2022 Killer Nashville Awards Winners
“Winning the Killer Nashville Claymore Award provided such incredible affirmation knowing this particular story (which took me on an emotional ride of its own) was so well received by different readers. It encouraged me to continue on in my pursuit of getting my name and my work to more and more readers.”
OVERALL WINNERS
SILVER FALCHION AWARD
2022 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Best Book of 2021
Girl Missing / Kate Gable
The Reunion / Kiersten Modglin
2022 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award 1st Runner Up
A Slow Fire Burning / Paula Hawkins
The Next Wife / Kaira Rouda
2022 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award 2nd Runner Up
An Ambush of Widows / Jeff Abbott
Suitable for Framing / Lori Roberts Herbst
CLAYMORE AWARD
2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
Shaking / Jeffrey James Higgins
2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award 1st Runner Up
A Chain of Pearls / Raemi Wood
2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award 2nd Runner Up
Big Fat F@!k Up / Lawrence Allan
CATEGORY WINNERS
Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
For Best Book of 2021
Best Action Adventure
Killers!: A Natalie McMasters Mystery / Thomas A. Burns, Jr.
The Pilate Scroll / M.B. Lewis
Best Comedy
Saving La Familia / Donna Del Oro
Best Cozy
Suitable for Framing / Lori Roberts Herbst
Murder in the Master – A Chesapeake Bay Mystery / Judy L Murray
Best Historical
After Alice Fell / Kim Taylor Blakemore
Best Investigator
Girl Missing / Kate Gable
10 Days: A Dee Rommel Mystery / Jule Selbo
Best Juvenile / YA
Leisha’s Song / Lynn Slaughter
Best Mystery
An Ambush of Widows / Jeff Abbot
Bye, Buy Baby / Becki Willis
Best Nonfiction
The Home for Friendless Children / C.L. Olsen
Best Sci-fi / Fantasy
Tomb of the Queen / Joss Walker
Best Short Story Collection/Anthology
House of Crows / Lisa Unger
Best Southern Gothic
A Curse of Silver and Blood / Kimberly A Banks
Best Supernatural
Our Trespasses / Michael Cordell
Best Suspense
The Reunion / Kiersten Modglin
The Next Wife / Kaira Rouda
Best Thriller
Point Option / Ian O’Connor
Fallen Star: The Divine Devils Book 2 / R Weir
Killer Nashville Claymore Award
For Best First Fifty Unpublished Pages
Best Action Adventure
Song of the Starlings / TM Clark
Best Comedy
Big Fat F@!K Up / Lawrence Allan
Best Cozy
A Chain of Pearls / Raemi Wood
Best Historical
The Surrealist Circle / Nina Wachsman
Best Investigator
The Bleeding / Chris Berg & Paul James Smith
Best Juvenile / YA
Powerless / Jacqueline Pretty
Best Mystery
Shaking / Jeffrey James Higgins
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy
The Sleepers / Sydney Raeburn-Power
Best Southern Gothic
Under the Meadow / William Parolini
Best Supernatural
My Sister’s Shadow / M.S. Bryson
Best Suspense
The Windy City Stalker / Kat Shehata
Best Thriller
The General’s Briefcase / Ray Collins
Additional Categories
2022 Killer Nashville Best Book By Attending Author
Black Label / James L’Etoile
2022 Killer Nashville Readers’ Choice Award
Girl Missing / Kate Gable
2022 Killer Nashville Builder Award
Dan Royse
“Being chosen as a Killer Nashville Claymore Award finalist gave me the confidence to push forward with my novel. It has also given me the distinction of being known as a finalist, something I am proud to include in my author credentials. For anyone who is on the fence about entering, I encourage you to go forward. See what happens. How will you know unless you try?”