Even though you can’t tell, unless you happen to be an Irish crime writer who’s been invited to vote on this matter, novelist and blogger Declan Burke’s much-promised competition for the first (annual?) Crime Always Pays Irish Crime Novel of the Year Award is heating up. The six books shortlisted for said honor:
• The Lovers, by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Winterland, by Alan Glynn (Faber and Faber)
• All the Dead Voices, by Declan Hughes (John Murray)
• Dark Times in the City, by Gene Kerrigan (Harvill Secker)
• Fifty Grand, by Adrian McKinty (Henry Holt)
• The Twelve, by Stuart Neville (Harvill Secker)
Burke will announce the winner this coming Friday, December 4.
Meanwhile, readers have a chance to win some of these Irish crime-writing gems simply by picking the shortlisted books they believe will ultimately be the first-, second-, and third-place finishers. Leave your predictions in the Comments box at the end of this post by Thursday, December 3. And then wait to see if your name is plucked randomly from a hat.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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