The 2020 CRIMEFEST Awards were due to be presented at a Gala Dinner during the convention at the Bristol Mercure Grand Hotel this June. In light of Covid-19, the winners were announced online at crimefest.com and via its social media pages on Tuesday 7 July.
– SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD
for best 2019 crime novel by a previously unpublished author
– AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
for best 2019 unabridged crime audiobook
– eDUNNIT AWARD
for best 2019 crime ebook
– THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD
for best 2019 biography or critical book related to crime fiction
– LAST LAUGH AWARD
for best 2019 humorous crime novel
– BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN
for best 2019 crime novel for children, ages 8-12
– BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS
for best 2019 crime novel for young adults, ages 12-16
– 2020 AWARD ENTRIES
– SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
– PAST WINNERS: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 & 2008
SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD
In association with our new headline sponsor, CRIMEFEST is honoured to announce a new award for a crime novel by debut author first published in the British Isles in 2019. Previously unpublished authors bring vital fresh blood to the genre, and CRIMEFEST and Specsavers aim to highlight that contribution with this award.
The winning author receives a £1,000 prize (courtesy of headline sponsor Specsavers) as well as a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
Specsavers Crime Fiction Debut Award nominees:
– Fiona Erskine for The Chemical Detective (Point Blank)
– Katja Ivar for Evil Things (Bitter Lemon Press)
– Carolyn Kirby for The Conviction of Cora Burns (No Exit Press)
– Alex Michaelides for The Silent Patient (Orion Fiction)
– Laura Shepherd-Robinson for Blood & Sugar (Mantle) – WINNER!
– Holly Watt for To The Lions (Raven Books)
Eligible titles were submitted by publishers, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.
AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
The Audible Sounds of Crime Award is for the best unabridged crime audiobook first published in the United Kingdom in 2019 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:
– Kate Atkinson for Big Sky, read by Jason Isaacs (Penguin Random House Audio)
– Oyinkan Braithwaite for My Sister, the Serial Killer, read by Weruche Opia (W.F. Howes)
– Alex Callister for Winter Dark, read by Ell Potter (Audibe Studios)
– Lee Child for Blue Moon, read by Jeff Harding (Penguin Random House Audio) – WINNER!
– Lisa Jewell for The Family Upstairs, read by Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland & Dominic Thorburn (Penguin Random House Audio)
– T.M. Logan for The Holiday, read by Laura Kirman (Zaffre)
– Peter May for The Man with No Face, read by Peter Forbes (Quercus, Fiction)
– Alex Michaelides for The Silent Patient, read by Louise Brealey & Jack Hawkins (Orion)
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 United Kingdom in 2019. The winner receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Helen FitzGerald for Worst Case Scenario (Orenda Books)
– Sarah Hilary for Never Be Broken (Headline)
– Andrew Taylor for The King’s Evil (HarperFiction)
– L.C. Tyler for The Maltese Herring (Allison & Busby)
– Holly Watt for To The Lions (Raven Books) – WINNER!
– Don Winslow for The Border (HarperFiction)
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 United Kingdom in 2019. 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:
– Ursula Buchan for Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps (Bloomsbury Publishing)
– John Curran for The Hooded Gunman (HarperCollins Crime Club) – WINNER!
– Barry Forshaw for Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide (No Exit Press)
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 United Kingdom in 2019. The winner receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– William Boyle for A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself (No Exit Press)
– Hannah Dennison for Tidings of Death at Honeychurch Hall (Constable)
– Helen FitzGerald for Worst Case Scenario (Orenda Books) – WINNER!
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May – The Lonely Hour (Transworld)
– Antti Tuomainen for Little Siberia (Orenda Books)
– L.C. Tyler for The Maltese Herring (Allison & Busby)
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 United Kingdom in 2019. The winner receives a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass award.
Nominees for the CrimeFest Award for Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8-12):
– P.G. Bell for The Great Brain Robbery (Usborne Publishing)
– Vivian French for The Steam Whistle Theatre Company (Walker Books)
– Sophie Green for Potkin and Stubbs (Bonnier Books)
– A.M. Howell for The Garden of Lost Secrets (Usborne Publishing)
– Simon Lelic for The Haven (Hodder Children’s Books)
– Thomas Taylor for Malamander (Walker Books) – WINNER!
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 United Kingdom in 2019. The winner receives a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass award.
Nominees for the CrimeFest Award for Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (ages 12-16):
– Kathryn Evans for Beauty Sleep (Usborne Publishing) – WINNER!
– John Grisham for Theodore Boone: The Accomplice (Hodder & Stoughton)
– Samuel J. Halpin for The Peculiar Peggs of Riddling Woods (Usborne Publishing)
– Simon Mason for Hey Sherlock! (David Fickling Books)
– Tom Pollock for Heartstream (Walker Books)
– Nikesh Shukla for The Boxer (Hodder Children’s 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.
2020 AWARD ENTRIES – as of 26 May 2020
– AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
– eDUNNIT AWARD
– H.R.F. KEATING AWARD
– LAST LAUGH AWARD
– SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD
– BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN
– BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS
AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD ENTRIES
| First | Last | Title | Reader | Month | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kia | Abdullah | Take It Back | Tania Rodrigues, Sophie Bentinck and Sartaj Garewal | August | HQ |
| Stefan | Ahnhem | Motive X: A Fabian Risk Thriller, Book 3 | Mike Rogers | August | Whole Story |
| Sarah | Alderson | In Her Eyes | Katherine Fenton | November | Hodder & Stoughton |
| JM | Alvey | Scorpions in Corinth | Gavin Osborn | September | Orion |
| Richard | Anderson | Boxed | Todd Boyce | June | Aurora Audio Books |
| Laurence | Anholt | Art of Death | Maddy Anholt | July | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Isabel | Ashdown | Lake Child | Julia Barrie,Charlie Sanderson | September | Orion |
| Claire | Askew | What You Pay For | Sarah Barron,Angus King | August | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Kate | Atkinson | Big Sky | Jason Isaacs | June | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Tim | Ayliffe | State of Fear | Lani Tupu | August | Wavesound Audiobooks |
| Desmond | Bagley | Domino Island | Paul Tyreman | May | Harper Fiction |
| Samantha M. | Bailey | Woman on the Edge | Katherine Fenton | October | Headline |
| J.A. | Baker | The Cleansing | Guy Mott | September | Whole Story |
| Heine | Bakkeid | I Will Miss You Tomorrow | Colin Mace | November | Raven Books |
| Alex | Barclay | I Confess | Karen Cogan | August | Harper Fiction |
| Leigh | Bardugo | Ninth House | Lauren Fortgang,Michael David Axtell | October | Orion |
| Andrea | Bartz | The Lost Night | Kate Handford | November | Orion |
| M. C. | Beaton | Agatha Raisin: Beating About the Bush | Penelope Keith | October | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Louise | Beech | Call Me Star Girl | Katy Sobey | February | Orenda Books |
| Gary | Bell | Beyond Reasonable Doubt | Hugh Kermode | June | Raven Books |
| Alison | Belsham | Her Last Breath | Candida Gubbins | September | Orion |
| Lou | Bereny | November Road | Johnathan McClain | April | Harper Fiction |
| Mark | Billingham | Their Little Secret | Mark Billingham | May | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Jenny | Blackhurst | Someone Is Lying | Lucy Price-Lewis | May | Headline |
| David | Blake | Broadland: A Chilling Norfolk Broads Crime Thriller | Jonathan Keeble | September | Whole Story |
| Rachael | Blok | Under the Ice | Esther Wane | April | Whole Story |
| Sam | Bourne | To Kill the Truth | Kerry Shale | February | Quercus, Fiction |
| Alan | Bradley | The Golden Tresses of the Dead | Sophie Aldred | January | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Oyinkan | Braithwaite | My Sister, the Serial Killer | Weruche Opia | January | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Simon | Brett | Killer in the Choir, The | Author | July | Isis Audio |
| Andy | Briggs | CTRL S | Christopher Weeks | November | Orion |
| Steph | Broadribb | Deep Dirty Truth | Jennifer Woodward | March | Orenda Books |
| Amanda | Brooke | Don't Turn Around | Charlie Sanderson and Julie Maisey | February | Harper Fiction |
| Chris | Brookmyre | Fallen Angel | Cathleen McCarron | April | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Holly, Sophie, Clare, B.A. | Brown, Hannah, Mackintosh, Paris | The Understudy | Carol Jacobanis,Marian Hussey | October | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Robert | Bryndza | Nine Elms | Kristin Atherton | November | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Simone | Buchholz | Beton Rouge | Gabrielle Baker | March | Orenda Books |
| Mark | Burnell | Chameleon | Elizabeth Knowelden | April | Harper Fiction |
| Paul | Burston | The Closer I Get | Multiple narrators | June | Orenda Books |
| D.S. | Butler | Deadly Obsession | Rupert Bush | August | Whole Story QUEST |
| Alex | Callister | Winter Dark | Ell Potter | March | Bookouture |
| Ali | Carter | Colours of Murder, The | Joanna Bending | May | Isis Audio |
| Andrew | Cartmel | Flip Back | Finlay Robertson | May | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Will | Carver | Nothing Important Happened Today | Ciaran Saward | November | Orenda Books |
| Jane | Casey | Cruel Acts | Caroline Lennon | April | Harper Fiction |
| S.B. | Caves | A Killer Came Knocking | Thomas Judd | November | Avid Audiobooks |
| Steph | Cha | Your House Will Pay | Glenn Davis / Greta Jung | October | Faber & Faber |
| Kimberley | Chambers | The Sting | Annie Aldington | Febraury | Harper Fiction |
| Tom | Chatfield | This is Gomorrah | Homer Todiwala | July | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Lee | Child | Blue Moon | Jeff Harding | October | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Greg | Chivers | The Crying Machine | Richard Trinder, Fleur Keith and Freddie Gaminara | April | Harper Fiction |
| Yangsze | Choo | The Night Tiger | Yangsze Choo | February | Quercus, Fiction |
| Alys | Clare | The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits | Lucy Scott | Dec | Oakhill |
| Angela | Clarke | On My Life | Sarah Durham | March | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Barbara | Cleverly | Invitation to Die | David Thorpe | October | Soundings |
| Daniel | Cole | Endgame | Andrew Wincott | September | Orion |
| Martina | Cole | No Mercy | Annie Aldington | October | Headline |
| Stevyn | Colgan | Diabolical Club, The | Rula Lenska | September | Isis Audio |
| Sara | Collins | The Confessions of Frannie Langton | Sara Collins and Roy McMillan | April | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Michael | Connelly | The Night Fire | Titus Welliver,Christine Lakin | October | Orion |
| John | Connolly | A Book of Bones | Jeff Harding | April | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Vivian | Conroy | Testament to Murder, A | Gordon Griffin MBE | December | Soundings |
| Liv | Constantine | The Last Time I Saw You | Julia Whelan | May | Harper Fiction |
| C.J. | Cooke | The Blame Game | Bea Holland, Thomas Judd and Eliot Smith | March | Harper Fiction |
| Jane | Corry | I Looked Away | Rachel Bavidge | June | Penguin Random House Audio |
| M. W. | Craven | Black Summer | John Banks | June | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Alex | Dahl | The Heart Keeper | Sarah Borges, Sophie Roberts | August | Whole Story Audio Books |
| Alex | Dahl | The Heart Keeper | Sarah Borges | August | Avid Audiobooks |
| Kjell Ola | Dahl | The Courier | Nina Yndis | March | Orenda Books |
| Christi | Daugherty | A Beautiful Corpse | Regina Reagan | April | Harper Fiction |
| Lindsey | Davis | A Capitol Death | Jane Collingwood | April | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Louisa | de Lange | Ask Me No Questions | Helen Keeley | October | Orion |
| Oscar | de Muriel | The Darker Arts | Andy Secombe | August | Orion |
| Will | Dean | Red Snow | Maya Lindh | January | Point Blank |
| Jeffer | Deaver | The Never Game | Kaleo Griffith | May | Harper Fiction |
| JP | Delaney | The Perfect Wife | Saskia Maarleveld, Graham Halstead, and Euan Morton | August | Quercus, Fiction |
| James | Delargy | 55 | Douglas Hansell | April | Simon & Schuster |
| Louise | Doughty | Platform Seven | Olivia Dowd | August | Faber & Faber |
| Jessica | Eames | Bad Seed | Emma Powell | October | Orion |
| J. J. | Ellis | The Flower Arranger | Hanako Footman | November | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Kate | Ellis | Dead Man's Lane | Gordon Griffin MBE | March | Soundings |
| James | Ellroy | This Storm | Jeff Harding | July | Isis Audio |
| Clare | Empson | Mine | Cassie Layton,Dominic Thorburn | August | Orion |
| Thomas | Enger | Inborn | David Shaw-Parker | February | Orenda Books |
| Glen | Erik Hamilton | Mercy River | Jeff Harding | May | Avid Audiobooks |
| Fiona | Erskine | The Chemical Detective | Ana Clements | April | Point Blank |
| Fiona | Erskine | The Chemical Detective | Ana Clements | April | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Janet | Evanovich | Twisted Twenty-Six | Lorelei King | November | Headline Review |
| Janet & Peter | Evanovich | The Big Kahuna | Scott Brick | May | Headline Review |
| Peter | Everett | Corrupt Bodies | Mark Elstob | September | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Toby | Faber | Close to the Edge | Imogen Wilde | April | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Alice | Feeney | I Know Who You Are | Stephanie Racine | May | HQ |
| Jessica | Fellowes | The Mitford Scandal | Rachel Atkins | September | Little, Brown Book Group |
| TP | Fielden | Died and Gone to Devon | Eve Karpf | November | HQ |
| Helen | Fields | Perfect Crime | Robin Laing | May | Avon |
| Benjamin & Rosanna | Fitton | They Walk Among Us | Benjamin Fitton | July | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Helen | FitzGerald | Worst Case Scenario | Cathleen McCarron | May | Orenda Books |
| Nicola | Ford | Lost Shrine, The | Matt Addis | August | Isis Audio |
| Sue | Fortin | Schoolgirl Missing | Grace Andrews | January | Harper Fiction |
| Sue | Fortin | The Dead Wife | Jessica Ball | September | Harper Fiction |
| Sara | Foster | You Don't Know Me | Anna Hruby | November | Wavesound Audiobooks |
| Christopher | Fowler | The Lonely Hour | Tim Goodman | March | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Anita | Frank | The Lost Ones | Olivia Dowd | October | HQ |
| Caz | Frear | Stone Cold Heart | Jane Collingwood | June | Whole Story QUEST |
| Nicci | French | The Lying Room | Olivia Poulet | October | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Tana | French | The Wych Elm | Paul Nugent | October | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Alan | Furst | Under Occupation | Peter Noble | November | Orion |
| Gillian | Galbraith | End of the Line, The | Gordon Griffin MBE and Lesley Mackie | September | Soundings |
| Megan | Goldin | The Escape Room | January LaVoy,Ramon de Ocampo | July | Orion |
| Ginger | Gorman | Troll Hunting | Jo Van Es | April | Wavesound Audiobooks |
| Ann | Granger | The Murderer's Apprentice | Gareth Armstrong and Julia Barrie | July | Headline |
| Cass | Green | The Killer Inside | Freddie Gaminara and Rachel Atkins | September | Harper Fiction |
| J.M. | Green | Shoot Through | Marla Jane Lynch | July | Wavesound Audiobooks |
| Mark | Griffin | When Angels Sleep | Tamsin Kennard | November | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Elly | Griffiths | The Stone Circle | Jane McDowell | February | Quercus, Fiction |
| John | Grisham | The Guardians | Michael Beck | October | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Johana | Gustawsson | Blood Song | Patricia Rodriguez/ Mark Meadows | October | Orenda Books |
| Rona | Halsall | The Honeymoon | Alex Tregear | August | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Chris | Hammer | Silver | Nicholas Osmond | October | Wildfire |
| Peter | Hanington | A Single Source | Jonathan Keeble | May | Two Roads |
| Oliver | Harris | A Shadow Intelligence | Richard Coyle | May | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Thomas | Harris | Cari Mora | Thomas Harris | May | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Mick | Herron | Joe Country | Sean Barrett | June | John Murray |
| David | Hewson | Devil's Fjord | Saul Reichlin | February | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Mary | Higgins Clark | Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry | January LaVoy | November | Simon & Schuster |
| Sarah | Hilary | Never Be Broken | Imogen Church | May | Headline |
| M.K. | Hill | The Bad Place | Julie Maisey | September | Avid Audiobooks |
| Suzette A. | Hill | The Cambridge Plot | Julia Franklin | March | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Susan | Hill | The Benefit of Hindsight | Steven Pacey | October | Penguin Random House Audio |
| S.J.I | Holliday | Violet | Imogen Church | December | Orenda Books/Isis Audio |
| Noelle | Holten | Dead Inside | Rachael Beresford | May | One More Chapter |
| Anna Lee | Huber | Penny for your Secrets | Jilly Bond | October | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Tom | Hunt | A Killer Choice | Christopher Ragland | August | Orion |
| Tom | Hunt | One Fatal Mistake | Katherine Fenton | November | Orion |
| Cara | Hunter | No Way Out | Lee Ingleby and Emma Cunniffe | March | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Sam | Hurcom | A Shadow on the Lens | John Telfer | September | Orion |
| Greg | Iles | Cemetery Road | Scott Brick | April | Harper Fiction |
| Katja | Ivar | Evil Things | Laurence Bouvard | January | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Aileen | Izett | The Silent Stranger | Bethan Dixon-Bate | September | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Joshilyn | Jackson | Never Have I Ever | Joshilyn Jackson | August | Raven Books |
| Stina | Jackson | The Silver Road | Nick Holbek | August | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| V.V. | James | Sanctuary | Laurel Lefkow,Patricia Rodriguez,Rachel Handshaw,Matt Reeves | August | Orion |
| Hanna | Jameson | The Last | Anthony Starke | January | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Quintin | Jardine | The Bad Fire | James Bryce | November | Headline |
| Diane | Jeffrey | The Guilty Mother | Charlie Sanderson and Philip Stevens | October | HQ |
| Louise | Jensen | The Family | Helen Keeley, Kathryn Griffiths and Iestyn Arwel | October | HQ |
| Lisa | Jewell | The Family Upstairs | Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn | August | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Doug | Johnstone | Breakers | Angus King | July | Orenda Books |
| Suzy | K Quinn | Don't Tell Teacher | Imogen Church | March | HQ |
| Alex | Kane | No Looking Back | Diane Brookes | September | Whole Story QUEST |
| M.R.C. | Kasasian | The Room of the Dead | Emma Gregory | July | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Faye | Kellerman | Walking Shadows | Mitchell Greenberg | Febraury | Harper Fiction |
| Erin | Kelly | We Know You Know | Polly Edsell,Jane McDowell,Fenella Fudge | April | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Lesley | Kelly | Death at the Plague Museum | Angela Ness | Nov | Oakhill |
| Claire | Kendal | I Spy | Imogen Church | August | Harper Fiction |
| Christobel | Kent | A Secret Life | Suzannah Hampton | July | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Philip | Kerr | Metropolis | Jeff Harding | April | Quercus, Fiction |
| Ausma Zehanat | Khan | No Place of Refuge | Peter Ganim | January | Bolinda Publishing |
| Jess | Kidd | Things in Jars | Jacqueline Milne | April | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Renne | Kinght | The Secretary | Victoria Hamilton | February | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Erin | Kinsley | Found | Lucy Paterson | July | Headline |
| Carolyn | Kirby | The Conviction of Cora Burns | Emma Fenney | April | Lamplight Audiobooks |
| Carolyn | Kirby | The Conviction of Cora Burns | Emma Fenney | April | Lamplight Audiobooks |
| Danuta | Kot | Life Ruins | Anna Bentinck | July | Simon & Schuster |
| Jean | Kwok | Searching for Sylvie Lee | Samantha Quan, Caroline McLaughlin, Angela Lin | October | john Murray |
| Alex | Lake | Seven Days | Laura Kirman | October | Harper Fiction |
| Neil | Lancaster | Going Dark | Guy Mott | November | Whole Story QUEST |
| John | Lanchester | The Wall | Will Poulter | January | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Peter | Laws | Severed | Ben Higgins | November | Isis Audio |
| John | Le Carre | Agent Running in the Field | John Le Carre | October | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Stephen | Leather | Last Man Standing | Paul Thornley | January | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Stephen | Leather | Short Range | Paul Thornley | July | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Karen | Lee Street | Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead | Robert G. Slade | December | Isis Audio |
| SA | Lelchuck | Save me From Dangerous Men | January LaVoy | March | Simon & Schuster |
| Susan | Lewis | Home Truths | Antonia Beamish | August | Harper Fiction |
| Susan | Lewis | One Minute Later | Antonia Beamish, Elisabeth Hopper and Imogen Wilde | Febraury | Harper Fiction |
| John | Lincoln | Fade to Grey | Tim Treloar | February | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Douglas | Lindsay | Song of the Dead | Angus King | February | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Jeff | Lindsay | Just Watch Me | Jeff Lindsay | December | Orion |
| Howard | Linskey | Ungentlemanly Warfare | Jonthan Keeble | June | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Laura | Lippman | Lady in the Lake | Laurel Lefkow | August | Isis Audio |
| Attica | Locke | Heaven, My Home | JD Jackson | September | Serpent's Tail |
| Phoebe | Locke | The July Girls | Abigail Hardiman | June | Wildfire |
| T.M. | Logan | The Holiday | Laura Kirman | July | Zaffre |
| Nick | Louth | The Body in the Mist | Nick louth | July | Whole Story QUEST |
| Katie | Lowe | The Furies | Olivia Dowd | May | Harper Fiction |
| Carissa Ann | Lynch | My Sister is Missing | Kelly Burke | November | One More Chapter |
| Carissa Ann | Lynch | Without A Trace | Regina Reagan | November | One More Chapter |
| Tara | Lyons | The Paramedic's Daughter | Julie Maisey | October | Whole Story QUEST |
| Bonnie | MacBird | The Devil's Due | Simon Darwen | October | Harper Fiction |
| Stuart | MacBride | All That's Dead | Steve Worsley | May | Harper Fiction |
| Tim | MacGabhann | Call Him Mine | Aidan Kelly | July | Orion |
| Felicity | Maclean | The Van Apfel Girls are Gone | Eloise Oxer | June | Point Blank |
| S. G. | MacLean | The Bear Pit | Johnathan Keeble | July | Quercus, Fiction |
| Gilly | MacMillan | The Nanny | Clare Corbett, Patience Tomlinson, Ben Eliot | May | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Michael J. | Malone | In the Absence of Miracles | Angus Kind | October | Orenda Books |
| Max | Manning | The Victim | Joe Jameson | August | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| David | Mark | Cold Bones | Toby Longworth | January | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Faith | Martin | A Fatal Secret | Stephanie Racine | November | HQ |
| Alex | Marwood | The Poison Garden | Lucy Price-Lewis | July | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Becky | Masterman | We Were Killers Once | Kate Harper | August | Orion |
| Alyssa | Maxwell | A Murderous Marriage | Mandy Weston | August | Lamplight Audiobooks |
| Peter | May | The Man with No Face | Peter Forbes | January | Quercus, Fiction |
| Julie | Mayhew | Impossible Causes | Julie Mayhew, Lissa Berry, Lauren Cornelius | October | Raven Books |
| Colette | McBeth | Call Me a Liar | Karen Cass, John Telfer and Elliot Fitzpatrick | April | Wildfire |
| Val | McDermid | How the Dead Speak | Saul Reichlin | August | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Lesley | McEvoy | The Murder Mile | Ann Cordell | November | Whole Story QUEST |
| Mel | McGrath | The Guilty Party | Emma Noakes | March | HQ |
| Adrian | McKinty | The Chain | January LaVoy | July | Orion |
| Amy | McLellan | Remember Me | Karen Cass | November | Orion |
| Dervla | McTiernan | The Scholar | Aoife McMahon | March | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Deon | Meyer | The Last Hunt | Saul Reichlin | November | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Alex | Michaelides | The Silent Patient | Louise Brealey, Jack Hawkins | February | Orion |
| Danny | Miller | Murder Map, The | Crawford Logan | November | Isis Audio |
| Syd | Moore | Strange Tombs | Julia Barrie | May | Point Blank/Isis Audio |
| T. F. | Muir | Dead Catch | David Monteath | February | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Owen | Mullen | Out of the Silence | David McCallion | June | Whole Story QUEST |
| Guillaume | Musso | The Reunion | Samuel West,Cassie Layton,David Rintoul,Clare Wille | July | Orion |
| Barbara | Nadel | A Knife to the Heart | Sean Barrett | May | Headline |
| Niklas | Natt och Dag | The Wolf and the Watchman | Matt Addis, Clara Andersson, Caspar Rundegren | February | John Murray |
| Jo | Nesbo | Knife | Sean Barrett | July | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Dominic | Nolan | Past Life | Karen Cass | March | Headline |
| Alex | North | The Whisper Man | Christopher Eccleston | June | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Deborah | O'Donoghue | Sea of Bones | Caroline Guthrie | August | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Kristina | Ohlsson | The Flood | Maggie Mash | June | Simon & Schuster |
| Karen | Osman | The Perfect Lie | Imogen Church | September | Whole Story QUEST |
| James | Oswald | Cold as the Grave | Ian Hanmore | February | Wildfire |
| James | Oswald | Nothing to Hide | Rose Akroyd | July | Wildfire |
| Vikram | Paralkar | Night Theatre | Raj Ghatak | February | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Adele | Parks | Lies Lies Lies | Rachel Bavidge and Sam Woolf | September | HQ |
| Alan | Parks | February's Son | Andrew McIntosh | January | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Ambrose | Parry | The Art of Dying | Bryan Dick, Jayne McKenna, Louise Brealey | August | Canongate Books |
| Tony | Parsons | #taken | Colin Mace | April | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| James | Patterson | 18th Abduction | January LaVoy | March | Penguin Random House Audio |
| James | Patterson | Unsolved | Brittany Pressley, Kevin T Collins | June | Penguin Random House Audio |
| C.L. | Pattison | The Housemate | Jasmine Blackborow and Polly Edsell | March | Headline |
| Laurie | Petrou | Sister of Mine | Andi Arndt | June | Avid Audio Books |
| Charlotte | Philby | The Most Difficult Thing | Emma Gregory and Kristin Atherton | August | Harper Fiction |
| Robert | Pobi | City of Windows | Stephen Graybill | August | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Henry | Porter | White Hot Silence | Matt Addis | June | Quercus, Fiction |
| Laura | Purcell | Bone China | Laura Kirman | September | Raven Books |
| Ian | Rankin | Westwind | Julian Rhind-Tutt,Ian Rankin | November | Orion |
| Heather | Redmond | Grave Expectations | Tim Campbell | August | Lamplight Audiobooks |
| Alex | Reeve | The Anarchists' Club | Ash Palmisciano | May | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Amanda | Reynolds | The Hidden Wife | Janine Cooper-Marshall | March | Wildfire |
| Marnie | Riches | Tightrope | Imogen Church | July | Orion |
| Michael | Ridpath | Launch Code | David Thorpe with Jeff Harding | December | Isis Audio |
| Peter | Ritchie | Where No Shadows Fall | Sean Barrett | Sept | Oakhill |
| Peter | Robinson | Many Rivers to Cross | Simon Slater | September | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Michael | Robotham | Good Girl, Bad Girl | Joe Jameson | July | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Karen | Rose | Into the Dark | Hillary Huber | November | Headline |
| Karen | Rose | Say You're Sorry | Joel Froomkin | February | Headline |
| LJ | Ross | Hysteria | Hugh Dancy | December | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| LJ | Ross | Impostor: An Alexander Gregory Thriller | Hugh Dancy | October | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Craig | Russell | The Devil Aspect | Julian Rhind-Tutt | March | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Leigh | Russell | Suspicion | Philipa Leigh | November | Whole Story QUEST |
| James | Sallis | Sarah Jane | Laurence Bouvard | October | Avid Audiobooks |
| Rachel | Sargeant | The Roommates | Gwen Watson, Rebecca Courtney and Imogen Church and Charlie Sanderson | November | Harper Fiction |
| Vanessa | Savage | The Woman in the Dark | Siriol Jenkins | January | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Robert | Scragg | Nothing Else Remains | David Thorpe | May | Isis Audio |
| Melissa | Scrivner Love | American Heroin | Laurel Lefkow | Sept | Oakhill |
| William | Shaw | Deadland | Jasmine Blackborow | May | Quercus, Riverrun |
| Sidney | Sheldon | The Phoenix | Laurence Bouvard | June | Harper Fiction |
| Lilja | Sigurdardottir | Cage | Suzannah Hampton | October | Orenda Books |
| Yrsa | Sigurdardottir | The Absolution | Lucy Paterson | April | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Daniel | Silva | The New Girl | George Guidall | July | Harper Fiction |
| Nalini | Singh | A Madness of Sunshine | Saskia Maarlevand | December | Orion |
| Douglas | Skelton | Thunder Bay | Sarah Barron | August | Isis Audio |
| Karin | Slaughter | The Last Widow | Laurence Bouvard | June | Harper Fiction |
| Joseph | Souza | Pray for the Girl | Sarah Borges | May | Avid Audiobooks |
| Jo | Spain | Dirty Little Secrets | Michele Moran | February | Quercus, Fiction |
| Jo | Spain | The Boy Who Fell | Aoife McMahon | June | Quercus, Fiction |
| Gunnar | Staalesen | Wolves at the Door | Colin Mace | May | Orenda Books |
| Joanna | Stephen-Ward | Searching for Sylvia | Oliver de Rohan | December | Aurora Audio Books |
| Matteo | Strukul | Medici: Ascendancy | Saul Reichlin | September | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Peter | Swanson | Before She Knew Him | Graham Halstead | July | Faber & Faber |
| Vanda | Symon | The Ringmaster | Genevieve Swallow | June | Orenda Books/Aurora Audio Books |
| Maryla | Szymiczkowa | Mrs Mohr Goes Missing | Mary Woodvine | April | Point Blank |
| Andrew | Taylor | The King's Evil | Leighton Pugh | April | Harper Fiction |
| C.L. | Taylor | Sleep | Clare Corbett | April | Avon |
| Barbara | Taylor Bradford | Who Are You? | Katherine Fenton | September | Harper Fiction |
| Lesley | Thomson | The Playground Murders | Anna Bentinck | July | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| Rebecca | Thornton | The Fallout | Charlie Sanderson, Guy Mott and Rebecca Courtney | December | Harper Fiction |
| Rebecca | Tope | Secrets in the Cotswolds | Caroline Lennon | October | Soundings |
| Rebecca | Tope | The Grasmere Grudge | Julia Franklin | May | Soundings |
| S.K. | Tremayne | The Assistant | Laura Kirman | December | Harper Fiction |
| Lynne | Truss | The Man That Got Away | Matt Green | July | Lamplight Audiobooks |
| C. J. | Tudor | The Taking of Annie Thorne | Richard Armitage | February | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Antti | Tuomainen | Little Siberia | Ville Lappanen/ Jonathan Keeble | October | Orenda Books |
| Harriet | Tyce | Blood Orange | Julie Teal | February | Wildfire |
| Lisa | Unger | The Stranger Inside | Vivienne Leheny and Chris Andrew Ciulla | September | HQ |
| Jessica | Vallance | Someone Else’s House | Danielle Nott | November | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Louise | Voss | The Last Stage | Simon Mattacks | July | Orenda Books/Isis Audio |
| Alex | Walters | Winterman | Frazer Blaxland | July | Whole Story QUEST |
| Ruth | Ware | The Turn of the Key | Imogen Church | August | Penguin Random House Audio |
| Roz | Watkins | Dead Man's Daughter | Caro Clarke | April | HQ |
| Camilla | Way | Who Killed Ruby? | Olivia Dowd | June | Harper Fiction |
| Matt | Wesolowski | Changeling | Multiple narrators | January | Orenda Books |
| Christian | White | The Nowhere Child | Kirsty Gillmore | March | Harper Fiction |
| Andrew | Williams | Witchfinder | Richard Mitchley | September | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Andrew | Wilson | Death in a Desert Land | Joan Walker | June | Oakhill |
| Don | Winslow | The Border | Ray Porter | Febraury | Harper Fiction |
| Jacqueline | Winspear | The American Agent | Julie Teal | March | Whole Story Audiobooks |
| First | Last | Title | Month | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.D | Abson | Black Wolf | May | Mirror Books |
| Cathy | Ace | The Wrong Boy | January | Four Tails Publishing Ltd |
| Seth C | Adams | Are You Afraid of the Dark? | August | One More Chapter |
| Catherine | Aird | Inheritance Tracks | April | Allison & Busby |
| Boris | Akunin | Not Saying Goodbye | November | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Claire | Allan | Apple Of My Eye | Jan | Avon |
| Claire | Allan | Forget Me Not | May | Avon |
| Stephanie | Austin | Dead in Devon | June | Allison & Busby |
| Stephanie | Austin | Dead on Dartmoor | October | Allison & Busby |
| Desmond | Bagley | Domino Island | May | HarperFiction |
| Samantha M. | Bailey | Woman on the Edge | October | Headline |
| JA | Baker | The Woman at Number 19 | July | Bloodhound Books |
| Heine | Bakkeid | I Will Miss You Tomorrow | November | Raven Books |
| Caroline | Bale | I Will Make You Pay | June | Joffe Books |
| Alex | Barclay | I Confess | August | HarperFiction |
| Fiona | Barton | The Suspect | January | Transworld |
| Louise | Beech | Call Me Star Girl | April | Orenda Books |
| Gary | Bell | Beyond Reasonable Doubt | June | Raven Books |
| Rachel | Bennett | The Flood | September | One More Chapter |
| Mark | Billingham | Their Little Secret | May | Little, Brown |
| Jenny | Blackhurst | Someone Is Lying | May | Headline |
| Shalini | Boland | The Marriage Betrayal | July | Bookouture |
| Sam | Bourne | To Kill the Truth | February | Quercus |
| William | Boyle | A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself | March | No Exit Press |
| Tom | Bradby | Secret Service | May | Transworld |
| T.J. | Brearton | Dead or Alive | July | Joffe Books |
| T.J. | Brearton | When He Vanished | June | Joffe Books |
| Harry | Brett | Good Dark Night | November | Corsair |
| Lynn | Brittney | A Death in Chelsea | March | Mirror Books |
| Steph | Broadribb | Deep Dirty Truth | January | Orenda Books |
| Frances | Brody | The Body on the Train | October | Piatkus |
| Chris | Brookmyre | Fallen Angel | April | Little, Brown |
| Sheryl | Browne | The Second Wife | January | Bookouture |
| Robert | Bryndza | Nine Elms | November | Sphere |
| Simone | Buchholz | Beton Rouge | February | Orenda Books |
| Alafair | Burke | The Better Sister | April | Faber & Faber |
| Paul | Burston | The Closer I Get | July | Orenda Books |
| C.J. | Carver | Over My Shoulder | July | Bloodhound Books |
| Will | Carver | Nothing Important Happened Today | November | Orenda Books |
| Jane | Casey | Cruel Acts | April | HarperFiction |
| Steve | Cavanagh | Twisted | January | Orion Fiction |
| Steph | Cha | Your House Will Pay | October | Faber & Faber |
| Clare | Chase | Death Comes to Call | February | Bookouture |
| Lee | Child | Blue Moon | October | Bantam |
| Yangsze | Choo | The Night Tiger | February | Quercus |
| M.M. | Chouinard | The Dancing Girls | May | Bookouture |
| Sherryl | Clark | Trust Me I'm Dead | July | Verve Books |
| Alice | Clark-Platts | The Flower Girls | January | Raven Books |
| Angela | Clarke | On My Life | March | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Wendy | Clarke | What She Saw | May | Bookouture |
| Chris | Clement-Green | She Will Rescue You | June | Joffe Books |
| Karen | Cleveland | Keep You Close | June | Transworld |
| Martina | Cole | No Mercy | October | Headline |
| Sara | Collins | The Confessions of Frannie Langton | April | Viking |
| Michael | Connelly | The Night Fire | October | Orion Fiction |
| Lyv | Constantine | The Last Time I Saw You | May | HarperFiction |
| C.J. | Cooper | The Book Club | May | Constable |
| Jane | Corry | I Looked Away | June | Viking |
| Helen | Cox | A Body in the Bookshop | October | Quercus |
| Helen | Cox | Murder by the Minster | July | Quercus |
| Robert | Crais | A Dangerous Man | July | Simon & Schuster |
| M.W. | Craven | Black Summer | June | Constable |
| Michael | Crichton | The Andromeda Evolution | November | HarperFiction |
| Chris | Curran | All the Little Lies | February | One More Chapter |
| Emma | Curtis | The Night You Left | September | Transworld |
| Kjell Ola | Dahl | The Courier | March | Orenda Books |
| Paula | Daly | Clear My Name | August | Transworld |
| Christi | Daugherty | A Beautiful Corpse | April | HarperFiction |
| Lucy | Dawson | Don't Ever Tell | June | Bookouture |
| EC | Deacon | The Coop | June | Bloodhound Books |
| Leona | Deakin | Gone | August | Transworld |
| Will | Dean | Red Snow | January | Point Blank |
| Jeffery | Deaver | The Never Game | May | HarperFiction |
| JP | Delaney | The Perfect Wife | August | Quercus |
| James | Delargy | 55 | April | Simon & Schuster |
| Rene | Denfeld | The Butterfly Girl | October | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Sarah | Denzil | Only Daughter | March | Bookouture |
| Katerina | Diamond | Truth or Die | July | Avon |
| Katerina | Diamond | Woman In The Water | November | Avon |
| Helena | Dixon | Murder at the Dolphin Hotel | December | Bookouture |
| Leighann | Dobbs | A Twist in the Tail | May | Bookouture |
| Fran | Dorricott | After the Eclipse | March | Titan Books |
| Louise | Doughty | Platform Seven | August | Faber & Faber |
| Sophie | Draper | Magpie | November | Avon |
| Helen H. | Durrant | Dead Guilty | May | Joffe Books |
| Helen H. | Durrant | Next Victim | January | Joffe Books |
| Helen H. | Durrant | Two Victims | July | Joffe Books |
| Helen H. | Durrant | Wrong Victim | December | Joffe Books |
| Stephen | Edger | Till Death Do Us Part | May | One More Chapter |
| Jim | Eldridge | Murder at the Ashmolean | July | Allison & Busby |
| Jim | Eldridge | Murder at the British Museum | January | Allison & Busby |
| Laura | Elliot | The Thorn Girl | October | Bookouture |
| Lexie | Elliott | The Missing Years | June | Corvus |
| Joy | Ellis | Darkness on the Fens | July | Joffe Books |
| Joy | Ellis | Five Bloody Hearts | February | Joffe Books |
| Kate | Ellis | Dead Man's Lane | February | Piatkus |
| Nuala | Ellwood | Day of the Accident | January | Viking |
| Thomas | Enger | Inborn | February | Orenda Books |
| Caroline | England | Betray Her | September | Piatkus |
| Fiona | Erskine | The Chemical Detective | March | Point Blank |
| Janet | Evanovich | Twisted Twenty-Six | November | Headline |
| Janet & Peter | Evanovich | The Big Kahuna | May | Headline Review |
| Reed | Farrel Coleman | Robert B. Parker's Colorblind | November | No Exit Press |
| Jessica | Fellowes | The Mitford Scandal | September | Sphere |
| Helen | Fields | Perfect Crime | April | Avon |
| Caz | Finlay | The Boss | June | One More Chapter |
| Helen | FitzGerald | Worst Case Scenario | May | Orenda Books |
| Nicola | Ford | The Lost Shrine | May | Allison & Busby |
| Felix | Francis | Guilty Not Guilty | September | Simon & Schuster |
| Tana | French | The Wych Elm | October | Viking |
| Janice | Frost | Murderous Secrets | December | Joffe Books |
| Janice | Frost | The Woman on the Cliff | June | Joffe Books |
| Alan | Furst | Under Occupation | November | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Charlie | Gallagher | He Knows Your Secrets | November | Joffe Books |
| Charlie | Gallagher | He Will Find You | July | Joffe Books |
| Charlie | Gallagher | He Will Kill You | March | Joffe Books |
| Sulari | Gentil | A Few Right Thinking Men | July | The Crime & Mystery Club |
| Tess | Gerritsen | The Shape of Night | October | Transworld |
| Patricia | Gibney | Final Betrayal | April | Bookouture |
| Paul D. | Gilbert | The Illumination of Sherlock Holmes | September | Joffe Books |
| Paul | Gitsham | Forgive Me Father | June / August | HQ |
| Robert | Goddard | One False Move | February | Transworld |
| Ann | Granger | The Murderer's Apprentice | July | Headline |
| A.J. | Grayson | The Girl in the Water | March | One More Chapter |
| Cass | Green | The Killer Inside | September | HarperFiction |
| Mark | Griffin | When Angels Sleep | November | Piatkus |
| Elly | Griffiths | Now You See Them | October | Quercus |
| Elly | Griffiths | The Stone Circle | February | Quercus |
| Paul | Grzegorzek | Closer Than Blood | August | One More Chapter |
| Johana | Gustawsson | Blood Song | September | Orenda Books |
| Peter | Guttridge | Swimming with the Dead | April | Severn House |
| Peter | Guttridge | The Lady of the Lake | November | Severn House |
| Rona | Halsall | The Honeymoon | June | Bookouture |
| Michael | Hambling | Silent Crimes | October | Joffe Books |
| Chris | Hammer | Silver | October | Wildfire |
| Mari | Hannah | The Scandal | March | Orion Fiction |
| Ali | Harper | The Runaway | September | One More Chapter |
| Oliver | Harris | A Shadow Intelligence | May | Little, Brown |
| A.S. | Hatch | This Little Dark Place | October | Serpent's Tail |
| Samantha | Hayes | Date Night | August | Bookouture |
| Ruth | Heald | The Mother's Mistake | June | Bookouture |
| Peter | Heller | The River | May | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| J.M. | Hewitt | The Night Caller | August | Bookouture |
| Mary | Higgins Clark | Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry | November | Simon & Schuster |
| Sarah | Hilary | Never Be Broken | May | Headline |
| Paddy | Hirsch | Hudson’s Kill | July | Corvus |
| Geraldine | Hogan | Her Sister's Bones | August | Bookouture |
| SJI | Holliday | Violet | November | Orenda Books |
| Anne | Holt | A Grave for Two | July | Corvus |
| Noelle | Holten | Dead Inside | May | One More Chapter |
| D.K. | Hood | Where Angels Fear | February | Bookouture |
| Catherine Ryan | Howard | Rewind | August | Corvus |
| Cara | Hunter | No Way Out | March | Viking |
| Phillip | Hunter | Murder Under A Green Sea | February | Mirror Books |
| Joe | Ide | Wrecked | February | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Greg | Iles | Cemetery Road | March | HarperFiction |
| Jane | Isaac | A Deathly Silence | October | Legend Press |
| Olivia | Isaac-Henry | The Verdict | August | One More Chapter |
| Joshilyn | Jackson | Never Have I Ever | August | Raven Books |
| Stina | Jackson | The Silver Road | March | Corvus |
| Alison | James | The School Friend | July | Bookouture |
| Jane E | James | The Butcher's Daughter | May | Bloodhound Books |
| Hanna | Jameson | The Last | January | Viking |
| Quintin | Jardine | The Bad Fire | November | Headline |
| Diane | Jeffrey | The Guilty Mother | August / October | HQ |
| Victoria | Jenkins | The Argument | December | Bookouture |
| Doug | Johnstone | Breakers | May | Orenda Books |
| E. | Jones | Wilderness | April | Constable |
| Jack | Jordan | Night by Night | May | Corvus |
| Jackie | Kabler | Am I Guilty? | April | One More Chapter |
| Daniel | Kalla | We All Fall Down | March | Simon & Schuster |
| Philip | Kazan | The Phoenix of Florence | February | Allison & Busby |
| Jim | Kelly | The Mathematical Bridge | February | Allison & Busby |
| Claire | Kendal | I Spy | August | HarperFiction |
| Meg and Tom | Keneally | The Unmourned | February | Point Blank |
| Philip | Kerr | Metropolis | April | Quercus |
| Ausma Zehanat | Khan | No Place of Refuge | January | No Exit Press |
| Jess | Kidd | Things in Jars | April | Canongate Books |
| Samantha | King | The Sleepover | November | Piatkus |
| Erin | Kinsley | Found | July | Headline |
| Carolyn | Kirby | The Conviction of Cora Burns | March | No Exit Press |
| Alanna | Knight | The Dower House Mystery | April | Allison & Busby |
| Renee | Knight | The Secretary | February | Transworld |
| Joseph | Knox | The Sleepwalker | July | Transworld |
| Dean | Koontz | The Night Window | July | HarperFiction |
| Danuta | Kot | Life Ruins | February | Simon & Schuster |
| Carla | Kovach | Her Pretty Bones | January | Bookouture |
| Daniel | Kraus | Blood Sugar | October | Hard Case Crime |
| Michael | Kurland | The Bells of Hell | August | Severn House |
| Alex | Lake | Seven Days | November | HarperFiction |
| Shari | Lapena | Someone We Know | July | Transworld |
| John | Larison | Whiskey When We're Dry | July | No Exit Press |
| J.S. | Lark | After You Fell | December | One More Chapter |
| Peter | Laws | Severed | January | Allison & Busby |
| Zoe | Lea | The Secretary | June | Piatkus |
| SA | Lelchuck | Save Me From Dangerous Men | March | Simon & Schuster |
| John | Lincoln | Fade to Grey | February | No Exit Press |
| Howard | Linskey | Ungentlemanly Warfare | June | No Exit Press |
| Laura | Lippman | The Lady in the Lake | July | Faber & Faber |
| Attica | Locke | Heaven, My Home | September | Serpent's Tail |
| Phoebe | Locke | The July Girls | June | Wildfire |
| Kate | London | Gallowstree Lane | February | Corvus |
| Melissa Scrivner | Love | American Heroin | February | Point Blank |
| James | Lovegrove | Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon | October | Titan Books |
| Mike | Lupica | Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud | November | No Exit Press |
| Lisa | Lutz | The Swallows | September | Titan Books |
| Carissa Ann | Lynch | Like Follow Kill | October | One More Chapter |
| S.E. | Lynes | The Women | May | Bookouture |
| Tara | Lyons | The Paramedic's Daughter | May | Bloodhound Books |
| Bonnie | MacBird | The Devil's Due | October | HarperFiction |
| Stuart | MacBride | All That's Dead | May | HarperFiction |
| Niki | Mackay | The Lies We Tell | March | Orion Fiction |
| Claire | MacLeary | Runaway | March | Contraband |
| Iain | Maitland | Mr Todd's Reckoning | April | Contraband |
| Dan | Malakin | The Regret | August | Bloodhound Books |
| Michael J. | Malone | In the Absence of Miracles | September | Orenda Books |
| Louise | Mangos | Her Husband's Secrets | June | HQ |
| Angela | Marsons | First Blood | November | Bookouture |
| Edward | Marston | Fear on the Phantom Special | October | Allison & Busby |
| Edward | Marston | The Unseen Hand | June | Allison & Busby |
| Faith | Martin | A Fatal Secret | September / November | HQ |
| Alex | Marwood | The Poison Garden | July | Sphere |
| Julie | Mayhew | Impossible Causes | October | Raven Books |
| Colette | McBeth | Call Me a Liar | April | Wildfire |
| Val | McDermid | How the Dead Speak | August | Little, Brown |
| Chris | McGeorge | Now You See Me | June | Orion Fiction |
| Mel | McGrath | The Guilty Party | March / June | HQ |
| Adrian | McKinty | The Chain | July | Orion Fiction |
| Felicity | McLean | The Van Apfel Girls are Gone | April | Point Blank |
| Ridpath | Michael | Launch Code | November | Corvus |
| Alex | Michaelides | The Silent Patient | February | Orion Fiction |
| Megan | Miranda | The Last House Guest | June | Corvus |
| Liz | Mistry | Last Request | October / December | HQ |
| Dread Say | Mitchell | Spare Room | January | Bloodhound Books |
| Catherine | Moloney | Crime in the Ballet | July | Joffe Books |
| Catherine | Moloney | Crime in the Gallery | October | Joffe Books |
| Nicola | Monaghan | Dead Flowers | September | Verve Books |
| Syd | Moore | Strange Tombs | April | Point Blank |
| Phoebe | Morgan | The Girl Next Door | February | HQ |
| Greta | Mulrooney | These Little Lies | November | Joffe Books |
| Oscar De | Muriel | The Darker Arts | August | Orion Fiction |
| Peter | Murphy | Judge Walden – Call the Next Case | July | No Exit Press |
| Guillaume | Musso | The Reunion | July | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Barbara | Nadel | A Knife to the Heart | May | Headline |
| Dominic | Nolan | Past Life | March | Headline |
| Lauren | North | The Perfect Betrayal | March | Transworld |
| Deborah | O'Donoghue | Sea of Bones | July | Legend Press |
| Darren | O'Sullivan | Closer Than You Think | March / May | HQ |
| Kristina | Ohlsson | The Flood | June | Simon & Schuster |
| Gregg | Olsen | Snow Creek | November | Bookouture |
| James | Oswald | Cold as the Grave | February | Wildfire |
| James | Oswald | Nothing to Hide | July | Wildfire |
| A.J. | Park | The First Lie | June | Orion Fiction |
| J. | Parker | The Dinner Party | October | One More Chapter |
| Alan | Parks | February's Son | January | Canongate Books |
| Ambrose | Parry | The Art of Dying | August | Canongate Books |
| Vikki | Patis | The Girl Across the Street | March | Bookouture |
| C.L. | Pattison | The Housemate | March | Headline |
| Chris | Pavone | The Paris Diversion | May | Faber & Faber |
| Louise | Penny | A Better Man | August | Sphere |
| Dana | Perry | The Silent Victim | November | Bookouture |
| S.W. | Perry | The Serpent’s Mark | June | Corvus |
| Laurie | Petrou | Sister of Mine | June | No Exit Press |
| Helen | Phifer | The Girl in the Grave | July | Bookouture |
| Henry | Porter | White Hot Silence | June | Quercus |
| Emma | Pullar | Paper Dolls | March | Bloodhound Books |
| Laura | Purcell | Bone China | September | Raven Books |
| Andrew | Pyper | The Homecoming | March | Simon & Schuster |
| C.S. | Quinn | The Bastille Spy | August | Corvus |
| Suzy | Quinn | Don't Tell Teacher | March / July | HQ |
| Caro | Ramsay | Mosaic | June | Severn House |
| Alex | Reeve | The Anarchists' Club | May | Raven Books |
| Lisa | Regan | The Bones She Buried | March | Bookouture |
| Rebecca | Reid | Perfect Liars | February | Transworld |
| Amanda | Reynolds | The Hidden Wife | March | Wildfire |
| Kate | Rhodes | Fatal Harmony | March | Bloodhound Books |
| Mary-Jane | Riley | Gone in the Night | May | One More Chapter |
| J.G. | Roberts | Little Girl Missing | June | Bookouture |
| Michael | Robotham | Good Girl, Bad Girl | July | Sphere |
| Karen | Rose | Into the Dark | November | Headline |
| Karen | Rose | Say You're Sorry | February | Headline |
| Craig | Russell | The Devil Aspect | March | Constable |
| Leigh | Russell | Deathly Affair | December | No Exit Press |
| Leigh | Russell | Rogue Killer | March | No Exit Press |
| Leigh | Russell | Suspicion | April | Bloodhound Books |
| Michael | Russell | The City in Flames | July | Constable |
| Jess | Ryder | The Dream House | June | Bookouture |
| James | Sallis | Sarah Jane | October | No Exit Press |
| D. | Sanders | The Victim | June | One More Chapter |
| Lesley | Sanderson | The Woman at 46 Heath Street | March | Bookouture |
| Rachel | Sargeant | The Roommates | October | HarperFiction |
| Robert | Scragg | Nothing Else Remains | March | Allison & Busby |
| Joanne | Sefton | The Guilty Friend | June | One More Chapter |
| V. | Seymour | Her Sister's Secret | July | One More Chapter |
| Lilja | Sigurdardottir | Cage | October | Orenda Books |
| Daniel | Silva | The New Girl | July | HarperFiction |
| Kate | Simants | Lock Me In | December | One More Chapter |
| K.L. | Slater | The Silent Ones | July | Bookouture |
| Karin | Slaughter | The Last Widow | June | HarperFiction |
| Anna | Smith | Fightback | May | Quercus |
| Graham | Smith | A Body in the Lakes | March | Bookouture |
| Sherri | Smith | The Retreat | August | Titan Books |
| L. | Smyth | Click | March | One More Chapter |
| Jo | Spain | Dirty Little Secrets | February | Quercus |
| Gunnar | Staalesen | Wolves at the Door | June | Orenda Books |
| Katherine | Stansfield | The Mermaid's Call | September | Allison & Busby |
| Joss | Stirling | The Silence | June | One More Chapter |
| Karen Lee | Street | Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead | May | Point Blank |
| Drew & Dylan | Struzan | A Bloody Business | April | Hard Case Crime |
| Peter | Swanson | Before She Knew Him | March | Faber & Faber |
| Vanda | Symon | The Ringmaster | April | Orenda Books |
| Maryla | Szymiczkowa | Mrs Mohr Goes Missing | March | Point Blank |
| Emma | Tallon | Fierce Girl | May | Bookouture |
| M. | Taylor | Innocent or Guilty? | September | One More Chapter |
| Andrew | Taylor | The King's Evil | April | HarperFiction |
| C.L. | Taylor | Sleep | April | Avon |
| Bev | Thomas | A Good Enough Mother | March | Faber & Faber |
| E.S. | Thomson | Surgeons' Hall | March | Constable |
| M.J. | Tjia | The Death of Me | October | Legend Press |
| Rebecca | Tope | The Grasmere Grudge | March | Allison & Busby |
| S.K. | Tremayne | The Assistant | December | HarperFiction |
| Lynne | Truss | The Man That Got Away | July | Raven Books |
| Antti | Tuomainen | Little Siberia | October | Orenda Books |
| Harriet | Tyce | Blood Orange | February | Wildfire |
| L.C. | Tyler | The Maltese Herring | July | Allison & Busby |
| Louise | Voss | The Last Stage | July | Orenda Books |
| AJ | Waine | Enemy at the Window | June | Bloodhound Books |
| Martin | Walker | The Body in the Castle Well | June | Quercus |
| Alex | Walters | Winterman | February | Bloodhound Books |
| Jacqueline | Ward | How to Play Dead | November | Corvus |
| Roz | Watkins | Dead Man's Daughter | April | HQ |
| Sue | Watson | The Empty Nest | November | Bookouture |
| Holly | Watt | To The Lions | February | Raven Books |
| Kerry | Watts | Her Missing Child | September | Bookouture |
| Camilla | Way | Who Killed Ruby? | May | HarperFiction |
| Anna-Lou | Weatherley | The Couple on Cedar Close | January | Bookouture |
| Ashley | Weaver | A Dangerous Engagement | September | Allison & Busby |
| Kate | Weinberg | The Truants | August | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Matt | Wesolowski | Changeling | January | Orenda Books |
| Christian | White | The Nowhere Child | January | HarperFiction |
| Kerry | Wilkinson | A Face in the Crowd | June | Bookouture |
| Lauren | Wilkinson | American Spy | February | Dialogue Books |
| Don | Winslow | The Border | February | HarperFiction |
| Jacqueline | Winspear | The American Agent | March | Allison & Busby |
| Carol | Wyer | The Dare | April | Bookouture |
| Dylan | Young | The Appointment | August | Bloodhound Books |
| First | Last | Title | Month | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ursula | Buchan | Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps | April | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| John | Curran | The Hooded Gunman | September | HarperCollins Crime Club |
| Barry | Forshaw | Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide | November | Oldcastle Books |
| First | Last | Title | Month | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heine | Bakkeid | I Will Miss You Tomorrow | November | Raven Books |
| M.C. | Beaton | Agatha Raisin: Beating About the Bush | October | Constable |
| William | Boyle | A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself | March | No Exit Press |
| P.J. | Brackston | Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints | June | Pegasus |
| Simon | Brett | Blotto, Twinks and the Great Road Race | October | Constable |
| Simon | Brett | Killer in the Choir | May | Severn House |
| Declan | Burke | The Lammisters | December | No Alibis Press |
| Stevyn | Colgan | The Diabolical Club | July | Unbound |
| Helen | Cox | A Body in the Bookshop | October | Quercus |
| Helen | Cox | Murder by the Minster | August | Quercus |
| Hannah | Dennison | Tidings of Death at Honeychurch Hall | November | Constable |
| T.P. | Fielden | Died and Gone to Devon | November | HQ |
| Helen | FitzGerald | Worst Case Scenario | May | Orenda Books |
| Christopher | Fowler | Bryant & May – The Lonely Hour | March | Transworld |
| T.E. | Kinsey | Death Beside the Seaside | October | Thomas & Mercer |
| T.E. | Kinsey | The Burning Issue of the Day | April | Thomas & Mercer |
| Asia | Mackay | The Nursery | September | Zaffre |
| Syd | Moore | Strange Tombs | May | Point Blank |
| Mandy | Morton | Beyond the Gravy | May | Farrago |
| Peter | Murphy | Judge Walden – Call the Next Case | July | No Exit Press |
| Jonathan | Pinnock | A Question of Trust | April | Farrago |
| Mike | Ripley | Mr Campion's Visit | June | Severn House |
| Isabel | Rogers | Life, Death and Cellos | January | Farrago |
| Lynne | Truss | The Man That Got Away | July | Raven Books |
| Antti | Tuomainen | Little Siberia | October | Orenda Books |
| L.C. | Tyler | The Maltese Herring | July | Allison & Busby |
SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD
| First | Last | Title | Month | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom | Benjamin | A Quiet Death in Italy | November | Constable (Little, Brown Book Group) |
| Greg | Chivers | The Crying Machine | February | HarperVoyager |
| Sherryl | Clark | Trust Me, I'm Dead | July | Verve Books |
| Stevyn | Colgan | The Diabolical Club | July | Unbound |
| Sara | Collins | The Confessions of Frannie Langton | April | Viking |
| C. J. | Cooper | The Book Club | May | Constable (Little, Brown Book Group) |
| Leona | Deakin | Gone | August | Transworld |
| James | Delargy | 55 | April | Simon & Schuster |
| Fiona | Erskine | The Chemical Detective | April | Point Blank |
| Trevor | Eve | Lomita For Ever | May | Unbound |
| Melanie | Golding | Little Darlings | May | HQ |
| Lisa | Gray | Thin Air | January | Thomas & Mercer |
| A.S. | Hatch | This Little Dark Place | October | Serpent's Tail |
| Katja | Ivar | Evil Things | January | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Carolyn | Kirby | The Conviction of Cora Burns | March | No Exit Press |
| Gaby | Koppel | Reparation | February | Honno Press |
| James von | Leyden | A Death in the Medina | August | Constable (Little, Brown Book Group) |
| Felicity | Maclean | The Van Apfel Girls are gone | June | Point Blank |
| Alex | Michaelides | The Silent Patient | February | Orion Fiction |
| Lauren | North | The Perfect Betrayal | March | Transworld |
| Deborah | O'Donoghue | Sea of Bones | July | Legend Press |
| J. P. | Pomare | Call Me Evie | April | Sphere (Little, Brown Book Group) |
| Rebecca | Reid | Perfect Liars | February | Transworld |
| Vanessa | Savage | The Woman in the Dark | January | Sphere (Little, Brown Book Group) |
| Victoria | Selman | Blood for Blood | January | Thomas & Mercer |
| Laura | Shepherd-Robinson | Blood & Sugar | January | Mantle |
| Adam | Southward | Trance | January | Thomas & Mercer |
| Madeline | Stevens | Devotion | August | Faber & Faber |
| Benjamin | Stevenson | She Lies in the Vines | July | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Bev | Thomas | A Good Enough Mother | April | Faber & Faber |
| Holly | Watt | To The Lions | February | Raven Books |
| Kate | Weinberg | The Truants | August | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| First | Last | Title | Month | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony | Horowitz | Alex Rider: Secret Weapon | Apil | Walker Books |
| Francesca | Armour-Chelu | Butterfly Circus | June | Walker Books |
| P.G. | Bell | The Great Brain Robbery | October | Usborne Publishing |
| Faye | Bird | My Secret Lies With You | June | Usborne Publishing |
| Vanessa | Curtis | The Stolen Ones | February | Usborne Publishing |
| Helena | Duggan | The Battle for Perfect | September | Usborne Publishing |
| Kathryn | Evans | Beauty Sleep | April | Usborne Publishing |
| Vivian | French | The Steam Whistle Theatre Company | February | Walker Books |
| Sophie | Green | Potkin and Stubbs | March | Bonnier Books UK |
| Elly | Griffiths | A Girl Called Justice | May | Quercus Children's Books |
| Samuel J. | Halpin | The Peculiar Peggs of Riddling Woods | January | Usborne Publishing |
| A.M. | Howell | The Garden of Lost Secrets | June | Usborne Publishing |
| Simon | Lelic | The Haven | February | Hodder Children's Books |
| Katharine | Orton | Nevertell | November | Walker Books |
| Danny | Rurlander | Spylark | August | Chicken House |
| Nickesh | Shukla | The Boxer | June | Hodder Children's Books |
| Sif | Sigmarsdóttir | Sharp Edge of a Snowflake | June | Hodder Children's Books |
| Thomas | Taylor | Malamander | May | Walker Books |
| Nicki | Thornton | The Bad Luck Lighthouse | July | Chicken House |
| Nick | Tomlinson | The Ghouls of Howlfair | October | Walker Books |
BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS
| First | Last | Title | Month | Imprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P.G. | Bell | The Great Brain Robbery | October | Usborne Publishing |
| Faye | Bird | My Secret Lies With You | June | Usborne Publishing |
| Vanessa | Curtis | The Stolen Ones | February | Usborne Publishing |
| Helena | Duggan | The Battle for Perfect | September | Usborne Publishing |
| Thomas | Enger | Inborn | February | Orenda Books |
| Kathryn | Evans | Beauty Sleep | April | Usborne Publishing |
| John | Grisham | Theodore Boone: The Accomplice | May | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Samuel J. | Halpin | The Peculiar Peggs of Riddling Woods | January | Usborne Publishing |
| John | Harvey | Blue Watch: London Under Fire | Ocotber | Troika |
| A.M. | Howell | The Garden of Lost Secrets | June | Usborne Publishing |
| Dick | Lehr | Nothing But the Truth | January | Walker Books |
| Simon | Mason | Hey Sherlock! | September | David Fickling Books |
| Tom | Pollock | Heartstream | July | Walker Books |
| Nickesh | Shukla | The Boxer | June | Hodder Children's Books |
| Sif | Sigmarsdóttir | Sharp Edge of a Snowflake | June | Hodder Children's Books |