Time to Air Your Opinions

Two weeks ago, the British Web site Crime Fiction Lover invited readers to nominate their favorite books for the 2024 Crime Fiction Lover Awards, in half a dozen categories. From those, editors compiled the following shortlists of top vote-getters.

Best Crime Novel of 2024:
• Midnight and Blue, by Ian Rankin
• The Mercy Chair, by M.W. Craven
• Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke
• The Examiner, by Janice Hallett
• The Death Watcher, by Chris Carter
• All the Colours of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker

Best Crime Debut of 2024:
• Helle and Death, by Oskar Jensen
• The List of Suspicious Things, by Jennie Godfrey
• Knife Skills for Beginners, by Orlando Murrin
• Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney
• Crow Moon, by Suzy Aspley
• A Reluctant Spy, by David Goodman

Best Crime Novel in Translation of 2024:
• Black Wolf, by Juan Gómez-Jurado; translated by Nicolas Caistor
• The Snow Angel, by Anki Edvinsson; translated by Paul Norlen
• The Lover of No Fixed Abode, by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini; translated by Gregory Dowling
• Death at the Sanatorium, by Ragnar Jónasson; translated by
Victoria Cribb
• The Kitchen, by Simone Buchholz; translated by Rachel Ward
• The Night of Baba Yaga, by Akira Otani; translated by Sam Bett

Best Indie Crime Novel of 2024:
• The Corpse with the Pearly Smile, by Cathy Ace
• A Killer of Influence, by J.D. Kirk
• Bronco Buster, by A.J. Devlin
• Westerwick, by George Paterson
• Namaste Mart Confidential, by Andrew Miller
• Dying for Crystal, by Katherine Black

Best Crime Show of 2024:
• Bad Monkey
• Ludwig
• Slow Horses, Season 4
• Nordic Murders, Season 5
• Rebus
• True Detective, Season 4

Best Crime Author of 2024:
• Tana French
• Ian Rankin
• Attica Locke
• Ace Atkins
• Janice Hallett
• Abir Mukherjee

Readers are now asked to choose their top picks from these shortlists. CFL explains that “Our online ballot closes at noon UK time on Wednesday 4 December 2024.” Click here to vote! Winners should be announced within a few days of this poll’s conclusion.