Eighteen novels have been longlisted in this year’s Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year contest. A press release explains that “the longlist, voted for by an academy of crime writing authors, agents, editors, reviewers and members of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Programming Committee, features stories that transport readers from the burning heat of the Chihuahuan Desert to the chill of nineties Berlin, from down-at-heel Blackpool to the splendour of Georgian London.”
Here’s the complete inventory of 2024 contenders:
• The Last Dance, by Mark Billingham (Sphere)
• The Cliff House, by Chris Brookmyre (Abacus)
• In the Blink of an Eye, by Jo Callaghan (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Close, by Jane Casey (Harper Fiction)
• The Raging Storm, by Ann Cleeves (Pan Macmillan)
• Fearless, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
• The Last Remains, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
• The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron (Baskerville)
• Killing Jericho, by William Hussey (Zaffre)
• None of This Is True, by Lisa Jewell (Century)
• Conviction, by Jack Jordan (Simon & Schuster)
• A Game of Lies, by Clare Mackintosh (Sphere)
• The Broken Afternoon, by Simon Mason (Riverrun)
• Past Lying, by Val McDermid (Sphere)
• Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent (Sandycove)
• The Square of Sevens, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Pan Macmillan)
• The Last Goodbye, by Tim Weaver (Michael Joseph)
• You Can Run, by Trevor Wood (Quercus)
Readers are invited to vote—between now and Thursday, May 16—for their favorites among these, with a shortlist of finalists to be announced on Thursday, June 13. This year’s ultimate winner will be declared on Thursday, July 18, during an opening-night ceremony at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, England.
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