Kenneth Abel: Cold Steel Rain
Alina Adams: Murder on Ice
Donna Andrews: The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
Nevada Barr: High Country
Larry Beinhart: The Librarian
Claudia Bishop & Don Bruns (editors): A Merry Band of Murderers
Meredith Blevins: The Hummingbird Wizard
Lawrence Block: The Burglar in the Rye
Elizabeth Lynn Casey: Sew Deadly
Jane Cleland: Deadly Appraisal
Judy Clemens: The Day Will Come
Joan Coggin: Who Killed the Curate?
Jeffrey Cohen: As Dog is My Witness – It Happened One Knife – Some Like it Hot-Buttered
Thomas Cook: Into the Web
Gordon Cotler: Artist’s Proof
Casey Daniels: Don of the Dead – A Hard Day’s Fright
Diane Mott Davidson: Dark Tort – Double Shot
Gerald Elias: Danse Macabre – Devil’s Trill
Robert Ellis: Murder Season
Loren D. Estleman: Alone
Ellen Hart: The Lost Women of Lost Lake
Julie Hyzy: Affairs of Steak
Kylie Logan: Button Holed
Graham Moore: The Sherlockian
Spencer Quinn: To Fetch a Thief
Elizabeth Sims: The Actress
Julia Spencer-Fleming: All Mortal Flesh
Sarah Stewart-Taylor: Mansions of the Dead – O’ Artful Death
Denise Swanson: Little Shop of Homicide
Sarah Zettel: A Taste of the Nightlife