Suspense/Thriller

Nevada Barr: Destroyer Angel

David Bell: Since She Went Away

Linda Castillo: After the StormAmong the Wicked – The Dead Will Tell

Michael Connelly: The Gods of Guilt

Patricia D. Cornwell: Postmortem

Robert Crais: Suspect

Karen Dionne: The Marsh King’s Daughter

Joseph Finder: Suspicion

Barbara Fradkin: The Trickster’s Lullaby

Brian Freeman: The Cold Nowhere – Goodbye to the Dead – Season of Fear

Andrew Grant: Run

Michael Gruber: The Return

Steve Hamilton: Exit StrategyThe Second Life of Nick Mason

Elizabeth Heiter: Hunted

Chris Holm: The Killing Kind

A.J. Kazinski: The Last Good Man

Michael Koryta: Those Who Wish Me Dead

Julie Kramer: Killing Kate

Owen Laukkanen: The Watcher in the Wall

Mike Lawson: The Inside Ring

Jenny Milchman: As Night FallsRuin Falls – Wicked River

Kem Nunn: Chance

Michael Palmer: Political SuicideResistant

Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer: Mercy

P.J. Parrish: The Killing Song – She’s Not There

Nicholas Petrie: The Drifter

Stefanie Pintoff: Hostage Taker

Lev Raphael: Assault with a Deadly Lie

Hank Phillippi Ryan: The Other WomanSay No More – Truth Be Told – What You See

Marcus Sakey: The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes

Olen Steinhauer: All the Old KnivesThe Tourist

Chevy Stevens: That Night

Ruth Ware: In a Dark, Dark Wood – The Woman in Cabin 10

S.J. Watson: Before I Go to Sleep

Sarah Weinman (editor): Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense