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Thriller Awards

Annual award given to English-language books in the thriller genre. Awards have been given since 2006.

International Thriller Writers Awards

Best Paperback Original Novel

2020-2029

WINNER

The Scholar by Dervia McTiernan

FINALISTS

  • Girl Most Likely by Max Allan Collins

  • Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

  • Jihadi Bride by Alastair Luft

  • The Bird Boys by Lisa Sandlin

  • Such a Perfect Wife by Kate White

WINNER

What Lies Between Us by John Marrs

FINALISTS

  • When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

  • Unknown 9 : Genesis by Layton Green

  • The Girl Beneath the Sea by Andrew Mayne

  • Either Side of Midnight by Benjamin Stevenson

WINNER

Bloodline by Jess Lourey

FINALISTS:

  • Flight Risk by Joy Castro

  • Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark

  • The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke

  • My Mistress' Eyes Are Raven Black by Terry Roberts

WINNER

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

FINALISTS

  • The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

  • No Place to Run by Mark Edwards

  • Unmissing by Minka Kent

  • Anywhere you Run by Wanda Morris

  • The Couple Upstairs by Holly Wainwright

  • The Patient's Secret by Loreth Anne White

FINALISTS:

  • Hide by Tracy Clark
  • The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas
  • The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen
  • To Die For by Lisa Gray
  • Cave 13 by Jonathan Maberry
  • Call the Dark by J. Todd Scott

2010-2019

WINNER

The Coldest Mile by Tom Piccirilli

FINALISTS

  • Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli

  • Urge to Kill by John Lutz

  • Vengeance Road by Rick Mofina

  • No Mercy by John Gilstrap

WINNER

The Cold Room by J. T. Ellison

FINALISTS

  • The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley

  • You Can't Stop Me by Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens

  • Torn Apart by Shane Gericke

  • The Venice Conspiracy by John Trace

WINNER

The Last Minute by Jeff Abbott

FINALISTS

  • Threat Warning by John Gilstrap

  • The Glass Demon by Helen Grant

  • The Queen by Steven James

  • Already Gone by John Rector

WINNER

Lake Country by Sean Doolittle

FINALISTS

  • Pines by Blake Crouch

  • And She Was by Alison Gaylin

  • The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood

  • Night Blind by Michael W. Sherer

WINNER

The One I Left Behindi by Jennifer McMahon

FINALISTS

  • Cold Snap by Allison Brennan

  • Buried by Kendra Elliot

  • His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal

  • Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

  • Deadly Harvest by Michael Stanley

WINNER

Moonlight Weeps by Vincent Zandri

FINALISTS

  • The Buried by Shelley Coriell

  • My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni

  • Shadow Maker by James R. Hannibal

  • Whirlwind by Rick Mofina

WINNER

Against All Enemies by John Gilstrap

FINALISTS

  • Day Zero by Marc Cameron

  • Name of the Devil by Andrew Mayne

  • The Angel of Eden by D. J. McIntosh

  • Pockets of Darkness by Jean Rabe

WINNER

The Body Reader by Anne Frasier

FINALISTS

  • In the Clearing by Robert Dugoni

  • The Minoan Cipher by Paul Kemprecos

  • Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry

  • Salvage by Stephen Maher

WINNER

Grievance by Christine Bell

FINALISTS

  • Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

  • The Resurrector by Layton Green

  • Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty

  • The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

WINNER

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

FINALISTS

  • The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

  • The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne

  • Gone Dark by Kirk Russell

  • Mister Tender's Girl by Carter Wilson

2006-2009

WINNER

Pride Runs Deep by R. Cameron Cooke

WINNER

An Unquiet Grave by P. J. Parrish

FINALISTS

  • Skeleton Coast by Clive Cussler with Jack DuBrul

  • The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine

  • Headstone City by Tom Piccirilli

  • Mortal Faults by Michael Prescott

WINNER

The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli

FINALISTS

  • The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco

  • A Thousand Bones by P. J. Parrish

  • The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon

  • Shattered by Jay Bonansinga

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