2023 CrimeFest Award Shortlists
CrimeFest has announced the shortlists for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards as follows:
eDUNNIT AWARD (for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format): (6)
Rachel Abbott for Don't Look Away (Wildfire)
Jane Casey for The Close (HarperCollins)
Martin Edwards for Sepulchre Street (Head of Zeus)
Christina Koning for Murder at Bletchley Park (Allison & Busby)
Laura Lippman for Prom Mom (Faber & Faber)
Craig Russell for The Devil's Playground (Constable)
SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD (for debut authors first published in the United Kingdom in 2022): (8)
Stig Abell for Death Under a Little Sky (Hemlock Press/HarperCollins)
Jo Callaghan for In The Blink Of An Eye (Simon & Schuster)
Megan Davis for The Messenger (Zaffre)
Jenny Lund Madsen for Thirty Days of Darkness; translated by Megan Turney (Orenda Books)
Natalie Marlow for Needless Alley(Baskerville)
Alice Slater for Death of a Bookseller (Hodder & Stoughton)
H.R.F. KEATING AWARD (for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction): (6)
M, J, F & A Dall'Asta, Migozzi, Pagello & Pepper for Contemporary European Crime Fiction: Representing History and Politics (Palgrave)
Lisa Hopkins for Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction (Palgrave)
Kate Jackson for How To Survive a Classic Crime Novel (British Library Publishing)
Steven Powell for Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury Academic)
Nicholas Shakespeare for Ian Fleming: The Complete Man (Harvill Secker)
Adam Sisman for The Secret Life of John Le Carr?H (Profile Books)
LAST LAUGH AWARD (for the best humorous crime novel): (6)
Mark Billingham for The Last Dance (Sphere)
Elly Griffiths for The Great Deceiver (Quercus)
Mick Herron for The Secret Hours (Baskerville)
Mike Ripley for Mr Campion's Memory (Severn House)
Jesse Sutanto for Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (HQ)
Antti Tuomianen for The Beaver Theory (Orenda Books)
THALIA PROCTOR MEMORIAL AWARD (for the best adapted tv crime drama): (6)
Dalgliesh (series 2), based on the Inspector Dalgliesh books by P.D. James (Channel 5)
Reacher (series 2), based on the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child (Amazon Prime)
Shetland (series 8), based on the Shetland books by Ann Cleeves (BBC)
Slow Horses (series 3), based on the Slough House books by Mick Herron (Apple)
The Serial Killer's Wife, based on the Serial Killer books by Alice Hunter (Paramount+)
Vera (series 12), based on the Vera Stanhope books by Ann Cleeves (ITV)
AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (ages 8-12): (6)
A.M. Howell for Mysteries At Sea: Peril On The Atlantic (Usborne Publishing)
Lis Jardine for The Detention Detectives (Penguin Random House)
Beth Lincoln for The Swifts (Penguin Random House)
Marcus Rashford (with Alex Falase-Koya) for The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Ghoul in the School (Macmillan)
Robin Stevens for The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz (Penguin Random House)
J.T. Williams for The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Portraits and Poison, illustrated by Simone Douglas (Farshore)
AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Jennifer Lynn Barnes for The Brothers Hawthorne (Penguin Random House)
Nick Brooks for Promise Boys (Macmillan)
Ravena Guron for This Book Kills (Usborne Publishing)
Ravena Guron for Catch Your Death (Usborne Publishing)
Karen M. McManus for One of Us is Back (Penguin Random House)
Elizabeth Wein for Stateless (Bloomsbury)
The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 11 during the Gala Awards Dinner of this year's CrimeFest to be held in Bristol, England.
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