Awards: Past Winners

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 & 2008

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.

Nominees for the CRIMEFEST Award for 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)

Nominees for the CRIMEFEST Award for 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)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)
– Laura Shepherd-Robinson for Blood & Sugar (Mantle) – WINNER!
– Holly Watt for To The Lions (Raven Books)

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)