*Denotes winner
AGATHA AWARDS 2025
Best Contemporary Novel
A Collection Of Lies by Connie Berry
* A Midnight Puzzle by Gigi Pandian
A Very Woodsy Murder by Ellen Byron
Fondue Or Die by Korina Moss
The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves
Best Historical Novel
* Hall Of Mirrors by John Copenhaver
The Last Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal
The Paris Mistress by Mally Becker
The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks
To Slip The Bonds Of Earth by Amanda Flower
Best First Novel
A Deadly Endeavor by Jenny Adams
Ghosts Of WaikīkĪ by Jennifer K. Morita
Hounds Of The Hollywood Baskervilles by Elizabeth Crowens
Threads Of Deception by Elle Jauffret
* You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen
Best Short Story
"A Matter Of Trust" by Barb Goffman, Three Strikes--You're Dead
"Reynisfjara" by Kristopher Zgorski, Mystery Most International
"Satan’s Spit" by Gabriel Valjan, Tales of Music, Murder and Mayhem: Bouchercon 2024
"Sins Of The Father" by Kerry Hammond, Mystery Most International
* "The Postman Always Flirts Twice" by Barb Goffman, Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy
Best Non-fiction
Abingdon's Boardinghouse Murder by Greg Lilly
Agatha Christie, Marple: Expert On Wickedness by Mark Aldridge
Some Of My Best Friends Are Murderers: Critiquing The Columbo Killers by Chris Chan
The Bookshop: A History Of The American Bookstore by Evan Friss
* Writing The Cozy Mystery: Authors' Perspectives On Their Craft Edited by Phyllis M. Betz
Best Children’s/YA Mystery
First Week Free At The Roomy Toilet: A June Knight Mystery by Josh Pachter
Sasquatch of Harriman Lake by K.B. Jackson
Sid Johnson & The Well-Intended Conspiracy by Frances Schoonmaker
* The Big Grey Man Of Ben Macdhui by K.B. Jackson
The Sherlock Society by James Ponti
ANTHONY AWARDS Finalists 2025
Best Hardcover Novel:
Missing White Woman, by Kellye Garrett (Mulholland)
The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
The Grey Wolf, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Alter Ego, by Alex Segura (Flatiron)
California Bear, by Duane Swiercynski (Mulholland)
Best First Novel:
The Mechanics of Memory, by Audrey Lee (CamCat)
Ghosts of Waikiki, by Jennifer K. Morita (Crooked Lane)
You Know What You Did, by K.T. Nguyen (Dutton)
Good-Looking Ugly, by Rob D. Smith (Shotgun Honey)
Holy City, by Henry Wise (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Best Paperback/E-book/Audiobook:
The Last Few Miles of Road, by Eric Beetner (Level Best)
Echo, by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
Served Cold, by James L’Etoile (Level Best)
Late Checkout, by Alan Orloff (Level Best)
The Big Lie, by Gabriel Valjan (Level Best/Historia)
Best Historical:
The Lantern’s Dance, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
The Witching Hour, by Catriona McPherson (Mobius)
The Bootlegger’s Daughter, by Nadine Nettmann (Lake Union)
The Murder of Mr. Ma, by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan
(Soho Crime)
The Courtesan’s Pirate, by Nina Wachsman (Level Best/Historia)
Best Paranormal:
A New Lease on Death, by Olivia Blacke (Minotaur)
Five Furry Familiars, by Lynn Cahoon (Kensington Cozies)
Exposure, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
Lights, Cameras, Bones, by Carolyn Haines (Minotaur)
Death in Ghostly Hue, by Susan Van Kirk (Level Best)
Best Cozy/Humorous:
A Cup of Flour, a Pinch of Death, by Valerie Burns (Kensington Cozies)
A Very Woodsy Murder, by Ellen Byron (Kensington Cozies)
Ill-Fated Fortune, by Jennifer J. Chow (Minotaur)
Scotzilla, by Catriona McPherson (Severn House)
Cirque du Slay, by Rob Osler (Crooked Lane)
Dominoes, Danzón, and Death, by Raquel V. Reyes (Crooked Lane)
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel:
The Big Grey Men of Ben MacDhui, by K.B. Jackson (Reycraft)
The Sasquatch of Harriman Lake, by K.B. Jackson (Reycraft)
First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet, by Josh Proctor (Level Elevate)
The Sherlock Society, by James Ponti (Aladdin Paperbacks)
When Mimi Went Missing, by Suja Sukumar (Soho Teen)
Best Critical/Non-fiction:
Writing the Cozy Mystery: Authors’ Perspectives on Their Craft, edited by Phyllis M. Betz (McFarland)
Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers: Critiquing the Columbo Killers, by Chris Chan (Level Best)
On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett, by Ashley Lawson (Ohio State
University Press)
Abingdon’s Boardinghouse Murder, by Greg Lilly (History Press)
The Serial Killer’s Apprentice, by Katherine Ramsland and Tracy Ullman (Crime Ink)
Best Anthology/Collection:
Murder, Neat: A Sleuthslayer’s Anthology, edited by Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman (Level Short)
Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House, edited by Michael Bracken and Stacy Woodson
(Down & Out)
Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir, edited by Tod Goldberg (Soho Crime)
Tales of Music, Murder, and Mayhem: Bouchercon Anthology 2024, edited by Heather Graham (Down & Out)
Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead, edited by Josh Pachter (Down & Out)
Best Short Story:
“A Matter of Trust,” by Barb Goffman (from Three Strikes—You’re Dead, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley (Wildside Press)
“Twenty Centuries,” by James D.F. Hannah (from Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir, edited by Tod Goldberg;
Soho Crime)
“Something to Hold Onto,” by Curtis Ippolito (from Dark Yonder, Issue 6, edited by Katy Munger and Eryk Pruitt; Thalia Press)
“Satan’s Spit,” by Gabriel Valjan (from Tales of Music, Murder, and Mayhem: Bouchercon Anthology 2024, edited by Heather Graham; Down & Out)
“Reynisfjara,” by Kristopher Zgorski (from Mystery Most International, edited by Rita Owen, Verena Rose, and Shawn Reilly Simmons; Level Short)
AUDIE AWARDS (for Best Audio Books) 2025
Mystery
Still See You Everywhere (Audio) By Lisa Gardner, Narrated by Hillary Huber, Published by Hachette Audio
The Midnight Feast (Audio) By Lucy Foley, Narrated by Joe Eyre, Sarah Slimani, Roly Botha, Laurence Dobiesz, and Tuppence Middleton, Published by HarperCollins Publishers
This Is Why We Lied (Audio) By Karin Slaughter, Narrated by Kathleen Early, Published by HarperCollins Publishers
* Listen for the Lie (Audio), By Amy Tintera, Narrated by Will Damron and January LaVoy, Published by Macmillan Audio
Rough Pages (Audio), By Lev AC Rosen, Narrated by Vikas Adam, Published by Macmillan Audio
Thriller/Suspense
The Forest of Lost Souls (Audio) By Dean Koontz, Narrated by January LaVoy, Published by Brilliance Publishing
The Little Drummer Girl By John le Carré, Narrated by Adjoa Andoh, Published by reamscape Media LLC
* Lone Wolf (Audio) By Gregg Hurwitz, Narrated by Scott Brick, Published by Macmillan Audio
First Lie Wins (Audio) By Ashley Elston, Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Published by Penguin Random House Audio
The Return of Ellie Black By Emiko Jean, Narrated by Mizuo Peck, Tessa Albertson, full cast, Published by Simon & Schuster Audio
BARRY AWARDS Finalists 2025
Best Mystery Novel
THE WAITING, Michael Connelly
SPIRIT CROSSING, William Kent Krueger
THE GOD OF THE WOODS, Liz Moore
MIDNIGHT AND BLUE, Ian Rankin
CALIFORNIA BEAR, Duane Swierczynski
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, Chris Whitaker
Best First Mystery Novel
THE EXPECTANT DETECTIVES, Kat Ailes
PAPER CAGE, Tom Baragwanath
ORDINARY BEAR, C. B. Bernard
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, Jo Callaghan
FIRST LIE WINS, Ashley Elston
LISTEN FOR THE LIE, Amy Tintera
Best Paperback Original Mystery Novel
DOUBLE BARREL BLUFF, Lou Berney
ALL THE RAGE, Cara Hunter
SMOKE KINGS, Jahmal Mayfield
SOMEONE SAW SOMETHING, Rick Mofina
WORDHUNTER, Stella Sands
SIN CITY, James Swain
Best Action Thriller
ASSASSIN EIGHTEEN, John Brownlow
FIRST STRIKE, Stephen Leather
THE SEVENTH FLOOR, David McCloskey
HUNTED, Abir Mukherjee
HERO, Thomas Perry
THE PRICE YOU PAY, Nick Petrie
BEN FRANKLIN AWARDS, MYSTERY/THRILLER 2025
* Hazardous Lies by Stephen J. Wallace (River Grove Books)
Bone Pendant Girls by Terry S. Freedman (CamCat Books)
Sing for the Red Dress: Smokey River Suspense Series by Joseph M. Marshall, III (Lucid House Publishing)
BLOODY SCOTLAND/MCILVANNEY CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024
D V Bishop – A Divine Fury (Pan Macmillan)
*Chris Brookmyre – The Cracked Mirror (Sphere)
Charles Cumming – Kennedy 35 (HarperCollins)
Andrew James Greig – The Girl in the Loch (Storm Publishing)
Doug Johnstone – The Collapsing Wave (Orenda)
S G Maclean – The Winter List (Quercus)
Val McDermid – Past Lying (Sphere)
Abir Mukherjee – Hunted (Vintage)
C S Robertson – The Trials of Marjory Crowe (Hodder & Stoughton)
Kim Sherwood – A Spy Like Me (HarperCollins)
Doug Sinclair – Blood Runs Deep (Storm Publishing)
Douglas Skelton – The Hollow Mountain (Polygon)
BLOODY SCOTLAND CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR Shortlists 2025
Crow Moon, by Suzy Aspley (Orenda)
Dark Island, by Daniel Aubrey (Harper North)
The Silent House of Sleep, by Allan Gaw (SA Press)
Blood Runs Deep, by Doug Sinclair (Storm)
Double Proof, by Martin Stewart (Polygon)
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS Best Crime and Thriller 2025
* Hunted by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Orion Fiction)
Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent (Zaffre)
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French (Simon & Schuster)
The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas (Penguin Michael Joseph)
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Viking)
CAPITAL CRIME FINGERPRINT AWARDS 2025
Audio Book of the Year
Holmes, Margaret And Poe, by James Patterson
Close To Death, by Anthony Horowitz
* The Dream Home, by TM Logan
The List Of Suspicious Things, by Jennie Godfrey
The Wrong Sister, by Claire Douglas
True Crime Book of the Year
The Siege, by Ben Macintyre
The Murder Of Judith Roberts: The Mark Of Peter Sutcliffe, by Chris Clark & Tanita Matthews
* Getting Away With Murder, by Lynda La Plante
The Peepshow, by Kate Summerscale
The Umbrella Murder, by Ulrik Skotte
Debut Crime Book of the Year
* The List Of Suspicious Things, by Jennie Godfrey
Knife Skills For Beginners, by Orlando Murrin
Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney
Isolation Island, by Louise Minchin
Five By Five, by Claire Wilson
Historical Book of the Year
Holmes And Moriarty, by Gareth Rubin
House Of Shades, by Lianne Dillsworth
The Burial Plot, by Elizabeth Macneal
* City Of Destruction, by Vaseem Khan
White City, by Dom Nolan
Genre-Busting Book of the Year
Blood Like Mine, by Stuart Neville
Breaking The Dark, by Lisa Jewell
The Last Murder At The End Of The World, by Stuart Turton
The Examiner, by Janice Hallett
* The Gathering, by CJ Tudor
Thriller Book of the Year
One Perfect Couple, by Ruth Ware
* A Violent Heart, by David Fennell
The Woman On The Ledge, by Ruth Mancini
Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee
The Missing Family, by Tim Weaver
Overall Best Crime Book of the Year
Murder On Lake Garda, by Tom Hindle
All The Colours Of The Dark, by Chris Whitaker
Midnight And Blue, by Ian Rankin
* The Mercy Chair, by MW Craven
Nightwatching, by Tracey Sierra
Publisher of the Year for Best Crime Campaign
Simon & Schuster UK, for Ruth Ware: One Perfect Couple
Orion, for Chris Whitaker: All the Colours of the Dark
HQ, for Louise Candlish: Our Holiday
Transworld, for Andrea Mara: Someone in the Attic
* Cornerstone, for Jennie Godfrey: The List of Suspicious Things
COLORADO BOOK AWARDS Finalists 2025
Best Mystery
Death Valley Duel by Scott Graham (Torrey House Press)
A Dream in the Dark by Robert Justice (Crooked Lane Books)
Play of Shadows by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
Best Thriller
Anyone But Her by Cynthia Swanson (Columbine York)
The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson (Sourcebooks)
If You Lie by Caleb Stephens (Thrillserscape Press)
CRIMEFEST AWARDS 2025
Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award
Tom Baragwanath for Paper Cage (Baskerville)
Tasha Coryell for Love Letters to a Serial Killer (Orion Fiction)
C. L. Miller for The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder (Pan Macmillan)
* Akira Otani (and translator Sam Bett) for The Night of Baba Yaga (Faber & Faber)
Tracy Sierra for Nightwatching (Viking)
Claire Wilson for Five by Five (Michael Joseph)
edunnit award
Martin Edwards for Hemlock Bay (Head of Zeus)
Laurie R. King for The Lantern’s Dance (Allison & Busby)
* Jean Hanff Korelitz for The Sequel (Faber & Faber)
Bella Mackie for What A Way To Go (The Borough Press)
Liz Moore for The God of the Woods (The Borough Press)
Peter Swanson for A Talent for Murder (Faber & Faber)
Last Laugh Award
Cathy Ace for The Case of the Secretive Secretary (Four Tails Publishing Ltd.)
DG Coutinho for The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin (Harvill Secker)
Bella Mackie for What A Way To Go (The Borough Press)
Orlando Murrin for Knife Skills for Beginners (Transworld)
* Mike Ripley for Mr Campion’s Christmas (Severn House)
Antti Tuomianen (and translator David Hackston) for The Burning Stones (Orenda Books)
H.R.F. Keating award
* Mark Aldridge for Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert in Wickedness (HarperCollins)
Jem Bloomfield for Allusion in Detective Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan)
Ashley Bowden for Female Detectives in Early Crime Fiction 1841-1920 (Fabula Mysterium Press)
Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst for Writing the Murder: Essays in Crafting Crime Fiction (Dead Ink)
Sara Lodge for The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female (Yale University Press)
Lynda La Plante for Getting Away With Murder: My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen (Zaffre)
Thalia Proctor Memorial Award For Best Adapted Tv Crime Drama
Bad Monkey, based on the book by Carl Hiaasen (Apple TV+)
Dalgliesh (series 3), based on the Inspector Dalgliesh books by P.D. James (Channel 5)
Lady in the Lake based on the book by Laura Lippman (Apple TV+)
Moonflower Murders based on the book by Anthony Horowitz (BBC)
* Slow Horses (series 4), based on the Slough House books by Mick Herron (Apple TV+)
The Turkish Detective, based on the Inspector Ikmen books by Barbara Nadel (BBC)
Best Crime Novel For Children
* Sufiya Ahmed for Rosie Raja: Undercover Codebreaker (Bloomsbury Education)
Natasha Farrant for The Secret of Golden Island (Faber & Faber)
A.M. Howell for Mysteries at Sea: The Hollywood Kidnap Case (Usborne Publishing)
M. G. Leonard for The Twitchers: Feather (Walker Books)
Beth Lincoln for The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
Nicki Thornton for The Floating Witch Mystery (Faber & Faber)
Best Crime Novel For Young Adults
H.F. Askwith for A Cruel Twist of Fate (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
Denise Brown for It All Started With a Lie (Hashtag Press)
A.J. Clack for Lie or Die (Firefly Press)
Amie Jordan for All the Hidden Monsters (Chicken House)
* Kayvion Lewis for Heist Royale (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books)
Karen M. McManus for Such Charming Liars (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARDS (f/k/a ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS) 2025
The Miller-Martin Award for Best Crime Novel
Colin Barrett, Wild Houses (McClelland & Stewart)
Jaima Fixsen, The Specimen (Poisoned Pen Pressed Pen Press)
* Conor Kerr, Prairie Edge (Strange Light, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada)
John MacLachlan Gray, Mr. Good-Evening (Douglas & McIntyre)
Louise Penny, The Grey Wolf (Minotaur Books)
Best Crime First Novel
Suzan Denoncourt, The Burden of Truth (Suzan Denoncourt)
Peter Holloway, The Roaring Game Murders (Bonspiel Books)
Jim McDonald, Altered Boy (Amalit Books)
Marianne K. Miller, We Were the Bullfighter (Dundurn Press)
* Ashley Tate, Twenty-Seven Minutes (Doubleday Books Canada)
Best Crime Novel Set in Canada
Brenda Chapman, Fatal Harvest (Ivy Bay Press)
Barry W. Levy, The War Machine (Double Dagger Books)
* Shane Peacock, As We Forgive Others (Cormorant Books)
Greg Rhyno, Who By Fire (Cormorant Books)
Kerry Wilkinson, The Call (Bookouture)
The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery
Cathy Ace, The Corpse with the Pearly Smile (Four Tails Publishing Ltd.)
Raye Anderson, The Dead Shall Inherit (Signature Editions)
Susan Juby, A Meditation on Murder (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.)
* Thomas King, Black Ice (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.)
Jonathan Whitelaw, Concert Hall Killer (HarperNorth/ HarperCollins Canada)
Best Crime Novella
Marcelle Dubé, Chuck Berry is Missing, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Liz Ireland, Mrs. Claus and the Candy Corn Caper, Kensington
* Pamela Jones, The Windmill Mystery, Austin Macauley Publishers
A.J. McCarthy, A Rock, Black Rose Writing
Twist Phelan, Aim, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Best Crime Short Story
Catherine Astolfo, "Farmer Knudson," from Auntie Beers: A Book of Connected Short Stories, Carrick Publishing
* Therese Greenwood, "Hatcheck Bingo," from The 13th Letter, Mesdames and Messieurs of Mayhem, Carrick Publishing
Billie Livingston, "Houdini Act," Saturday Evening Post
Linda Sanche, "The Electrician," from Crime Waves, Dangerous Games, A Canada West Anthology
Melissa Yi, "The Longest Night of the Year," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Best French Language Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Blanchard, La femme papillon (Fides)
Lavallée, Le crime du garçon exquis (Fides)
Jean Lemieux, L’Affaire des montants (Québec Amérique)
* Guillaume Morrissette, Une mémoire de lion (Saint-Jean)
Johanne Seymour, Fracture (Libre Expression)
Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book
* Sigmund Brouwer, Shock Wave, Orca Book Publishers
Meagan Mahoney, The Time Keeper, DCB Young Readers
Twist Phelan, Snowed, Bronzeville Books, LLC
David A. Poulsen, The Dark Won't Wait, Red Deer Press
Melissa Yi, The Red Rock Killer, Windtree Press
The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book
* (tie) Denise Chong, Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur's Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse, Random House Canada
* (tie) Tanya Talaga, The Knowing, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Nate Hendley, Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War, Dundurn Press
John L. Hill, The Rest of the [True Crime] Story, AOS Publishing
Dean Jobb, A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Best Unpublished Crime Novel manuscript
Robert Bowerman, The Man in The Black Hat
* Luke Devlin, Govern Yourself Accordingly
Delee Fromm, Dark Waters
Lorrie Potvin, A Trail's Tears
William Watt, Predators in the Shadows
CWA DAGGER AWARDS 2025
Diamond Dagger
* Mick Herron
Gold Dagger
A Divine Fury by D V Bishop (Macmillan)
The Bell Tower by R J Ellory (Orion)
The Hunter by Tana French (Penguin Books Ltd)
Guide Me Home by Attica Locke (Profile Books Ltd)
* Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
I Died at Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel (Bedford Square Publishers)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
* Dark Ride by Lou Berney (Hemlock Press/ HarperCollins)
Nobody's Hero by M W Craven (Constable/Little Brown, Hachette)
Sanctuary by Garry Disher (Viper/Profile Books)
Hunted by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill & Secker/ Penguin Random House)
Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville (Simon & Schuster)
City in Ruins by Don Winslow (Hemlock Press/HarperCollins)
John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull (Penguin Random House/ Michael Joseph)
Knife River by Justine Champine (Bonnier Books UK/ Manilla Press)
Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten (Penguin Random House/ Hamish Hamilton)
A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder by Gay Marris (Bedford Square Publishers)
* All Us Sinners by Katy Massey (Little, Brown /Sphere)
Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney (Bonnier Books UK/ Zaffre)
Historical Dagger
A Divine Fury by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
Banquet of Beggars by Chris Lloyd (Orion Fiction/Orion Publishing)
The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola (Orion Fiction/Orion Publishing)
* The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J. West (Orenda Books)
Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield (Aries / Head of Zeus)
Crime Fiction In Translation Dagger
Dogs and Wolves by Hervé Le Corre (Europa Editions UK) tr. Howard Curtis
Going to the Dogs by Pierre Lemaitre (Maclehose Press) tr. Frank Wynne
* The Night of Baby Yaga by Akira Otani (Faber & Faber) tr. Sam Bett
The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Rämö (Zaffre) tr. Kristian London
Butter by Asako Yuzuki (4th Estate) tr. Polly Barton
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán (4th Estate) tr. Sophie Hughes
Gold Dagger For Non-Fiction
Unmasking Lucy Let by Jonathan Coffey & Judith Moritz (Seven Dials)
The Lady in the Lake by Jeremy Craddock (Mirror Books)
Framed by John Grisham & Jim McCloskey (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Criminal Mind by Duncan Harding (PRH/Michael Joseph)
Four Shots in the Night by Henry Hemming (Quercus)
* The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Circus)
Short Story Dagger
"The Glorious Twelfth" by S.J Bennett in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)
* "A Date on Yarmouth Pier" by J.C Bernthal in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)
"Why Harrogate?" by Janice Hallett in Murder in Harrogate, edited by Vaseem Khan (Orion Publishing Group/Orion Fiction)
"City Without Shadows" by William Burton McCormick in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)
"A Ruby Sun" by Meeti Shroff-Shah in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)
"Murder at the Turkish Baths" by Ruth Ware in Murder in Harrogate, edited by Vaseem Khan, (Orion Publishing Group/ Orion Fiction)
Whodunnit Dagger
A Death in Diamonds by SJ Bennett, (Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre)
Murder at the Christmas Emporium by Andreina Cordani,(Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre)
* The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl by Lisa Hall, (Hera Hera)
A Good Place to Hide a Body by Laura Marshall, (Hodder & Stoughton )
A Matrimonial Murder by Meeti Shroff-Shah, (Joffe Books)
Murder at the Matinee, by Jamie West, (Brabinger Publishing)
Twisted Dagger
Emma, Disappeared by Andrew Hughes (Hachette Books Ireland)
Beautiful People by Amanda Jennings (HarperCollins/ HQ FICTION)
The Stranger In Her House by John Marrs (Amazon Publishing/ Thomas & Mercer)
The Trials Of Marjorie Crowe by CS Robertson (Hodder & Stoughton)
* Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra: (PRH/ Viking)
Look In The Mirror by Catherine Steadman (Quercus)
Dagger In The Library
Kate Atkinson
Robert Galbraith
Janice Hallett
Lisa Jewell
Edward Marston
* Richard Osman
Publishers’ Dagger
Bitter Lemon Press
Faber & Faber
* Orenda Books
Pan Macmillan
Simon & Schuster
Emerging Author Dagger
Bahadur Is My Name by Loftus Brown,
Funeral Games by Shannon Chamberlain
Soho Love, Soho Blood by Hywel Davies
* Ashland by Joe Eurell
The Fifth by Shannon Falkson,
Murder Under Wraps by Catherine Lovering
DANISH CRIMINAL ACADEMY AWARDS 2025
Palle Rosenkrantz prize (best foreign crime/thriller novel)
* Christoffer Carlsson, Levende og døde
Harald Mogensen award (best Danish crime/thriller novel)
* Søren Sveistrup, Tælle til en tælle til to
Debut Prize
* Mikkel Blaabjergm Den 6. magt
The Lasse Holm diploma (historical crime novel of the year)
* Mord i delegationen, Pernille Schou
DAPHNE AWARDS (FROM RWA KISS OF DEATH) Finalists 2025
Published Division Finalists
Cozy Mystery Suspense
Charlie’s Secrets — Lorena McCourtney
The Burning of Rosemont Abbey — Naomi Stephens
Ghost Appeal — Louisa West
Historical Romantic Mystery Suspense
Charlotte and the Seductive Spymaster — Grace Calloway
With Winter Comes Darkness — Robbi Neal
A Hope Unburied— Kimberley Woodhouse
Long Romantic Mystery Suspense
Don’t Look Back —Rachel Grant
Stolen Beauty —Isabel Jolie
Locked Down— Lori Matthews
Mainstream Mystery Suspense
The Third Estate Secrets of the Manor — D R Berlin
Shady Justice — Rena Koontz
Cold Vengeance—Nancy Mehl
Novella & Short Romantic Mystery Suspense
Tracking the Missing — Sami A. Abrams
Raider Unleashed— Lori Matthews
Wyoming Undercover Escape — Juno Rushdan
Unpublished Division Finalists
Mainstream Mystery Suspense
Checkpoint — GK Daffu
Thirsty — Debbie Friedman
People Like You — Mo Voaden
Romantic Suspense Category
First Note of Danger — Leah Miles
The Painting — Sheila Myers
Buried — E.J. Whisler
DAVID L. GOODIS AWARD NOIRCON (Biannual) 2024
The David L. Goodis Award: PHILIPPE GARNIER (journalist, author)
The Jay and Deen Kogan Award for Excellence: JIM NISBET (posthumously) (author)
The Anne Friedberg Award for Contributions to Noir and Its Preservation: UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE
DAVITT AWARDS (Australia) 2024
Adult novels
The Chasm (Bronwyn Hall, HQ Fiction)
The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin)
The Half Brother (Christine Keighery, Ultimo)
Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador)
Exquisite Corpse (Marija Peričić, Ultimo)
The Fall Between (Darcy Tindale, Penguin)
*When One of Us Hurts (Monica Vuu, Macmillan)
Nonfiction books
Reclaim: Understanding complex trauma and those who abuse (Ahona Guha, Scribe)
*The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife (Rebecca Hazel, Vintage)
Ghosts of the Orphanage (Christine Kenneally, Hachette)
Obsession (Nicole Madigan, Pantera)
Young adult novels
*Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer (Amy Doak, Penguin)
Some Shall Break (Ellie Marney, A&U Children’s)
Children’s novels
*The Wolves of Greycoat Hall (Lucinda Gifford, Walker Books)
Copycat (Kelli Anne Hawkins, HarperCollins)
The First Summer of Callie McGee (Allison Tait, Scholastic)
This Camp Is Doomed: A Dennith Grange misadventure (Anna Zobel, Puffin)
DERRINGER AWARDS 2025
FLASH
"Sweet Red Cherries" by C.W. Blackwell (Punk Noir Magazine, November 28, 2024)
"Mob Mentality" by James Patrick Focarile (Shotgun Honey, June 20, 2024)
"La Petite Mort" by Susan Hatters Friedman (Bristol Noir, February 16, 2024)
* "Kargin the Necromancer" by Mike McHone (Mystery Tribune, December 15, 2024)
"Lockerbie, 1988" by Mary Thorson (Cotton Xenomorph, October 13, 2024)
SHORT STORY
"Skeeter's Bar and Grill" by Julie Hastrup (Larceny & Last Chances: 22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense, Superior Shores Press)
* "The Wind Phone" by Josh Pachter (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2024)
"The Heist" by Bill Pronzini (Shamus and Anthony Commit Capers: Ten Tales of Criminals, Crooks, and Culprits, Level Best Books)
"The Last Chance Coalition" by Judy Penz Sheluk (Larceny & Last Chances: 22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense, Superior Shores Press)
"The Kratz Gambit" by Mark Thielman (Private Dicks and Disco Balls: Private Eyes in the Dyn-O-Mite Seventies, Down & Out Books)
LONG STORY
"How Mary’s Garden Grew" by Elizabeth Elwood (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2024)
* "Heart of Darkness" by Tammy Euliano (Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House, Down & Out Books)
"Putting Things Right" by Peter W. J. Hayes (Thrill Ride - The Magazine, December 21, 2024)
"Motive Factor X" by Joseph Andre Thomas (Howls from the Scene of the Crime: A Crime Horror Anthology, Howl Society Press)
"Cold Comfort" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Private Dicks and Disco Balls: Private Eyes in the Dyn-O-Mite Seventies, Down & Out Books)
NOVELETTE
"A Band of Scheming Women" by Joslyn Chase (Thrill Ride - The Magazine, March 21, 2024)
"Christmas Dinner" by Robert Lopresti (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, November/December 2024)
"Barracuda Backfire" by Tom Milani (Chop Shop Episode 4, Down & Out Books, April 1, 2024)
"Her Dangerously Clever Hands" by Karen Odden (Crimeucopia - Through the Past Darkly, Murderous Ink Press)
* "The Cadillac Job" by Stacy Woodson (Chop Shop Episode 1, Down & Out Books, January 1, 2024)
ANTHOLOGY
Devil's Snare: Best New England Crime Stories 2024 Edited by Susan Oleksiw, Ang Pompano, Leslie Wheeler, Crime Spell Books
Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead Edited by Josh Pachter, Down & Out Books
Larceny & Last Chances: 22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense Edited by Judy Penz Sheluk, Superior Shores Press
*Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology Edited by Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman, Level Best Books
New York State of Crime: Murder New York Style 6 Edited by D.M. Barr and Joseph R.G. De Marco, Down & Out Books
The 13th Letter Edited by Donna Carrick, Carrick Publishing
THE SILVER DERRINGER FOR EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE: Janet Hutchings
EDWARD D. HOCH MEMORIAL GOLDEN DERRINGER FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Art Taylor
HALL OF FAME: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
EDGAR AWARDS 2025
"Cold Turkey" by Patricia Dusenbury, Flash Bang Mysteries ed. Brandon Bourg (Summer 2017)
"Happy Birthday" by Alan Orloff, Shotgun Honey ed. Jen Conley, Angel Luis Colón, and Nick Kolakowski (June 15, 2017)
"Final Testimony" by Travis Richardson, Flash Fiction Offensive ed, Hector Duarte Jr. and Rob Pierce (July 10, 2017)
"Fishing for an Alibi" by Earl Staggs, Flash Bang Mysteries ed. Brandon Bourg (Fall 2017)
"Flash Point" by Elizabeth Zelvin, A Twist of Noir ed. Christopher Grant (March 20, 2017)
For Best Short Story (1,001-4,000 words)
"The Kids Keep Coming" by David H. Hendrickson, Fiction River: Tavern Tales ed. Kerrie L. Hughes, WMG Publishing Inc. (January 2017)
"The Cop Who Liked Gilbert and Sullivan" by Robert Lopresti, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #23, ed. Marvin Kaye, Wildside Press (October 2017)
"The New Score" by Alison McMahan, Fish Out of Water: A Guppy Anthology ed. Ramona DeFelice Long, Wildside Press (March 2017)
"The Bank Job" by Stephen D. Rogers, Trigger Warning Short Fiction with Pictures ed. Eric Lindbom and John Skewes (March 16, 2017)
"Every Picture Tells a Story" by Cathi Stoler, Where Crime Never Sleeps: Murder New York Style 4 ed. Elizabeth Zelvin, Level Best Books (September 2017)
For Best Long Story (4,001-8,000 words)
"El Asesino" by Rusty Barnes, BULL ed. Ben Drevlow (May 22, 2017)
"The #2 Pencil" by Matt Coyle, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books (January 2017)
"Death in the Serengeti" by David H. Hendrickson, Fiction River: Pulse Pounders: Andrenaline ed. Kevin J. Anderson, WMG Publishing, Inc. (July 2017)
"Matricide and Ice Cream" by William Burton McCormick, The CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour ed. Martin Edwards, Orenda Books (November 2017)
"The Drive-by" by Alison McMahan, Busted: Arresting Stories from the Beat ed. Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler, and Shawn Reilly Simmons, Level Best Books (April 2017)
For Best Novelette (8,001-20,000 words)
"Flowing Waters" by Brendan DuBois, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine ed. Janet Hutchings, January/February 2017
"Windward" by Paul D. Marks, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books (January 2017)
"King's Quarter" by Andrew McAleer, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books (January 2017)
"Kill My Wife, Please" by Robert J. Randisi, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books (January 2017)
"Trouble Like a Freight Train Coming" by Tina Whittle, Lowcountry Crime: Four Novellas ed. James M. Jackson and Jan Rubens, Wolf's Echo Press (February 2017)
EDGAR AWARDS Finalists 2024Best Novel
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Penguin Random House – Random House Worlds/Del Rey
Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco (Farrar, Straus and Giroux – MCD)
Things Don’t Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins (Penguin Random House – Crown)
My Favorite Scar by Nicolás Ferraro (Soho Press – Soho Crime)
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Penguin Random House – Riverhead Books)
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Macmillan Publishers – Celadon Books)
*The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell (Penguin Random House – Doubleday)
Best First Novel By An American Author
Twice the Trouble by Ash Clifton (Crooked Lane Books)
Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda (Crooked Lane Books)
The Mechanics of Memory by Audrey Lee (CamCat Books)
A Jewel in the Crown by David Lewis (Kensington Books – A John Scognamiglio Book)
The President’s Lawyer by Lawrence Robbins (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books)
* Holy City by Henry Wise (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
Best Paperback Original
* The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle (Harlequin Trade Publishing – Park Row Books)
The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass (Harlequin Trade Publishing – Graydon House)
Shell Games by Bonnie Kistler (HarperCollins – Harper Paperbacks)
A Forgotten Kill by Isabella Maldonado (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
The Road to Heaven by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson (Dundurn Press Ltd.)
Best Fact Crime
Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi (HarperCollins – Mariner Books)
* The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson (Penguin Random House – Crown)
A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton by Deb Miller Landau (Pegasus Books – Pegasus Crime)
The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy that Let a Killer Go Free by Gregg Olsen (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery by Earl Swift (HarperCollins – Mariner Books)
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Wolraich (Union Square & Co.)
Best Critical/Biographical
* James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Nathan Ashman (McFarland Publishing)
American Noir Film: From The Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl by M. Keith Booker (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Organized Crime on Page and Screen: Portrayals in Hit Novels, Films, and Television Shows by David Geherin (McFarland Publishing)
On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson (The Ohio State University Press)
Ian Fleming; The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare (HarperCollins – Harper)
Best Short Story
“Cut and Thirst,” Amazon Original Stories by Margaret Atwood (Amazon Publishing)
“Everywhere You Look,” Amazon Original Stories by Liv Constantine (Amazon Publishing)
* “Eat My Moose,” Conjunctions: 82, Works & Days by Erika Krouse (Bard College)
“Barriers to Entry,” Amazon Original Stories by Ariel Lawhon (Amazon Publishing)
“The Art of Cruel Embroidery,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine – July-August 2024 by Steven Sheil (Dell Magazine)
Best Juvenile
The Beanstalk Murder by P.G. Bell (Macmillan Publishers – Feiwel & Friends)
Mystery of Mystic Mountain by Janet Fox (Simon & Schuster BFYR)
* Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key by Margaret Peterson Haddix (HarperCollins – Quill Tree Books)
The Spindle of Fate by Aimee Lim (Macmillan Publishers – Feiwel & Friends)
Find Her by Ginger Reno (Holiday House)
Best Young Adult
Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell (HarperCollins – Heartdrum)
The Bitter End by Alexa Donne (Random House Books for Young Readers)
A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur (Macmillan Publishers – Feiwel & Friends)
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper Teen)
* 49 Miles Alone by Natalie D. Richards (Sourcebooks – Sourcebooks Fire)
Best Television Episode Teleplay
“Episode Five” – Rebus, Written by Gregory Burke (Viaplay)
* “Episode One” – Monsieur Spade, Written by Tom Fontana & Scott Frank (AMC)
“Episode One” – Moonflower Murders, Written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece PBS)
“Mirror” – Murderesses, Written by Wiktor Piatkowski, Joanna Kozłowska, Katarzyna Kaczmarek (Viaplay)
“Episode Two” – The Marlow Murder Club, Written by Robert Thorogood (Masterpiece PBS)
Grand Master
*Laura Lippman
*John Sandford
Ellery Queen Award
*Peter Wolverton of St. Martin’s Publishing Group
Raven Award
*Face in a Book Bookstore & Gifts
FALCOLN AWARD (Japan) 2024
* Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
GERMAN MYSTERY PRIZE (Deutscher Krimi Preis) 2025
German Language
First place: Thomas Knüwer's Das Haus in dem Gudelia stirbt (Pendragon)
Second Place: Matthias Wittekindt for Hinterm Deich (Kampa)
Third Place: Karina Urbach, Das Haus am Gordon Place (Limes)
Crime Fiction in Translation
First place: Jake Lamar, If 6 were 9, translated by Robert Brack
Second place: Lavie Tidhar's Maror (translated by Conny Lösch)
Third place: Lisa Cody's Die Schnellimbissdetektivin (translated by Iris Konopik)
GLASS KEY AWARD (Scandinavia) 2024
*Levende og døde (Living and Dead) by Christopher Carlsson
GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS, MYSTERY & THRILLER 2024
*The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
HAMMETT PRIZE 2024
Night Letter by Sterling Watson, Akashic Books
The Almost Widow by Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Harper Avenue
*Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead, Doubleday
Stealing by Margaret Verble, Mariner Books
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon, Alfred A. Knopf
AN POST IRISH INDEPENDENT CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
Where They Lie, by Claire Coughlan (Simon & Schuster)
Someone in the Attic, by Andrea Mara (Bantam)
Somebody Knows, by Michelle McDonagh (Hachette Ireland)
When We Were Silent, by Fiona McPhillips (Bantam)
ITW THRILLER AWARDS 2025
Best Standalone Thriller Novel
Kimberly Belle — THE PARIS WIDOW (Harlequin – Park Row)
Will Dean — THE CHAMBER (Emily Bestler Books)
T.J. Newman — WORST CASE SCENARIO (Little, Brown & Co.)
* Jason Rekulak — THE LAST ONE AT THE WEDDING (Flatiron Books)
Lisa Scottoline — THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEVLINS (Penguin/Putnam)
Best Series Novel
* David Baldacci — TO DIE FOR (Grand Central Publishing)
Eric Beetner — THE LAST FEW MILES OF ROAD (Level Best Books)
Ann Cleeves — THE DARK WIVES (Minotaur)
Meg Gardiner — SHADOWHEART (Blackstone Publishing)
Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen — FLASHBACK (Grand Central Publishing)
Isabella Maldonado — A FORGOTTEN KILL (Thomas & Mercer)
Best First Novel
Kate Brody — RABBIT HOLE (Soho Crime)
Jaime deBlanc — AFTER IMAGE (Thomas & Mercer)
Carinn Jade — THE ASTROLOGY HOUSE (Atria)
Alejandro Nodarse —BLOOD IN THE CUT (Flatiron Books)
* Marie Tierney — DEADLY ANIMALS (Henry Holt & Co.)
Best Audiobook
Sally Hepworth — DARLING GIRLS (Macmillan), Narrated by Jessica Clarke
Jon Lindstrom — HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE (Dreamscape Media), Narrated by Jon Lindstrom
* Kate Alice Marshall — NO ONE CAN KNOW (Macmillan Audio), Narrated by Karissa Vacker
Hilton Reed — BEYOND ALL DOUBT (Dreamscape Media), Narrated by George Newbern
Amy Tintera — LISTEN FOR THE LIE (Macmillan), Narrated by January LaVoy and Will Damron
Best Young Adult Novel
Adam Cesare — INFLUENCER (Union Square & Co., LLC)
Ripley Jones — THE OTHER LOLA (Wednesday Books)
* Marisha Pessl — DARKLY (Delacorte)
Natalie Richards — 49 MILES ALONE (Sourcebooks Fire)
Melanie Sumrow — GIRLS LIKE HER (Balzer + Bray)
Best Short Story
Stefanie Leder — "Not a Dinner Party Person" (Soho Crime)
Twist Phelan — "Double Parked" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
* Ivy Pochoda — Jackrabbit Skin (Amazon Original Stories)
Lisa Unger — The Doll's House (Amazon Original Stories)
Joseph S. Walker — "And Now, an Inspiring Story of Tragedy Overcome" (Wildside Press)
KILLER NASHVILLE SILVER FALCHION AWARDS Finalists 2025
Best Action Adventure
Jericho Burning by T.G. Brown
The General’s Gold by Bruce Robert Coffin
Desperate Measures by Ley Esses
Where Love Means Nothing by Howard Gimple
The North Line by Matt Riordan
Best Comedy (includes comedic P.I. and crime caper)
The Princess Shoppe by Kerry Blaisdell
Swiped by L.M. Chilton
Get Gribnitz by Howard Gimple
Model Ghost by TK Sheffield
Sorry, Knot Sorry by Lois Winston
Best Cozy
Beeswax Bewitchment by S.E. Babin
Elizabeth Sails by Kristin Owens
Study Guide For Murder by Lori Robbins
Framed For Murder by Marla White
Wheeling And Dealing by Becki Willis
Best Historical
Empowered By The Dream: A Journey Of Resilience by Gladys A. Barrio
The Paris Mistress by Mally Becker
A Killing On The Hill by Robert Dugoni
Find Your Way To My Grave by Chris Keefer
What Once Was Promised by Louis Trubiano
Best Investigator (includes procedural, serious P.I., detective, and noir)
The Things That Cannot Be Forgotten by Peter W.J. Hayes
Last Dog Out by Candace Irving
Black & White by Justin M. Kiska
Tiger Claw by Michael Allan Mallory
Murder Outside The Box by Saralyn Richard
Best Juvenile / Y.A.
Beyond The Cemetery Gate: The Secret Keeper’s Daughter by Valerie Biel
Dead Girl by Kerrie Faye
Stealing Time by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs
Snowed by Twist Phelan
Star Brother by Maxine Rose Schur
Best Literary
She Ruined Our Lives by Chris Chan
An American Tragedy by Dan Flanigan
Best Mainstream / Commercial
Those That Did Not Die by Penny Fletcher
On The Mad River by Lucrecia Guerrero
People Will Talk by Kieran Scott
Between Lies And Revenge by Hannah Sharpe
Blindspot by Maggie Smith
Best Mystery
Drop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombs
Obey All Laws by Cindy Goyette
At First I Was Afraid by Marty Ludlum
A World Of Hurt by Mindy Mejia
Scorched: Burn Me Once… by Cam Torrens
Best Nonfiction
There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari
Lovers In Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld
Ask Not: The Kennedys And The Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
Tilghman: The Legendary Lawman And The Woman Who Inspired Him by Chris Enss
Seeds Of Leadership by Wilson Lukang
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Ocean’s Godori by Elaine Cho
The Canopy Keepers by Veronica G. Henry
Master Version 1.1 by Antanas Marcelionis
House Of Fire & Magic by Sherrilyn McQueen
The Building That Wasn’t by Abigail Miles
Best Short Story Collection / Anthology
Never Tell Collection by Kjersti Egerdahl
Day by Patrick Kitson
Deeds Of Darkness by William Burton McCormick
6-Lane Highway by Sean Mitchell
Larceny & Last Chances: 22 Stories Of Mystery & Suspense by Judy Penz Sheluk
Best Southern Gothic
Pocket Full Of Teeth by Lisa Kastner
Kentucky Blood (Book I Of The Kentucky Blood Series) by Ashley Thomas Sheikh
Best Supernatural
Not Born Of Woman by Teel Glenn
A Place For Good And Evil by Stacey Horan
City Of Innocent Monsters by Stacey Horan
Dervla Alarms The Nanas by DR Ransdell
Cold Snap by Lindy Ryan
Best Suspense
A Friend In The Dark by Samantha M. Bailey
If You Tell A Lie by Lucinda Berry
The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Lost To Dune Road by Kara Thomas
The Last Party by AR Torre
Best Thriller
Rich Justice by Robert Bailey
The Dredge by Brendan Flaherty
The Mechanics Of Memory by Audrey Lee
A Forgotten Kill by Isabella Maldonado
The Ascent by Adam Plantinga
Best Western
Knife River by Baron Birtcher
Sarita by Natalie Musgrave Dossett
The Broken Blood by Dwight Holing
KILLER NASHVILLE CLAYMORE AWARDS Finalists 2025
Best Action Adventure
Leo And The Chess Game Of Ashoka by Jaya Agrawal
Tesla Enigma By Christopher Boswell
The Invisible Predator By Angela Greenman
Angelians By Dennis Meredith
Die Along The Way By Ga Rivers
Best Childrens
Muppit Boy And The Allergies Of Evil By Michael Bowler
Francie Faye Ain’t Right By Kimberly Dana
Night, Night Boogeyman! By kimberly dana
Morse Code By Sue Dugan
Wesley Finds His Wolf By Jennifer Page Stickney
Best comedy (includes comedic p.i. And crime caper)
Murder In Lake Placid By Katie Barron
Getting Published Is A Murder By Amy Ivan
Void By Phil Latham
Confessions Of An Innocent Man By Roger Toll
Best Cozy
High Tides And Homicides By Elise Burke Brown
Lady Beryl And The Elusive Bijou By Elizabeth Buttimer
The Body In The Sauna By Sr Chamberlain
The Alphabet Cooking Club By Janet Cobb
The Psychic Detective By Linda Kelley
Best Historical
Sea of Clouds by G.S. Arnold
Lilias Of The Valley By Janel Nichols
The Secret Of The Old Dock Hand By Amy Padden
The Bone Child By Laurel Remington
By Their Rules By J Morgyn White
Best Invesigator
The Killer Argument By Jack Conlan
The Darker The Night By Kate Flora
Love Thy Neighbor By Marilyn Kay
Blood Moon Over Phoenix By Arthur Kerns
Informed Consent By Matthew Riordan
Best Juvenile
Gloriana Rising By Corrie Bruce
The Seven Spells Of Sarafina Foxkit By Cr Doyle
Thirsty By Debbie Freidman
Doppelgänger Jumper By Judy Gregg
Rung Three By Magda Smith
Best Literary
After Constance By David Dalessandro
My Given Name By Fe Davies
Iris Rising By Masha Hamilton
Detroit South By John Jeffire
Mud Angels By Kristin Russek
Best Mainstream / Commercial
Early Adopter By Mark Guerin
Jericho Lost By Cj Kudlacz
The Devil Comes To Kindland By Phil Kushner
The Lupin Gene By Matthew Minson
The Spirit Of The Gazelle By Rodney Walther
Best Mystery
No Forcible Entry By Kate Bergquist
The Wolf We Bury By Rebecca Jarnes
Cold Shores By Sara Johnson
Twelve Sinners By Henry Kaye
Harlow’s Gold By Ej Whisler
Best Nonfiction
Outside Bravo By Jacob Moon
Madam Coroner: Surviving Death And Politics In Suburbia By Christina Vandepol
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy
The Sublime Machine By George Angelou
The Wrong Side Of The Rainbow By Bill Bibo
Even Human By Em Dasche
The Vatra Witch By Gv Hext
Proxima B By Jl Yarrow
Best Short Story Collection / Anthology
Night Driving And Other Stories| By Kate Bergquist (Author)
Shadows And Dust By John Bukowski (Author)
The Forgotten Monday By Mark Connely (Author)
Bonedale By Patrick Kitson (Author)
Best Southern Gothic
Mind Game By Venita Bonds
Wodehouse By Elise Burke Brown
Hush Little Birdie By Minette Lauren
Beauty Secrets By Minette Lauren
Blood Of Cotton, Blood Of Cane By Irene Smith
Best Supernatural
Herb, Hex, And Hourglass By Michelle Aumiller
The Devil’s Daughter By Lydia Gullicksen
Blood Moon Shadows By Matt Harlow
Misled By Sl Hulen
The Book Of Demons By John Ryland
Best Suspense
Kill me if you can by r.g. Belsky
Pressure By Caroline O’donnell
Blindsided By Chas Shutt
We Never Should Have Come By Lb Solobik
Diatoms Are A Girl’s Best Friend By Ronda Wells
Best Thriller
Everlasting Tides By Richard Hinkemeyer
Misled By Sl Hulen
What She Knows By Renda Knapp
All The Buried Secrets By Kim Nuesse
A Woman In Pieces By Ruth Knafo Setton
Best True Crime
The Country Western Killer On Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame By Richard Carrico
Marked By The Ouiji By Scott Wells
Best Western
The Outlaw’s Daughter By Patricia Thorpe
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD LGBT Authors/Themes 2024
Best Mystery/Thriller
*A Calculated Risk by Cari Hunter (Bold Strokes Books)
Don’t Forget the Girl by Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark)
The Good Ones by Polly Stewart (HarperCollins Publishers)
Transitory by J. M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
Where the Dead Sleep by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)
- Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall ThorntonFierce, David Lennon
- Foxed, Garry Ryan
- The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black
- How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson
- In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory
- Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro
- Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen
- The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law
- Baton Rouge Bingo, Greg Herren, Bold Strokes Books
- Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall Thornton, MLR Press
- Fierce, David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing
- Foxed, Garry Ryan, NeWest Press
- The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black, Dreamspinner Press
- How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson, Lethe Press
- In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory, Amazon Digital Services Inc
- Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro, MLR Press
- Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen, Wilde City Press
- The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media
- Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall Thornton, MLR Press
- Fierce, David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing
- Foxed, Garry Ryan, NeWest Press
- The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black, Dreamspinner Press
- How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson, Lethe Press
- In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory, Amazon Digital Services Inc
- Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro, MLR Press
- Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen, Wilde City Press
- The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media
Lefty Nominees for Best Humorous Mystery Novel
Ellen Byron, A Very Woodsy Murder (Kensington Books)
Jennifer J. Chow, Ill-Fated Fortune (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
A.J. Devlin, Bronco Buster (NeWest Press)
Catriona McPherson, Scotzilla (Severn House)
* Rob Osler, Cirque du Slay (Crooked Lane Books)
Richard Osman, We Solve Murders (Pamela Dorman Books / Viking)
Lefty Nominees for Best Historical Mystery Novel
* John Copenhaver, Hall of Mirrors (Pegasus Crime)
Robert Dugoni, A Killing on the Hill (Thomas & Mercer)
Dianne Freeman, An Art Lover’s Guide to Paris and Murder (Kensington Books)
Laurie R. King, The Lantern’s Dance (Bantam Books)
Laura Jensen Walker, Death of a Flying Nightingale (Level Best Books / Historia)
Lefty Nominees for Best Debut Mystery Novel
Peter Malone Elliott, Blue Ridge (Level Best Books)
Cindy Goyette, Obey All Laws (Level Best Books)
Audrey Lee, The Mechanics of Memory (CamCat Books)
* Jennifer K. Morita, Ghosts of Waikiki (Crooked Lane Books)
K.T. Nguyen, You Know What You Did (Dutton)
Lefty Nominees for Best Mystery Novel
Claire Booth, Home Fires (Severn House)
Margot Douaihy, Blessed Water (Zando, Gillian Flynn Books)
Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Leslie Karst, Molten Death (Severn House)
* James L’Etoile, Served Cold (Level Best Books)
Duane Swierczynski, California Bear (Mulholland Books)
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2025
Mystery/Thriller
* Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Box
Christopher Bollen, Havoc
Michael Connelly, The Waiting: A Ballard and Bosch Novel
Attica Locke, Guide Me Home: A Highway 59 Novel
Liz Moore, The God of the Woods
MACAVITY AWARDS 2024
Best Mystery Novel
Dark Ride by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
Hide by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
*All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Hogarth)
Murder Book by Thomas Perry (Mysterious)
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Penguin Random House - Doubleday)
Best First Mystery
*The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry (Atria)
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua (Macmillan Publishing - Minotaur)
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (Zando/Gillian Flynn Books)
Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji (Simon & Schuster)
Dutch Threat by Josh Pachter (Genius Book Publishing)
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon (William Morrow)
Best Mystery Short Story
“Real Courage” by Barb Goffman (Black Cat Mystery Magazine #14, Oct. 2023)
“Green and California Bound” by Curtis Ippolito (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2023)
*“Ticket to Ride” by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski, (Happiness is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, ed. Josh Pachter, Down & Out Books)
“Pigeon Tony’s Last Stand” by Lisa Scottoline (Amazon Original Stories)
“One Night in 1965” by Stacy Woodson (More Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties, ed. Michael Bracken, Down & Out Books)
Best Mystery Critical/Biographical
*Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction by Anjili Babbar (Syracuse University Press)
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor (Mysterious Press/Penzler Publishers)
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin’s Press)
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux (Crown Currency)
Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Robert Morgan (LSU Press)
Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery
Time's Undoing by Cheryl Head (Dutton)
Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime)
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger (Simon & Schuster-Atria Books)
Our Lying Kin by Claudia Hagadus Long (Kasva Press)
*The Mistress of Bhatia House by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Crime Fiction
* Maureen Milliken, Dying for News
Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark
Kathryn Lasky, Mortal Radiance
Thomas Ricks, Everyone Knows But You
MALTESE FALCOLN SOCIETY OF JAPAN AWARD 2025
*All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
NED KELLY AWARDS (Australia) Finalists 2025
Best Crime Fiction:
TBA
Best Debut Crime Fiction:
Down the Rabbit Hole - By Shaeden Berry
A Town Called Treachery - By Mitch Jennings
The Chilling - By Riley James
All You Took From Me - By Lisa Kenway
Everywhere We Look - By Martine Kropkowski
The Crag - By Claire Sutherland
Best True Crime:
They’ll Never Hold Me – By Michael Adams
A Thousand Miles from Care – By Steve Johnson
The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop - By Neil Mercer
Meadow’s Law - By Quentin McDermott
The Lasting Harm - By Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Best International Crime Fiction:
Return to Blood - By Michael Bennett
Leave the Girls Behind - By Jacqueline Bublitz
The Waiting - By Michael Connelly
A Case of Matricide - By Graeme Macrae Burnet
Moscow X - By David McCloskey
Home Truths - By Charity Norman
NERO WOLF AWARDS 2024
The Nero for Best Mystery
* The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Black Orchid Novella Award
* "Double Take" by T.M. Bradshaw
NGAIO MARSH AWARD (New Zealand) Finalists 2025
Best Novel
Return
To Blood by Michael Bennett
(Simon & Schuster)
A Divine Fury by DV Bishop (Macmillan)
Woman, Missing by Sherryl Clark (HarperCollins)
Home Truths by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin)
17 Years Later by JP Pomare (Hachette)
The Call by Gavin Strawhan (Allen & Unwin)
Prey by Vanda Symon (Orenda Books)
Best First Novel
Dark
Sky by Marie Connolly (Quentin Wilson Publishing)
Lie Down With Dogs by Syd Knight (Rusty Hills)
A Fly Under The Radar by William McCartney
The Defiance Of Frances Dickinson by Wendy Parkins (Affirm Press)
The Call by Gavin Strawhan (Allen & Unwin)
Kiss Of Death by Stephen Tester (Heritage Press)
Best Nonfiction
The
Trials Of Nurse Kerr by
Scott Bainbridge (Bateman Books)
The Survivors by Steve Braunias (HarperCollins)
The Crewe Murders by Kirsty Johnstone & James Hollings (Massey Uni
Press)
The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour & Jude Dobson (Allen &
Unwin)
Gangster’s Paradise by Jared Savage (HarperCollins)
Far North by David White & Angus Gillies (Upstart Press)
PETRONA AWARD FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2024
Anne Mette Hancock - The Collector tr. Tara F Chace (Denmark, Swift Press)
Jørn Lier Horst - Snow Fall tr. Anne Bruce (Norway, Michael Joseph)
Arnaldur Indriðason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, Harvill Secker)
*Jógvan Isaksen - Dead Men Dancing tr. Marita Thomsen (Faroe Islands (Kingdom of Denmark), Norvik Press)
Åsa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, MacLehose Press)
Yrsa Sigurðardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, Hodder & Stoughton)
SHAMUS AWARDS Finalists 2025
Best PI Hardcover
Kingpin by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Hollow Tree by Phillip Miller (Soho Crime)
Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley (Mulholland Books)
Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts (Minotaur Books
Death and Glory by Will Thomas (Minotaur Books)
Best Original Pi Paperback
Geisha Confidential by Mark Coggins (Down & Out Books)
Quarry’s Return by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
Not Born of Woman by Teel James Glenn (Crossroad Press)
Bless Our Sleep by Neil S. Plakcy (Samwise Books)
Call of the Void by J.T. Siemens (NeWest Press)
The Big Lie by Gabriel Valjan (Level Best Books)
Best First Pi Novel
Twice the Trouble by Ash Clifton (Crooked Lane Books)
The Devil’s Daughter by Gordon Greisman (Blackstone Publishing)
Fog City by Claire M. Johnson (Level Best Books)
The Road to Heaven by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson (Dundurn Press)
Holy City by Henry Wise (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Best PI Short Story
“Deadhead” by Tom Andes (Issue 10.1: A Case of KINK - Cowboy Jamboree Magazine)
“Alibi in Ice” by Libby Cudmore (July/August 2024, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine)
“Drop Dead Gorgeous” by M.E. Proctor (Janie’s Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith – White City Press)
“Under Hard Rock” by Ed Teja (Black Cat Weekly #164)
“The Five Cent Detective” by S.B. Watson (Crimeucopia: Great Googly-Moo!)
SISTERS IN CRIME ELEANOR TAYLOR BLAND CRIME FICTION CRIME FICTION WRITERS OF COLOR 2024
*A Nasty Business by P.M. Raymond
Aftermath by Carleasa A. Coates of Catlett, Virginia
And Then It Clicked by Renee P. Stone of Las Vegas, Nevada
The Code by Grace Wynter of Decatur, Georgia
Gifted Grifter by Fritz Mason of Columbia, South Carolina
Man Eater by Elena Scialtiel of Gibraltar
SPOTTED OWL AWARD (Best Pacific NW Crime Novel) 2024
*1. Marc Cameron, Breakneck
2. Dana Stabenow for Not the Ones Dead
3. Dana Haynes for The Saint of Thieves
4. Sam Wiebe for Sunset and Jericho
5. Jon Talton for The Nurse Murders
6. James Bryne for Deadlock
7. Haris Orkin for License to Die
8. Frank Zafiro for Hope Dies Last
9 (tie). Orlando Davidson for Baseline Road and J.A. Jance for Collateral Damage
THE STRAND CRITICS AWARD Finalists 2024
Best Novel
All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland)
Small Mercies, by Dennis Lehane (Harper)
Resurrection Walk, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Prom Mom, by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
Time’s Undoing, by Cheryl A. Head (Dutton)
The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
Best First Novel
Fadeaway Joe, by Hugh Lessig (Crooked Lane)
Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon (Morrow)
The House in the Pines, by Ana Reyes (Dutton)
Don’t Forget the Girl, by Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark)
Adrift, by Lisa Brideau (Sourcebooks Landmark)
The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I.S. Berry (Atria)
*Lifetime Achievement Awards: Kathy Reichs and Max Allan Collins.
*Publisher of the Year: Jonathan Karp of Simon and Schuster
The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Crown)
Disappeared, by Anthony Quinn (Mysterious Press/Open Road)
The 500, by Matthew Quirk (Hachette) - See more at: http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2013/03/strand-magazine-critics-awards-nominees.html#.dpuf
The Yard, by Alex Grecian (Putnam)
The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Crown)
Disappeared, by Anthony Quinn (Mysterious Press/Open Road)
The 500, by Matthew Quirk (Hachette) - See more at: http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2013/03/strand-magazine-critics-awards-nominees.html#.dpuf
The Yard, by Alex Grecian (Putnam)
The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Crown)
Disappeared, by Anthony Quinn (Mysterious Press/Open Road)
The 500, by Matthew Quirk (Hachette) - See more at: http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2013/03/strand-magazine-critics-awards-nominees.html#.dpuf
THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025
* Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
The Cracked Mirror, by Chris Brookmyre (Sphere)
The Mercy Chair, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
The Last Word, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney (Zaffre)
All the Colours of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker (Orion)
(THEAKSTON) MCDERMID DEBUT AWARD 2025
* David Goodman’s A Reluctant Spy (Headline)
Sick to Death, by Chris Bridges (Avon)
I Died at Fallow Hall, by Bonnie Burke-Patel (Bedford Square)
Her Two Lives, by Nilesha Chauvet (Faber & Faber)
Isolation Island, by Louise Minchin (Headline)
Black Water Rising, by Sean Watkin (Canelo)
THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER OUTSTAND CONTRIBUTION AWARD 2025
* Elly Griffiths
