2024 Killer Nashville Awards Winners
TOP WINNERS
SILVER FALCHION AWARD
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Book of 2023
Ghost Tamer / Meredith R. Lyons
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
1st Runner Up Best Book of 2023
Arsenic at Ascot: A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery / Kelly Oliver
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
2nd Runner Up Best Book of 2023
Trust the Terrier: A Coral Shores Veterinary Mystery / DL Mitchell
CLAYMORE AWARD
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Christopher Boswell, "The Aviatrix" (Best Action Adventure)
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
1st Runner Up Best Unpublished Manuscript
Paul McAvoy, "What They Buried" (Best Mystery)
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
2nd Runner Up Best Unpublished Manuscript
Erik Giles, "The Destroyer of Many Worlds" (Best Supernatural)
JOHN SEIGENTHALER LEGENDS AWARD
John Seigenthaler Legends Award Winner
Charles Todd
CATEGORY WINNERS
SILVER FALCHION
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Action Adventure
Hanging the Devil / Tim Maleeny
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Comedy
A Crafty Collage of Crime / Lois Winston
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Cozy
Trust the Terrier: A Coral Shores Veterinary Mystery / DL Mitchell
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Historical
Arsenic at Ascot, A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery / Kelly Oliver
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Investigator
Vessels of Wrath / Thomas Holland
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Juvenile / YA
Where Echoes Die / Courtney Gould
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Literary
Brush: A Novel / Penn Anderson
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Mainstream / Commercial
Prom Queen / Laura Wolfe
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Mystery
Indigo Road / Reed Bunzel
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Nonfiction
Finding YOUR Path to Publication: A Step-by-Step Guide / Judy Penz Sheluk
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Sci-fi / Fantasy
The Zone: A Cyberpunk Thriller / Stu Jones
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Short Story Collection/Anthology
Paper Walls / Glass Houses / Richard Helms
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Southern Gothic
Inescapable, A Novel / WB Henley
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Supernatural
Ghost Tamer / Meredith R. Lyons
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Suspense
The Rule of Thirds / Jeannee Sacken
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Thriller
Breaking Apart / Wanda Venters, MD and Mary Rae, MD
2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Best Western
Reckoning / Baron Birtcher
CLAYMORE
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Action Adventure
The Aviatrix / Christopher Boswell
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Comedy
The Queen of Granny Lit / Sandy White
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Cozy
Pontoon, Romance, Boats, and Bad Business in the Wisconsin Northwoods / TK Sheffield
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Historical
An Inquest of Eels / Jane Bitomsky
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Investigator
The Scent of Sunday / Patricia Thorpe
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Juvenile / YA
Trouble is a Shore Thing / Mark Brutsché
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Literary
The Accidental Time Traveler / Sylvia Bluck
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Mainstream / Commercial
What Remains Behind / Rodney Walther
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Mystery
What They Buried / P.J. McAvoy
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Nonfiction
Sue or Be Sued / Justin Hopson
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy
A Tonic of Wildness / Kate Hohl
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Short Story Collection/Anthology
Pocket Money and Other Stories / P.K. Richard
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Southern Gothic
Ghosts in the Glades / Staci Andrea
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Supernatural
The Destroyer of Many Worlds / Erik Giles
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Suspense
The Middle of Nowhere / Brenda Fine
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Thriller
Electric Sky / Peter Miller
2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Best Western
Put Away Wet / Nancy Bruett
READER’S CHOICE
2024 Killer Nashville
Readers’ Choice Award
These Still Black Waters / Christina McDonald
Bad Traffic / Patrick Weill
BEST ATTENDING AUTHOR
2024 Killer Nashville
Best Book By Attending Author
James L’Etoile / Face of Greed