2025 CrimeFest Award Shortlists
CrimeFest has announced the shortlists for the 2025 CrimeFest Awards as follows:
eDUNNIT AWARD (for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format): (6)
Martin Edwards, for Hemlock Bay (Head of Zeus)
Laurie R. King, for The Lantern's Dance (Allison & Busby)
Jean Hanff Korelitz, for The Sequel (Faber & Faber)
Bella Mackie, for What A Way To Go (The Borough Press)
Liz Moore, for The God of the Woods (The Borough Press)
Peter Swanson, for A Talent for Murder (Faber)
SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD (for debut authors first published in the United Kingdom in 2022): (6)
Tom Baragwanath, for Paper Cage (Baskerville)
Tasha Coryell, for Love Letters to a Serial Killer (Orion Fiction)
C. L. Miller, for The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (Pan Macmillan)
Akira Otani (and translator Sam Bett), for The Night of Baba Yaga (Faber & Faber)
Tracy Sierra, for Nightwatching (Viking)
Claire Wilson, for Five by Five (Michael Joseph)
H.R.F. KEATING AWARD (for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction): (6)
Mark Aldridge, for Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness (HarperCollins)
Jem Bloomfield, for Allusion in Detective Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan)
Ashley Bowden, for Female Detectives in Early Crime Fiction 1841-1920 (Fabula Mysterium Press)
Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst, for Writing the Murder: Essays on Crafting Crime Fiction (Dead Ink)
Sara Lodge, for The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Detective (Yale University Press)
Lynda La Plante, for Getting Away With Murder: My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen (Zaffre)
LAST LAUGH AWARD (for the best humorous crime novel): (6)
Cathy Ace, for The Case of the Secretive Secretary (Four Tails Publishing Ltd.)
DG Coutinho, for The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin (Harvill Secker)
Bella Mackie, for What A Way To Go (The Borough Press)
Orlando Murrin, for Knife Skills for Beginners (Transworld)
Mike Ripley, for Mr Campion's Christmas (Severn House)
Antti Tuomainen (and translator David Hackston), for The Burning Stones (Orenda Books)
AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (ages 8-12): (6)
Sufiya Ahmed, for Rosie Raja: Undercover Codebreaker (Bloomsbury Education)
Natasha Farrant, for The Secret of Golden Island (Faber & Faber)
A.M. Howell, for Mysteries at Sea: The Hollywood Kidnap Case (Usborne Publishing)
M. G. Leonard, for The Twitchers: Feather (Walker Books)
Beth Lincoln, for The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Penguin Random House Children's UK)
Nicki Thornton, for The Floating Witch Mystery (Faber & Faber)
AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS: (ages 12-16): (6)
H.F. Askwith, for A Cruel Twist of Fate (Penguin Random House Children's UK)
Denise Brown, for It All Started With a Lie (Hashtag Press)
A.J. Clack, for Lie or Die (Firefly Press)
Amie Jordan, for All the Hidden Monsters (Chicken House)
Kayvion Lewis, for Heist Royale (Simon & Schuster Children's Books)
Karen M. McManus, for Such Charming Liars (Penguin Random House Children's UK)
THALIA PROCTOR MEMORIAL AWARD (for the best adapted tv crime drama): (6)
Bad Monkey, based on the book by Carl Hiaasen (Apple TV+)
Dalgliesh (series 3), based on the Inspector Dalgliesh books by P.D. James (Channel 5)
Lady in the Lake, based on the book by Laura Lippman (Apple TV+)
Moonflower Murders, based on the book by Anthony Horowitz (BBC)
Slow Horses (series 4), based on the Slough House books by Mick Herron (Apple TV+)
The Turkish Detective, based on the Inspector Ikmen books by Barbara Nadel (BBC)
The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 17 during the Gala Awards Dinner of this year's CrimeFest to be held in Bristol, England from May 15 thru 18. This will be the final CrimeFest Awards as organizers announced that "his year CrimeFest will come to an end." (May 03, 2025)
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