CrimeFest Honors Coming

Organizers of this year’s CrimeFest (set for May 9-12 in Bristol, England) have announced their nominees for half a dozen prizes, all to be presented during a special dinner on Saturday, May 11.

Audible Sounds of Crime Award
(for the best unabridged crime audiobook):
• Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch; read by Kobna
Holdbrook-Smith (Orion)
• Our House, by Louise Candlish; read by Deni Francis and Paul
Panting (Whole Story Audiobooks)
• The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson; read by Dennis Quaid, January LaVoy, Peter Ganim, Jeremy Davidson, Mozhan Marnò, and Bill Clinton (Random House Audiobooks)
• Lethal White, by “Robert Galbraith,” aka J.K. Rowling; read by Robert Glenister (Hachette Audio)
• The Wife Between Us, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen;
read by Julia Whelan (Pan Macmillan)
• The Outsider, by Stephen King; read by Will Patton
(Hodder & Stoughton)
• Let Me Lie, by Clare Mackintosh; read by Gemma Whelan and
Clare Mackintosh (Little, Brown)
• I’ll Keep You Safe, by Peter May; read by Anna Murray and
Peter Forbes (Riverrun)
• In a House of Lies, by Ian Rankin; read by James MacPherson (Orion)
• Anatomy of a Scandal, by Sarah Vaughan; read by Julie Teal, Luke Thompson, Esther Wane, and Sarah Feathers (Simon & Schuster
Audio UK)

eDunnit Award (“for the best crime fiction e-book first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format”):
• When Trouble Sleeps, by Leye Adenle (Cassava Republic Press)
• Thirteen, by Steve Cavanagh (Orion)
• Gallows Court, by Martin Edwards (Head of Zeus)
• Sunburn, by Laura Lippman (Faber and Faber)
• Homegrown Hero, by Khurrum Rahman (HQ)
• The Fire Court, by Andrew Taylor (HarperCollins)
• The Shrouded Path, by Sarah Ward (Faber and Faber)

Last Laugh Award (for the best humorous crime novel):
• A Deadly Habit, by Simon Brett (Crème de la Crime)
• Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors, by Christopher Fowler (Transworld)
• Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord, by Mario Giordano
(John Murray)
• London Rules, by Mick Herron (John Murray)
• Homegrown Hero, by Khurrum Rahman (HQ)
• A Shot in the Dark, by Lynne Truss (Bloomsbury)
• Palm Beach Finland, by Antti Tuomainen (Orenda)
• Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, by Olga Wojtas (Contraband)

H.R.F. Keating Award (for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction):
• Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction, by Nils Clausson
(Cambridge Scholars)
• Irish Crime Fiction, by Brian Cliff (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Female Corpses in Crime Fiction, by Glen S. Close (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Domestic Noir, by Laura Joyce and Henry Sutton (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Historical Noir, by Barry Forshaw (No Exit Press)
• The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy’s Noir World,
by Steven Powell (Bloomsbury)
• Difficult Lives–Hitching Rides, by James Sallis (No Exit Press)

Best Crime Novel for Children (aged 8-12):
• The Train to Impossible Places, by P.G. Bell (Usborne)
• Murder At Twilight, by Fleur Hitchcock (Nosy Crow)
• A Darkness of Dragons, by S.A. Patrick (Usborne)
• The Book Case, by Dave Shelton (David Fickling)
• Kat Wolfe Investigates, by Lauren St. John (Macmillan
Children’s Books)
• The Last Chance Hotel, by Nicki Thornton (Chicken House)

Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (aged 12-16):
• The Colour of the Sun, by David Almond (Hodder Children’s Books)
• Rosie Loves Jack, by Mel Darbon (Usborne)
• Little Liar, by Julia Gray (Andersen Press)
• White Rabbit, Red Wolf, by Tom Pollock (Walker)
• Run, Riot, by Nikesh Shukla (Hodder Children’s Books)
• Dry, by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman (Walker)

Congratulations to all of the finalists!