SMFS Member Nominees for Killer Nashville’s 2023 Silver Falchion Award

The SMFS is proud to announce that again this year members of the SMFS have been nominated for the 2023 Silver Falchion Awards. As stated on their homepage, winners will be announced in mid-August at the conference. The complete list of nominees is on the 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalists site. The nominated SMFS list members are: 

 

Best Cozy 

Debra H. Goldstein for Five Belles Too Many (Kensington). 

Lori Robbins for Murder in Third Position (Level Best Books). 

Peggy Rothschild for A Deadly Bone to Pick (Berkley Prime Crime).

 

 

Best Historical 

Richard Helms for A Kind and Savage Place (Level Best Books). 

Nina Wachsman for The Gallery of Beauties: A Venice Beauties Mystery  (Level Best Books).

 

 

Best Investigator 

James L'Etoile for Dead Drop: A Detective Nathan Parker Novel (Level Best Books). 

Emilya Naymark for Behind the Lie (Crooked Lane Books).

 

 

Best Mainstream/Commercial

Vinnie Hansen with One Gun (Misterio Press).

 

 

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy 

Elle Hartford for Beauty and the Alchemist (Phoenix & Kelpie Press).

 

 

Best Western 

Gerald Elias with Roundtree Days: A Jefferson Dance Western Mystery (Level Best Books). 

 

Additionally, An Element of Mystery: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales of Intrigue (Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC.) is a Silver Falchion Award finalist in the Best Short Story Collection / Anthology category. SMFS list member Debra H. Goldstein’s short story, Death in the Hand of the Tongue, is included.