Wednesday, April 22, 2015

CrimeFest Awards Shortlists

 
THE 2015 CRIMEFEST AWARDS SHORTLISTS

The winners will be announced at the CRIMEFEST Gala Awards Dinner on Saturday, 16 May.

The Audible Sounds of Crime Award for the best unabridged crime audiobook first published in the UK in 2014 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 share the £1,000 prize equally and each receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.

- 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)
- Robert Galbraith for The Silkworm, read by Robert Glenister (Little, Brown Book Group)
- 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)
- James Oswald for The Hangman’s Song, read by Ian Hanmore (Penguin Random House Audio)

Eligible titles were submitted by publishers for the longlist, and Audible UK listeners established the shortlist and the winning title.

The eDunnit Award for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format in the British Isles in 2014. The winning author receives £500 and a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.

- 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)
- Chris Ewan for Dark Tides (Faber & Faber)
- Greg Illes for Natchez Burning (HarperCollins)
- Thomas Mogford for Hollow Mountain (Bloomsbury)
- Thomas Sweterlitsch for Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Headline)
- Andrew Taylor for The Silent Boy (HarperCollins)

Eligible titles were submitted by publishers for the longlist, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.                                                                                                                     

The Goldsboro Last Laugh Award for the best humorous crime novel first published in the British Isles in 2014. The £500 prize is sponsored by Goldsboro Books, the book collector's bookseller. The winner also receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.

- 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)

Eligible titles were submitted by publishers for the longlist, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.

The H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction first published in the British Isles between 2013 - 2014. 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.

- 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)
- Barry Forshaw for Nordic Noir (Pocket Essentials, 2013)
- Barry Forshaw for Euro Noir (No Exit Press, 2014)
- John Martin for Crime Scene: Britain & Ireland (Five Leaves, 2014)
- Lucy Worsley for A Very British Murder (BBC Books, 2013)

Eligible titles were collated by author and crime fiction expert Martin Edwards. A team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title.

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