• Columbine by Dave Cullen (Hachette Book Group - Twelve)
• Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster)
• The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide by Dick Lehr (HarperCollins)
• Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo (The Penguin Press)
• Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti (Random House - Alfred A. Knopf)

• "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" - Crossroad Blues by Ace Atkins (Busted Flush Press)
• "Femme Sole" - Boston Noir by Dana Cameron (Akashic Books)
• "Digby, Attorney at Law" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Jim Fusilli (Dell Magazines)
• "Animal Rescue" - Boston Noir by Dennis Lehane (Akashic Books
• "Amapola" - Phoenix Noir by Luis Alberto Urrea (Akashic Books)

• Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperCollins Children's Books - HarperTeen)
• If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
• The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford (Penguin Young Readers Group - Viking Children's Books)
• Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Books)
• Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)

• The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil (Random House Children's Books - Alfred A. Knopf)
• Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Books)
• Creepy Crawly Crime by Aaron Reynolds (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
• The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer (Penguin Young Readers Group - Philomel Books)

• "Place of Execution," Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson (PBS/WGBH Boston)
• "Strike Three" - The Closer, Teleplay by Steven Kane (Warner Bros TV for TNT)
• "Look What He Dug Up This Time" - Damages, Teleplay by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman (FX Networks)
• "Grilled" - Breaking Bad, Teleplay by George Mastras (AMC/Sony)
• "Living the Dream" - Dexter, Teleplay by Clyde Phillips (Showtime)

"A Dreadful Day" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Dan Warthman (Dell Magazines)