2025 ITW Thriller Award Winners Announced
Posted on June 28, 2025
The winners of the 2025 International Thriller Writers (ITW) Awards have been announced. ITW is an organization for thriller writers with over 6,600 members in 49 countries.
The best standalone thriller novel was won by The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak and the best standalone mystery novel was won by Missing White Woman bye Kellye Garrett.
Here is the full list of the winners:
- Best Standalone Thriller Novel: Jason Rekulak – The Last One at the Wedding (Flatiron Books)
- Best Standalone Mystery Novel: Kellye Garrett – Missing White Woman (Mulholland Books)
- Best Series Novel: David Baldacci – To Die For (Grand Central Publishing)
- Best First Novel: Marie Tierney – Deadly Animals (Henry Holt & Co.)
- Best Audiobook: Kate Alice Marshall – No One Can Know (Macmillan Audio, narrated by Karissa Vacker)
- Best Young Adult Novel: Marisha Pessl – Darkly (Delacorte)
- Best Short Story: Ivy Pochoda – Jackrabbit Skin (Amazon Original Stories)
- ThrillerMaster Award: John Grisham
- Silver Bullet Award: James Patterson
- Spotlight Guest: Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Spotlight Guest: Jennifer Hillier
- Thriller Legend: Neil Nyren
- ThrillerFan: McKenna Jordan
Learn more about the ITW on its website at thrillerwriters.org.
Rekulak's thriller is described as domestic suspense thriller and "work of brilliant suspense" by publisher Flatiron Books. It can be found on Amazon.com.
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