Barry Award - 2017
The Barry Awards are named for of one of the most ardent and beloved ambassadors of mystery fiction, Barry Gardner, and are voted on by the readers of Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures. Listed below is the winner and the Shortlist. For more information go to ...The Barry Award Page
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Best Novel
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton
Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny The Second Girl by David Swinson
Best First Novel
Dodgers by Bill Beverly 知 Traveling Alone by Samuel Bjork IQ by Joe Ide
The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie I知 Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
Best Paperback Original
Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens The Queen痴 Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty The Girl in the Window by Jake Needham
Best Thriller
Overwatch by Matthew Betley First Strike by Ben Coes Guilty Minds by Joseph Finder
Back Blast by Mark Greaney The One Man by Andrew Gross Collecting the Dead by Spencer Kope A.J. Tata

Best Historical Fiction Book
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