2009 Thriller Award Winners

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2009 Thriller Award Winners

On July 11, the winners of the 2009 Thriller Awards were announced at a gala held in New York by the International Thriller Writers Organization.

The winners include:

Best Thriller of the Year
THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster)

Best First Novel
CHILD 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central Publishing)

Best Short Story
"The Edge of Seventeen" by Alexandra Sokoloff, in DARKER MASK (Tor)

ThrillerMaster Award
David Morrell

Silver Bullet Award
Brad Meltzer

Silver Bullet Corporate Award
Dollar General Literacy Foundation

For more information on ITW or the Thrillers, visit ThrillerWriters.org.