2024 Barry Award Nominees Unveiled

By: Brandon Williams, March 5th, 2024 3:03 pm.

The nominees for the 2024 Barry Awards have been announced by Deadly Pleasures Magazine.

The Barry Awards are some of the most celebrated literary awards, which have been going on since 1997. Named for reviewer Barry Gardner, they honour the best books in the mystery and thriller genres for that year.

This year, there are four categories – Best Mystery/Crime Novel, Best First Mystery/Crime Novel, Best Paperback Original, and Best Thriller.

Past winners of the various awards include (but are not limited to) Stieg Larsson, Robert Crais, John Connolly, Val McDermid, John Harvey, Denise Mina, Ken Bruen, Donna Andrews, Alan Bradley, Peter Robinson, Nevada Barr, Dennis Lehane, William Kent Krueger, Michael Connelly, and so many more great and accomplished authors than we can list.

The nominees for this year’s Barry Awards are as follows:

Best Mystery/Crime Novel

Dark Ride by Lou Berney
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

Best First Mystery/Crime Novel

Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry
The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

Best Paperback Original Mystery/Crime Novel

Murder and Mamon by Mia Manansala
Everything She Feared by Rick Mofina
Who the Hell is Harry Black? by Jake Needham
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto
Expectant by Vanda Symon
Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

Best Thriller

Burner by Mark Greaney
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
Moscow Exile by John Lawton
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
Drowning by T.J. Newman
Zero Days by Ruth Ware

Best of luck to all of the nominees!

The awards will be presented at Bouchercon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee.

For more information on the Barry Awards, please visit Deadly Pleasures.

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