– AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
– eDUNNIT AWARD
– LAST LAUGH AWARD
– H.R.F. KEATING AWARD
– BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (AGES 8–12)
– BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS (AGES 12–16)
– THE PETRONA AWARD
– 2019 AWARD ENTRIES
– SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
– PAST WINNERS: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 & 2008
CRIMEFEST annually presents its awards at a dinner which in 2019 was held on Saturday, 11 May.
This year’s winners have been announced (see below). We had incredibly strong shortlists and would like to congratulate all of the winners and nominees!
AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
The Audible Sounds of Crime Award is for the best unabridged crime audiobook first published in the UK in 2018 in both printed and audio formats, and available for download from audible.co.uk, Britain’s largest provider of downloadable audiobooks. Courtesy of sponsor Audible UK, the winning author and audiobook reader(s) share the £1,000 prize equally and each receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
Audible Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Ben Aaronovitch for Lies Sleeping, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion Publishing Group)
– Louise Candlish for Our House, read by Deni Francis & Paul Panting (Whole Story Audiobooks)
– Bill Clinton & James Patterson for The President Is Missing, read by Dennis Quaid, January LaVoy, Peter Ganim, Jeremy Davidson, Mozhan Marnò and Bill Clinton (Random House Audiobooks)
– Robert Galbraith for Lethal White, read by Robert Glenister (Hachette Audio) – WINNER!
– Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen for The Wife Between Us, read by Julia Whelan (Pan Macmillan Publishers)
– Stephen King for The Outsider, read by Will Patton (Hodder & Stoughton)
– Clare Mackintosh for Let Me Lie, read by Gemma Whelan & Clare Mackintosh (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Peter May for I’ll Keep You Safe, read by Anna Murray & Peter Forbes (riverrun)
– Ian Rankin for In a House of Lies, read by James MacPherson (Orion Publishing Group)
– Sarah Vaughan for Anatomy of a Scandal, read by Julie Teal, Luke Thompson, Esther Wane and Sarah Feathers (Simon & Schuster Audio UK)
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, and Audible UK listeners established 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 2018. The winner receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Leye Adenle for When Trouble Sleeps (Cassava Republic Press)
– Steve Cavanagh for Thirteen (Orion Fiction)
– Martin Edwards for Gallows Court (Head of Zeus)
– Laura Lippman for Sunburn (Faber and Faber) – WINNER!
– Khurrum Rahman for Homegrown Hero (HQ – HarperCollins)
– Andrew Taylor for The Fire Court (HarperCollins)
– Sarah Ward for The Shrouded Path (Faber and Faber)
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.
LAST LAUGH AWARD
The Last Laugh Award is for the best humorous crime novel first published in the British Isles in 2018. The winner receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Simon Brett for A Deadly Habit (Crème de la Crime – Severn House)
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May – Hall of Mirrors (Transworld)
– Mario Giordano for Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord (John Murray)
– Mick Herron for London Rules (John Murray)
– Khurrum Rahman for Homegrown Hero (HQ – HarperCollins)
– Lynne Truss for A Shot in the Dark (Bloomsbury) – WINNER!
– Antti Tuomainen for Palm Beach Finland (Orenda Books)
– Olga Wojtas for Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar (Contraband – Saraband)
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, 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 biographical or critical book related to crime fiction first published in the British Isles in 2018. The award is named after H.R.F. ‘Harry’ Keating, one of Britain’s most esteemed crime novelists, crime reviewers and writer of books about crime fiction. The winning author receives a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass award.
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– Nils Clausson for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
– Brian Cliff for Irish Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Glen S. Close for Female Corpses in Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Laura Joyce & Henry Sutton for Domestic Noir (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Barry Forshaw for Historical Noir (No Exit Press)
– Steven Powell for The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy’s Noir World (Bloomsbury)
– James Sallis for Difficult Lives – Hitching Rides (No Exit Press) – WINNER!
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.
BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN
This award is for the best crime novel for children (aged 8-12) first published in the British Isles in 2018. The winner receives a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass award.
Best Crime Novel for Children nominees:
– P.G. Bell for The Train to Impossible Places (Usborne Publishing)
– Fleur Hitchcock for Murder At Twilight (Nosy Crow)
– S.A. Patrick for A Darkness of Dragons (Usborne Publishing)
– Dave Shelton for The Book Case: An Emily Lime Mystery (David Fickling Books)
– Lauren St. John for Kat Wolfe Investigates (Macmillan Children’s Books) – WINNER!
– Nicki Thornton for The Last Chance Hotel (Chicken House)
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, and reviewers of fiction for children and young adults voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.
BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS
This award is for the best crime novel for young adults (aged 12-16) first published in the British Isles in 2018. The winner receives a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass award.
Best Crime Novel for Young Adults nominees:
– David Almond for The Colour of the Sun (Hodder Children’s Books)
– Mel Darbon for Rosie Loves Jack (Usborne Publishing)
– Julia Gray for Little Liar (Andersen Press)
– Tom Pollock for White Rabbit, Red Wolf (Walker Books)
– Nikesh Shukla for Run, Riot (Hodder Children’s Books) – WINNER!
– Neal & Jarrod Shusterman for Dry (Walker Books)
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, and reviewers of fiction for children and young adults voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.
Also presented at CRIMEFEST will be:
– THE PETRONA AWARD
CRIMEFEST is honoured to host the presentation of The Petrona Award which was created in the memory of Maxine Clarke by her friends and colleagues. The award celebrates the best of Scandinavian crime fiction. The winner receives a commemorative award and a complimentary pass to and panel at the following CRIMEFEST.
– AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
– eDUNNIT AWARD
– LAST LAUGH AWARD
– H.R.F. KEATING AWARD
– BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (AGES 8–12)
– BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS (AGES 12–16)
AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD ENTRIES
| First | Last | Title | Reader | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | Aaronovitch | Lies Sleeping | Kobna Holdbrook-Smith | Orion |
| G. D. | Abson | Motherland | Clare Corbett | Mirror Books |
| Boris | Akunin | Black City | Jonathan Coote | Orion |
| Ingrid | Alexandra | The New Girl | Sarah Kants | Avon |
| Claire | Allan | Her Name Was Rose | Melanie MacHugh | Avon |
| Mazzola | Anna | The Story Keeper | Sarah Barron | Tinder Press |
| MJ | Arlidge | Down to the Woods | Sally Scott | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Ross | Armstrong | Head Case | Ross Armstrong | HQ |
| Ross | Armstrong | The Girls Beneath | Ross Armstrong | HQ |
| Isabel | Ashdown | Beautiful Liars | Julia Barrie,Imogen Church | Orion |
| Claire | Askew | All the Hidden Truths | Angus King, Sarah Barron | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Asa | Avdic | The Dying Game | Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins and Steve West | Penguin Random House Audio |
| RJ | Bailey | Nobody Gets Hurt | Imogen Church | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Tim | Baker | City Without Stars | Ed Hughes | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Linwood | Barclay | A Noise Downstairs | Jared Zeus | Orion |
| J.D. | Barker | The Fifth To Die | James Alexander | HQ |
| Kerry | Barnes | Deceit | Annie Aldington | HQ |
| Kerry | Barnes | The Hunted | Annie Aldington | HQ |
| Belinda | Bauer | Snap | Andrew Wincott | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| M C | Beaton | Agatha Raisin and the Deadringer | Penelope Keith | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| Hannah | Begbie | Mother | Josie Dunn | HarperFiction |
| Natasha | Bell | Exhibit Alexandra | Katherine McEwan | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Alison | Belsham | The Tattoo Thief | Candida Gubbins | Orion |
| Lina | Bengtsdotter | For the Missing | Emma Powell | Orion |
| Flynn | Berry | A Double Life | Candida Gubbins | Orion |
| Mark | Billingham | The Killing Habit | Mark Billingham | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| A.L. | Bird | The Classroom | Isabella Incbald | HQ |
| Alice | Blanchard | Breath After Drowning, A | Katherine Fenton | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Shalini | Boland | The Child Next Door | Katie Villa | Bookouture |
| Shalini | Boland | The Perfect Family | Katie Villa | Bookouture |
| Shalini | Boland | The Silent Sister | Katie Villa | Bookouture |
| Sharon | Bolton | The Craftsman | Nathalie Buscombe | Orion |
| Sharon | Bolton | The Craftsman | Nathalie Buscombe | Orion Audio |
| C.J. | Box | The Disappeared | David Chandler | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Clare | Boyd | Little Liar | Jane McDowell | Bookouture |
| Clare | Boyd | Three Secrets | Jane McDowell | Bookouture |
| Damien | Boyd | Dead Lock | Napoleon Ryan | Thomas & Mercer |
| Alan | Bradley | The Grave's a Fine and Private Place: Flavia de Luce, Book 9 | Sophie Aldred | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| T.J. | Brearton | Next to Die | Patricia Rodriguez | Bookouture |
| Simon | Brett | Deadly Habit, A | Author | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Amanda | Brittany | Her Last Lie | Stephanie Racine | HQ |
| Amanda | Brittany | Tell The Truth | Stephanie Racine | HQ |
| Lynn | Brittney | Murder in Belgravia | Gabrielle Glaister | Mirror Books |
| Steph | Broadribb | Deep Blue Trouble | Jennifer Woodward | Orenda |
| Amanda | Brooke | The Bad Mother | Georgia Maguire | HarperFiction |
| Sheryl | Browne | The Affair | Tamsin Kennard | Bookouture |
| Sheryl | Browne | The Babysitter | Tamsin Kennard | Bookouture |
| Alison | Bruce | I Did It For Us | Mary Woodvine | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| Robert | Bryndza | Deadly Secrets | Jan Cramer | Bookouture |
| Simone | Buchholz | Blue Night | Gabrielle Baker | Orenda |
| Alafair | Burke | The Wife | Jane Perry | Whole Story Quest |
| Mark | Burnell | The Rhythm Section | Elizabeth Knowelden | HarperFiction |
| Steve | Burrows | Tiding of Magpies, A | David Thorpe | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Michel | Bussi | Time is a Killer | Candida Gubbins | Orion |
| J.L. | Butler | Mine | Chloe Massey | HarperFiction |
| D. S. | Butler | Bring Them Home | Henrietta Meire | Thomas & Mercer |
| Helen | Callaghan | Everything Is Lies | Anna Popplewell | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Graeme | Cameron | Dead Girls | Harriet Bunton | HQ |
| Michele | Campbell | It's Always The Husband | January LaVoy | HQ |
| Alastair; Paul | Campbell; Fletcher | Saturday Bloody Saturday | Jonathan Keeble | Orion |
| Louise | Candlish | Our House | Deni Francis | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Elisabeth | Carpenter | Only a Mother | Julia Franklin | Orion |
| Elisabeth | Carpenter | 11 Missed Calls | Kirsty Jackson | Avon |
| Sam | Carrington | One Little Lie | Rachel Atkins | Avon |
| Ali | Carter | Brush With Death, A | Joanna Bending | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Chris | Carter | Gallery of the Dead | Thomas Judd | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Andrew | Cartmel | Victory Disc | Finlay Robertson | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Will | Carver | Good Samaritans | Ciaran Saward | Orenda |
| Steve | Cavanagh | Thirteen | Adam Sims | Orion |
| Kimberley | Chambers | Life of Crimes | Annie Aldington | HarperFiction |
| Karen | Charlton | Plague Pits & River Bones | Michael Page | Thomas & Mercer |
| Clare | Chase | Death on the River | Lucy Brownhill | Bookouture |
| Clare | Chase | Murder on the Marshes | Lucy Brownhill | Bookouture |
| Lee | Child | Past Tense | Jeff Harding | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Lee | Child | The Christmas Scorpion | Jeff Harding | Penguin Random House Audio |
| E.O. | Chirovici | Bad Blood | Robert G. Slade | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Lezanne | Clannachan | The Colour of Lies | Helen Keeley | Orion |
| Lucy | Clarke | You Let Me In | Laura Kirman | HarperFiction |
| Ann | Cleeves | Wild Fire | Kenny Blyth | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Rory | Clements | Nucleus | Adam Sims | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Karen | Cleveland | Need to Know | Mia Barron | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Bill, James | Clinton, Patterson | The President is Missing | Dennis Quaid with January LaVoy, Peter Ganim, Jeremy Davidson, and Mozhan Marnò | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Daniel | Cole | Hangman | Andrew Wincott | Orion |
| Karen | Cole | Deliver Me | Jasmine Blackborow | Quercus Fiction |
| Daniel | Cole | Hangman | Daniel Cole | Orion Audio |
| Stevyn | Colgan | Murder to Die For, A | Rula Lenska | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Michael | Connelly | Dark Sacred Night | Titus Welliver,Christine Lakin | Orion |
| Glenn | Cooper | Sign of the Cross | Ilan Goodman | Black Thorn Audio |
| Barbara | Copperthwaite | The Perfect Friend | Katie Villa | Bookouture |
| Jane | Corry | The Dead Ex | Laura Aikman and Honeysuckle Weeks | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Ellen | Croft | The Other Sister | Thomas Judd,Nicky Diss | Orion |
| Richard | Crompton | Night Runners | Isi Adeola | Orion |
| Jake | Cross | The Choice | Alison Garner | Bookouture |
| Mason | Cross | Presumed Dead | Eric Meyers | Orion |
| Charles | Cumming | The Man Between | Charlie Anson | HarperFiction |
| Emma | Curtis | When I Find You | Sally Scott, Gabrielle Glaister | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Judith | Cutler | Head Wound | Patricia Gallimore | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Kjell Ola | Dahl | The Ice Swimmer | Nina Yindis | Orenda |
| Christi | Daughtery | The Echo Calling | Jane Perry | HarperFiction |
| Sandrone | Dazieri | Kill the Angel | Cassandra Campbell | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Louisa | de Lange | The Dream Wife | Clare Corbett | Orion |
| Katherine | Debona | Love Me, Love Me Not | Issy Inchbald | HQ |
| Luke | Delaney | A Killing Mind | Robin Bowerman | HarperFiction |
| JP | Delaney | Believe Me | Eric Meyers, Lorelei King, John Chancer, Matt Reeves, Sally Scott | Quercus Fiction |
| Rene | Denfeld | The Child Finder | Katherine Fenton | Orion |
| Claudia | Dey | Heartbreaker | Claudia Dey, Jorjeana Marie and MacLeod Andrews | HarperFiction |
| Katerina | Diamond | The Promise | Stevie Lacey | Avon |
| Paul | Doherty | Dark Queen Rising | Ric Jerrom | Black Thorn Audio |
| Claire | Douglas | Do Not Disturb | Hannah Daniel | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Sophie | Draper | Cuckoo | Emam Pallant | Avon |
| Teresa | Driscoll | The Friend | Henrietta Meire | Thomas & Mercer |
| Charlotte | Duckworth | The Rival | Alex Tregear, Jasmine Blackborow | Quercus Fiction |
| Ruth | Dugdall | The Things You Didn't See | Elizabeth Knowelden | Thomas & Mercer |
| Sabine | Durrant | Take Me In | Rory Kinnear, Morven Christie | Mulholland Books |
| Stephen | Edger | Cold Heart | Emma Newman | Bookouture |
| Mark | Edwards | In Her Shadow | Esther Wane | Thomas & Mercer |
| Mark | Edwards | The Retreat | Simon Mattacks | Thomas & Mercer |
| Laura | Elliot | The Wife Before Me | Michele Moran | Bookouture |
| Kate | Ellis | Mechanical Devil, The | Gordon Griffin | Soundings |
| J. R. | Ellis | The Murder at Redmire Hall | Michael Page | Thomas & Mercer |
| Nuala | Ellwood | The Day of the Accident | Tara Fitzgerald | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Clare | Empson | Him | Max Dowler,Nathalie Buscombe | Orion |
| Thomas | Enger | Killed | David Shaw Parker | Orenda |
| Jessica | Fellowes | Bright Young Dead | Rachel Atkins | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| TP | Fielden | A Quarter Past Dead | Eve Karpf | HQ |
| TP | Fielden | A Quarter Past Dead | Eve Karpf | HQ |
| Helen | Fields | Perfect Death | Robin Laing | Avon |
| Helen | Fields | Perfect Silence | Robin Laing | Avon |
| K.T. | Finch | Finders Keepers | Katherine Fenton | Bookouture |
| Paul | Finch | Kiss of Death | Paul Thornley | Avon |
| Joseph | Fink | Alice Isn't Dead | Jasika Nicole | HarperFiction |
| Diana | Finley | Finding Lucy | Rachael Beresford | HQ |
| A.J. | Finn | The Woman in the Window | Ann Marie Lee | HarperFiction |
| Rebecca | Fleet | The House Swap | Sian Brooke, Adam James, Josh Dylan, Kirsty Dillon | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Vince, Kyle | Flynn, Mills | Red War | George Guidall | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Lucy | Foley | The Hunting Party | Cathleen McCarron, Laura Kirman, Clare Corbett, Ellie Heydon and Joshua Manning | HarperFiction |
| Elena | Forbes | A Bad, Bad Thing | Helen Stern | Black Thorn Audio |
| Nicola | Ford | Hidden Bones, The | Matt Addis | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| M.J. | Ford | Hold My Hand | Joan Walker | Avon |
| Frederick | Forsyth | The Fox | David Rintoul | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Christopher | Fowler | Hall of Mirrors: Bryant and May, Book 15 | Tim Goodman | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Candice | Fox | Redemption | Lani Tupu | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Candice | Fox | Crimson Lake | Lani Tupu | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Susi | Fox | Mine | Ainslie McGlynn | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Dianne | Freeman | A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder | Karen Cass | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Nicci | French | The Day of the Dead | Beth Chalmers | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Kate | Furnivall | Survivors | Imogen Church | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Peter | Gadol | The Stranger Game | Rebekkah Ross | HQ |
| Robert | Galbraith | Lethal White | Robert Glenister | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| Lisa | Gardner | Look For Me | Regina Reagan | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Patricia | Gibney | No Safe Place | Michele Moran | Bookouture |
| Patricia | Gibney | Tell Nobody | Michele Moran | Bookouture |
| David | Gilman | Night Flight to Paris | Matt Addis | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Mario | Giordano | Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord | Matt Addis | John Murray |
| Paul | Gitsham | No Smoke Without Fire | Malk Williams | HQ |
| Paul | Gitsham | Silent As The Grave | Malk Williams | HQ |
| Paul | Gitsham | The Common Enemy | Malk Williams | HQ |
| Paul | Gitsham | The Last Straw | Malk Williams | HQ |
| Robert | Goddard | Panic Room | Hollie Taylor, John Sackville | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Cass | Green | Don't You Cry | Lisa Coleman, Anna Bentinck, Huw Parmenter and Richard Trinder | HarperFiction |
| Linda | Green | The Last Thing She Told Me | Sarah Durham, Joan Walker | Quercus Fiction |
| Isabelle | Grey | Wrong Way Home | Melody Grove | Quercus Fiction |
| Elly | Griffiths | The Dark Angel | Jane McDowell | Quercus Fiction |
| Elly | Griffiths | The Stranger Diaries | Anjana Vasan, Andrew Wincott, Esther Wane, Sarah Feathers | Quercus Fiction |
| Bear | Grylls | Bear Grylls: The Hunt | Rupert Degas | Orion |
| Lisa | Hall | The Party | Georgia Macguire | HQ |
| Araminta | Hall | Our Kind of Cruelty | Nick Hendrix and Eleanor Matsuura | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Lisa | Hall | The Party | Georgia Maguire | HQ |
| Rona | Halsall | Keep You Safe | Karen Cass | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Karen | Hamilton | The Perfect Girlfriend | Anna Friel | Wildfire |
| Mari | Hannah | The Insider | Colleen Prendergast | Orion |
| Mari | Hannah | The Lost | Colleen Prendergast | Orion |
| Sophie, Agatha | Hannah, Christie | The Mystery of Three Quarters | Julian Rhind-Tutt | HarperFiction |
| Thomas | Harding | Blood on the Page | Thomas Harding | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Jane | Harper | The Lost Man | Stephen Shanahan | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| Sarah J. | Harris | The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder | Huw Parmenter | HarperFiction |
| John | Harvey | Body and Soul | Gordon Griffin | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Michael | Harvey | Pulse | William Hope | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Humphrey | Hawksley | Man on Ice | Jeff Harding | Black Thorn Audio |
| Samantha | Hayes | Tell Me A Secret | Karen Cass | Bookouture |
| Samantha | Hayes | The Liar's Wife | Karen Cass | Bookouture |
| Samantha | Hayes | The Reunion | Karen Cass | Bookouture |
| Greer, Sarah | Hendricks, Pekkanen | The Wife Between Us | Julia Whelan | Macmillan |
| James | Henry | Yellowhammer | July | Quercus Fiction |
| Mick | Herron | The Drop | Sean Barrett | John Murray |
| Mick | Herron | This is What Happened | Imogen Church | John Murray |
| Mick | Herron | London Rules | Sean Barrett | John Murray |
| David | Hewson | The Savage Shore | Saul Reichlin | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Mary | Higgins Clark | I've Got My Eyes on You | January LaVoy | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Mary, Alafair | Higgins Clark, Burke | You Don't Own Me | January LaVoy | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Sarah | Hilary | Come And Find Me | Imogen Church | Headline |
| Matt | Hilton | Darke | Julia Barrie | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| David | Hingley | Traitor | Patience Tomlinson | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Sibel | Hodge | Into the Darkness | Simon Vance, Charlotte Cole, Shaun Grindell | Thomas & Mercer |
| SJI | Holliday | The Lingering | Julia Barrie, David Monteath | Orenda |
| D.K. | Hood | Bring Me Flowers | Julia Vita | Bookouture |
| D.K. | Hood | Follow Me Home | Patricia Rodriguez | Bookouture |
| D.K. | Hood | The Crying Season | Patricia Rodriguez | Bookouture |
| Anthony | Horowitz | Forever and a Day | Matthew Goode | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Anthony | Horowitz | The Sentence is Death | Rory Kinnear | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Jorn Lier | Horst | The Katharina Code | Tim McInnerny | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Keith | Houghton | Crash | Pete Simonelli | Thomas & Mercer |
| Maria | Hummel | Still Lives | Tavia Gilbert | Quercus Fiction |
| Arlene | Hunt | Last Goodbye | Caroline Lennon | Bookouture |
| Margot | Hunt | For Better and Worse | Tim Flavin,Jennifer Woodward | Orion |
| Cara | Hunter | In the Dark | Lee Ingleby and Emma Cunniffe | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Joe | Ide | Righteous | Sullivan Jones | Orion |
| Joe | Ide | Wrecked | Sullivan Jones | Orion |
| Jo | Jakeman | Sticks and Stones | Erin Shanagher | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Alison | James | Lola is Missing | Jan Cramer | Bookouture |
| Alison | James | Now She's Gone | Jan Cramer | Bookouture |
| Peter | James | Dead If you Don't | Daniel Weyman | Macmillan |
| Diane | Jeffrey | He Will Find You | Claire Trusson | HQ |
| Diane | Jeffrey | He Will Find You | Claire Trusson | HQ |
| Diane | Jeffrey | Those Who Lie | Karen Cass | HQ |
| Victoria | Jenkins | Nobody's Child | Katie Villa | Bookouture |
| Luke | Jennings | No Tomorrow | Lucy Paterson | John Murray |
| Amanda | Jennings | The Cliff House | Joan Walker | HQ |
| Louise | Jensen | The Date | Jasmine Blackborow | Bookouture |
| Lisa | Jewell | Watching You | Gabrielle Glaister | Penguin Random House Audio |
| D. B. | John | Star of the North | Linda Park | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Doug | Johnstone | Fault Lines | Caroline Guthrie | Orenda |
| Ragnar | Jonasson | The Darkness | Amanda Redman | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Sandie | Jones | The Other Woman | Clare Corbett | Pan |
| Annabel | Kantaria | I Know You | Jessica Ball | HQ |
| Lesley | Kara | The Rumour | Clare Corbett, Sian Thomas, Roy McMillan | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Robert | Karjel | After the Monsoon | David Colacci | HarperFiction |
| M.R.C. | Kasasian | Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire | Emma Gregory | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Tyler | Keevil | No Good Brother | Robert G. Slade | HarperFiction |
| Casey | Kelleher | The Broken | Alison Campbell | Bookouture |
| Jim | Kelly | Great Darkness, The | Peter Wickham | Soundings |
| Serena | Kent | Death in Provence | Antonia Beamish | Orion |
| Tony | Kent | Killer Intent | Peter Noble | Whole Story Quest |
| Valerie | Keogh | Secrets Between Us | Emma Newman | Bookouture |
| Lars | Kepler | The Rabbit Hunter | Saul Reichlin | HarperFiction |
| Caroline | Kepnes | Providence | MacLeod Andrews, Emily Rankin, Paul Michael | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Simon | Kernick | We Can See You | Richard Goulding | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Simon | Kernick | Dead Man’s Gift and Other Stories | Paul Thornley, Bea Holland | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Philip | Kerr | Greeks Bearing Gifts | Jeff Harding | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Olivia | Kiernan | Too Close to Breathe | April | Quercus Fiction |
| Stephen | King | The Outsider | Will Patton | Hodder & Stoughton |
| T E | Kinsey | A Picture of Murder | Elizabeth Knowelden | Thomas & Mercer |
| Erin | Knight | Perfect Strangers | Karen Cass | HQ |
| Joseph | Knox | The Smiling Man | Lewys Taylor | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Emily | Koch | If I Die Before I Wake | Finlay Robertson | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Carla | Kovach | Her Final Hour | Tamsin Kennard | Bookouture |
| Carla | Kovach | The Next Girl | Tamsin Kennard | Bookouture |
| Jayne Ann | Krentz | Promise Not to Tell | Susan Bennett | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| R.F. | Kuang | The Poppy War | Emily Woo Zeller | HarperFiction |
| Mary | Kubica | When the Lights Go Out | Jayme Mattler and Julia Whelan | HQ |
| Mary | Kubica | When The Lights Go Out | Jayme Mattler and Julia Whelan | HQ |
| Dirk | Kurbjuweit | Fear | John Telfer | Orion |
| Lynda | La Plante | Murder Mile | Anna-Louise Plowman | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Camilla | Lackberg | The Girl in the Woods | Robin Bowerman | HarperFiction |
| Alex | Lake | The Last Lie | Laura Kirman | HarperFiction |
| Shari | Lapena | An Unwanted Guest | Hillary Huber | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Zoe | Lea | If He Wakes | Emma Swan & Julia Barrie | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Stephen | Leather | Moving Targets | Paul Thornley | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Simon | Lelic | The Liar's Room | Laura Aikman and Nancy Carrol | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Paula | Lennon | Murder Under the Palms | Damian Lynch | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Donna | Leon | The Temptation of Forgiveness | David Sibley | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Jean | Levy | What Was Lost | Elisabeth Hopper | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Beth | Lewis | Bitter Sun | Christopher Ragland | HarperFiction |
| Laura | Lippman | Sunburn | Regina Reagan | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Phoebe | Locke | The Tall Man | Tuppence Middleton | Wildfire |
| S.E. | Lynes | The Pact | Tamsin Kennard | Bookouture |
| S.E. | Lynes | The Proposal | Tamsin Kennard | Bookouture |
| Stuart | MacBride | The Blood Road | Steve Worsley | HarperFiction |
| Patricia | MacDonald | The Girl in the Woods | Lynn Norris | Black Thorn Audio |
| Niki | Mackay | I, Witness | Karen Cass,Peter Noble,Zoe Grisedale,Sarah Ovens,Camilla Rockley | Orion |
| Asia | Mackay | Killing It | Georgia Maguire | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Malcolm | Mackay | In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide | Angus King | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Clare | Mackintosh | Let Me Lie | Clare Mackintosh | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| Shona | Maclean | Destroying Angel | Jonathan Keeble | Quercus Fiction |
| Michael J. | Malone | After He Died | Reanne Farley | Orenda |
| Ruth | Mancini | In the Blood | Kelly Adams | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Louise | Mangos | Strangers On A Bridge | Issy Inchbald | HQ |
| Tom | Marcus | Capture or Kill | Jason Langley | Pan |
| John | Marrs | Her Last Move | Elizabeth Knowelden | Thomas & Mercer |
| John | Marrs | The Good Samaritan | Elizabeth Knowelden, Charlotte Cole, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Tim Campbell | Thomas & Mercer |
| Ngaoi, Stella | Marsh, Duffy | Money in the Morgue | Stella Duffy | HarperFiction |
| Angela | Marsons | Dying Truth | Jan Cramer | Bookouture |
| Angela | Marsons | Fatal Promise | Jan Cramer | Bookouture |
| Edward | Marston | Fugitive from the Grave | Gordon Griffin | Soundings |
| Faith | Martin | A Fatal Mistake | Stephanie Racine | HQ |
| Faith | Martin | A Fatal Obession | Stephanie Racine | HQ |
| Peter | May | I'll Keep You Safe | January | Quercus Fiction |
| Gillian | McAllister | No Further Questions | Imogen Church, Charlie Sanderson, Andy Cresswell, Jan Cramer , Penny Andrews, Cassie Layton Rachael Beresford and Malk Williams | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Val | McDermid | Broken Ground | Cathleen McCarron | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Chris | McGeorge | Guess Who | Tom Lawrence | Orion |
| Liam | McIlvanney | The Quaker | Angus King | HarperFiction |
| Daisy | McNally | I See Through You | Carolyn Bonnyman | Orion |
| Dervla | McTiernan | The Ruin | Aoife McMahon | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| Kate | Medina | Two Little Girls | Stephanie Racine | HarperFiction |
| Mindy | Mejia | Leave No Trace | Patricia Rodriquez | Quercus Fiction |
| Stephanie | Merritt | While You Sleep | Caitlin Thorburn | HarperFiction |
| Danny | Miller | Lethal Frost, A | Crawford Logan | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Caroline | Mitchell | Silent Victim | Elizabeth Knowelden, Steve West | Thomas & Mercer |
| Caroline | Mitchell | Truth and Lies | Elizabeth Knowelden | Thomas & Mercer |
| S.D. | Monaghan | The Family at Number 13 | Michele Moran | Bookouture |
| Syd | Moore | Strange Casebook, The | Julia Barrie | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Syd | Moore | Strange Fascination | Julia Barrie | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Jonathan | Moore | The Night Market | Tim Flavin | Orion |
| S.J. | Morden | One Way | William Hope | Orion |
| Phoebe | Morgan | The Doll House | Stephanie Racine | HQ |
| Mandy | Morton | Magical Mystery Paws | Jenny Funnell | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Walter | Mosley | Down the River Unto the Sea | Ben Onwukwe | Orion |
| Abir | Mukherjee | Smoke and Ashes | Simon Bubb | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Barbara | Nadel | Displaced | Paul Thornley | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Sarah | Naughton | The Other Couple | Pippa Bennett-Warner | Orion |
| Jo | Nesbo | Macbeth | Derek Riddell | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Hakan | Nesser | The Root of Evil | Martin Wenner | Mantle |
| Vicky | Newham | Turn a Blind Eye | Sonia Kaur | HQ |
| Vicky | Newham | Turn A Blind Eye | Sonia Kaur | HQ |
| Alyson | Noël | Infamous | Kyla Garcia | HQ |
| Liz | Nugent | Skin Deep | Annette Flynn, Sophie Ward, Declan Rodgers, Anna Maria Everett, Daniel Betts, Trev Fleming and Michael Gould | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Catherine | O'Connell | The Last Night Out | Katherine Fenton | Black Thorn Audio |
| Paraic | O'Donnell | The House on Vesper Sands | Charles Armstrong | Orion |
| Gerard | O'Donovan | Long Silence, The | Gerry O'Brien | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Darren | O'Sullivan | Close Your Eyes | Darren O’Sullivan | HQ |
| Darren | O'Sullivan | Close Your Eyes | Darren O'Sullivan | HQ |
| Darren | O'Sullivan | Our Little Secret | Darren O'Sullivan | HQ |
| James | Oswald | The Gathering Dark | Ian Hanmore | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Oswald | No Time To Cry | Rose Akroyd | Wildfire |
| B A | Paris | Bring Me Back | Kevin Hely and Cathleen McCarron | HQ |
| B A | Paris | Bring Me Back | Kevin Hely and Cathleen McCarron | HQ |
| Ambrose | Parry | The Way of All Flesh | Louise Brealey & Bryan Dick | Canongate Books |
| Tony | Parsons | Girl on Fire | Colin Mace | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Vikki | Patis | The Diary | Jasmine Blackborrow | Bookouture |
| James | Patterson | Private Princess | Colin Mace | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | 17th Suspect | January LaVoy | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | All-American Murder | Peter Coleman | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Liar Liar | Federay Holmes | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Murder Beyond the Grave | Christopher Ryan Grant | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Murder in Paradise | Ryan Vincent Anderson, Kyf Brewer, Caitlin Greer & Kevin T. Collins | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | NYPD Red 5 | Edoardo Ballerini | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Revenge | Gavin Osborn | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Target: Alex Cross | Andre Blake | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Texas Ranger | Christopher Ragland | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Heidi | Perks | Now You See Her | Kirsty Dillon, Julie Maisey, Sally Scott | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Helen | Phifer | Last Light | Alison Campbell | Bookouture |
| Sarah | Pinborough | Cross Her Heart | Antonia Beamish | HarperFiction |
| Henry | Porter | Firefly | Matt Addis | Quercus Fiction |
| E.M. | Powell | The King's Justice | James Langton | Thomas & Mercer |
| Khurrum | Rahman | Homegrown Hero | Waleed Akhtar | HQ |
| Caro | Ramsay | The Sideman | Cathleen McCarron | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Caro | Ramsay | The Suffering of Strangers | Cathleen McCarron | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Ian | Rankin | In a House of Lies | James Macpherson | Orion |
| Jamie | Raven | The Rebel | Genevieve Swallow | Avon |
| Alex | Reeve | The House on Half Moon Street | Ash Palmisciano | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Lisa | Regan | Her Final Confession | Kate Handford | Bookouture |
| Lisa | Regan | Her Mother's Grave | Eilidh Beaton | Bookouture |
| Lisa | Regan | Her Mother's Grave | Eilidh Beaton | Bookouture |
| Lisa | Regan | The Girl With No Name | Eilidh Beaton | Bookouture |
| Lisa | Regan | Vanishing Girls | Eilidh Beaton | Bookouture |
| Andrew | Reid | The Hunter | Katherine Fenton | Headline |
| Rod | Reynolds | Cold Desert Sky | John Moraitis | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Kate | Rhodes | Hell Bay | Stephen Perring | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Marnie | Riches | The Cover Up | Marine Riches | Avon |
| Michael | Ridpath | Wanderer, The | Seán Barrett | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Craig | Robertson | Photographer | David Monteath | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Michael | Robotham | The Other Wife | Sean Barrett | Little, Brown Book Group/Hachette Audio |
| Amanda | Robson | Guilt | Emma Carter, Darren Benedict, Katie Scarfe and Damian Lynch | Avon |
| Jacqui | Rose | Toxic | Helen Colby | Avon |
| Emma | Rowley | Where the Missing Go | Beth Eyre,Elaine Fellowes | Orion |
| Leigh | Russell | Class Murder | Zara Ramm | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Catherine | Ryan Howard | The Liar's Girl | Alana Kerr Collins | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Jess | Ryder | The Ex-Wife | Annette Chown | Bookouture |
| Michelle | Sacks | You Were Made for This | Sam Woolf, Lucy Scott and Olivia Mace | HQ |
| Michelle | Sacks | You Were Made For This | Sam Woolf, Lucy Scott and Olivia Mace | HQ |
| Neil | Samworth | Strangeways | Jonthan Keeble | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| C.J. | Sansom | Tombland | Steven Crossley | Mantle |
| Rachel | Sargeant | The Perfect Neighbours | Lara Falkner | HarperFiction |
| Kierney | Scott | Cross Your Heart | Patricia Rodriguez | Bookouture |
| Manda | Scott | A Treachery of Spies | Emma Gregory, Sally Scott, Philip Stevens | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Gerald | Seymour | A Damned Serious Business | Leighton Pugh | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| William | Shaw | Salt Lane | May | Quercus Fiction |
| Sidney, Tilly | Sheldon, Bagshawe | The Silent Widow | Katherine Mangold | HarperFiction |
| Mel | Sherratt | Hush Hush | Colleen Prendergast | Avon |
| Daniel | Silva | The Other Woman | George Guidall | HarperFiction |
| Chris | Simms | Loose Tongues | Joe Jameson | Black Thorn Audio |
| John | Simpson | Moscow, Midnight | John Simpson | John Murray |
| Alex | Sinclair | The Last Thing I Saw | Kate Handford | Bookouture |
| Rob | Sinclare | Sleeper 13 | David Thorpe | Orion |
| C.J. | Skuse | In Bloom | Georgia Maguire | HQ |
| Karin | Slaughter | Pieces of Her | Kathleen Early | HarperFiction |
| Karin | Slaughter | Last Breath | Kathleen Early | HarperFiction |
| Graham | Smith | The Silent Dead | Madeline Gould | Bookouture |
| Anna | Smith | Blood Feud | Reanne Farley | Quercus Fiction |
| Joseph | Souza | The Neighbor | Laurence Bouvard | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Jo | Spain | The Confession | Michele Moran, Chrsitopher Bonwell | Quercus Fiction |
| Jo | Spain | The Darkest Place | Aoife McMahon | Quercus Fiction |
| Neil | Spring | The Burning House | Lucy Paterson | Quercus Fiction |
| Nancy | Springer | Grandghost | Lynn Norris | Black Thorn Audio |
| Gunnar | Staalesen | Big Sister | Colin Mace | Orenda |
| Zoje | Stage | Bad Apple | Gabra Zackman | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Ron | Stallworth | Black Klansman | Ron Stallworth | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Domenic | Stansberry | The White Devil | Laurence Bouvard | Orion |
| Catherine | Steadman | Something in the Water | Catherine Steadman | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Joss | Stirling | Don't Trust Me | Olivia Mace, Beth Eyre and Simon Bubb | HarperFiction |
| Lisa | Stone | Stalker | Rachel Atkins | Avon |
| Karen Lee | Street | Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru | Robert G. Slade | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Corinne | Sullivan | Indecent | Stephanie Cannon | HQ |
| Peter | Swanson | All The Beautiful Lies | Lance Fuller | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Emma | Tallon | Dangerous Girl | Alison Campbell | Bookouture |
| Andrew | Taylor | The Fire Court | Leighton Pugh | HarperFiction |
| C.L. | Taylor | The Fear | Clare Corbett | Avon |
| Erik | Therme | Keep Her Close | Patricia Rodriguez | Bookouture |
| August | Thomas | Liar's Candle | Rebekkah Ross | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Robert | Thorogood | Murder in the Caribbean | Phil Fox | HQ |
| Rebecca | Tope | Crisis in the Cotswolds | Caroline Lennon | Soundings |
| Rebecca | Tope | Staveley Suspect, The | Julia Franklin | Soundings |
| Simon | Toyne | Broken Promise | Joseph Balderrama | HarperFiction |
| S.K. | Tremayne | Just Before I Died | Kerry Wotton | HarperFiction |
| Ann | Troup | My Mother, The Liar | Jenny Bede | HQ |
| Ann | Troup | The Forgotton Room | Jenny Bede | HQ |
| Ann | Troup | The Lost Child | Jenny Bede | HQ |
| Ann | Troup | The Silent Girls | Jenny Bede | HQ |
| Lynne | Truss | A Shot in the Dark | Matt Green | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| C. J. | Tudor | The Chalk Man | Andrew Scott, Asa Butterfield | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Ronnie | Turner | Lies Between Us | Rachael Beresford | HQ |
| Lisa | Ugner | Under My Skin | Vivienne Leheny | HQ |
| Eric | Van Lustbader | Four Dominions | Jeff Harding | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Sarah | Vaughan | Anatomy of a Scandal | Julie Teal, Luke Thompson, Esther Wane, Sarah Feathers | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Luca | Veste | Bone Keeper | Jonathan Keeble | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Frances | Vick | Liars | Alison Garner | Bookouture |
| M B | Vincent | Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death | Beth Eyre | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Louise | Voss | The Old You | Zara Ramm | Orenda |
| Martyn | Waites | Old Religion, The | Author | Isis Publishing Ltd |
| Christopher | Wakling | Escape and Evasion | Will Huggins | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Martin | Walker | A Taste For Vengeance | Peter Noble | Quercus Fiction |
| Wendy | Walker | Emma In The Night | Julia Whelan and Therese Plummer | HQ |
| T.M.E | Walsh | Pretty Little Things | Madeline Brolly | HQ |
| T.M.E | Walsh | Trail By Execution | Helen Keeley | HQ |
| Zosia | Wand | The Accusation | Karen Cass | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Ruth | Ware | The Death of Mrs Westaway | Imogen Church | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Roz | Watkins | The Devil's Dice | Caro Clarke | HQ |
| Roz | Watkins | The Devil's Dice | Caro Clarke | HQ |
| Sue | Watson | Our Little Lies | Katie Villa | Bookouture |
| Camilla | Way | The Lies We Told | Genevieve Swallow and Susie Riddell | HarperFiction |
| Tim | Weaver | Never Coming Back | Joe Coen, Adam James | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Tim | Weaver | The Dead Tracks | Joe Coen, Hannah Arterton and Tim Weaver | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Tim | Weaver | Vanished | Joe Coen and Andrew Brooke | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Tim | Weaver | You Were Gone | Joe Coen, Rachel Bavidge and Tom Burke | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Sue | Welfare | Losing Leah | Helen Keeley | Mirror Books |
| Matt | Wesolowski | Hydra | Tim Bruce, Jane Slavin, Kris Dyer, Jonathan Keeble, Joan Walker, Julius Howe, Rebecca Rainsford | Orenda |
| Kevin | Wignall | To Die in Vienna | George Newbern | Thomas & Mercer |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | Last Night | Alison Campbell | Bookouture |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | The Wife's Secret | Alison Campbell + Alan Medcroft | Bookouture |
| James | Wolff | Beside the Syrian Sea | Guy Mott | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Benjamin | Wood | Station on the Path to Somewhere Better | Joshua Higgot | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Carol | Wyer | Last Lullaby | Diana Croft | Bookouture |
| Carol | Wyer | The Birthday | Diana Croft | Bookouture |
| Carol | Wyer | The Chosen Ones | Emma Newman | Bookouture |
| Hideo | Yokoyama | Seventeen | February | Quercus Fiction |
| Dylan | Young | Blood Runs Cold | Tamsin Kennard | Bookouture |
| Dylan | Young | The Silent Girls | Tamsin Kennard | Bookouture |
| David | Young | A Darker State | Julia Barrie | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| First | Last | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seth C. | Adams | If You Go Down to the Woods | HarperFiction |
| Leye | Adenle | When Trouble Sleeps | Cassava Republic Press |
| Boris | Akunin | Black City | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Rebecca | Alexander | A Baby’s Bones | Titan Books |
| Claire | Allan | Her Name Was Rose | Avon, HarperCollins |
| Richard | Anderson | Retribution | Scribe |
| Mazzola | Anna | The Story Keeper | Tinder Press |
| M.J. | Arlidge | Down to the Woods | Michael Joseph |
| Ross | Armstrong | Head Case (now The Girls Beneath) | HQ |
| Rob | Ashman | Faceless | Bloodhound Books |
| Lucy | Ayrton | One More Chance | Dialogue Books |
| Sarah | Bailey | The Dark Lake | Corvus |
| Terence | Bailey | Blind Spot | Accent Press |
| Tim | Baker | City Without Stars | Faber and Faber |
| Jackie | Baldwin | Perfect Dead | HarperFiction |
| Tom | Bale | One Dark Night | Bookouture |
| Linwood | Barclay | A Noise Downstairs | Orion Fiction |
| Quentin | Bates | Cold Breath | Constable |
| Belinda | Bauer | Snap | Transworld |
| Susanna | Beard | The Truth Waits | Legend Press |
| Natasha | Bell | Exhibit Alexandra | Michael Joseph |
| Leo | Benedictus | Consent | Faber and Faber |
| Lina | Bengtsdotter | For the Missing | Orion Fiction |
| James R. | Benn | Solemn Graves | Soho Crime |
| Lou | Berney | November Road | HarperFiction |
| Flynn | Berry | A Double Life | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Mark | Billingham | The Killing Habit | Little, Brown |
| Stewart | Binns | Betrayal | Michael Joseph |
| Cara | Black | Murder on the Left Bank | Soho Crime |
| Sam | Blake | No Turning Back | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Alice | Blanchard | A Breath After Drowning | Titan Books |
| Rachael | Blok | Under the Ice | Head of Zeus |
| Shalini | Boland | The Child Next Door | Bookouture |
| Shalini | Boland | The Millionaire's Wife | Bookouture |
| Shalini | Boland | The Perfect Family | Bookouture |
| Shalini | Boland | The Silent Sister | Bookouture |
| Sharon | Bolton | The Craftsman | Trapeze |
| Clare | Boyd | Little Liar | Bookouture |
| Clare | Boyd | Three Secrets | Bookouture |
| William | Boyle | The Lonely Witness | No Exit Press |
| James | Brabazon | The Break Line | Michael Joseph |
| Alan | Bradley | The Grave's A Fine and Private Place | Orion Fiction |
| T.J. | Brearton | Next to Die | Bookouture |
| Steph | Broadribb | Deep Dirty Truth | Orenda Books |
| Sheryl | Browne | The Affair | Bookouture |
| Sheryl | Browne | The Babysitter | Bookouture |
| Alison | Bruce | I Did It For Us | Constable |
| Ken | Bruen | In the Galway Silence | Head of Zeus |
| Theodore | Brun | A Sacred Storm | Corvus |
| Robert | Bryndza | Deadly Secrets | Bookouture |
| Simone | Buchholz | Beton Rouge | Orenda Books |
| Anne | Buist | This I Would Kill For | Legend Press |
| Alafair | Burke | The Wife | Faber and Faber |
| James Lee | Burke | Robincheaux | Orion Fiction |
| Michel | Bussi | Time is a Killer | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Alex | Caan | First to Die | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Helen | Callaghan | Everything is Lies | Michael Joseph |
| Tom | Callaghan | An Autumn Hunting | Quercus Fiction |
| Andrea | Camilleri | The Pyramid of Mud | Mantle |
| Louise | Candlish | Our House | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Peter | Carey | A Long Way From Home | Faber and Faber |
| Christoffer | Carlsson | The Thin Blue Line | Scribe |
| Elisabeth | Carpenter | 11 Missed Calls | Avon, HarperCollins |
| Elisabeth | Carpenter | Only a Mother | Orion Fiction |
| Sam | Carrington | One Little Lie | Avon, HarperCollins |
| Chris | Carter | Gallery of the Dead | Simon & Schuster UK |
| R.M. | Cartmel | The Romanee Vintage | Crime Scene Books Ltd |
| Will | Carver | Good Samaritans | Orenda Books |
| Steve | Cavanagh | Thirteen | Orion Fiction |
| Holly | Cave | The Memory Chamber | Quercus Fiction |
| Clare | Chase | Death on the River | Bookouture |
| Clare | Chase | Murder on the Marshes | Bookouture |
| Rosie | Claverton | Terror 404 | Crime Scene Books Ltd |
| Ann | Cleeves | Wild Fire | Macmillan |
| Barbara | Cleverly | Fall of Angels | Soho Crime |
| Karen | Cole | Deliver Me | Quercus Fiction |
| Daniel | Cole | Hangman | Trapeze |
| Tana | Collins | Mark of the Devil | Bloodhound Books |
| Tana | Collins | Mark of the Devil | Bloodhound Books |
| Michael | Connelly | Dark Sacred Night | Orion Fiction |
| Aidan | Conway | A Cold Flame | HarperFiction |
| Aidan | Conway | A Known Evil | HarperFiction |
| Lesley | Cookman | Murder and the Glovemaker's Son | Accent Press |
| Barbara | Copperthwaite | The Perfect Friend | Bookouture |
| Jane | Corry | The Dead Ex | Penguin General |
| Colin | Cotterill | Don't Eat Me | Soho Crime |
| Mike | Craven | The Puppet Show | Constable |
| Elle | Croft | The Other Sister | Orion Fiction |
| Kathryn | Croft | The Warning | Bookouture |
| Richard | Crompton | Night Runners | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Elizabeth | Crook | The Which Way Tree | Scribe |
| Jake | Cross | The Choice | Bookouture |
| Mason | Cross | Presumed Dead | Orion Fiction |
| Charles | Cumming | The Man Between | HarperFiction |
| Julia | Dahl | Conviction | Faber and Faber |
| Kjell Ola | Dahl | The Ice Swimmer | Orenda Books |
| Nadia | Dalbuono | The Extremist | Scribe |
| Christi | Daughtery | The Echo Killing | HarperFiction |
| Lucy | Dawson | The Daughter | Bookouture |
| Lucy | Dawson | The Memory | Bookouture |
| Lucy | Dawson | White Lies | Bookouture |
| Sandrone | Dazieri | Kill the Angel | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Louisa | De Lange | The Dream Wife | Orion Fiction |
| Elisabeth | de Mariaffi | I Remember You | Titan Books |
| JP | Delaney | Believe Me | Quercus Fiction |
| Luke | Delaney | A Killing Mind | HarperFiction |
| Rene | Denfeld | The Child Finder | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Candy | Denman | Dead Pretty | Crime Scene Books Ltd |
| A. A. | Dhand | City Of Sinners | Transworld |
| Katerina | Diamond | The Promise | Avon, HarperCollins |
| Teresa | Dovalpage | Death Comes in through the Kitchen | Soho Crime |
| David | Downing | The Dark Clouds Shining | Soho Crime |
| Charlotte | Duckworth | The Rival | Quercus Fiction |
| Stella | Duffy | Money in the Morgue | Collins Crime Club |
| Stephen | Edgar | Little Girl Gone | HarperFiction |
| Stephen | Edger | Cold Heart | Bookouture |
| ed. Martin | Edwards | Ten Year Stretch | No Exit Press |
| Martin | Edwards | Gallows Court | Head of Zeus |
| Jim | Eldridge | Murder at the Fitzwilliam | Allison & Busby Ltd |
| Laura | Elliot | The Wife Before Me | Bookouture |
| Tracey | Emerson | She Chose Me | Legend Press |
| Clare | Empson | Him | Orion Fiction |
| Thomas | Enger | Inborn | Orenda Books |
| Caroline | England | My Husband's Lies | Avon, HarperCollins |
| Chloe | Esposito | Bad | Michael Joseph |
| Michael | Farris Smith | The Fighter | No Exit Press |
| Tanya | Ferrelly | When Your Eyes Close | HarperFiction |
| TP | Fielden | A Quarter Past Dead | HQ |
| Helen | Fields | Perfect Silence | Avon, HarperCollins |
| K.T. | Finch | Finders Keepers | Bookouture |
| A J | Finn | The Woman in the Window | HarperFiction |
| Vince, Kyle | Flynn, Mills | Red War | Simon & Schuster UK |
| M.J. | Ford | Hold My Hand | Avon, HarperCollins |
| Nicola | Ford | The Hidden Bones | Allison & Busby Ltd |
| Tony J. | Forder | The Scent of Guilt | Bloodhound Books |
| Andras | Forgach | No Live Files Remain | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Karin | Fossum | The Whisperer | Vintage Digital |
| Christopher | Fowler | Bryant & May: Hall Of Mirrors | Transworld |
| Felix | Francis | Crisis | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Anna | Freeman | Five Days of Fog | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| E C | Fremantle | The Poison Bed | Michael Joseph |
| Nicci | French | Day of the Dead | Michael Joseph |
| Kate | Furnivall | Survivors | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Lisa | Gabriele | The Winters | Vintage Digital |
| Robert | Galbraith | Lethal White | Sphere |
| Patricia | Gibney | No Safe Place | Bookouture |
| Patricia | Gibney | Tell Nobody | Bookouture |
| Mario | Giordano | Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord | John Murray |
| Alan | Glynn | Under the Night | Faber and Faber |
| Alex | Grecian | The Wolf | Michael Joseph |
| Cass | Green | Don't You Cry | HarperFiction |
| James | Green | Last Rights | Accent Press |
| Linda | Green | The Last Thing She Told Me | Quercus Fiction |
| Isabelle | Grey | Wrong Way Home | Quercus Fiction |
| Mark | Griffin | When Darkness Calls | Piatkus |
| Elly | Griffiths | The Dark Angel | Quercus Fiction |
| Elly | Griffiths | The Stranger Diaries | Quercus Fiction |
| Jack | Grimwood | Nightfall Berlin | Michael Joseph |
| Johana | Gustawsson | Keeper | Orenda Books |
| Lisa | Hall | The Party | HQ |
| Timothy | Hallinan | Nighttown | Soho Crime |
| Rona | Halsall | Keep You Safe | Bookouture |
| Rona | Halsall | Love You Gone | Bookouture |
| Karen | Hamilton | The Perfect Girlfriend | Wildfire |
| C.B. | Hanley | Give Up The Dead | The History Press |
| Mari | Hannah | The Insider | Orion Fiction |
| Sophie | Hannah | The Mystery of Three Quarters | Collins Crime Club |
| Robyn | Harding | Her Pretty Face | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Paul E. | Hardisty | Absolution | Orenda Books |
| Ali | Harper | The Disappeared | HarperFiction |
| Jane | Harper | The Lost Man | Little, Brown |
| Mette Ivie | Harrison | Not of This Fold | Soho Crime |
| L V | Hay | Do No Harm | Orenda Books |
| Samantha | Hayes | Tell Me A Secret | Bookouture |
| Samantha | Hayes | The Liar's Wife | Bookouture |
| Samantha | Hayes | The Reunion | Bookouture |
| James | Hazel | The Ash Doll | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Julia | Heaberlin | Paper Ghosts | Michael Joseph |
| James | Henry | Yellowhammer | riverrun |
| Mick | Herron | The Drop | John Murray |
| Mick | Herron | This is What Happened | John Murray |
| Mick | Herron | London Rules | John Murray |
| Amy | Heydenrych | Shame on You | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Mary, Alafair | Higgins Clark, Burke | I've Got My Eyes on You | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Mary, Alafair | Higgins Clark, Burke | You Don't Own Me | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Sarah | Hilary | Come And Find Me | Headline |
| Susan | Hill | The Comforts Of Home | Chatto & Windus |
| L.S. | Hilton | Ultima | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Nick | Hollin | Dark Lies | Bookouture |
| Nick | Hollin | The Goodnight Song | Bookouture |
| D.K. | Hood | Bring Me Flowers | Bookouture |
| D.K. | Hood | Follow Me Home | Bookouture |
| D.K. | Hood | The Crying Season | Bookouture |
| Maria | Hummel | Still Lives | Quercus Fiction |
| Arlene | Hunt | Last Goodbye | Bookouture |
| Cara | Hunter | In the Dark | Penguin General |
| Gregg | Hurwitz | Hellbent | Michael Joseph |
| Alex | Hyland | Black Violet | Accent Press |
| Joe | Ide | Righteous | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Joe | Ide | Wrecked | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Debra Jo | Immergut | The Captives | Titan Books |
| David | Jackson | Don't Make a Sound | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Jo | Jakeman | Sticks and Stones | Vintage Digital |
| Alison | James | Lola is Missing | Bookouture |
| Alison | James | Now She's Gone | Bookouture |
| Alison | James | Perfect Girls | Bookouture |
| Amanda | James | Another Mother | Bloodhound Books |
| Peter | James | Dead If You Don't | Macmillan |
| Diane | Jeffrey | He Will Find You | HQ |
| Victoria | Jenkins | Nobody's Child | Bookouture |
| Luke | Jennings | No Tomorrow | John Murray |
| Louise | Jensen | The Date | Bookouture |
| You-jeong | Jeong | The Good Son | Little, Brown |
| D. B. | John | Star of the North | Vintage Digital |
| Matt | Johnson | End Game | Orenda Books |
| Doug | Johnstone | Fault Lines | Orenda Books |
| Ragnar | Jónasson | The Darkness | Michael Joseph |
| Geraint | Jones | Siege | Michael Joseph |
| Stan | Jones | The Big Empty | Soho Crime |
| Jackie | Kabler | The Development | Accent Press |
| Sheena | Kamal | It All Falls Down | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Robert | Karjel | After the Monsoon | HarperFiction |
| Casey | Kelleher | The Broken | Bookouture |
| Casey | Kelleher | The Forgotten | Bookouture |
| Faye | Kellerman | Walking Shadows | HarperFiction |
| Jim | Kelly | The Great Darkness | Allison & Busby Ltd |
| Lesley | Kelly | Songs by Dead Girls | Sandstone Press Ltd |
| Serena | Kent | Death in Provence | Orion Fiction |
| Valerie | Keogh | Secrets Between Us | Bookouture |
| Lars | Kepler | The Rabbit Hunter | HarperFiction |
| Caroline | Kepnes | Providence | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Philip | Kerr | Greeks Bearing Gifts | Quercus Fiction |
| Olivia | Kiernan | Too Close to Breathe | riverrun |
| Penny | Kline | The Sister's Secret | Accent Press |
| Joseph | Knox | The Smiling Man | Transworld |
| Emily | Koch | If I Die Before I Wake | Vintage Digital |
| Dean | Koontz | The Crooked Staircase | HarperFiction |
| Dean | Koontz | The Forbidden Door | HarperFiction |
| Carla | Kovach | Her Final Hour | Bookouture |
| Carla | Kovach | The Next Girl | Bookouture |
| Mary | Kubica | When the Lights Go Out | HQ |
| Dirk | Kurbjuweit | Fear | Orion Fiction |
| Volker | Kutscher | Goldstein | Sandstone Press Ltd |
| Lynda | La Plante | Murder Mile | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Camilla | Lackberg | The Girl in the Woods | HarperFiction |
| Alex | Lake | The Last Lie | HarperFiction |
| Shari | Lapena | An Unwanted Guest | Transworld |
| Anna | Legat | Thicker than Blood | Accent Press |
| Simon | Lelic | The Liar's Room | Penguin General |
| Kristen | Lepionka | What You Want to See | Faber and Faber |
| Jørn | Lier Horst | The Katharina Code | Michael Joseph |
| Martin | Limón | The Line | Soho Crime |
| Ed | Lin | 99 Ways to Die | Soho Crime |
| Maureen | Lindley | The Beloveds | Titan Books |
| Howard | Linskey | The Chosen Ones | Michael Joseph |
| Laura | Lippman | Sunburn | Faber and Faber |
| Phoebe | Locke | The Tall Man | Wildfire |
| Elisa | Lodato | The Necessary Marriage | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| T. M. | Logan | 29 Seconds | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Walter | Lucius | Angel in the Shadows | Michael Joseph |
| S.E. | Lynes | The Pact | Bookouture |
| S.E. | Lynes | The Proposal | Bookouture |
| S.E. | Lynes | Valentina | Bookouture |
| Stuart | MacBride | The Blood Road | HarperFiction |
| Niki | Mackay | I, Witness | Orion Fiction |
| A.J. | Mackenzie | The Body in the Boat | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Shona | Maclean | Destroying Angel | Quercus Fiction |
| Claire | MacLeary | Burnout | Contraband |
| Michael J. | Malone | After He Died | Orenda Books |
| Ruth | Mancini | In the Blood | Head of Zeus |
| Angela | Marsons | Dying Truth | Bookouture |
| Angela | Marsons | Fatal Promise | Bookouture |
| Kate | Mascarenhas | The Psychology of Time Travel | Head of Zeus |
| Sujata | Massey | The Widows of Malabar Hill | Soho Crime |
| Jason | Matthews | The Kremlin's Candidate | Michael Joseph |
| Simon | Mawer | Prague Spring | Little, Brown |
| Peter | May | I'll Keep You Safe | riverrun |
| Nigel | McCrery | Bloodline | Quercus Fiction |
| Val | McDermid | Broken Ground | Little, Brown |
| Chris | McGeorge | Guess Who | Orion Fiction |
| Liam | McIlvanney | The Quaker | HarperFiction |
| Daisy | McNally | I See Through You | Orion Fiction |
| Eoin | McNamee | The Vogue | Faber and Faber |
| Kate | Medina | Two Little Girls | HarperFiction |
| Mindy | Mejia | Leave No Trace | Quercus Fiction |
| Chris | Merritt | Bring Her Back | Bookouture |
| Chris | Merritt | Last Witness | Bookouture |
| Stephanie | Merritt | While You Sleep | HarperFiction |
| Danny | Miller | A Lethal Frost | Transworld |
| Derek B. | Miller | American By Day | Transworld |
| G.J. | Minett | Anything for Her | Bonnier Zaffre |
| S.D. | Monaghan | The Family at Number 13 | Bookouture |
| Chris | Mooney | The Snow Girls | Michael Joseph |
| Kate | Moretti | In Her Bones | Titan Books |
| Vera | Morris | The Temptation | Accent Press |
| Walter | Mosley | Down the River unto the Sea | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Abir | Mukherjee | Smoke and Ashes | Vintage Digital |
| Peter | Murphy | Judge Walden: Back in Session | No Exit Press |
| Peter | Murphy | One Law for the Rest of Us | No Exit Press |
| Fuminori | Nakamura | Cult X | Soho Crime |
| Jo | Nesbo | Macbeth | Hogarth |
| Hakan | Nesser | The Root of Evil | Mantle |
| Vicky | Newham | Turn a Blind Eye | HQ |
| Elisabeth | Norebäck | Tell Me You're Mine | Allison & Busby Ltd |
| Merle | Nygate | The Righteous Spy | Verve Books |
| Paraic | O'Donnell | The House on Vesper Sands | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Darren | O'Sullivan | Close Your Eyes | HQ |
| Nicolás | Obregón | Sins As Scarlet | Michael Joseph |
| Kristina | Ohlsson | Lies We Tell | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Robert | Olen Butler | Paris in the Dark | No Exit Press |
| Lawrence | Osborne | Only To Sleep | Chatto & Windus |
| James | Oswald | No Time To Cry | Wildfire |
| James | Oswald | The Gathering Dark | Michael Joseph |
| B A | Paris | Bring Me Back | HQ |
| Richard | Parker | Keep Her Safe | Bookouture |
| Richard | Parker | Never Say Goodbye | Bookouture |
| Richard | Parker | The Songbird Girls | Bookouture |
| Robert B | Parker | The Hangman's Sonnet | No Exit Press |
| Brad | Parks | Closer Than You Know | Faber and Faber |
| Ambrose | Parry | The Way of All Flesh | Canongate Books |
| Vikki | Patis | The Diary | Bookouture |
| Lesley | Pearse | The House Across the Street | Michael Joseph |
| George | Pelecanos | The Man Who Came Uptown | Orion Fiction |
| Louise | Penny | Kingdom of the Blind | Sphere |
| Andreas | Pfluger | A Shadow Falls | Head of Zeus |
| Helen | Phifer | Last Light | Bookouture |
| Sarah | Pinborough | Cross Her Heart | HarperFiction |
| Henry | Porter | Firefly | Quercus Fiction |
| Douglas & Lincoln | Preston & Child | Verses for the Dead | Head of Zeus |
| Anthony J. | Quinn | The Listeners | Head of Zeus |
| Khurrum | Rahman | Homegrown Hero | HQ |
| Ian | Rankin | In a House of Lies | Orion Fiction |
| Betsy | Reavley | Murder at the Book Club | Bloodhound Books |
| Michael | Redhill | Bellevue Square | No Exit Press |
| Alex | Reeve | The House on Half Moon Street | Raven Books |
| Lisa | Regan | Her Final Confession | Bookouture |
| Lisa | Regan | Her Mother's Grave | Bookouture |
| Lisa | Regan | The Girl With No Name | Bookouture |
| Lisa | Regan | Vanishing Girls | Bookouture |
| Andrew | Reid | The Hunter | Headline |
| Rod | Reynolds | Cold Desert Sky | Faber and Faber |
| Kate | Rhodes | Hell Bay | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Kate | Rhodes | Ruin Beach | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Mary-Jane | Riley | Dark Waters | HarperFiction |
| Kate | Riordan | The Stranger | Michael Joseph |
| Mike | Ripley | Mr Campion's War | Severn House |
| Craig | Robertson | Photographer | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Amanda | Robson | Guilt | Avon, HarperCollins |
| Emma | Rowley | Where the Missing Go | Orion Fiction |
| Leigh | Russell | Death Rope | No Exit Press |
| Leigh | Russell | The Adulterer's Wife | Bloodhound Books |
| Catherine | Ryan Howard | The Liar's Girl | Corvus |
| Jess | Ryder | The Ex-Wife | Bookouture |
| Michelle | Sacks | You Were Made for This (now The Dark Path) | HQ |
| Lesley | Sanderson | The Orchid Girls | Bookouture |
| John | Sandford | Golden Prey | Simon & Schuster UK |
| John | Sandford | Holy Ghost | Simon & Schuster UK |
| John | Sandford | Twisted Prey | Simon & Schuster UK |
| C.J. | Sansom | Tombland | Mantle |
| Rachel | Sargeant | The Good Teacher | HarperFiction |
| Joanna | Schaffhausen | The Vanishing Season | Titan Books |
| Kierney | Scott | Cross Your Heart | Bookouture |
| Robert | Scragg | What Falls Between the Cracks | Allison & Busby Ltd |
| William | Shaw | Salt Lane | riverrun |
| Jane | Shemilt | How Far We Fall | Michael Joseph |
| Mel | Sherratt | Hush Hush | Avon, HarperCollins |
| Lilja | Sigurdardottir | Trap | Orenda Books |
| Daniel | Silva | The Other Woman | HarperFiction |
| John | Simpson | Moscow, Midnight | John Murray |
| Alex | Sinclair | Tell Me No Lies | Bookouture |
| Alex | Sinclair | The Day I Lost You | Bookouture |
| Alex | Sinclair | The Last Thing I Saw | Bookouture |
| Rob | Sinclair | Sleeper 13 | Orion Fiction |
| Rob | Sinclair | The Silver Wolf | Bloodhound Books |
| Douglas | Skelton | The Janus Run | Contraband |
| K.L. | Slater | Closer | Bookouture |
| K.L. | Slater | The Secret | Bookouture |
| K.L. | Slater | The Visitor | Bookouture |
| Leila | Slimani | Lullaby | Faber and Faber |
| Anna | Smith | Blood Feud | Quercus Fiction |
| Graham | Smith | The Silent Dead | Bookouture |
| Wilbur | Smith | Courtney's War | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Jo | Spain | The Confession | Quercus Fiction |
| Jo | Spain | The Darkest Place | Quercus Fiction |
| Neil | Spring | The Burning House | Quercus Fiction |
| Gunnar | Staalesen | Big Sister | Orenda Books |
| Michael | Stanley | Dead of Night | Orenda Books |
| Catherine | Steadman | Something in the Water | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Adam | Sternbergh | The Blinds | Faber and Faber |
| Amy | Stewart | Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit | Scribe |
| Amy | Stewart | Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions | Scribe |
| Joss | Stirling | Don't Trust Me | HarperFiction |
| John | Straley | Baby's First Felony | Soho Crime |
| Linda | Stratmann | Murder At The Bayswater Bicyle Club | The History Press |
| James | Swallow | Ghost | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Peter | Swanson | All the Beautiful Lies | Faber and Faber |
| Vanda | Symon | Overkill | Orenda Books |
| Vanessa | Tait | The Pharmacist's Wife | Corvus |
| Emma | Tallon | Dangerous Girl | Bookouture |
| Emma | Tallon | Runaway Girl | Bookouture |
| A M | Taylor | Forget Me Not | HarperFiction |
| Andrew | Taylor | The Fire Court | HarperFiction |
| C.L. | Taylor | The Fear | Avon, HarperCollins |
| June | Taylor | Keep Your Friends Close | HarperFiction |
| Erik | Therme | Keep Her Close | Bookouture |
| August | Thomas | Liar's Candle | Simon & Schuster UK |
| M.J. | Tjia | A Necessary Murder | Legend Press |
| Simon | Toyne | Broken Promise | HarperFiction |
| P.J. | Tracy | The Guilty Dead | Michael Joseph |
| S K | Tremayne | Just Before I Died | HarperFiction |
| Aidan | Truhen | The Price You Pay | Serpent's Tail |
| C. J. | Tudor | The Chalk Man | Michael Joseph |
| Antti | Tuomainen | Palm Beach Finland | Orenda Books |
| Helene | Tursten | An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good | Soho Crime |
| Stuart | Turton | The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Raven Books |
| Sarah | Vaughan | Anatomy of a Scandal | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Luca | Veste | Bone Keeper | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Frances | Vick | Liars | Bookouture |
| M B | Vincent | Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Scott | Von Doviak | Charlesgate Confidential | Hard Case Crime |
| Louise | Voss | The Old You | Orenda Books |
| Martyn | Waites | The Old Religion | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Christopher | Wakling | Escape and Evasion | Faber and Faber |
| Martin | Walker | A Taste For Vengeance | Quercus Fiction |
| Tracey | Waples | I Want Never Gets | Endeavour Media |
| Catriona | Ward | Little Eve | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Rachel | Ward | Dead Stock | Sandstone press Ltd |
| Sarah | Ward | The Shrouded Path | Faber and Faber |
| Ruth | Ware | The Death of Mrs Westaway | Vintage Digital |
| Roz | Watkins | The Devil's Dice | HQ |
| Sue | Watson | Our Little Lies | Bookouture |
| Camilla | Way | The Lies We Told | HarperFiction |
| Anna-Lou | Weatherley | Black Heart | Bookouture |
| Tim | Weaver | You Were Gone | Michael Joseph |
| Matt | Wesolowski | Changeling | Orenda Books |
| Tony | White | The Fountain in the Forest | Faber and Faber |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | Eye for an Eye | Bookouture |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | For Richer, For Poorer | Bookouture |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | Last Night | Bookouture |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | Nothing But Trouble | Bookouture |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | Scarred for Life | Bookouture |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | Something Hidden | Bookouture |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | Something Wicked | Bookouture |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | The Wife's Secret | Bookouture |
| S.W. | Williams | Small Deaths | Crime Scene Books Ltd |
| Andrew | Wilson | Different Kind of Evil | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Jeroen | Windmeijer | St Paul's Labyrinth | HarperFiction |
| Benjamin | Wood | Station on the Path to Somewhere Better | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Michael | Wood | The Hangman's Hold | HarperFiction |
| Carol | Wyer | Last Lullaby | Bookouture |
| Carol | Wyer | The Birthday | Bookouture |
| Carol | Wyer | The Chosen Ones | Bookouture |
| Hideo | Yokoyama | Seventeen | riverrun |
| David | Young | A Darker State | Bonnier Zaffre |
| Dylan | Young | Before She Falls | Bookouture |
| Dylan | Young | Blood Runs Cold | Bookouture |
| Dylan | Young | The Silent Girls | Bookouture |
| First | Last | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross | Armstrong | Head Case | HQ |
| Alan | Bradley | The Grave’s A Fine and Private Place | Orion |
| Simon | Brett | A Deadly Habit | Crème de la Crime |
| Colin | Cotterill | Don't Eat Me | Soho Crime |
| TP | Fielden | A Quarter Past Dead | HQ |
| Christopher | Fowler | Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors | Transworld |
| Mario | Giordano | Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord | John Murray |
| Tod | Goldberg | Gangster Nation | No Exit Press |
| Timothy | Hallinan | Nighttown | Soho Crime |
| Mick | Herron | The Drop | John Murray |
| Mick | Herron | London Rules | John Murray |
| Suzette A | Hill | The Cambridge Plot | Allison & Busby Ltd |
| Luke | Jennings | No Tomorrow | John Murray |
| M.R.C. | Kasasian | Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire | Head of Zeus |
| Serena | Kent | Death in Provence | Orion |
| T E | Kinsey | A Picture of Murder | Thomas & Mercer |
| Ed | Lin | 99 Ways to Die | Soho Crime |
| Stuart | MacBride | The Blood Road | HarperFiction |
| Asia | MacKay | Killing It | Bonnier Zaffre |
| William | McIntyre | Stitch Up | Sandstone Press Ltd |
| Peter | Murphy | Judge Walden: Back in Session | No Exit Press |
| Khurrum | Rahman | Homegrown Hero | HQ |
| John | Simpson | Moscow, Midnight | John Murray |
| C J | Skuse | In Bloom | HQ |
| Robert | Thorogood | Murder in the Caribbean | HQ |
| Aidan | Truhen | The Price You Pay | Serpent's Tail |
| Lynne | Truss | A Shot in the Dark | Bloomsbury |
| Antti | Tuomainen | Palm Beach Finland | Orenda Books |
| Helene | Tursten | An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good | Soho Crime |
| L. C. | Tyler | The Bleak Midwinter | Little, Brown Book Group/Constable imprint |
| M B | Vincent | Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Ashley | Weaver | An Act of Villainy | Allison & Busby Ltd |
| Olga | Wojtas | Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar | Saraband / Contraband |
| First | Last | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan | Abrams | All the Pieces Matter | No Exit Press |
| Nils | Clausson | Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction: A Revaluation | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Brian | Cliff | Irish Crime Fiction | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Glen | Close | Female Corpses in Crime Fiction | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Antoine | Dechêne | Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Barry | Forshaw | Historical Noir | Oldcastle Books |
| Margalit | Fox | Conan Doyle for the Defence | Profile Books |
| Thomas | Harding | Blood on the Page | William Heineman |
| Laura & Henry | Joyce & Sutton | Domestic Noir | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Steven | Powell | The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World | Bloomsbury |
| James | Sallis | Difficult Lives – Hitching Rides | No Exit Press |
BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (AGES 8–12)
| First | Last | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| P.G. | Bell | The Train to Impossible Places | Usborne Publishing |
| Helena | Duggan | The Trouble with Perfect | Usborne Publishing |
| Robert | Harris | Artie Conan Doyle & the Vanishing Dragon | Kelpies |
| Fleur | Hitchcock | Murder At Twilight | Nosy Cow |
| Andrew | Lane | AWOL Agent without Licence | Picadilly Press |
| Stephen | Pastis | Timmy Failure: It’s The End When I Say It’s The End | Walker Books |
| S.A. | Patrick | A Darkness of Dragons | Usborne Publishing |
| Dave | Shelton | The Book Case: An Emily Lime Mystery | David Fickling Books |
| Alex T. | Smith | Mr Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets | Hodder Children's Books |
| Lauren | St. John | Kat Wolfe Investigates | Macmillan Children's Books |
| Nicki | Thornton | The Last Chance Hotel | Chicken House |
BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS (AGES 12–16)
| First | Last | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| David | Almond | The Colour of the Sun | Hodder Children's Books |
| Alexandra | Bracken | The Darkest Legacy | Quercus Children's Books |
| Cat | Clarke | We Are Young | Quercus Children's Books |
| Kim | Curran | Slay | Usborne Publishing |
| Mel | Darbon | Rosie Loves Jack | Usborne Publishing |
| Sarah | Epstein | Small Spaces | Walker Books |
| Amanda | Foody | Ace of Shades | HQ |
| Julia | Gray | Little Liar | Andersen Press |
| M.A. | Griffin | Payback | Chicken House |
| J. A. | Henderson | It's Only the End of the World | Kelpies |
| Tom | Pollock | White Rabbit Red Wolf | Walker Books |
| Nickesh | Shukla | Run, Riot | Hodder Children's Books |
| Neal & Jarrod | Shusterman | Dry | Walker Books |