Audio Accolades

 

The Audio Publishers Association announced this year's finalists for the annual Audio awards in twenty-four categories. Stephen King will receive a lifetime achievement award at the gala, to be held March 2 in New York City. Here are the nods for best Mystery and Thriller/Suspense:

Mystery

• Along Came a Spider (25 anniversary edition) by James Patterson, narrated by Taye Diggs, published by Hachette Audio
• The Boy by Tami Hoag, narrated by Hillary Huber, published by Brilliance Publishing
• The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup, narrated by Peter Noble, published by HarperAudio
• The Lost Man by Jane Harper, narrated by Stephen Shanahan, published by Macmillan Audio
• The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke, narrated by Will Patton, published by Simon & Schuster Audio

Thriller/Suspense

• Blood in the Water by Jack Flynn, narrated by Dion Graham, published by Recorded Books
• Freefall by Jessica Barry, narrated by Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker, and MacLeod Andrews, published by HarperAudio
• The Institute by Stephen King, narrated by Santino Fontana, published by Simon & Schuster Audio
• Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman, narrated by Susan Bennett, published by HarperAudio
• Winter Dark by Alex Callister, narrated by Ell Potter, published by Audible Originals
  

Some crime fiction titles were also included among the finalists for best narrator:

 Best Female Narrator

• All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks, narrated by Cassandra Morris, published by Hachette Audio
• The Boy by Tami Hoag, narrated by Hillary Huber, published by Brilliance Publishing
• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, narrated by Marin Ireland, published by HarperAudio
• Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante, narrated by Rachel Atkins, published by Zaffle
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, narrated by January LaVoy, published by Hachette Audio

Best Male Narrator

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, narrated by Tom Hanks, published by HarperAudio
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer, narrated by Robert Petkoff, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny, narrated by Robert Bathurst, published by Macmillan Audio
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, narrated by JD Jackson, published by Penguin Random House Audio
• Watership Down by Richard Adams, narrated by Peter Capaldi, published by Blackstone Publishing