Love, Death, and Prizes

With the online voting finally over and the counting completed, the UK-based Web site Crime Fiction Lover has announced the winners of its 2024 Crime Fiction Lover Awards. There are six categories, and in each, the folks in charge of CFL have revealed not only the fan favorite, but their Editor’s Choice, as well.

Book of the Year: Midnight and Blue, by Ian Rankin

Also nominated: The Mercy Chair, by M.W. Craven; Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke; The Examiner, by Janice Hallett; The Death Watcher, by Chris Carter; and All the Colours of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker

Book of the Year Editor’s Choice: Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke

Best Debut Novel: The List of Suspicious Things, by Jennie Godfrey

Also nominated: Helle and Death, by Oskar Jensen; Knife Skills for Beginners, by Orlando Murrin; Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney; Crow Moon, by Suzy Aspley; and A Reluctant Spy, by David Goodman

Best Debut Editor’s Choice: Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney

Best in Translation: Death at the Sanatorium, by Ragnar Jónasson; translated by Victoria Cribb

Also nominated: 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; The Kitchen, by Simone Buchholz, translated by Rachel Ward; and The Night of Baba Yaga, by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett

Best in Translation Editor’s Choice: The Night of Baba Yaga,
by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett

Best Indie Novel: A Killer of Influence, by J.D. Kirk

Also nominated: The Corpse with the Pearly Smile, by Cathy Ace; Bronco Buster, by A.J. Devlin; Westerwick, by George Paterson; Namaste Mart Confidential, by Andrew Miller; and Dying for Crystal, by Katherine Black

Best Indie Editor’s Choice: The Corpse with the Pearly Smile,
by Cathy Ace

Best Crime Show: Ludwig

Also nominated: Bad Monkey; Slow Horses, Season 4; Nordic Murders, Season 5; Rebus; and True Detective, Season 4

Best Crime Show Editor’s Choice: Slow Horses, Season 4

Best Author: Ian Rankin

Also nominated: Tana French; Attica Locke; Ace Atkins; Janice Hallett; and Abir Mukherjee

Best Author Editor’s Choice: Janice Hallett

Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!