SPEED CITY SISTERS IN CRIME

SPEED CITY SISTERS IN CRIME

Sunday, August 14, 2016

BOUCHERCON 2016: Barry Award Nominees for Best Mystery and Best Thriller


The Barry Awards are awarded annually at Bouchercon by Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. If you're a crime fiction fan and looking for something to add to your reading list, check out these nominees.  



Best Novel

Badlands by C. J. Box (Minotaur)
A Song of Shadows by John Connolly (Emily Bestler/Atria)
The Stolen Ones by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam)
Life or Death by Michael Robotham (Mulholland)
Devil of Delphi by Jeff Siger (Poisoned Pen Press)
The Cartel by Don Winlow (Knopf)
(My pick: The Cartel by Don Winlow)

Best First Novel

Ruins of War by John A. Connell (Berkley)
Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)
Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart (Minotaur)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
The Unquiet Dead by Asuma Zehanat Khan (Minotaur)
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich (Putnam)
(My pick: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins)

Best Paperback Original

Blessed are Those Who Weep by Kristi Belcamino (Witness Impulse)
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
Quarry's Choice by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
No Other Darkness by Sarah Hilary (Penguin)
Snow Blind by Ragnar Jonasson (Orenda)
Stone Cold Dead by James W.Ziskin (Seventh Street)
(My pick: Quary's Choice by Max Allan Collins)

Best Thriller

Brute Force by Marc Cameron (Pinnacle)
The Killing Kind by Chris Holm (Mulholland)
Viking Bay by M. A. Lawson (Blue Rider)
Hostage Taker by Stefanie Pintoff (Bantam)
The Mask by Taylor Stevens (Crown)
Foreign and Domestic by A. J. Tata (Pinnacle)
(No pick here - but they're on my "to read" list)

If you have read any of these, feel free to leave your thoughts or short review in a comment.

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