2024 Claymore Award Finalists

BEST ACTION ADVENTURE

The Copper Tablet / Greg Baldwin

The Aviatrix / Christopher Boswell

The Egyptian Enigma / David Darling

Hyena's Hunt / Jennifer Hogan

The March Upcountry / Cass Trumbo

Spirit of the Gazelle / Rodney Walther

BEST COMEDY
(INCLUDES COMEDIC P.I. AND CRIME CAPER)

The Return of Edsel Eddie / Mark Bruce

Everything is Fine Until Somebody Dies / Angela Costa

Resting Sad Face / Kate Michaelson

Coffee with Krestnyy / Taliya J. Martin

The Creatures of Holden Beach and the Murder They Did Not Commit! / Chris Underwood

The Queen of Granny Lit / Sandy White

BEST COZY

Double Cross / Judith Gaines

Peril in Potter Valley / Laurie Herlich

Clothing Optional / Paula Keller

Parrot Prose: A Coral Shores Veterinary Mystery / DL Mitchell 

Pontoon, Romance, Boats, and Bad Business in the Wisconsin Northwoods / TK Sheffield

Glorious Debris / Elisabeth Wathen

BEST HISTORICAL

An Inquest of Eels / Jane Bitomsky

Siberia Flight / Roger Collier

A Wilderness of Mirrors / Jodi Daynard

A Knife in Chicago / Susan Hensley

They Say They Want a Revolution / Mandy Miller

Firebrands / Vicky Oliver

BEST INVESTIGATOR
(INCLUDES PROCEDURAL, SERIOUS P.I., DETECTIVE, AND NOIR)

All That is the Case / Hugh Burkhart

The Evil to Come / Thomas Holland

Soul Meets Body / Avram Lavinsky

Terminal Haul / Richard Meredith

The Scent of Sunday / Patricia Thorpe

A Desolate Grave / Joyce Woollcott

BEST JUVENILE / Y.A.

Trouble is a Shore Thing / Mark Brutsché

Written in Fire / Alexandra Weadon

Awaken the Dawn / Ellis Kaye Popa

Crash Fashion / Elle Jauffret

Immortals at the End of the World / Paula Keller

The Nascent Bloom / Evie Kelley

BEST LITERARY

The Accidental Time Traveler / Sylvia Bluck

Bury Me First / Catherine Conner

The Palimpsest / N.C. Kay

The Princess of Almost Alabama / Phyllis Gobbell

The Butterfly Dossier / Puja Guha

Dad's Job is Pissing People Off / Bill McCulloch

BEST MAINSTREAM / COMMERCIAL

Saint Michael's Day / Mark Bergin 

The Hostage / Ralph Hardy

Martha Unraveled / Peggy O’Neal

On Blackpoint Road / Anna Scotti

A Terrible Thing / Bevin Viewig-Lenz

What Remains Behind / Rodney Walther

BEST MYSTERY

Killer Eyes / Denis Berkfeldt

Death of a Glades Man, A Florida Keys Mystery / Jane Bock

Dare to Live / Paul Guyot

The Healer's Curse / John Madinger

What They Buried / P.J. McAvoy

Fishing for Murder / Mark Zeid

BEST NONFICTION

Unfollow Me / Kathryn Caraway

Sue or Be Sued / Justin Hopson

Beach Blanket Bedlam / John Lamb

BEST SCI-FI / FANTASY

Son of Prophecy / Hermina Boyle

A Tonic of Wildness / Kate Hohl

Perpetuity / Kevin Joseph

A Game of Stones / Nate Searle 

Fable and Fine / J. Morgyn White

The Unexpected / DK Willis

BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION / ANTHOLOGY
(AWARDED TO INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR OR COLLECTION EDITOR)

Mayhem Can’t Stop De Mas / Ashley-Ruth Bernier

The Rules of Wishes, Dreams, and Magical Things / Covington Dunn

Pocket Money and Other Stories / P.K. Richard

Crimin' Old Coots / J.R. Holland

Modern Monsters / Vincent Valkier

THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE and other words to live by / P.M. Raymond

BEST SOUTHERN GOTHIC

Ghosts in the Glades / Staci Andrea

A Thousand Little Devils / Heather German

Family Tree / John Ryland

A Chain of Red Clover / Fonda Warnock

The Widow's Weeds / Fonda Warnock

The Wretched and Undone / J.E. Weiner

BEST SUPERNATURAL

Food Fright / Nico Bell

The Wolf Whistles but the Cat Calls / Daryn Faulkner

The Destroyer of Many Worlds / Erik Giles

Life's Work / Leslie Gulvas

The Lion at the Falls / Donna Kelly

Season of the Sixth / Patricia Thorpe

BEST SUSPENSE

Pocket Full of Posies / Leigh Bravo

The Middle of Nowhere / Brenda Fine

Dirty Bloody Sweet / T.K. Song

Cyclone City / Niki Zenobia

Update Required / Niki Zenobia

Judas Moon / Josh Rodgers

BEST THRILLER

Defenseless / Renda Knapp

Electric Sky / Peter Miller

The Terms / Rebecca Papin

Think Fast / Thomas Pharmakis

Arrivals and Departures / JL Evans

Death of a Star / Sandy Semerad

BEST WESTERN

Put Away Wet / Nancy Bruett

Infinity Thieves / TK Sheffield