– AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
– GOLDSBORO LAST LAUGH AWARD
– eDUNNIT AWARD
– H.R.F. KEATING AWARD
– 2015 AWARDS LONGLISTS
– SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
– PAST WINNERS: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 & 2008
CRIMEFEST annually presents a number of awards at its Gala Dinner which in 2015 will be held on Saturday, 16 May.
AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
The Audible Sounds of Crime Award recognises the best crime audiobook published in both print and audio in 2014. Courtesy of sponsor Audible UK, the winning author and audiobook reader share the £1,000 prize equally and each receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
The nominees are:
– Ben Aaronovitch for Foxglove Summer, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion Publishing Group)
– Lee Child for Personal, read by Jeff Harding (Penguin Random House Audio & Soundings)
– Robert Galbraith for The Silkworm, read by Robert Glenister (Little, Brown Book Group) – WINNER!
– Anthony Horowitz for Moriarty, read by Derek Jacobi & Julian Rhind-Tutt (Orion Publishing Group)
– Peter James for Want You Dead, read by Daniel Weyman (Macmillan Digital Audio)
– Stephen King for Mr Mercedes, read by Will Patton (Hodder & Stoughton)
– Jo Nesbø for The Son, read by Sean Barrett (Penguin Random House Audio & Isis Publishing)
– James Oswald for The Hangman’s Song, read by Ian Hanmore (Penguin Random House Audio)
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers for the longlist, and Audible UK listeners established the shortlist and the winning title.
GOLDSBORO LAST LAUGH AWARD
The Goldsboro Last Laugh Award is for the best humorous crime novel first published in the British Isles in 2014. The £500 prize is sponsored by Goldsboro Books, the UK’s largest specialist in signed and/or first edition books. The winner also receives a Bristol Blue Glass vase.
The nominees are:
– Lawrence Block for The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (Orion Publishing Group)
– Declan Burke for Crime Always Pays (Severn House Publishers)
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart (Bantam/Transworld)
– Shane Kuhn for Kill Your Boss (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Chris Pavone for The Accident (Faber & Faber)
– L. C. Tyler for Crooked Herring (Allison & Busby) – WINNER!
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers for the longlist, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.
eDUNNIT AWARD
The eDunnit Award is for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format in the British Isles in 2014. The winning author receives a cash prize as well as a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass vase.
The nominees are:
– Linwood Barclay for No Safe House (Orion Publishing Group)
– Lawrence Block for The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (Orion Publishing Group)
– Charles Cumming for A Colder War (HarperCollins) – WINNER!
– Chris Ewan for Dark Tides (Faber & Faber)
– Greg Illes for Natchez Burning (HarperCollins)
– Thomas Mogford for Hollow Mountain (Bloomsbury)
– Thomas Sweterlitsch for Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Headline)
– Andrew Taylor for The Silent Boy (HarperCollins)
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers for the longlist, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.
H.R.F. KEATING AWARD
The H.R.F. Keating Award is for the best biography or critical book related to crime fiction published between 2013 and 2014. The award is named for Harry Keating, who died in 2011. Harry was one of Britain’s most esteemed crime novelists, a reviewer for The Times, and a writer of books about crime fiction. The winning author receives a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass vase.
The nominees are:
– Pamela Bedore for Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (Palgrave 2013)
– Clare Clarke for Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (Palgrave, 2014) – WINNER!
– Barry Forshaw for Nordic Noir (Pocket Essentials, 2013)
– Barry Forshaw for Euro Noir (No Exit Press, 2014)
– John Martin for Crime Scene: Britain & Ireland (Five Leaves, 2014)
– Lucy Worsley for A Very British Murder (BBC Books, 2013)
Eligible titles were collated by author and crime fiction expert Martin Edwards. A team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.
– AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
– eDUNNIT AWARD
– GOLDSBORO LAST LAUGH AWARD
– H.R.F. KEATING AWARD
AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME LONGLIST
| First | Last | Title | Reader | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | Aaronovitch | Foxglove Summer | Kobna Holdbrook-Smith | Orion Publishing Group |
| Jussi | Adler-Oslen | Guilt | Steven Pacey | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Isabel | Allende | Ripper | Edoardo Ballerini | HarperAudio |
| M. J | Arlidge | Eeny Meeny | Annie Aldington, Elizabeth Bower, Lucy Gaskell & Nigel Pilkington | Penguin Random House Audio |
| M. J | Arlidge | Pop Goes the Weasel | Elizabeth Bower | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Tilly | Bagshawe | Sidney Sheldon’s Chasing Tomorrow | Michael Kramer | HarperAudio |
| Alex | Barclay | Harm’s Reach | Penelope Rawlins | HarperAudio |
| Beverly | Barton | I’ll Be Watching You | Maggie Mash | HarperAudio |
| Colin | Bateman | The Dead Pass | Adam Moore | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Belinda | Bauer | The Facts of Life and Death | Colleen Prendergast | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Simon | Beckett | Stone Bruises | Jonathan Keeble | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Alex | Berenson | The Counterfeit Agent | George Guidall | Headline Digital |
| Lauren | Beukes | Broken Monsters | Laurence Bouvard | HarperAudio |
| Mark | Billingham | The Bones Beneath | Mark Billingham | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Jenny | Blackhurst | How I Lost You | Jennifer Ness | Headline Digital |
| Sara | Blaedel | Only One Life | Karen Cass | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Sharon | Bolton | A Dark and Twisted Tide | Lisa Coleman | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Stephen | Booth | The Corpse Bridge | Mike Rogers | Little, Brown Book Group |
| C. J. | Box | Stone Cold | Jeff Harding | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Alan | Bradley | The Dead in their Vaulted Arches | Sophie Aldred | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Simon | Brett | Cinderella Killer, The | Author | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| William | Brodrick | The Discourtesy of Death | Gordon Griffin | Little, Brown Book Group |
| John | Burley | No Mercy | Peter Brooke | HarperAudio |
| James | Carol | Broken Dolls | Julia Barrie & William Hope | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| James | Carol | Watch Me | William Hope | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Tania | Carver | Truth or Dare | Martyn Waites | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Jane | Casey | The Kill | Caroline Lennon | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Wiley | Cash | This Dark Road to Mercy | Laurence Bouvard, Peter Brooke & Eric Meyers | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Kimberley | Chambers | Payback | Annie Aldington | HarperAudio |
| Ben | Cheetham | Angel of Death | Nigel Carrington | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Chris | Chibnall | Broadchurch | Carolyn Pickles | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Lee | Child | Not a Drill (A Jack Reacher short story) | Kerry Shale | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Lee | Child | Personal (Jack Reacher 19) | Jeff Harding | Penguin Random House Audio & Soundings |
| Lucy | Clarke | A Single Breath | Noreen Leighton & Stephen Perring | HarperAudio |
| Ann | Cleeves | Harbour Street | Janine Birkett | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Ann | Cleeves | Thin Air | Kenny Blyth | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Harlan | Coben | Found | Eric Meyers | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Harlan | Coben | Missing You | Kerry Shale | Orion Publishing Group |
| Martina | Cole | The Good Life | Annie Aldington | Headline Digital |
| Michael | Connelly | The Burning Room | Titus Welliver | Orion Publishing Group |
| Patricia | Cornwell | Flesh and Blood | Lorelei King | HarperAudio |
| Mason | Cross | The Killing Season | Eric Meyers | Orion Publishing Group |
| Charles | Cumming | A Colder War | Jot Davies | HarperAudio |
| Judith | Cutler | Death in Elysium | Patricia Gallimore | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Arne | Dahl | To the Top of the Mountain | David Thorpe | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Paula | Daly | Keep Your Friends Close | Janine Birkett | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Jeffery | Deaver | Trouble in Mind | Elijah Alexander, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jim Frangione, Kate Reading, Erik Singer & Keith Szarabajka | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Luke | Delaney | The Toy Taker | Robin Bowerman | HarperAudio |
| Eva | Dolan | Long Way Home | David Thorpe | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Louise | Douglas | Your Beautiful Lies | Colleen Prendergast | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Sabine | Durrant | Remember Me This Way | Penelope Rawlins & Daniel Weyman | Mulholland |
| Kate | Ellis | Shroud Maker, The | Gordon Griffin | Soundings |
| Elisabeth | Elo | North of Boston | Marguerite Gavin | Headline Digital |
| Janet | Evanovich | Top Secret Twenty-One | Lorelei King | Headline Digital |
| Janet & Lee | Evanovich & Goldberg | The Chase | Scott Brick | Headline Digital |
| Janet & Lee | Evanovich & Goldberg | The Job | Scott Brick | Headline Digital |
| Linda | Fairstein | Terminal City | Barbara Rosenblat | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Gordon | Ferris | Gallowglass | Angus King | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Paul | Finch | Dead Man Walking | Paul Thornley | HarperAudio |
| Paul | Finch | The Killing Club | Paul Thornley | HarperAudio |
| Karin | Fossum | The Murder of Harriet Krohn | Sean Barrett | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Christopher | Fowler | Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart | Tim Goodman | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Mathew | Frank | If I Should Die | Will Rycroft | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Ariana | Franklin | Winter Siege | Peter Wickham | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Gillian | Galbraith | Good Priest, The | James Bryce | Soundings |
| Robert | Galbraith | The Silkworm | Robert Glenister | Little, Brown Book Group |
| M. G. | Gardiner | The Burning Mind | Laurence Bouvard | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Lisa | Gardner | Fear Nothing | Regina Reagan | Headline Digital |
| Carin | Gerhardsen | Cinderella Girl | Candida Gubbins | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Carin | Gerhardsen | Gingerbread House | Stefanie Bierwerth | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Jason | Goodwin | The Baklava Club | Jonathan Keeble | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Ann | Granger | The Testimony of the Hanged Man | Laurence Kennedy & Maggie Mash | Headline Digital |
| Alex | Gray | The Bird That Did Not Sing | Joe Dunlop | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Alex | Grecian | The Devil's Workshop | Nigel Carrington | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Susanna | Gregory | Death of a Scholar (Bartholomew 20) | David Thorpe | Little, Brown Book Group |
| J.M. | Gregson | Rest Assured | David Thorpe | Soundings |
| Andrew | Gross | Everything to Lose | Tavia Gilbert | HarperAudio |
| Patricia | Hall | Blood Brothers | Janine Birkett | Soundings |
| Penny | Hancock | A Trick of the Mind | Laura Kirman | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Sophie | Hannah | The Monogram Murders | Julian Rhind-Tutt | HarperAudio |
| Nick | Harkaway | Tigerman | Matt Bates | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Oliver | Harris | Deep Shelter | Toby Longworth | Penguin Random House Audio |
| John | Harvey | Darkness, Darkness | Mike Grady | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Mo | Hayder | Wolf | Jot Davies | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Emma | Healey | Elizabeth is Missing | Anna Bentinck | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| David | Hewson | The House of Dolls | Saul Reichlin | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Jack | Higgins | The Death Trade | Nigel Carrington | HarperAudio |
| Sarah | Hilary | Someone Else's Skin | Abigail Thaw | Headline Digital |
| Bruce | Holsinger | A Burnable Book | Tim Bruce | HarperAudio |
| Jonathan | Holt | The Abduction | Michael Fenner | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Anthony | Horowitz | Moriarty | Derek Jacobi & Julian Rhind-Tutt | Orion Publishing Group |
| Alex | Howard | Time to Die | Adjoa Andoh | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Declan | Hughes | All the Things You Are | William Hope | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Phillip | Hunter | To Die For | Jamie Parker | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Gregg | Hurwitz | Don't Look Back | Laurel Lefkow | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Ewart | Hutton | Wild People | Iestyn Arwel | HarperAudio |
| David | Ignatius | The Director | George Guidall | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Greg | Iles | Natchez Burning | Jeff Harding | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Arnaldur | Indridason | Reykjavik Nights | Saul Reichlin | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Lisa | Jackson | Close to Home | Laurel Lefkow | Mulholland |
| Peter | James | Want You Dead | Daniel Weyman | Macmillan Digital Audio |
| J. A. | Jance | Second Watch | JR Horne | HarperAudio |
| Quintin | Jardine | Hour of Darkness | James Bryce | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Andrew | Kaplan | Homeland: Saul's Game | Penelope Rawlins | HarperAudio |
| M. R. C. | Kasasian | The Curse of the House of Foskett | Emma Gregory | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Emma | Kavanagh | Falling | Julie Teal | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Faye | Kellerman | Murder 101 | Richard Ferrone | HarperAudio |
| Jonathan | Kellerman | Killer | John Rubenstein | Headline Digital |
| Jonathan and Jesse | Kellerman | The Golem of Hollywood | John Rubenstein | Headline Digital |
| Erin | Kelly | The Ties That Bind | Robert Blackwood | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Claire | Kendal | The Book of You | Orlagh Cassidy | HarperAudio |
| Lars | Kepler | The Sandman | Saul Reichlin | HarperAudio |
| J. A. | Kerley | The Apostle | John Moraitis | HarperAudio |
| J. A. | Kerley | The Memory Killer | John Moraitis | HarperAudio |
| Simon | Kernick | Dead Man's Gift | Paul Thornley | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Simon | Kernick | Stay Alive | Paul Thornley | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Philip | Kerr | Research | Nigel Carrington | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Stephen | King | Mr Mercedes | Will Patton | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Dean | Koontz | The City | Korey Jackson | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Roberta | Kray | Streetwise | Annie Aldington | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Camilla | Lackberg | Buried Angels | Robin Bowerman | HarperAudio |
| Robert | Lautner | The Road to Reckoning | Holter Graham | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Stephen | Leather | Lastnight | Paul Thornley | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Stephen | Leather | White Lies | Paul Thornley | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Donna | Leon | By Its Cover | David Rintoul | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Luana | Lewis | Don't Stand So Close | Julia Barrie | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Howard | Linskey | The Dead | David Nellist | No Exit Press |
| Anya | Lipska | Death Can’t Take A Joke | Michael Fenner | HarperAudio |
| Sophie | Littlefield | The Moon Pool | Laurence Bouvard | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Peter | Lovesey | The Stone Wife | Michael Tudor Barnes | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Jane | Lythell | The Lie of You | Gabrielle Glaister & Melkorka Oskarsdottir | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Stuart | MacBride | A Song for the Dying | Ian Hanmore | HarperAudio |
| Karen | Maitland | The Vanishing Witch | Jonathan Keeble | Headline Digital |
| Malcolm | Makay | The Sudden Arrival of Violence | Angus King | Macmillan Digital Audio |
| Josh | Malerman | Bird Box | Katharine Mangold | HarperAudio |
| Henning | Mankell | An Event in Autumn | Sean Barrett | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Scott | Mariani | The Nemesis Program | Will Rycroft | HarperAudio |
| Alex | Marwood | The Killer Next Door | Imogen Church | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Graham | Masterton | Red Light | Caroline Lennon | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Val | McDermid | The Skeleton Road | Cathleen McCarron | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Claire | McGowan | The Dead Ground | Joanne King | Headline Digital |
| Sophie | McKenzie | Trust in Me | Clare Corbett | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Katharine | McMahon | The Woman in the Picture | Harriet Carmichael | Orion Publishing Group |
| Andy | McNab | For Valour | Paul Thornley | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Andy | McNab | Fortress | Colin Buchanan | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Danny | Miller | Exit the Thief | Peter Noble | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Thomas | Mogford | Hollow Mountain | Daniel Pirrie | Bloomsbury |
| Michael | Morley | Spree | Ian Porter | Headline Digital |
| Kate | Mosse | The Taxidermist's Daughter | Clare Corbett | Orion Publishing Group |
| Yannick | Murphy | This Is The Water | Karen White | Headline Digital |
| James | Naughtie | Madness of July, The | Seán Barrett | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Jo | Nesbo | The Son | Sean Barrett | Penguin Random House Audio & Isis Publishing |
| Carol | O'Connell | It Happens in the Dark | Barbara Rosenblat | Headline Digital |
| James | Oswald | Dead Men’s Bones | Ian Hanmore | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Oswald | The Hangman’s Song | Ian Hanmore | Penguin Random House Audio |
| S. J. | Parris | Treachery | Laurence Kennedy | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Tony | Parsons | The Murder Bag | Colin Mace | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| James | Patterson | Burn | Danny Mastrogiorgio | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Hope to Die | Michael Boatman & Scott Sowers | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Invisible | Kevin T Collins & January LaVoy | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | NYPD Red 2 | Edoardo Ballerini & Jay Snyder | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Private L.A. | Jay Snyder | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Unlucky 13 | January LaVoy | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James & Ashwin | Patterson & Sanghi | Private India | Amerjit Deu & Raj Ghatak | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Chris | Pavone | The Accident | Laurence Bouvard | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Louise | Penny | How the Light Gets In | Adam Sims | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Louise | Penny | The Long Way Home | Adam Sims | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Anne | Perry | Blood on the Water | Deirdra Whelan | Headline Digital |
| Anne | Perry | The Angel Court Affair | Deirdra Whelan | Headline Digital |
| Karen | Perry | The Boy that Never was | Stefanie Bierwerth | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Sarah | Pinborough | Murder | Steven Crossley | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Matthew | Quirk | The Directive | Jay Snyder | Headline Digital |
| Kathy | Reichs | Bones Never Lie | Katherine Borowitz | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Kathy | Reichs | Exposure | Cristin Milioti | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Anne | Rice | Prince Lestat | Simon Vance | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Michael | Ridpath | Sea of Stone | Seán Barrett | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Imogen | Robertson | Theft of Life | Dudley Hinton | Headline Digital |
| Michael | Robotham | Life or Death | John Chancer | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Jacqui | Rose | Avenged | Annie Aldington | HarperAudio |
| Jacqui | Rose | Betrayed | Annie Aldington | HarperAudio |
| James | Runcie | Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil | Peter Wickham | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| C.J. | Sansom | Lamentation | Steve Crossley | Macmillan Digital Audio |
| Lisa | Scottoline | Keep Quiet | Ron Livingston | Headline Digital |
| Mark | Sennen | Cut Dead | Stevie Lacey | HarperAudio |
| Gerald | Seymour | Vagabond | John O'Mahony | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| William | Shaw | A House of Knives | Cameron Stewart | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Lloyd | Shepherd | Savage Magic | Steven Crossley | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Daniel | Silva | The Heist | George Guidall | HarperAudio |
| Karin | Slaughter | Cop Town | Lorelei King | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Helen | Smith | Beyond Belief | Alison Larkin | Thomas and Mercer |
| Cath | Staincliffe | Ruthless | Julia Barrie | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Nick | Stone | The Verdict | David Thorpe | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Stephan | Talty | Hangman | David H Lawrence XVII | Headline Digital |
| Andrew | Taylor | The Silent Boy | Leon Williams | HarperAudio |
| Lesley | Thomson | Ghost Girl | Annie Aldington | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Jane | Thynne | The Winter Garden | Julie Teal | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Rebecca | Tope | Trouble in the Cotswolds | Caroline Lennon | Soundings |
| Peter | Turnbull | Denial of Murder | Gordon Griffin | Soundings |
| Luca | Veste | Dead Gone | Jonathan Keeble | HarperAudio |
| Luca | Veste | The Dying Place | Jonathan Keeble | HarperAudio |
| Tom | Vowler | That Dark Remembered Day | Russell Bentley | Headline Digital |
| Tim | Weaver | Fall From Grace | Ben Allen | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Lucie | Whitehouse | Before We Met | Polly Whitehouse | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Jake | Woodhouse | After the Silence | Daniel Weyman | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Joakim | Zander | The Swimmer | Yoland Kettle & William Roberts | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| First | Last | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | Aaranovitch | Foxglove Summer | Gollancz |
| Jussi | Adler-Olsen | Guilt | Michael Joseph |
| Rennie | Airth | The Reckoning | Mantle |
| Sam | Alexander | Carnal Acts | Arcadia |
| John | Altman | The Art of the Devil | Severn House Publishers |
| Matt | Arlidge | Eeny Meeny | Michael Joseph |
| Matt | Arlidge | Pop Goes the Weasel | Michael Joseph |
| Angela | Arney | Old Sins, Long Memories | Robert Hale |
| Nancy | Atherton | Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well | Headline |
| Andre K. | Baby | The Chimera Sanction | Robert Hale |
| Linwood | Barclay | No Safe House | Orion Fiction |
| Colin | Bateman | The Dead Pass | Headline |
| Belinda | Bauer | The Facts of Life and Death | Transworld |
| Simon | Beckett | Stone Bruises | Transworld |
| Tom | Benn | Trouble Man | Jonathan Cape |
| Alex | Berenson | The Counterfeit Agent | Headline |
| Lauren | Beukes | Broken Monsters | Harpercollins |
| Parker | Bilal | The Ghost Runner | Bloomsbury |
| Harry | Bingham | The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths | Orion Fiction |
| Benjamin | Black | The Black Eye Blonde | Mantle |
| Tony | Black | Artefacts of the Dead | Black & white Publishing |
| James Carlos | Blake | The Rules of Wolfe | No Exit Press |
| Lawrence | Block | The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons | Orion Fiction |
| Britta | Bolt | Lonely Graves | Mulholland |
| Sharon | Bolton | A Dark and Twisted Tide | Transworld |
| Alan | Bradley | The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches | Orion Fiction |
| Jean.C. | Briggs | The Murder of Patience Brooke: Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones Investigate | Mystery Press |
| Alafair | Burke | All Day and a Night | Faber & Faber |
| James Lee | Burke | Wayfaring Stranger | Orion Fiction |
| Robert Olen | Butler | The Hot Country | No Exit Press |
| Andrea | Camilleri | Judge Surra | MacLehose Press |
| Andrea | Camilleri | Angelica's Smile | Mantle |
| Andrea | Camilleri | Hunting Season | Mantle |
| James | Carol | Broken Dolls | Faber & Faber |
| James | Carol | Watch Me | Faber & Faber |
| Nuala | Casey | Summer Lies Bleeding | Quercus |
| Wiley | Cash | This Dark Road to Mercy | Transworld |
| Ray | Celestin | The Axeman's Jazz | Mantle |
| Simon | Clark | Inspector Abberline and the Gods of Rome | Robert Hale |
| Harlan | Coben | Found | Orion Fiction |
| Harlan | Coben | Missing You | Orion Fiction |
| Tammy | Cohen | Dying for Christmas | Transworld |
| Martina | Cole | The Good Life | Headline |
| Michael | Connelly | The Burning Room | Orion Fiction |
| Alex | Connor | The Bosch Deception | Quercus |
| Alex | Connor | The Garden of Unearthly Delights | Quercus |
| Thomas H. | Cook | Breakheart Hill | Quercus |
| Thomas H. | Cook | The Chatham School Affair | Quercus |
| Elizabeth | Corley | Dead of Winter | Allison and Busby |
| Roberto | Costantini | The Root of All Evil | Quercus |
| Richard | Crompton | Hell's Gate | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Mason | Cross | The Killing Season | Orion Fiction |
| Julia | Crouch | The Long Fall | Headline |
| Sinéad | Crowley | Can Anybody Help Me? | Quercus |
| Charles | Cumming | A Colder War | Harpercollins |
| Arne | Dahl | To the Top of the Mountain | Harvill Secker |
| Nadia | Dalbuono | The Few | Scribe UK |
| Paula | Daly | Keep Your Friends Close | Transworld |
| David Stuart | Davies | The Darke Chronicles: Tales of a Victorian Puzzle-Solver | Mystery Press |
| Jason | Dean | The Hunter's Oath | Headline |
| S.J. | Deas | The Royalist | Headline |
| Eva | Dolan | Long Way Home | Harvill Secker |
| Ruth | Downie | Tabula Rasa | Bloomsbury |
| Matthew | Dunn | Slingshot | Orion Fiction |
| Sabine | Durrant | Remember Me This Way | Mulholland |
| Sam | Eastland | The Beast in the Red Forest | Faber & Faber |
| Mark | Edwards | Because She Loves Me | Thomas and Mercer |
| Elsebeth | Egholm | Dead Souls | Headline |
| Elisabeth | Elo | North of Boston | Headline |
| Thomas | Enger | Scarred | Faber & Faber |
| Kjell | Eriksson | Black Lies, Red Blood | Allison and Busby |
| Janet | Evanovich | Top Secret Twenty-One | Headline Review |
| Janet & Lee | Evanovich & Goldberg | The Chase | Headline Review |
| Janet & Lee | Evanovich & Goldberg | The Job | Headline Review |
| Chris | Ewan | Dark Tides | Faber & Faber |
| Lyndsay | Faye | Seven for a Secret | Headline Review |
| Gordon | Ferris | Gallowglass | Corvus |
| Conor | Fitzgerald | Bitter Remedy | Bloomsbury |
| Karin | Fossum | The Murder of Harriet Krohn | Harvill Secker |
| Christopher | Fowler | Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart | Transworld |
| Felix | Francis | Damage | Michael Joseph |
| Matthew | Frank | If I Should Die | Michael Joseph |
| Ariana | Franklin | Winter Siege | Transworld |
| Brian | Freeman | Season of Fear | Quercus |
| Brian | Freeman | Turn to Stone | Quercus |
| Nicci | French | Thursday's Children | Michael Joseph |
| Alan | Furst | Midnight in Europe | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Robert | Galbraith | The Silkworm | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Christopher | Galt | Biblical | Quercus |
| Meg | Gardiner | The Burning Mind | Michael Joseph |
| Lisa | Gardner | Fear Nothing | Headline |
| Paul | Garrison | Robert Ludlum's The Janson Option | Orion Fiction |
| Sissel-Jo | Gazan | The Arc of the Swallow | Quercus |
| Karin | Gerhardsen | Cinderella Girl | Michael Joseph |
| V.M. | Giambanco | The Dark | Quercus |
| Helen | Giltrow | The Distance | Orion Fiction |
| Robert | Goddard | The Corners of the Globe | Transworld |
| Jason | Goodwin | The Baklava Club | Faber & Faber |
| John | Gordon Sinclair | Blood Whispers | Faber & Faber |
| Ann | Granger | The Testimony of a Hanged Man | Headline |
| Tom | Grass | Twist | Orion Fiction |
| Alex | Grecian | The Devil's Workshop | Michael Joseph |
| Isabelle | Grey | Good Girls Don't Die | Quercus |
| Tom | Grieves | A Cry in the Night | Quercus |
| Elly | Griffiths | The Outcast Dead | Quercus |
| Elly | Griffiths | The Zig Zag Girl | Quercus |
| Michael | Gruber | The Return | Corvus |
| M.R. | Hall | The Burning | Mantle |
| Dashiell | Hammett | The Hunter and Other Stories | No Exit Press |
| Catherine.B | Hanley | Whited Sepulchres: A Mediaeval Mystery | Mystery Press |
| Mari | Hannah | Killing For Keeps | PanMacmillan |
| Sophie | Hannah | The Monogram Murder | Harpercollins |
| Oliver | Harris | Deep Shelter | Jonathan Cape |
| Sarah | Hawkswood | The Lord Bishop's Clerk: A Bradecote and Catchpoll Investigation | Mystery Press |
| Mo | Hayder | Wolf | Transworld |
| Kati | Hiekkapelto | The Hummingbird | Arcadia |
| Sarah | Hilary | Someone Else's Skin | Headline |
| Susan | Hill | The Soul of Discretion | Chatto & Windus |
| Sibel | Hodge | Look Behind You | Thomas and Mercer |
| Phil | Hogan | A Pleasure and a Calling | Transworld |
| Anne | Holt | The Lion's Mouth | Corvus |
| Anthony | Horowitz | Moriarty | Orion Fiction |
| Jørn Lier | Horst | The Hunting Dogs | Sandstone Press |
| Trevor | Hoyle | Blind Needle | Jo Fletcher |
| Graham | Hurley | Sins of the Father | Orion Fiction |
| David | Ignatius | The Director | Quercus |
| Greg | Illes | Natchez Burning | Harpercollins |
| Arnaldur | Indridason | Reykjavik Nights | Harvill Secker |
| Steffen | Jacobsen | Trophy | Quercus |
| Peter | James | Want You Dead | PanMacmillan |
| Anna | Jaquiery | The Lying Down Room | Mantle |
| Quintin | Jardine | Hour of Darkness | Headline |
| Quintin | Jardine | Mathew's Tale | Headline |
| Duncan | Jepson | Emperors Once More | Quercus |
| Doug | Johnstone | The Dead Beat | Faber & Faber |
| J.G. | Jurado | The Tipping Point | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Casey | Kelleher | Bad Blood | Thomas and Mercer |
| Casey | Kelleher | Bad Blood | Thomas and Mercer |
| Julia | Keller | Summer of the Dead | Headline |
| Jonathan | Kellerman | Killer | Headline |
| Jonathan and Jesse | Kellerman | The Golem of Hollywood | Headline |
| Erin and Chris | Kelly and Chibnall | Broadchurch | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Claire | Kendal | The Book of You | Harpercollins |
| Christobel | Kent | The Killing Room | Corvus |
| Lars | Kepler | The Sandman | Harpercollins |
| Simon | Kernick | Dead Man's Gift | Cornerstone |
| Philip | Kerr | Research | Quercus |
| Hesh | Kestin | The Lie | Scribe UK |
| Amanda | Kyle Williams | Don't Talk To Strangers | Headline |
| Hans Olav | Lahlum | The Human Flies | Mantle |
| Owen | Laukkanen | Criminal Enterprise | Corvus |
| Owen | Laukkanen | The Professionals | Corvus |
| Paul | Lawrence | Hearts of Darkness | Allison and Busby |
| John | Lawton | Sweet Sunday | Grove Press |
| Hervé | Le Corre | Talking to Ghosts | MacLehose Press |
| Jung-Myung | Lee | The Investigation | Mantle |
| Pierre | Lemaitre | Irène | MacLehose Press |
| John | Lescroart | The Keeper | Headline |
| Luana | Lewis | Don't Stand So Close | Transworld |
| Roy | Lewis | A Fugitive Englishman | Buried River Press |
| Laura | Lippman | After I'm Gone | Faber & Faber |
| Elizabeth | Little | Dear Daughter | Harvill Secker |
| Nick | Louth | Bite | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Eric van | Lustbader | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Ascendancy | Orion Fiction |
| Eric van | Lustbader | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Retribution | Orion Fiction |
| Malcolm | Mackay | Sudden Arrival of Violence | Mantle |
| Malcolm | Mackay | The Night the Rich Men Burned | Mantle |
| Adrian | Magson | The Watchman | Severn House Publishers |
| Karen | Maitland | The Vanishing Witch | Headline Review |
| Marco | Malvaldi | The Art of Killing Well | MacLehose Press |
| Henning | Mankell | An Event in Autumn | Harvill Secker |
| Dominique | Manotti | Escape | Arcadia |
| David | Mark | Sorrow Bound | Quercus |
| Liza | Marklund | Borderline | Transworld |
| Edward | Marston | A Ticket to Oblivion | Allison and Busby |
| Stuart | McBride | A Song For the Dying | Harpercollins |
| Bruce | McCabe | Skinjob | Transworld |
| Luke | McCallin | The Man from Berlin | No Exit Press |
| Tom | McCulloch | The Stillman | Sandstone Press |
| Claire | McGowan | The Dead Ground | Headline |
| M.J. | McGrath | The Bone Seeker | Mantle |
| Eoin | McNamee | Blue is the Night | Faber & Faber |
| Fergus | McNeill | Cut Out | Hodder & Stoughton |
| K. T. | Medina | White Crocodile | Faber & Faber |
| Paul | Mendelson | The First Rule of Survival | Little, Brown Book Group |
| D. A. | Mishani | A Possibility of Violence | Quercus |
| Thomas | Mogford | Hollow Mountain | Bloomsbury |
| Michael | Morley | Spree | March |
| Steve | Mosby | The Nightmare Place | Orion Fiction |
| Walter | Mosley | Rose Gold | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Kate | Mosse | The Taxidermist's Daughter | Orion Fiction |
| Peter | Murphy | A Matter for the Jury | No Exit Press |
| Yannick | Murphy | This Is The Water | Headline Review |
| Barbara | Nadel | Poisoned Ground | Quercus |
| Barbara | Nadel | Body Count | Headline |
| Jo | Nesbo | The Son | Harvill Secker |
| Håkan | Nesser | The G File | Mantle |
| Stuart | Neville | The Final Silence | Harvill Secker |
| G.F. | Newman | The Corrupted Part One | Quercus |
| G.F. | Newman | The Corrupted Part Two | Quercus |
| Andreas | Norman | Into a Raging Blaze | Quercus |
| Carol | O'Connell | It Happens in the Dark | Headline |
| Scott | O'Connor | Half World | Scribe UK |
| Mark | O'Sullivan | Sleeping Dogs | Transworld Ireland |
| James | Oswald | Dead Men's Bones | Michael Joseph |
| James | Oswald | The Hangman's Song | Michael Joseph |
| Michael | Palmer | Resistant | Headline |
| Tony | Park | The Hunter | Quercus |
| T Jefferson | Parker | Full Measure | Sandstone Press |
| Tim | Parks | Painting Death | Harvill Secker |
| SJ | Parris | Treachery | Harpercollins |
| R. S. | Pateman | The Prophecy of Bees | Orion Fiction |
| Chris | Pavone | The Accident | Faber & Faber |
| Otto | Penzler | Dead Man's Hand | Quercus |
| Anne | Perry | A New York Christmas | Headline |
| Anne | Perry | Blood on the Water | Headline |
| Anne | Perry | The Angel Court Affair | Headline |
| Karen | Perry | The Boy Who Never Was | Michael Joseph |
| Leif G W | Persson | Falling Freely, As If In A Dream | Transworld |
| Sarah | Pinborough | Murder | Jo Fletcher |
| Anthony | Quinn | The Blood-Dimmed Tide | No Exit Press |
| C.S. | Quinn | The Thief Taker | Thomas and Mercer |
| Matthew | Quirk | The Directive | Headline |
| Raicho.T. | Raichev | The Killing of Olga Klimt: An Antonia Darcy and Major Payne Mystery | Mystery Press |
| Caro | Ramsay | The Night Hunter | Severn House Publishers |
| Ian | Rankin | The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Stories | Orion Fiction |
| Ian, Mark | Rankin, Thomson | Dark Road | Orion Fiction |
| James | Raven | Random Targets | Robert Hale |
| Kathy | Reichs | Swamp Bones | Cornerstone |
| Kate | Rhodes | Winter Foundlings | Mulholland |
| Phil | Rickman | Night After Night | Corvus |
| Michael | Ridpath | Sea of Stone | Corvus |
| Stella | Rimington | Close Call | Bloomsbury |
| Mark | Roberts | What She Saw | Corvus |
| Imogen | Robertson | Theft of Life | Headline Review |
| Derek | Robinson | Rotten with Honour | MacLehose Press |
| Steve | Robinson | The Lost Empress | Thomas and Mercer |
| James | Rollins | The Sixth Extinction | Orion Fiction |
| James, Grant | Rollins, Blackwood | The Kill Switch | Orion Fiction |
| Karen | Rose | Closer Than You Think | Headline |
| Sebastian | Rotella | Convert’s Song | Mulholland |
| James | Runcie | Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil | Bloomsbury |
| Leigh | Russell | Race to Death | No Exit Press |
| Kevin | Sampson | The House on the Hill | Jonathan Cape |
| C.J. | Sansom | Lamentation | Mantle |
| Saskia | Sarginson | Without You | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Andrea Maria | Schenkel | The Dark Meadow | Quercus |
| Lisa | Scottoline | Keep Quiet | Headline |
| Marcus | Sedgewick | A Love Like Blood | Mulholland |
| Dan | Sehlberg | Mona | Scribe UK |
| William | Shaw | A House of Knives | Quercus |
| Liad | Shoham | Lineup | Scribe UK |
| Anna | Smith | Betrayed | Quercus |
| Dan | Smith | The Darkest Heart | Orion Fiction |
| Dwayne | Smith | Forty Acres | Faber & Faber |
| Helen | Smith | Beyond Belief | Thomas and Mercer |
| Lachlan | Smith | Lion Plays Rough | Headline |
| Mickey | Spillane | Kiss Her Goodbye | Quercus |
| Cath | Staincliffe | Letters to my Daughter's Killer | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Cath | Staincliffe | Ruthless | Transworld |
| Adam | Sternbergh | Shovel Ready | Headline |
| Linda | Stratmann | An Appetite for Murder: A Frances Doughty Mystery | Mystery Press |
| Mark | Sullivan | Thief | Quercus |
| Peter | Swanson | The Girl with a Clock for a Heart | Faber & Faber |
| Andrew | Swanston | The King's Return | Transworld |
| Thomas | Sweterlitsch | Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Headline |
| Simon | Sylvester | The Visitors | Quercus |
| Stephan | Talty | Hangman | Headline |
| Andrew | Taylor | The Silent Boy | Harpercollins |
| David | Thorne | East of Innocence | Corvus |
| Rebecca | Tope | The Coniston Case | Allison and Busby |
| A. R. | Torre | The Girl in 6E | Orion Fiction |
| Peter | Tremayne | The Devil's Seal | Headline |
| Mike | Uden | The Sacrifice | Robert Hale |
| Fred | Vargas | Dog Will Have His Day | Harvill Secker |
| Louise | Voss | From the Cradle | Thomas and Mercer |
| Louise | Voss | From the Cradle | Thomas and Mercer |
| Louise & Mark | Voss & Edwards | From the Cradle | Thomas and Mercer |
| Tom | Vowler | That Dark Remembered Day | Headline |
| Stephen | Wade | A Thief in The Night and Other Adventures of the Septimus Society | Mystery Press |
| Stephen | Wade | A Thief in The Night and Other Adventures of the Septimus Society | Mystery Press |
| Martin | Walker | Children of War | Quercus |
| Tim | Weaver | Fall From Grace | Michael Joseph |
| Jason | Webster | Blood Med | Chatto & Windus |
| Lucie | Whitehouse | Before We Met | Bloomsbury |
| Michael | Wiley | Blue Avenue | Severn House Publishers |
| Carter | Wilson | The Boy in the Woods | Severn House Publishers |
| Edward | Wilson | Whitehall Mandarin | Arcadia |
| Robert | Wilson | You Will Never Find Me | Orion Fiction |
| Jake | Woodhouse | After the Silence | Michael Joseph |
| M.P. | Wright | Heartman | Black & white Publishing |
| Natalie | Young | Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband | Tinder Press |
| First | Last | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | Aaranovitch | Foxglove Summer | Gollancz |
| Colin | Bateman | The Dead Pass | Headline |
| Lawrence | Block | The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons | Orion Fiction |
| Michael | Bond | Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Tangled Web | Allison and Busby |
| Alan | Bradley | The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches | Orion Fiction |
| Simon | Brett | The Cinderella Killer | Severn House Publishers |
| Simon | Brett | The Tomb in Turkey | Severn House Publishers |
| Frances | Brody | Death of an Avid Reader | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Declan | Burke | Crime Always Pays | Severn House Publishers |
| Andrea | Camilleri | Hunting Season | Mantle |
| Carol K. | Carr | India Black | Titan Publishing |
| Carol K. | Carr | India Black and the Widow of Windsor | Titan Publishing |
| Caroline | Dunford | A Death in the Loch | Accent Press |
| Vaughn | Entwistle | The Revenant of Thraxton Hall | Titan Publishing |
| Christopher | Fowler | Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart | Bantam |
| Andrea | Frazer | Caribbean Sunset with a Yellow Parrot | Accent Press |
| Andrea | Frazer | The Curious Case of the Black Swan Song | Accent Press |
| Jasper | Gibon | A Brigth Moon For Fools | Simon & Schuster |
| Jean G | Goodhind | Blood and Broomsticks | Accent Press |
| Jean G | Goodhind | Death of a Diva | Accent Press |
| Jean G | Goodhind | The Ghost of Christmas Past | Accent Press |
| Suzette A. | Hill | The Venetian Venture | Allison and Busby |
| Shane | Kuhn | Kill Your Boss | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Michael | Kurland | The Infernal Device | Titan Publishing |
| Adrian | McKinty | The Sun is God | Profile Books / Serpent's Tail |
| Walter | Mosley | Rose Gold | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Judith | Murdoch | Writers' Block (aka A Murder of Magpies) | Allison and Busby |
| Tamar | Myers | The Death of Pie | Severn House Publishers |
| Chris | Pavone | The Accident | Faber & Faber |
| Helen | Smith | Beyond Belief | Thomas and Mercer |
| R.T. | Stroud | The Dead City Rollers | Troubadour Publishing |
| L. C. | Tyler | Crooked Herring | Allison and Busby |
| FIRST | LAST | TITLE | PUBLISHER |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pamela | Bedore | Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction | Palgrave |
| Clare | Clarke | Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock | Palgrave |
| Michael | Cook | Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story: The Haunted Text | Palgrave |
| Barry | Forshaw | Nordic Noir | Pocket Essentials |
| Barry | Forshaw | Euro Noir | No Exit Press |
| Josef | Hoffmann | Philosophies of Crime Fiction | No Exit Press |
| Amnon | Kabatchnik | Blood on the Stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D.: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem | Rowman & Littlefield |
| John | Martin | Crime Scene: Britain & Ireland | Five Leaves |
| Steven | Peacock | Swedish Crime Fiction: Novel, Film, Television | Manchester University Press |
| Melissa | Schaub | Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction: The Female Gentleman | Palgrave |
| Lucy | Worsley | A Very British Murder | BBC Books |