Kyla from Morris, IL; Joy from Glenwood, GA; Catherine from Cleveland Hts., OH; Ariel from Lamar, Mo; Virginia from Lockhart, TX all won copies of THE HOST by Stephenie Meyer

Debora of Toronto, ON; Aliza of Brooklyn, NY; Seung-Ju of Vancouver, BC; Mike West Rutland, VT &
Janice of Sterling, AK won copies of CHILD 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Melanie from Kittanning, PA; Anna from Roswell, NM; Harry from Elkhorn, MB, Canada; Thomas from Tucson, AZ & Robert from Burke, VA all won copies of A GUITAR AND A PEN: Stories by Country Music's Greatest Songwriters, Edited by Robert Hicks

Elaine from Medicine Hat, AB; Gale from Houston, TX; Kathy from Pierce City, MO; Beth from Salem, OH &
Peggy from Preston, Ct. all won copies of QUIVER by Peter Leonard

Patty of Durham CT; Mary of Chestnut Hill, MA; Norine of New Rochelle, NY; Jeanne of Pittsburgh, PA &
Carol of San Jose, CA won signed copies MAHU FIRE by Neil Plakcy

Diana of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Merrill of Sugar Grove, IL; Connor of Vienna, VA; Patricia of Island Lake, IL; Rebecca of Salem, OR; Kate of Centreville, VA; Judy of Royal Oak, MI; Christine of Elkhorn, Manitoba; Sharada of Albuquerque, NM & Melanie of Kittanning PA all won signed copies of BABY SHARK'S HIGH PLAINS REDEMPTION by Robert Fate

Marilyn from Humble, TX; Daryl from Winnipeg, Manitoba; Darla from Smithland, KY; Leola from Joplin, MO; Anne from Valparaiso, IN; Louise from Mentor, OH; Randy from Rochester, MN; Bill from Huntington, WV; Timothy from Shelton, WA & Mimi from Miami, FL won copies of JUDGMENT DAY by Sheldon Siegel

Harry of Elkhorn, Manitoba, Canada won signed copies of BLACK OUT by Lisa Unger; THE ANGEL by Carla Neggers; DIAL M FOR MISCHIEF by Kasey Michaels; SHADOW OF POWER by Steve Martini; THE DEAL by Adam Gittlin; NO ONE LEFT TO TELL by Jordan Dane; NICK OF TIME by Ted Bell, courtesy of the International Thriller Writers

First place: Hannah of Ridgefield, CT won a signed copy of CLUBBED TO DEATH by Elaine Viets for this winning entry:  I'm a medical technologist and when I was an intern, in a large Boston hospital, part of my job was performing lab tests on 72-hour collection of stool samples, which the patient would collect over the course of 3 days in metal cans, the same ones that a gallon of paint is sold in. To thoroughly mix the sample, so the contents would be homogeneous, the can was placed on the same kind of shaker that the paint store uses to mix the paint, and that would vigorously turn the sample into one homogeneous mixture. However, in certain instances, the patient would fail to properly seal the can, which the person doing the test was not able to detect until it was in motion. I'll leave the rest to your imagination! (You didn't just have dinner, did you?)

Second place:  Cindy of Eden, UT won a copy of the first book in the Dead End Job Series, Shop Till You Drop by Elaine Viets with this winning entry:  My worst job was when I was around 18 years old and I worked in a Plasma center. Needless to say, 99.9% of the people who donated plasma were drunks. They would then take the $5 over to the store next door to buy booze as soon as they'd leave the center. Anyway, I had to take their temperature (ick!) and if they had a fever, get this, the nurse told me to give them a glass of cold water. Huh, that may lower the temp but if there's an infection, I highly doubt that glass of water would magically make it go away. The smells were bad, unwashed bodies and booze breath. That job made changing poopy baby diapers seem like a cake walk.

Third place:  Merrill of Sugar Grove, IL won a copy of the first book in the Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series, Dying in Style by Elaine Viets with this winning entry: The worst job I ever had was at Sweetheart Plastics Factory. I was assigned to the Injection Mold department, where I stood at the end of a conveyor belt and took plastic lids off the belt and put them in a box all day long. For 8 hours a day. Five days a week. I didn't even have to count how many lids, just put them in the box until it was full! AND this was in dead of summer! It was at least 120 degrees in the factory every day. It was this job that convinced me of the worth of a college education!