Wow! Out of a field of over 500 books, the ITW Award's Committee, chaired by Vicki Hinze, has chosen five titles in each of three categories: Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Paperback Original. Winners will be announced this summer at Thrillerfest 2008 in New York City.
And the nominees are:
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 Flaco (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)
That's the good part. The bad part? We now have to wait till July 12 to learn who the winners are. The envelope, please!
