Edward Koch…The Senator Must Die

William Kent Krueger…The Devil’s Bed

Mike Lawson…House Secrets

John Lescroat…A Plague of Secrets

Michael Lind…Powertown

Robert Littell…Vicious Circle

Phillip Margolin…Supreme Justice

Charles McCarry…Lucky Bastard

Brian McGrory…The Incumbent

Brad Meltzer…The Book of Fate

Roland Merullo…Fidel’s Last Days

James Mills…The Hearing

Doris Mortman…The Lucky Ones

John Nance…Headwind

Michael Palmer…First Patient

Richard North Patterson…The Race

Stanley Pottinger…The Fourth Prodedure

Thomas Powers…The Confirmation

David Poyer…The Threat

Peter Rawlinson…The Richmond Diary

Doug Richardson…Dark Horse

Karen Robards…The Senator’s Wife

Arthur Robbins…Greenfield for President

Kim Stanley Robinson…60 Days and Counting

Joel Rosenberg…The Last Days

Philip Roth…The Plot Against America

Alan Russell…Political Suicide

John Sandford…Dead Watch

Philip Shelby…By Dawn’s Early Light

Robyn Sisman…Special Relationship

Les Standford…Presidential Deal

Erik Tarloff…Face-time

Phillip Thompson…Enemy Within

Brad Thor…State of the Union

Margaret Truman…Murder Inside the Beltway

Eric Van Lustbader…Last Snow

Donald Westlake…Put a Lid On It

Stuart Woods…Mounting Fears