Barry Award - 2016
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
Badlands A Song of Shadows By John Connolly The Stolen One By Owen Laukkanen
Life or Death By Michael Robotham Devil of Delphi By Jeff Siger The Cartel By
Best First Novel
Ruins of War By John Connell Past Crimes By Glen Erik Hamilton Jade Dragon Mountain By Elsa Hart
The Girl on the Train By The Unquiet Dead By Ausma Zehanat Khan Bull Mountain By Brian Panowich
Best Paperback Original
Blessed Are Thiose Who Weep By Kristi Belcamino The Long and Faraway Gone By Lou Berney Quarry's Coice By Maz Allan Collins
No Other Darkness SnowBlind By Ragnar Jonasson Stone Cold Dead By James W. Ziskin
Best Thriller
Brute Force By The Killing Kind By Chris Holm Viking Bay By M>A. (Mike) Lawson
Hostage Taker By Stefanie Pintoff The Mask By Foreign and Domestic By A.J. Tata