Killer Nashville is one of the most popular conferences in the country for writers and readers and is held each year in the Nashville, Tennessee area. Established by writer and filmmaker Clay Stafford in 2006, the conference assists authors in the craft of mystery, thriller, suspense, and crime fiction writing. Stafford and American Blackguard, Inc. also work to further various literacy programs throughout the year.
As a part of both encouraging and rewarding writers in their varied fields, the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards are given to authors and their outstanding books published in the previous year. This year, the awards will be presented on August 24th at the Killer Nashville Awards Banquet. The finalists and winners (in red) are:
Best Action Adventure
Baron Birtcher “Fistful of Rain”
Linda Sands “Precious Cargo”
Robert Slayton “Running to Graceland”
Mary Ting “ISAN”
Jill Wallace “War Serenade”
Best Cozy Mystery
Traci Andrighetti “Campari Crimson”
L.A. Chandler “The Gold Pawn”
Phyllis Gobbell “Treachery in Tuscany”
Morgan James “Quiet Fury”
Jill Orr “The Bad Break”
Best Mystery
Delphine Boswell “Unholy Secret”
Larry Enmon “The Burial Place”
Allan Eskens “The Shadows We Hide”
Mike Faricy “Star Struck”
Alexia Gordon “Killing in C Sharp”
Bradley Harper “A Knife in the Fog”
Roger Johns “River of Secrets”
Ann Parker “A Dying Note”
Keenan Powell “Deadly Solution”
Cindy Sample “Dying for a Deal”
Best Procedural
Bruce Robert Coffin “Beyond the Truth”
James Doherty “An Obscure Grave”
Amanda Feyerbend “Girls of Summer”
Margaret Mizushima “Burning Ridge: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery”
Saralyn Richard “Murder in the One Percent”
Best Thriller
R.G. Belsky “Yesterday’s News”
Timothy S. Johnston “The War Beneath”
Thomas Kelso “Fractured”
Michael Niemann “Illegal Holdings” (tie)
T.J. O’Conner “The Consultant”
Rick Outzen “City of Grudges”
Eliot Parker “A Knife’s Edge”
Charley Pearson “Scourge” (tie)
Rick Pullen “Naked Truth”
Dana J. Summers “The Dark and the Dead”
Winners in other categories:
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Maggie Toussaint "Confound It"
Best Short Story/Anthology
Carmen Amato "The Artist"
Please visit https://killernashville.com/2019-killer-nashville-awards-winners/?fbclid=IwAR1x_ for finalists and winners in the YA, Non-fiction, and Suspense categories. Congratulations to all!
