The finalists have been selected for the $5,000 Crook's Corner Book Prize, honoring the best debut novel set in the American South. The winner will be announced in January. The finalists:
The Old Place by Bobby Finger (Putnam)
Hestia Strikes a Match by Christine Grillo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Indigo Field by Marjorie Hudson (Regal House Publishing)
