Domenic Stansberry's The WHITE DEVIL has been shorlisted for the 2017 HAMMETT PRIZE... the annual award for best novel from the International Association of Crime Writers . . . Previous winners include Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Alice Hoffman, George Pelecanos. . . .

This year's finalists:

NOMINEES:
The Second Life of Nick Mason, by Steve Hamilton (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
The Drifter, by Nicholas Petrie (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
The White Devil, by Domenic Stansberry (Molotov Editions)
Revolver, by Duane Swierczynki (Mulholland Books)
The Big Nothing, by Bob Truluck (Murmur House Press)

The winner, tba in October, will receive the ThIn Man Trophy, designed by sculptor Peter Bolger