines |
| Cat | Connor | Snakebyte | Createspace |
| Jean B. | Cooper | The Backseat Man | Dell Magazines |
| John R. | Corrigan | Autumn’s Crossing | Dell Magazines |
| Nina | Croft | The Descartes Legacy | Entangled Publishing |
| Hilary | Davidson | Darkness in the City of Light | Dell Magazines |
| Hilary | Davidson | The Malfeasance Occasional | St. Martin’s |
| David | Dean | Jack and the Devil | Dell Magazines |
| David | Dean | In a Dark Manner | Dell Magazines |
| David | Dean | The Devil You Know | Dell Magazines |
| Jeffrey | Deaver | Where the Evidence Lies | Strand |
| Stephen | DeBock | Catamount | Gypsy Shadow Publishing |
| Stephen | DeBock | The Testament of Charlie Fairweather | Gyspy Shadow Publishing, LLC |
| Phillip | DePoy | The Deadman’s Daughter | Dell Magazines |
| Kate | Ellis | The Intruder | Dell Magazines |
| Doc | Finch | Prompt Watts | Dell Magazines |
| Joseph | Finder | Heirloom | Grand Central Publishing |
| John | Floyd | Secrets | Strand |
| Jack | Fredrickson | The Ace I | Dell Magazines |
| Jamie | Freveletti | Gone | William Morrow |
| Jamie | Freveletti | Run | William Morrow |
| Nina | George | The Game of Her Life | Dell Magazines |
| Angela | Gerst | The Secret Life of Books | Grand Central Publishing |
| John | Gilstrap | In the After | Strand |
| Joseph | Goodrich | Dear Mr. Queen | Grand Central Publishing |
| James | Grady | Hometown Sun | Strand |
| John | Grisham | Fetching Raymond | Dell Books |
| Eric J. | Guignard | Baggage of Eternal Night | JournalStone |
| Steve | Hamilton | The Weight | Dell Magazines |
| Charlaine | Harris | Small Kingdoms | Dell Magazines |
| John | Hartness | Fair Play | Dark Oak Press |
| Joseph | Heller | Almost Like Christmas | Strand |
| Libby Fischer | Hellmann | War Secrets | Mystery Writers of America |
| Mick | Herron | Kicking Off | Dell Magazines |
| Matt | Hilton | Hot Property | Strand |
| W. Hock | Hochheim | At Least They Died With Their Boots On | Lauric Press |
| Steve | Hockensmith | Sugar | Dell Magazines |
| Chris F. | Holm | Pretty Little Things | Dell Magazines |
| Clark | Howard | The Return of Crazy Horse | Dell Magazines |
| S.W. | Hubbard | Mad Blood | Grand Central Publishing |
| Michael | Humfrey | Washed Out | Strand |
| David H. | Ingram | The Covering Storm | Dell Magazines |
| Mary Anne | Kelly | Angelina | Grand Central Publishing |
| V.S. | Kemanis | Collector’s Find | Dell Magazines |
| Dean | Koontz | Wilderness | Random House |
| Diana | Lama | The Ultimate Secret | Dell Magazines |
| Jon | Land | Not a Penny More | Strand |
| Janice | Law | Connectted | Dell Magazines |
| C.E. | Lawrence | The Vly | Grand Central Publishing |
| R.T. | Lawton | Across the Salween | Dell Magazines |
| R.T. | Lawton | The Delivery | Grand Central Publishing |
| Janet Evanovich | Lee Goldberg | Pros and Cons | Bantam Books |
| Elmore | Leonard | The Only Good Syrian Foot Soldier is a Dead One | Strand |
| Robert S. | Levinson | The Beauty With the Million-Dollar Brains | Dell Magazines |
| Laura | Lippman | Waco 1982 | Grand Central Publishing |
| Robert | Lopresti | The Present | Strand |
| Robert | Lopresti | Two Men, One Gun | Dell Magazines |
| Richard | Macker | On a Saturday Evening | Dell Magazines |
| G.M. | Maliett | Yuletide | Strand |
| Catherine | Mambretti | The Very Private Detectress | Grand Central Publishing |
| Michael Palmer | Matthew Palmer | The Deal | Strand |
| Dan | Maurer | Snow Day | Black Rapids Press |
| Harley | Mazuk | The Road Les Traveled | Dell Magazines |
| D.A. | McGuire | The Cove | Dell Magazines |
| Max Allan Collins | Mickey Spillane | So Long, Chief | Strand |
| John A. | Miller | SLO Pizza | Dell Magazines |
| Kevin | Mims | The Gallows Bird | Dell Magazines |
| Gary A. | Mitchell | When Mourning Stirs the House | Dell Magazines |
| Katherine | Neville | The Lunar Society | Grand Central Publishing |
| J.F. | Penn | One Day in Budapest | The Creative Penn |
| Twist | Phelan | Footprints in Water | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
| Tom | Piccirilli | Face Blindness | Dark Regions Press |
| Tom | Piccirilli | The Walls of the Castle | Dark Regions Press |
| Sue | Pike | This Is the Last Time | Dell Magazines |
| James | Powell | Tightrope Act | Dell Magazines |
| Jonathan | Raab | A Game Played | Strand |
| James Rollins | Rebecca Cantrell | Blood Brothers | William Morrow |
| Suzanne Berube | Rorhus | The Golden Ganesh | Dell Magazines |
| James L. | Ross | The Freezer | Dell Magazines |
| Stephen | Ross | The Bird House | Grand Central Publishing |
| Jonathan | Santlofer | The Masterpiece | Strand |
| Jonathan | Santlofer | Party Girls | Dell Magazines |
| Neil | Schofield | Interview | Dell Magazines |
| Ty | Schwamberger | The Killing Club | Crossroads Press |
| Karin | Slaughter | Busted | Dell Books |
| Karin | Slaughter | Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line | Grand Central Publishing |
| Alexander McCall | Smith | Truffle Oil | Strand |
| Tom Rob | Smith | Mokume Gane | Grand Central Publishing |
| R.L. | Stine | High Stakes | Grand Central Publishing |
| Jonathan | Stone | Hedge | Grand Central Publishing |
| Art | Taylor | Ithaca 37 | Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine |
| Art | Taylor | The Care and Feeding of Houseplants | Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine |
| Mark | Terry | Gravedigger | OROX Books |
| Geoffrey | Thorne | The Playlist | Dell Magazines |
| Marilyn | Todd | The Wickedest Town in the West | Dell Magazines |
| Charles | Todd | The Honour of Dundee | Grand Central Publishing |
| Tom | Tolnay | Religious Experience | Dell Magazines |
| O.A. | Tynan | A Case of Harassment | Dell Magazines |
| Stephen T. | Vessels | Doloroso | Dell Magazines |
| Dan | Warthman | Stimulus Money | Dell Magazines |
| Richter | Watkins | Killing Colonel Mayer | Pryde Multimedia |
| Richter | Watkins | Killing Senator Grey | Pryde Multimedia |
| Richter | Watkins | Killing Charlie | Pryde Multimedia |
| Richter | Watkins | Killing Harry | Pryde Multimedia |
| Kevin | Wignall | Advent | Dell Magazines |
| Tim L. | Williams | Promissory Notes | Dell Magazines |
| Tim L. | Williams | Where That Morning Sun Goes Down | Dell Magazines |
| John | Wills | Dancer | Oak Tree Press |
| David | Wood | Freedom: A Dane and Bones Origins Story | Gryphonwood Press |
| Elizabeth | Zelvin | Girl Feeding Birds | Dell Magazines |
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
| Axel | Avian | Agent Colt Shore: Domino 29 | Arundel Publishing |
| Vivi | Barnes | Olivia Twisted | Entangled Publishing/Entangled Teen |
| Marilyn | Brant | The Road to You | Twelfth Night Books |
| Marjorie | Brody | Twisted | Bell Bridge Books |
| Ally | Carter | United We Spy | Disney-Hyperion |
| Ally | Carter | Perfect Scoundrels | Disney-Hyperion |
| Cathrina | Constantine | Wickedly They Come | Black Opal Books |
| Julie | Cross | Vortex | St. Martin’s Press Griffin – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Ashley | Elston | The Rules for Disappearing | Hyperion |
| Lizzie | Friend | Poor Little Dead Girls | Merit Press |
| Margaux | Froley | Escape Theory | Soho Teen |
| Judith | Graves | Killer’s Instinct | Leap Books |
| Kristen | Halbrook | Nobody But Us | Harper Teen |
| Greg | Herren | Lake Thirteen | WilliamWfar |
| J.R. | Johansson | Insomnia | Flux Books |
| Elizabeth | Kiem | Dancer Daughter Traitor Spy | Soho Teen |
| Julie Anne | Lindsey | Deceived | F+W Media/Adams Media (Merit Press imprint) |
| Marie | Lu | Champion | Penguin Putnam |
| Marie | Lu | Prodigy | Penguin Young Readers Group – Putnam |
| David | Lubar | Extremities | Tor Teen |
| Barry | Lyga | Game | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| CJ | Lyons | Broken | Sourcebooks Fire |
| Jonathan | Maberry | Fire & Ash | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| Marie | Mancusi | Scorched | Sourcebooks |
| T. Michael | Martin | The End Games | HarperCollins Children’s Books / Balzer + Bray |
| Jacquelyn | Mitchard | What We Saw At Night | Soho Teen |
| J. Barton | Mitchell | The Severed Tower | St. Martin’s Press Griffin – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Elisa | Nader | Escape from Eden | Merit Press |
| Elisa | Nader | Twisted | Bell Bridge Books |
| Starr Gardinier | Reina | The Other Side: Melinda’s Story | Suspense Publishing |
| Jennifer | Rush | Altered | Little Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Barbara | Stewart | The In-Betweens | St. Martin’s Press |
| Michael F. | Stewart | Assured Destruction | Non Sequitur Press |
| Kara | Taylor | Prep School Confidential | St. Martin’s Press Griffin – Thomas Dunne Books |
| Emma | Trevayne | Coda | Running Press Teens |
| L.M. | Vincent | Saving Dr. Block | Createspace |
| Kelley | York | Made of Stars | Entangled Publishing/Entangled Teen |
| Allen | Zadoff | Boy Nobody | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL
| Mario | Acevedo | Good Money Gone | Self-published |
| Toni | Anderson | The Killing Game | Self Published |
| Winter | Austin | Retribution | F&W Media |
| Revel | Barker | The Blood Secret | Endeavor Press |
| Greig | Beck | The First Bird | Momentum Books |
| Anne Marie | Becker | Deadly Bonds | Carina Press |
| James Scott | Bell | Don’t Leave Me | Compendium Press |
| Buzz | Bernard | Supercell | BelleBooks (Bell Bridge Books) |
| Allison Brennan | Laura Griffin | Crash and Burn | Social Press |
| Marjorie | Brody | Twisted | Bell Bridge Books |
| Sharon | Buchbinder | Obsession | The Wild Rose Press |
| Rebecca | Cantrell | The World Beneath | Self |
| Elliot | Capon | The Corps Vanishes | Rogue Phoenix Press |
| Sarah | Castille | Barely Undercover | Samhain Publishing |
| Loren | Christensen | Dukkha Reverb: A Sam Reeves Martial Arts Thriller | YMAA Publication Center, Inc. |
| Michaelbrent | Collings | The Colony: Genesis | Amazon |
| Michaelbrent | Collings | Strangers | Amazon |
| Cat | Connor | Soundbyte | Rebel ePublishers |
| James L. | Conway | In Cold Blonde | Amazon |
| Nina | Croft | The Descartes Legacy | Entangled Publishing |
| John | Darrin | The Rockets’ Red Glare | John Darrin, Inc. |
| Ted | Dekker | Eyes Wide Open | Outlaw Studios (Ted Dekker) |
| Donna | Del Oro | Lies in Wait | Musa Publishing |
| Lena | Diaz | Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Dead | HarperCollins |
| Ben | Eden | The Tower of Sarah | Gypsy Shadow Publishing |
| JG | Faherty | The Burning Time | Journalstone Publishing |
| J.E. | Fishman | The Dark Pool | StoneGate Ink |
| Matt | Forbeck | Dangerous Games: How to Win | Full Moon Enterprises |
| Joel | Goldman | Chasing the Dead | ADM Enterprises |
| Joshua | Graham | Terminus | Redhaven Books |
| Jude | Hardin | Colt | Jude Hardin |
| Michael | Haskins | To Beat the Devil | Fenian Bastard Press/Self |
| Libby Fischer | Hellmann | Havana Lost | The Red Herrings Press |
| Bette | Lamb | Bone Pit | Two Blacksheep Productions |
| J. J. | Lamb | No Pat Hands | Wolfpack Publishing |
| Peter | Leonard | Back from the Dead | The Story Plant |
| James LePore | Carlos Davis | No Dawn for Men | The Story Plant |
| Allan | Leverone | Parallax View | Self |
| Jon | Land | The Tenth Circle | Open Road |
| Sheila | Lowe | What She Saw | CreateSpace |
| Tom | Lowe | Blood of Cain | Kingsbridge Entertainment |
| Esther | Luttrell | The Haunting of Leigh Maxwell | Copper Ink Publishing |
| James | Macomber | Extraordinary Rendition | James Macomber |
| Bob | Mayer | Chasing the Lost | Cool Gus Publishing |
| Grant | McKenzie | Port of Sorrow | Famous Books |
| Grant | McKenzie | Groza | Famous Books |
| Grant | McKenzie | Nasty Evil Bitch Boss | Famous Books |
| HB | Moore | Finding Sheba | Stonehouse Ink |
| Joe | Moore | The Blade | Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore |
| Boyd | Morrison | The Loch Ness Legacy | Gordian Fiction LLC |
| Alan | Moss | Insidious Deception | Whiskey Creek Press |
| Gregg | Olson | Shocking True Story | Self |
| Alan | Orloff | Ride-Along | Alan Orloff |
| Luke | Preston | Out of Exile | Luke Preston |
| David | Rollins | Standoff | Pan Macmillan |
| Michael | Sherer | Night Tide | Cutter Press |
| S.D. | Skye | The Seven Year Itch | Frankie V Books |
| Helen | Smith | Invitation to Die | Thomas & Mercer |
| Rory | Tate | Plan X | Thalia Press |
| Kay | Thomas | Hard Target | Avon Impulse |
| Gary Williams | Vicky Knerly | Manipulation | Suspense Publishing |
| Richter | Watkins | Cool Heat | Pryde Multimedia, LLC |
| Loreth Anne | White | Pieces of You ~ A Snowy Creek Novel | Black Dog Ink |
| F. Paul | Wilson | The Proteus Cure | self/Shadowridge Press |
| Jeffrey | Wilson | Fade to Black | JournalStone Publishing |
| Douglas | Wynne | Steel Breeze | JournalStone |
