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* Water from My Heart Charles Martin
Favorite #1 Best Overall Fiction Book of 2015
Movie-Worthy, 10 Stars  

*Concussion  Jeanne Marie Laskas
#1 Best Non-Fiction of 2015,
Best Sports Medicine/Football
Memoir & Biography, Best Book- Movie Adaptation

*Pretty Girls  Karin Slaughter
Best Crime Thriller  "Slaughter at her Finest"

*Pretty Baby  Mary Kubica 
Best Hypnotic Psychological  Suspense Thriller

*Wherever There Is Light  Peter Golden
Best Book -to -Big Screen Adaptation

*Descent   Tim Johnston
Best High-Wire Literary Thriller

*The Nightingale  Kristin Hannah
Best Historical Fiction (Sisters)

*Ashley Bell  Dean Koontz
Best Mystical Literary Fiction

*The Secret Wisdom of the Earth   Christopher Scotton
Best Coming -of- Age Debut

*The Bone Tree  Greg Iles
Best Modern Southern Trilogy

*The Guilty  David Baldacci
Best Audiobook (tie), Best of the Will Robie Series
Best Double-Twist Climax

*Memory Man  David Baldacci
Best Audiobook (tie), Best Baldacci Novel to date,
Best new series (Amos Decker)

*The Crossing  Michael Connelly
Best Audiobook (tie), Best Collaboration: Haller/ Bosch, Welliver /Connelly

*The Daylight Marriage Hedi Pitlor
 Best Psychological Family Drama
Ideal Book-Film Adaptation

*The Mistake I Made  Paula Daly
Best Domestic Indecent, Proposal Suspense
Cover Love

*Constant Fear  Daniel Palmer
Best Audiobook (tie), Best Father/Son Action,
Adventure Suspense Thriller

*Broken Promise  Linwood Barclay
Best Cliffhanger Mystery Thriller Suspense Series

 *Follow You Home  Mark Edwards
Best Horror Suspense Thriller

*Trauma  Michael Palmer, Daniel Palmer
 Best Medical Suspense Thriller

*Life or Death  Michael Robotham
Best Tour de Force of Crime Writing 
Exceptional-Masterful

*Trust No One  Paul Cleave
Best Clever Character Development, Best Twisted
Dark Humor, Best Male Protagonist (Alzheimer’s)

*Woman of the Dead Bernhard Aichner
Best Female Vigilante Justice

*Lavina  Mary Marcus
Best Southern Gothic, infused
with music, history, injustice

*The Pocket Wife  Susan Crawford
Best Eye-Catching Cover, Best psycho-
contemporary debut (Bipolar)

*Pretending to Dance  Diane Chamberlain
Best emotionally driven exploration of
family, lies, secrets & moral dilemma (MS)

* The Letter  Kathryn Hughes
Best Audiobook (tie), Best Historical Romance Fiction

*The Forever Bridge  T. Greenwood
Best Literary Suspense Fiction

*Center of Gravity  Laura McNeill
Best Southern Domestic Psycho-Suspense

*Friction Sandra Brown
 Best Romantic Suspense

*Hades Candice Fox
Best Standout International Crime Thriller Debut Series

*See Me  Nicholas Sparks
Best Storyline Made for Hollywood

*The Ones We Trust  Kimberly Belle
Best Contemporary Conspiracy Suspense

*I’ll Never Let You Go  Mary Burton 
Best Flawed Law Enforcement Family
"Morgans of Nashville "

*The Lake House  Kate Morton
Best Unsolved Multi-Generational Family Mystery

*Wonderland  Jennifer Hillier 
Best Thriller Cover, Best Halloween Whodunit

*Losing Faith  Adam Mitzner
Best Legal Thriller meets
psychological game of power

*Shady Cross James Hankins
Best Ex-Con Kidnapper in a Mystery Crime Thriller

*Under Color of Law  Sylvie Fox
Best Witty Suspense Legal Crime Political Series

*The Bullet  Mary Louise Kelly
(tie) Best Audiobook, Best Action Thriller &
Female Protagonist

*The Short Drop  Matt FitzSimmons
Best Debut Political Crime Techno Thriller

*Inside the O’Briens  Lisa Genova
Best Medical/Domestic, Family Drama (HD)

*The Wednesday Group   Sylvia True
Best Women's Contemporary Psychological Fiction Debut

*Before the Storm  Leslie Tentler
Best New Romantic Suspense Series

*Under a Dark Summer Sky   Vanessa Lafaye
Best Southern Historical Fiction Debut  (Florida Keys)
love, racial & social tensions

*Passing Through Perfect  Bette Lee Crosby
Best Southern Fiction, Best Southern Storyteller

*The Promise of Home Darcie Chan
 Best Women's Fiction/Suspense Series

*Tox-Sick  (NF)  Suzanne Somers
Best Health, Wellness, Fitness, Alternative Medicine

*MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson (NF) Steve Knopper
Best Celebrity Biography -King of Pop

*Where I Am (NF) Billy Graham
Best Spiritual/Inspirational

*Deliciously Ella  Ella Woodward (NF) 
Best Organic Plant-Based, Gluten-Free
Vegetarian Debut Cookbook

List in no certain order.  * Top 50 Books. 2015 New Releases Only.

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