The nominees for the 2008 Thriller Awards, sponsored by the International Thriller Writers, are:
Best Novel
- No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
- The Watchman by Robert Crais
- The Ghost by Robert Harris
- The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
- Trouble by Jesse Kellerman
Best First Novel
- Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
- Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
- From the Depths by Gerry Doyle
- Volk’s Game by Brent Ghelfi
- Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Best Paperback Original
- The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco
- A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish
- The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli
- The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
- Shattered by Jay Bonansinga
