- The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
- The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Group USA - Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons)
- Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers)
- Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
- Sunset by Al Lamanda (Gale Cengage Learning - Five Star)
- Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow)
- All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley (Penguin Group USA - Riverhead Books)
- The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay (Random House Publishing- Ballantine)
- Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)
- Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal (Random House Publishing- Bantam Books)
- The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown Publishers)
- The 500 by Matthew Quirk (Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Reagan Arthur)
- Black Fridays by Michael Sears (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
See a list of all the nominees at TheEdgars.com.