2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 & 2008
2024:
Specsavers Crime Fiction Debut Award nominees:
– Stig Abell for Death Under a Little Sky (Hemlock Press/HarperCollins) – WINNER!
– Jo Callaghan for In The Blink Of An Eye (Simon & Schuster)
– Megan Davis for The Messenger (Zaffre)
– Jenny Lund Madsen for Thirty Days of Darkness; translated by Megan Turney (Orenda Books)
– Natalie Marlow for Needless Alley (Baskerville)
– Alice Slater for Death of a Bookseller (Hodder & Stoughton)
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Rachel Abbott for Don’t Look Away (Wildfire)
– Jane Casey for The Close (HarperCollins)
– Martin Edwards for Sepulchre Street (Head of Zeus)
– Christina Koning for Murder at Bletchley Park (Allison & Busby)
– Laura Lippman for Prom Mom (Faber & Faber) – WINNER!
– Craig Russell for The Devil’s Playground (Constable)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Mark Billingham for The Last Dance (Sphere)
– Elly Griffiths for The Great Deceiver (Quercus)
– Mick Herron for The Secret Hours (Baskerville) – WINNER!
– Mike Ripley for Mr Campion’s Memory (Severn House)
– Jesse Sutanto for Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (HQ)
– Antti Tuomianen for The Beaver Theory (Orenda Books)
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– M, J, F & A Dall’Asta, Migozzi, Pagello & Pepper for Contemporary European Crime Fiction: Representing History and Politics (Palgrave)
– Lisa Hopkins for Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction (Palgrave)
– Kate Jackson for How To Survive a Classic Crime Novel (British Library Publishing)
– Steven Powell for Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy (Bloomsbury Academic)
– Nicholas Shakespeare for Ian Fleming: The Complete Man (Harvill Secker)
– Adam Sisman for The Secret Life of John Le Carré (Profile Books) – WINNER!
Thalia Proctor Memorial Award for Best Adapted TV Crime Drama nominees:
– Dalgliesh (series 2), based on the Inspector Dalgliesh books by P.D. James (Channel 5)
– Reacher (series 2), based on the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child (Amazon Prime)
– Shetland (series 8), based on the Shetland books by Ann Cleeves (BBC)
– Slow Horses (series 3), based on the Slough House books by Mick Herron (Apple) – WINNER!
– The Serial Killer’s Wife, based on the Serial Killer books by Alice Hunter (Paramount+)
– Vera (series 12), based on the Vera Stanhope books by Ann Cleeves (ITV)
Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8-12):
– A.M. Howell for Mysteries At Sea: Peril On The Atlantic (Usborne Publishing)
– Lis Jardine for The Detention Detectives (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
– Beth Lincoln for The Swifts (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
– Marcus Rashford (with Alex Falase-Koya) for The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Ghoul in the School (Macmillan Children’s Books)
– Robin Stevens for The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
– J.T. Williams for The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Portraits and Poison, illustrated by Simone Douglas (Farshore) – WINNER!
Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (ages 12-16):
– Jennifer Lynn Barnes for The Brothers Hawthorne (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
– Nick Brooks for Promise Boys (Macmillan Children’s Books)
– Ravena Guron for This Book Kills (Usborne Publishing)
– Ravena Guron for Catch Your Death (Usborne Publishing)
– Karen M. McManus for One of Us is Back (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
– Elizabeth Wein for Stateless (Bloomsbury YA) – WINNER!
2023:
Specsavers Crime Fiction Debut Award nominees:
– Amen Alonge for A Good Day to Die (Quercus)
– Graham Bartlett for Bad for Good (Allison & Busby)
– Nita Prose for The Maid (HarperCollins)
– Oriana Rammuno (translator: Katherine Gregor) for Ashes in the Snow (HarperCollins)
– Joachim B. Schmidt (translator: Jamie Lee Searle) for Kalmann (Bitter Lemon)
– Hayley Scrivenor for Dirt Town (Macmillan)
– John Sutherland for The Siege (Orion Fiction)
– Stacy Willingham for A Flicker in the Dark (HarperCollins) – WINNER!
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Chris Brookmyre for The Cliff House (Abacus)
– Michael Connelly for Desert Star (Orion Fiction)
– M.W. Craven for The Botanist (Constable)
– Sara Gran for The Book of the Most Precious Substance (Faber & Faber) – WINNER!
– Ian Rankin for A Heart Full of Headstones (Orion Fiction)
– Peter Swanson for Nine Lives (Faber & Faber)
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– J.C. Bernthal & Mary Anna Evans for The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie (Bloomsbury Academic)
– John le Carré (edited by Tim Cornwell) for A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 (Viking)
– Martin Edwards for The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators (Collins Crime Club) – WINNER!
– Barry Forshaw for Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films (Oldcastle Books)
– Sian MacArthur for Gender Roles and Political Contexts in Cold War Spy Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Lucy Worsley for Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (Hodder & Stoughton)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May’s Peculiar London (Doubleday) – WINNER!
– Elly Griffiths for The Locked Room (Quercus)
– Mick Herron for Bad Actors (Baskerville)
– Cara Hunter for Hope to Die (Viking)
– Mike Ripley for Mr Campion’s Mosaic (Severn House)
– Antti Tuomainen for The Moose Paradox (Orenda Books)
Thalia Proctor Memorial Award for Best Adapted TV Crime Drama nominees:
– Babylon Berlin (series 4), based on the books by Volker Kutscher. Produced by X-Filme Creative Pool, ARD Degeto Film, Beta Film, Sky Deutschland, Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Shown on Sky Atlantic.
– Grace (series 2), based on the books by Peter James. Produced by ITV Studios. Shown on ITV.
– Karin Pirie, based on the books by Val McDermid. Produced by ITV Studios. Shown on ITV.
– Magpie Murders, based on the books by Anthony Horowitz. Produced by Britbox and Eleventh Hour Films. Shown on BritBox.
– Reacher, based on the books by Lee Child. Produced by Amazon Studios, Blackjack Films, Paramount Television, and Skydance Television. Shown on Amazon Prime.
– Shetland (season 7), based on the books by Ann Cleeves. Produced by Silverprint Pictures. Shown on BBC.
– Slow Horses (seasons 1 & 2), based on the books by Mick Herron. Produced by See-Saw. Shown on Apple TV+. – WINNER!
– Vienna Blood (season 3), based on the books by Frank Tallis. Produced by Endor Productions, Seven.One Studios. Shown on BBC.
Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8-12):
– Elly Griffiths for A Girl Called Justice: The Spy at the Window (Quercus Children’s Books)
– Anthony Horowitz for Where Seagulls Dare: A Diamond Brothers Case (Walker Books)
– Sharna Jackson for The Good Turn (Puffin) – WINNER!
– M.G. Leonard for Spark (Walker Books)
– Robin Stevens for The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (Puffin)
– Sarah Todd Taylor for Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble (Nosy Crow)
Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (ages 12-16):
– Holly Jackson for Five Survive (Electric Monkey) – WINNER!
– Patrice Lawrence for Needle (Barrington Stoke)
– Finn Longman for The Butterfly Assassin (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
– Sophie McKenzie for Truth or Dare (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
– Ruta Sepetys for I Must Betray You (Hodder Children’s Books)
– Jonathan Stroud for The Notorious Scarlett and Browne (Walker Books)
2022:
Specsavers Crime Fiction Debut Award nominees:
– Abigail Dean for Girl A (HarperCollins)
– Janice Hallett for The Appeal (Viper)
– Saima Mir for The Khan (Point Blank)
– Rahul Raina for How to Kidnap the Rich (Abacus)
– Lara Thompson for One Night, New York (Virago)
– David Heska Wanbli Weiden for Winter Counts (Simon & Schuster) – WINNER!
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Lee and Andrew Child for Better Off Dead, reader Jeff Harding (Penguin Random House Audio)
– Abigail Dean for Girl A, reader Holliday Grainger (HarperFiction)
– Paula Hawkins for Slow Fire Burning, reader Rosamund Pike (Penguin Random House Audio)
– Lisa Jewell for The Night She Disappeared, reader Joanna Froggatt (Penguin Random House Audio)
– Liane Moriarty for Apples Never Fall, reader Caroline Lee (Penguin Random House Audio)
– Richard Osman for The Man Who Died Twice, reader Lesley Manville (Penguin Random House Audio) – WINNER!
– K.L. Slater for The Marriage, reader Lucy Price-Lewis (Audible Studios / Bookouture)
– Karin Slaughter for False Witness, reader Kathleen Early (HarperCollins)
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Megan Abbott for The Turnout (Virago)
– Gianrico Carofiglio for The Measure of Time (Bitter Lemon Press)
– Michael Connelly for The Dark Hours (Orion Fiction)
– Abigail Dean for Girl A (HarperCollins) – WINNER!
– Cath Staincliffe for Running Out of Road (Constable)
– Andrew Taylor for The Royal Secret (HarperCollins)
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– Lucy Andrews & Samuel Saunders (editors) for The Detective’s Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Richard Bradford for Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith (Bloomsbury Caravel)
– James Fleming (editor) for Bond Behind the Iron Curtain (The Book Collector)
– Patricia Highsmith (edited by Anna von Planta) for Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) – WINNER!
– Carla Valentine for Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Stephen James Walker for Hank Janson Under Cover (Telos Publishing Ltd)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Simon Brett for An Untidy Death (Severn House)
– Andrea Camilleri for Riccardino (Mantle)
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May: London Bridge is Falling Down (Doubleday)
– Janice Hallett for The Appeal (Viper)
– Mick Herron for Slough House (Baskerville) – WINNER!
– Antti Tuomainen for The Rabbit Factor (Orenda Books)
Best Adapted TV Crime Drama Award nominees:
– Agatha Raisin (season 4), based on the books by M.C. Beaton. Produced by Free@Last TV. Shown on Sky.
– Alex Rider (season 2), based on the book by Anthony Horowitz. Produced by Eleventh Hour Films in association with Sony Pictures Television. Shown on Amazon Prime.
– Dalgliesh, based on the books by P.D. James. Produced by New Pictures. Shown on Channel 5.
– Grantchester (season 6), based on the books by James Runcie. Produced by Kudos. Shown on ITV.
– Shetland (season 6), based on the books by Ann Cleeves. Produced by Silverprint Pictures, part of ITV Studios. Shown on BBC1. – WINNER!
– Stieg Larsson’s Millennium, based on the books by Stieg Larsson. Produced by Yellow Bird. Shown on BBC4.
– The Flight Attendant, based on the book by Chris Bohjalian. Produced by Berlanti Productions and Yes, Norman Productions. Shown on Sky.
– Vera (season 11 – episodes 1&2/3&4), based on the books by Ann Cleeves. Produced by ITV Studios. Shown on ITV.
Nominees for the CrimeFest Award for Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8-12):
– Frank Cottrell-Boyce for Noah’s Gold (Macmillan Children’s Books)
– Maz Evans for VI Spy: Licence to Chill (Chicken House)
– Anthony Horowitz for Nightshade (Walker Books)
– Anthony Kessel for The Five Clues (Crown House Publishing)
– Jennifer Killick for Crater Lake Evolution (Firefly Press)
– M.G. Leonard for Twitch (Walker Books) – WINNER!
– Alexandra Page (illustrator: Penny Neville-Lee) for Wishyouwas (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
– Ella Risbridger for The Secret Detectives (Nosy Crow)
Nominees for the CrimeFest Award for Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (ages 12-16):
– Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé for Ace of Spades (Usborne Publishing)
– Angeline Boulley for Firekeeper’s Daughter (Rock the Boat) – WINNER!
– Andreina Cordani for The Girl Who… (Atom)
– William Hussey for The Outrage (Usborne Publishing)
– Holly Jackson for As Good As Dead (Electric Monkey)
– Patrice Lawrence for Splinters of Sunshine (Hodder Children’s Books)
– Jonathan Stroud for The Outlaws of Scarlett & Browne (Walker Books)
– C.L. Taylor for The Island (HQ)
2021:
Specsavers Crime Fiction Debut Award nominees:
– Eva Björg Aegisdóttir for The Creak on the Stairs (Orenda Books)
– Marion Brunet for Summer of Reckoning (Bitter Lemon Press)
– Robin Morgan-Bentley for The Wreckage (Trapeze)
– Richard Osman for The Thursday Murder Club (Viking)
– Mara Timon for City of Spies (Zaffre)
– Trevor Wood for The Man on the Street (Quercus) – WINNER!
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Lee & Andrew Child for The Sentinel, reader Jeff Harding (Transworld)
– Lucy Foley for The Guest List, readers Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Chloe Massey, Sarah Ovens, Rich Keeble & Jot Davies (HarperFiction)
– Robert Galbraith for Troubled Blood, reader Robert Glenister (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Anthony Horowitz for Moonflower Murders, readers Lesley Manville & Allan Corduner (Penguin Random House Audio)
– Peter James for Find Them Dead, reader Daniel Weyman (Pan Macmillan)
– Lisa Jewell for Invisible Girl, reader Donna Banya, Rebekah Staton & Connor Swindells (Penguin Random House Audio)
– Lynda La Plante for Buried, readers Alex Hassell & Annie Aldington (Zaffre)
– T. M. Logan for The Catch, reader Philip Stevens (Zaffre)
– Richard Osman for The Thursday Murder Club, reader Lesley Manville (Viking) – WINNER!
– Ian Rankin for A Song for the Dark Times, reader James Macpherson (Orion)
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Gabriel Bergmoser for The Hunted (Faber)
– Sharon Bolton for The Split (Trapeze)
– J. P. Carter for Little Boy Lost (Avon)
– Steve Cavanagh for Fifty-Fifty (Orion Fiction)
– Michael Connelly for Fair Warning (Orion Fiction)
– James Lee Burke for A Private Cathedral (Orion Fiction)
– Ian Rankin for A Song for the Dark Times (Orion Fiction) – WINNER!
– Holly Watt for The Dead Line (Raven Books)
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– Mark Aldridge for Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World (HarperCollins)
– Martin Edwards (editor) for Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club (Collins Crime Club) – WINNER!
– Colin Larkin for Cover Me: The Vintage Art of Pan Books: 1950-1965 (Telos Publishing)
– Andrew Lycett for Conan Doyle’s Wide World (Tauris Parke)
– Heather Martin for The Reacher Guy (Constable)
– Sheila Mitchell for H. R. F. Keating: A Life of Crime (Level Best Books)
– Craig Sisterson for Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand (Oldcastle Books)
– Peter Temple for The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish (riverrun)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Ben Aaronovitch for False Value (Gollancz)
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May – Oranges and Lemons (Doubleday)
– Elly Griffiths for The Postscript Murders (Quercus)
– Carl Hiaasen for Squeeze Me (Sphere) – WINNER!
– Richard Osman for The Thursday Murder Club (Viking)
– Malcolm Pryce for The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Bloomsbury Publishing)
– Khurrum Rahman for Ride or Die (HQ)
– Olga Wojtas for Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Vampire Menace (Contraband)
Nominees for the CrimeFest Award for Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8-12):
– Sophie Deen for Agent Asha: Mission Shark Bytes (Walker Books)
– Elly Griffiths for A Girl Called Justice – The Smugglers’ Secret (Quercus Children’s Group)
– Anthony Horowitz for Nightshade (Walker Books)
– Jack Noel for My Headteacher is an Evil Genius (Walker Books)
– Serena Patel for Anisha, Accidental Detective (Usborne Publishing) – WINNER!
– Serena Patel for School’s Cancelled (Usborne Publishing)
– Onjali Q. Rauf for The Night Bus Hero (Orion Children’s Group)
– Dave Shelton for The Pencil Case (David Fickling Books)
Nominees for the CrimeFest Award for Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (ages 12-16):
– William Hussey for Hideous Beauty (Usborne Publishing)
– Lauren James for The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker (Walker Books)
– Matt Killeen for Devil Darling Spy (Usborne Publishing)
– Patrice Lawrence for Eight Pieces of Silva (Hodder Children’s Group) – WINNER!
– Simon Lelic for Deadfall (Hodder Children’s Group)
– Robert Muchamore for Hacking, Heists & Flaming Arrows (Hot Key Books)
– Patrick Ness for Burn (Walker Books)
– Nancy Springer for The Case of the Missing Marquess (Hot Key Books)
2020:
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!
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)
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)
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)
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)
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!
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)
2019:
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)
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)
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)
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!
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)
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)
2018:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Fiona Barton, The Child (Audible Studios), read by Clare Corbett, Adjoa Andoh, Finty Williams, Fenella Woolgar & Steven Pacey
– Lee Child, The Midnight Line (Transworld), read by Jeff Harding
– J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before (Quercus), read by Emilia Fox, Finty Williams & Lise Aagaard Knudsen – WINNER!
– Sarah A. Denzil, Silent Child (Audible Studios), read by Joanne Froggatt
– Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie (HQ – Harper Collins), read by Stephanie Racine
– Michelle Frances, The Girlfriend (Pan Macmillan Audio), read by Antonia Beamish
– Anthony Horowitz, The Word is Murder (Penguin Random House Audio), read by Rory Kinnear
– David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Quercus), read by Saul Reichlin
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Chris Brookmyre, Want You Gone (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Ken Bruen, The Ghosts of Galway (Head of Zeus)
– Michael Connelly, The Late Show (Orion) – WINNER!
– Joe Ide, IQ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
– Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Steve Mosby, You Can Run (Orion)
– Gunnar Staalesen, Wolves in the Dark (Orenda Books)
– Sarah Stovell, Exquisite (Orenda Books)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Simon Brett, Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the Silver Screen (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May – Wild Chamber (Doubleday)
– Mick Herron, Spook Street (John Murray) – WINNER!
– Vaseem Khan, The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star (Mullholland Books)
– Khurrum Rahman, East of Hounslow (HQ – HarperCollns)
– C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea (HQ – HarperCollins)
– Antti Tuomainen, The Man Who Died (Orenda Books)
– L.C. Tyler, Herring in the Smoke (Allison & Busby Ltd)
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– Martin Edwards, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library)
– Barry Forshaw, American Noir (No Exit Press)
– Sam Naidu, Sherlock Holmes in Context (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Benjamin Poore, Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Mike Ripley, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (HarperCollins) – WINNER!
– Christopher Sandford, The Man Who Would Be Sherlock (The History Press)
– Michael Sims, Arthur & Sherlock (Bloomsbury)
– Nick Triplow, Getting Carter (No Exit Press)
Best Crime Novel for Children nominees:
– Linwood Barclay, Chase (Orion Children’s Books)
– Kieran Crowley, The Misfits Club (Macmillan Children’s Books)
– Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect (Usborne Publishing) – WINNER!
– Santa & Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Royal Rabbits of London: Escape from the Tower (Simon & Schuster)
– Dermot O’Leary, Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape (Hodder Children’s Books)
– Alex T. Smith, Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure (Hodder Children’s Books)
– Harriet Whitehorn, Violet and the Mummy Mystery (Simon & Schuster)
Best Crime Novel for Young Adults nominees:
– Cat Clarke, Girlhood (Quercus Children’s Books)
– Zana Fraillon, The Ones That Disappeared (Orion Children’s Books)
– Will Hill, After the Fire (Usborne Publishing)
– Patrice Lawrence, Indigo Donut (Hodder Children’s Books) – WINNER!
– E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud (Hot Key Books)
– Sophie McKenzie, SweetFreak (Simon & Schuster)
– Teri Terry, Dark Matter: Contagion (Orchard Books)
– Teresa Toten, Beware That Girl (Hot Key Books)
2017:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Ben Aaronovitch for The Hanging Tree, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion Publishing Group)
– Rachel Abbott for Kill Me Again, read by Lisa Coleman (Audible / Bolinda)
– Fiona Barton for The Widow, read by Clare Corbett (Audible / Bolinda)
– Lee Child for Night School, read by Jeff Harding (Transworld Digital / Soundings)
– Anthony Horowitz for Magpie Murders, read by Allan Corduner & Samantha Bond (Orion Publishing Group)
– Clare Mackintosh for I See You, read by Rachel Atkins (Hachette Audio / Isis) – WINNER!
– Peter May for Coffin Road, read by Peter Forbes (Riverrun / Jammer)
– Holly Seddon for Try Not to Breathe, read by Jot Davies, Lucy Middleweek & Katy Sobey (Bolinda)
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Linwood Barclay for The Twenty-Three (Orion Publishing Group)
– Steph Broadribb for Deep Down Dead (Orenda Books)
– Michael Connelly for The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Orion Publishing Group)
– Ragnar Jonasson for Blackout (Orenda Books)
– Laura Lippman for Wilde Lake (Faber & Faber) – WINNER!
– Ian Rankin for Rather Be the Devil (Orion Publishing Group)
– Andrew Taylor for The Ashes of London (HarperFiction)
– L.C. Tyler for Cat Among the Herrings (Allison & Busby)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Ken Bruen & Jason Starr for PIMP (Hardcase Crime)
– John Dufresne for I Don’t Like Where This Is Going (Serpent’s Tail)
– Judith Flanders for A Cast of Vultures (Allison & Busby)
– Mick Herron for Real Tigers (John Murray) – WINNER!
– Carl Hiaasen for Razor Girl (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Vaseem Khan for The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Hodder & Stoughton)
– L.C. Tyler for Cat Among the Herrings (Allison & Busby)
– Chris Whitaker for Tall Oaks (Twenty7)
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– Mark Aldridge for Agatha Christie on Screen (Palgrave Macmillan)
– J.C. Berthnal for Queering Agatha Christie (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Barry Forshaw for Brit Noir (No Exit Press) – WINNER!
– Rachel Franks & Alistair Rolls for Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator (Intellect)
– Katharina Hall for Crime Fiction in German: Der Krimi (University of Wales Press)
– Megan Hoffman for Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Elizabeth Mannion for The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel (Palgrave Macmillan)
Best Crime Novel for Children nominees:
– Lyn Gardner for Rose Campion and The Stolen Secret (Nosy Crow)
– Fleur Hitchcock for Murder In Midwinter (Nosy Crow)
– Gareth P. Jones for The Thornthwaite Betrayal (Piccadilly Press)
– Tom McLaughlin for The Accidental Secret Agent (Oxford University Press)
– Robin Stevens for Murder Most Unladylike: Jolly Foul Play (Puffin)
– Robin Stevens for Murder Most Unladylike: Mistletoe and Murder (Puffin) – WINNER!
– Harriet Whitehorn for Violet and the Smugglers (Simon & Schuster)
– Katherine Woodfine for The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth (Egmont)
Best Crime Novel for Young Adults nominees:
– Leigh Bardugo for Crooked Kingdom (Hachette Children’s Group)
– Kerry Drewery for Cell 7 (Hot Key Books)
– John Grisham for Theodore Boone: The Scandal (Hodder & Stoughton)
– Erin Lange for Rebel, Bully, Geek, Pariah (Faber & Faber)
– Patrice Lawrence for Orangeboy (Hachette Children’s Group)
– Simon Mason for Kid Got Shot (David Fickling Books) – WINNER!
– Simon Mayo for Blame (Penguin)
– Eliza Wass for In The Dark, In The Woods (Hachette Children’s Group)
2016:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Rachel Abbott for Sleep Tight, read by Melody Grove & Andrew Wincott (Whole Story Audiobooks)
– Lee Child for Make Me, read by Jeff Harding (Random House Audiobooks)
– Harlan Coben for The Stranger, read by Eric Meyers (Orion Publishing Group)
– Robert Galbraith for Career of Evil, read by Robert Glenister (Hachette Audio UK)
– Paula Hawkins for The Girl on the Train, read by Clare Corbett, India Fisher & Louise Brealey (Random House Audiobooks) – WINNER!
– Stephen King for Finders Keepers, read by Will Patton (Hodder & Stoughton)
– David Lagercrantz for The Girl in the Spider’s Web, translated by George Goulding and read by Saul Reichlin (Quercus)
– Clare Mackintosh for I Let You Go, read by David Thorpe & Julia Barrie (Hachette Audio)
– Ian Rankin for Even Dogs in the Wild, read by James Macpherson (Orion Publishing Group)
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Linwood Barclay for Broken Promise (Orion Publishing Group)
– Michael Connelly for The Crossing (Orion Publishing Group) – WINNER!
– Judith Flanders for A Bed of Scorpions (Allison & Busby)
– Suzette A. Hill for A Southwold Mystery (Allison & Busby)
– Laurie R. King for Dreaming Spies (Allison & Busby)
– Jax Miller for Freedom’s Child (HarperCollins)
– Denise Mina for Blood, Salt, Water (Orion Publishing Group)
– Andrew Taylor for The Silent Boy (HarperCollins)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Sascha Arango for The Truth and Other Lies (Simon & Schuster)
– Alan Bradley for As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Orion Publishing Group)
– Simon Brett for Mrs Pargeter’s Principle (Severn House Publishing)
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May and the Burning Man (Transworld) – WINNER!
– Elly Griffiths for Smoke and Mirrors (Quercus)
– Malcolm Pryce for The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ Celeste (Bloomsbury)
– Mike Ripley for Mr Campion’s Fox (Severn House Publishing)
– Jason Starr for Savage Lane (No Exit Press)
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– David Stuart Davies & Barry Forshaw for The Sherlock Holmes Book (Dorling Kindersley)
– Martin Edwards for The Golden Age of Murder (HarperCollins) – WINNER!
– Fergus Fleming for The Man With the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters (Bloomsbury)
– Barry Forshaw for Crime Uncovered: Detective (Intellect)
– Julius Green for Curtain Up: Agatha Christie – A Life in Theatre (HarperCollins)
– Maysam Hasam Jaber for Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan)
– Fiona Peters & Rebecca Stewart for Crime Uncovered: Anti-hero (Intellect)
– Adam Sisman for John le Carré: The Biography (Bloomsbury)
2015:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Ben Aaronovitch for Foxglove Summer, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion Publishing Group)
– Lee Child for Personal, read by Jeff Harding (Penguin Random House Audio & Soundings)
– Robert Galbraith for The Silkworm, read by Robert Glenister (Little, Brown Book Group) – WINNER!
– Anthony Horowitz for Moriarty, read by Derek Jacobi & Julian Rhind-Tutt (Orion Publishing Group)
– Peter James for Want You Dead, read by Daniel Weyman (Macmillan Digital Audio)
– Stephen King for Mr Mercedes, read by Will Patton (Hodder & Stoughton)
– Jo Nesbø for The Son, read by Sean Barrett (Penguin Random House Audio & Isis Publishing)
– James Oswald for The Hangman’s Song, read by Ian Hanmore (Penguin Random House Audio)
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Linwood Barclay for No Safe House (Orion Publishing Group)
– Lawrence Block for The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (Orion Publishing Group)
– Charles Cumming for A Colder War (HarperCollins) – WINNER!
– Chris Ewan for Dark Tides (Faber & Faber)
– Greg Illes for Natchez Burning (HarperCollins)
– Thomas Mogford for Hollow Mountain (Bloomsbury)
– Thomas Sweterlitsch for Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Headline)
– Andrew Taylor for The Silent Boy (HarperCollins)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Lawrence Block for The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (Orion Publishing Group)
– Declan Burke for Crime Always Pays (Severn House Publishers)
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart (Bantam/Transworld)
– Shane Kuhn for Kill Your Boss (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Chris Pavone for The Accident (Faber & Faber)
– L. C. Tyler for Crooked Herring (Allison & Busby) – WINNER!
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– Pamela Bedore for Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (Palgrave 2013)
– Clare Clarke for Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (Palgrave, 2014) – WINNER!
– Barry Forshaw for Nordic Noir (Pocket Essentials, 2013)
– Barry Forshaw for Euro Noir (No Exit Press, 2014)
– John Martin for Crime Scene: Britain & Ireland (Five Leaves, 2014)
– Lucy Worsley for A Very British Murder (BBC Books, 2013)
2014:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Ben Aaronovitch for Broken Homes, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion Audio)
– John le Carré for A Delicate Truth, read by John le Carré (Penguin)
– Robert Galbraith for The Cuckoo’s Calling, read by Robert Glenister (Hachette Audio) – WINNER!
– Peter James for Dead Man’s Time, read by Daniel Weyman (Macmillan Audio)
– Peter May for The Chessmen, read by Peter Forbes (Quercus)
– James Oswald for Natural Causes, read by Ian Hanmore (Penguin)
eDunnit Award nominees:
– A.K. Benedict for The Beauty of Murder (Orion)
– Thomas H. Cook for Sandrine (Head of Zeus)
– Sara Gran for Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway (Faber and Faber)
– Elizabeth Haynes for Under a Silent Moon (Sphere)
– Val McDermid for Cross and Burn (Sphere)
– Derek B. Miller for Norwegian by Night (Faber and Faber) – WINNER!
– Denise Mina for The Red Road (Orion)
– Thomas Mogford for Sign of the Cross (Bloomsbury)
– George Pelecanos for The Double (Orion)
– Anne Zouroudi for The Feast of Artemis (Bloomsbury)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Colin Bateman for Fire and Brimstone (Headline)
– Alan Bradley for Speaking from Among the Bones (Orion)
– Colin Cotterill for The Axe Factor (Quercus)
– Shamini Flint for A Calamitous Chinese Killing (Little, Brown)
– Carl Hiaasen for Bad Monkey (Little, Brown)
– Suzette A. Hill for A Little Murder (Allison & Busby)
– Derek B. Miller for Norwegian by Night (Faber and Faber) – WINNER!
– Teresa Solana for The Sound of One Hand Killing (Bitter Lemon Press)
2013:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Michael Connelly for The Black Box read by Michael McConnohie (Orion Audio)
– John Grisham for The Racketeer read by J.D. Jackson (Hodder & Stoughton)
– Peter May for The Lewis Man read by Peter Forbes (Quercus)
– Jo Nesbø for Phantom read by Sean Barrett (Random House with Isis Publishing)
– Ian Rankin for Standing In Another Man’s Grave read by James MacPherson (Orion Audio) – WINNER!
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Andrea Camilleri for The Age of Doubt (Mantle, Macmillan)
– Ruth Dudley Edwards for Killing The Emperors (Allison & Busby)
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May and the Invisible Code (Transworld) – WINNER!
– C.J. Sansom for Dominion (Mantle, Macmillan)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Colin Bateman for The Prisoner of Brenda (Headline)
– Simon Brett for The Corpse on the Court (Severn House)
– Declan Burke for Slaughter’s Hound (Liberties Press)
– Ruth Dudley Edwards for Killing The Emperors (Allison & Busby) – WINNER!
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May and the Invisible Code (Doubleday, Transworld)
– Hesh Kestin for The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats (Mulholland Books, Hodder & Stoughton)
H.R.F. Keating Award nominees:
– Declan Burke & John Connolly for Books to Die For (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012)
– John Curran for Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks (HarperCollins, 2009)
– Barry Forshaw (editor) for British Crime Writing: an Encyclopaedia (Greenwood World Publishing, 2008) – WINNER!
– Christopher Fowler for Invisible Ink (Strange Attractor, 2012)
– Maxim Jakubowski (editor) for Following the Detectives (New Holland Publishers, 2010)
– P.D. James for Talking about Detective Fiction (The Bodleian Library, 2009)
2012:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
Nominees for Best Abridged Crime Audiobook:
– Lee Child for The Affair, read by Kerry Shale (Random House Audiobooks) – WINNER!
– James Henry for First Frost, read by David Jason (Random House Audiobooks)
– Simon Kernick for The Payback, read by Daniel Weyman (Random House Audiobooks)
– Donna Leon for Drawing Conclusions, read by Andrew Sachs (Random House Audiobooks)
– Alexander McCall Smith for The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, read by Adjoa Andoh (Hachette Digital)
Nominees for Best Unabridged Crime Audiobook:
– Ben Aaronovitch for Rivers of London, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion Audio with Isis Publishing)
– Michael Connelly for The Fifth Witness, read by Peter Giles (Orion Audio)
– David Hewson for The Fallen Angel, read by Saul Reichlin (Whole Story Audio Books)
– Anthony Horowitz for The House of Silk, read by Derek Jacobi (Orion Audio)
– S. J. Watson for Before I Go To Sleep, read by Susannah Harker (Random House Audio with AudioGO) – WINNER!
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Linwood Barclay for The Accident (Orion)
– Thomas Enger for Burned (Faber and Faber)
– Dennis Lehane for Moonlight Mile (Little, Brown Book Group)
– Adrian Magson for Death on the Rive Nord (Allison & Busby)
– Denise Mina for The End of the Wasp Season (Orion) – WINNER!
– Steve Mosby for Black Flowers (Orion)
– George Pelecanos for The Cut (Orion)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Declan Burke for Absolute Zero Cool (Liberties Press) – WINNER!
– Colin Cotterill for Killed at the Whim of a Hat (Quercus)
– Chris Ewan for The Good Thief’s Guide to Venice (Simon & Schuster)
– Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood (Doubleday)
– Carl Hiaasen for Star Island (Sphere)
– Doug Johnstone for Smokeheads (Faber and Faber)
– Elmore Leonard for Djibouti (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
– L.C. Tyler for Herring on the Nile (Macmillan)
2011:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
Nominees for Best Abridged Crime Audiobook:
– Linwood Barclay for Fear the Worst, read by Jeff Harding, abridged by Elsbeth McPherson (Orion)
– Lee Child for Worth Dying For, read by Kerry Shale, abridged by Carolanne Lyme (Random House)
– Michael Connelly for The Reversal, read by Michael Brandon, abridged by Kati Nicholl (Orion)
– Peter James for Dead Like You, read by William Gaminara, abridged by Kati Nicholl (Macmillan)
– John Le Carré for Our Kind of Traitor, read by John Le Carré, abridged by Peter Mackie (AudioGO) – WINNER!
– Kathy Reichs for Mortal Remains, read by Linda Emond, abridged by Jan Werner (Random House)
– C. J. Sansom for Heartstone, read by Anton Lesser, abridged by Kati Nicholl (Macmillan)
Nominees for Best Unabridged Crime Audiobook:
– Linwood Barclay for Fear the Worst, read by Buck Schirner (Orion)
– Harland Coben for Caught, read by Christopher Evan Welch (Whole Story Audio Books)
– Michael Connelly for The Reversal, read by Peter Giles (Orion)
– Lindsey Davis for Nemesis, read by Christian Rodska (AudioGO)
– Jeffery Deaver for Edge, read by Skipp Sudduth (Whole Story Audio Books)
– Peter James for Dead Like You, read by David Bauckham (Whole Story Audio Books) – WINNER!
eDunnit Award nominees:
-Alan Furst – Spies of the Balkans (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
-Sophie Hannah – A Room Swept White (Hodder & Stoughton)
-Philip Kerr – Field Grey (Quercus) – WINNER!
-Michael Ridpath – Where the Shadows Lie (Corvus)
-CJ Sansom – Heartstone (Mantle)
-Andrew Taylor – The Anatomy of Ghosts (Penguin)
-Andrew Williams – To Kill a Tsar (John Murray)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
-Colin Bateman – Dr Yes (Headline)
-Colin Cotterill – Love Songs From A Shallow Grave (Quercus)
-Chris Ewan – The Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas (Simon & Schuster)
-Robert Lewis – Bank of the Black Sheep (Serpent’s Tail)
-Donna Moore – Old Dogs (MaXcrime)
-L C Tyler – The Herring in the Library (Macmillan) – WINNER!
2010:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
Nominees for Best Abridged Crime Audiobook:
– Dan Brown for The Lost Symbol (abridged by Karen DiMattia). Reader: Paul Michael (Orion)
– Lee Child for Gone Tomorrow (abridged by Carolanne Lyme). Reader: Kerry Shale (Random House)
– Peter James for Dead Tomorrow (abridged by Kati Nicholl). Reader: William Gaminara (Pan Macmillan)
– Stieg Larsson for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (translated by Reg Keeland; abridged by Isabel Morgan). Reader: Martin Wenner (Quercus)
– Stieg Larsson for The Girl Who Played with Fire (translated by Reg Keeland; abridged by Isabel Morgan). Reader: Martin Wenner (Quercus) – WINNER!
– Ian Rankin for The Complaints (abridged by Kati Nicholl). Reader: James Macpherson (Orion)
Nominees for Best Unabridged Crime Audiobook:
– Dan Brown for The Lost Symbol. Reader: Paul Michael (Whole Story Audio Books)
– Michael Connelly for The Scarecrow. Reader: Peter Giles (Orion)
– Peter James for Dead Tomorrow. Reader: David Bauckham (Whole Story Audio Books)
– Stieg Larsson for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (translated by Reg Keeland). Reader: Saul Reichlin (Whole Story Audio Books)
– Stieg Larsson for The Girl Who Played with Fire (translated by Reg Keeland). Reader: Saul Reichlin (Whole Story Audio Books) – WINNER!
– Ian Rankin for The Complaints. Reader: Peter Forbes (Whole Story Audio Books)
eDunnit Award nominees:
– Josh Bazell – Beat The Reaper (Random House) – WINNER!
– Steve Berry – The Charlemagne Pursuit (Hodder & Stoughton)
– Juan Gomez-Jurado – Contract With God (Orion)
– Bernard Knight – Crowner Royal (Simon & Schuster)
– Carol McCleary – The Alchemy of Murder (Hodder & Stoughton)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Colin Bateman – The Day of the Jack Russell (Headline) – WINNER!
– Josh Bazell – Beat the Reaper (William Heinemann)
– Chris Ewan – The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris (Long Barn Books)
– Suzette Hill – Bone Idle (Constable & Robinson)
– Malcolm Pryce – From Aberystwyth with Love (Bloomsbury)
– Len Tyler – Ten Little Herrings (Macmillan)
2009:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
Nominees for Best Abridged Crime Audiobook:
– Mark Billingham for In the Dark. Reader: Adjoa Andoh. (Hachette Digital)
– Harlan Coben for Hold Tight. Reader: Tim Machin. (Orion)
– Sue Grafton for T is for Trespass. Reader: Lorelei King. (Macmillan)
– Stieg Larsson for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Reader: Martin Wenner. (Quercus) – WINNER! (tie)
– Val McDermid for A Darker Domain. Reader: Valerie Gogan. (HarperCollins)
– Ian Rankin for Doors Open. Reader: James McPherson. (Orion) – WINNER! (tie)
Nominees for Best Unabridged Crime Audiobook:
– Kate Atkinson for When Will There Be Good News? Reader: Steven Crossley. (BBC Audiobooks) – WINNER!
– Harlan Coben for Hold Tight. Reader: Richard Ferrone. (Whole Story Audio Books)
– Tess Gerritsen for The Bone Garden. Reader, Lorelei King. (BBC Audiobooks)
– Declan Hughes for The Dying Breed. Reader: Stanley Townsend. (Isis Publishing Ltd)
– Alexander McCall Smith for The Miracle at Speedy Motors. Reader: Adjoa Andoh. (Isis Publishing Ltd)
– RD Wingfield for A Killing Frost. Reader: Stephen Thorne. (Isis Publishing Ltd)
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Gilbert Adair for And Then There Was No One (Faber & Faber)
– Christopher Brookmyre for A Snowball in Hell (Little, Brown)
– Colin Cotterill for Anarchy and Old Dogs (Quercus)
– Christopher Fowler for The Victoria Vanishes (Transworld/Doubleday) – WINNER!
– Mike Ripley for Angels Unaware (Allison & Busby)
– Donald Westlake for Don’t Ask (Quercus)
2008:
Sounds of Crime Award nominees:
– Richard Bachman, Blaze. Read by Ron McLarty. (Hodder & Stoughton, unabridged.)
– Lee Child, Bad Luck & Trouble. Read by Kerry Shale. (Random House, abridged.)
– Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club. Read by Lorelei King. (BBC Audiobooks, unabridged.)
– David Hewson, The Seventh Sacrament. Read by Saul Reichlin. (W. F. Howes, unabridged.) – WINNER (unabridged)!
– Ian Rankin, Exit Music. Read by James Macpherson. (Orion, abridged.) – WINNER (abridged)!
Last Laugh Award nominees:
– Declan Burke, The Big O (Hag’s Head Press)
– Ruth Dudley Edwards, Murdering Americans (Poisoned Pen Press UK) – WINNER!
– Chris Ewan, The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam (Long Barn Books)
– Alan Guthrie, Hard Man (Polygon)
– Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave (MIRA Books)
– Mike Ripley, Angel’s Share (Alison & Busby)
– L. C. Tyler, The Herring Seller’s Apprentice (Macmillan New Writing)
– Donald Westlake, What’s So Funny? (Quercus)