
The Thrillerfix Book Awards recognize thriller authors and their literary works.
Over the past few weeks the Winter 2020 Edition of the Thrillerfix Book Awards competition has gotten intense!
With hundreds of readers from around the world weighing in on their favorite reads of the past quarter, it was incredible to see the community come together to debate what we love most: thriller books.
It's a particularly important round because the winners of the quarterly awards automatically become nominations for the 2020 Thrillerfix Annual Book Awards at the end of the year.
And today we're excited to announce the WINNERS in all 4 categories voted on.
And the winners are...
Best Crime Fiction
Golden in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 50)
by J.D. Robb
In the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder with a mysterious motive—and a terrifying weapon.
Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, highly toxic airborne fumes entered his body—and killed him.
After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat team—and undergoes testing to reassure both her and her husband that she hasn’t been exposed—it’s time to look into Dr. Abner’s past and relationships. Not every victim Eve encounters is an angel, but it seems that Abner came pretty close—though he did ruffle some feathers over the years by taking stands for the weak and defenseless.
While the lab tries to identify the deadly toxin, Eve hunts for the sender. But when someone else dies in the same grisly manner, it becomes clear that she’s dealing with either a madman—or someone who has a hidden and elusive connection to both victims.
Best Action Thriller
Into the Fire: An Orphan X Novel
by Gregg Hurwitz
The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns - just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire...
Evan Smoak lives by his own code.
Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented – and most feared – men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in mystery, known for helping the truly desperate.
If anyone is truly desperate, it’s Max Merriweather.
Max is at the end of his rope. His cousin has been brutally murdered, leaving Max an envelope that contains nothing but a mysterious key. However, someone really wants that key, badly enough that Max – and anyone he turns to – is in deadly danger.
What seems like a simple job for The Nowhere Man turns out to be anything but. Behind every threat he takes out, a deadlier one emerges and Evan Smoak must put himself in greater danger than ever before as he heads once more Into The Fire.
Best Psychological Thriller
I Said Yes: An Addictive Psychological Thriller
by Kiersten Modglin
Yes.
The word that brought me such great joy and, eventually, such heartbreak.
When Mark asked me out for the first time, I didn’t have to think twice.
I said, “Yes.”
When he asked me to marry him just a year later, the answer came as easily as the breath that followed it.
“Yes.”
When he asked me to keep his secret, my response came too quickly.
“Yes.”
Now, in front of a judge and jury, I’ll be asked the question I never anticipated.
“Did you know who the killer is?”
The answer is second nature by now.
“Yes.”
Best Audiobook
When You See Me: A Novel (Detective D.D. Warren Book 11)
by Lisa Gardner
#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner unites three of her most beloved characters—Detective D. D. Warren, Flora Dane, and Kimberly Quincy—in a twisty new thriller, as they investigate a mysterious murder from the past...which points to a dangerous and chilling present-day crime.
FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness.
When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more sinister...and they discover that for all the evil Jacob committed while alive, his worst secret is still to be revealed.
Quincy and DD must summon their considerable skills and experience to crack the most disturbing case of their careers—and Flora must face her own past directly in the hope of saving others.

Congrats to all the winners! And a big thank you for all of you who submitted your votes and nominations.
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