Announcing the Hammett Prize Nominees

Awards season closing in on us, so dust off those red carpet duds, grab your finest champagne flute, and get ready to roll! We've already informed you of 2015's Thriller Award nominees and winners, Shamus Award nominees, Crimefest Award winners, Macavity Award nominees, Anthony Award nominees, Arthur Ellis Award nominees, Agatha Award winners, and the Edgar Award winners, but there's more good news to go around, and now it’s time for the Hammett Prize nominees. Wouldn’t that Thin Man sculpture look so cool on your mantelpiece? Well, to get it you have to write like these shortlisters:

Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke
Smoke River by Krista Foss
Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Goodhouse by Peyton Marshall

The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers will name the winner, during the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association's (NAIBA) Fall Conference, in Somerset, New Jersey, October 2-4. The winner will receive a bronze trophy designed by sculptor Peter Boiger. Congrats to the nominees!