Nominees for the 2008 Thriller Awards, which are sponsored by International Thriller Writers and whose winners will be announced at the ThrillerFest Gala Banquet on July 12 in New York City, are:

Best Novel

• No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Bantam)
• The Watchman by Robert Crais (S&S)
• The Ghost by Robert Harris (S&S)
• The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz (Viking)
• Trouble by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)

Best First Novel

• Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton)
• Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (Morrow)
• From the Depths by Gerry Doyle (McBook Press)
• Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi (Holt)
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Morrow)

Best Paperback Original

• The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco (Ballantine)
• A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish (Pocket)
• The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
• The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon (Pocket)
• Shattered by Jay Bonansinga (Pinnacle)