Lauded in London

Organizers of London’s mid-June Capital Crime Festival have announced the shortlists of contenders for this year’s Fingerprint Awards. Below are the nominees in two of the eight prize categories.

Overall Best Crime Book of the Year:
• Murder on Lake Garda, by Tom Hindle (Century)
• All the Colours of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker (Orion)
• Midnight and Blue, by Ian Rankin (Orion)
• The Mercy Chair, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
• Nightwatching, by Tracey Sierra (Viking)

Thriller Book of the Year:
• One Perfect Couple, by Ruth Ware (Simon & Schuster UK)
• A Violent Heart, by David Fennell (Zaffre)
• The Woman on the Ledge, by Ruth Mancini (Century)
• Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
• The Missing Family, by Tim Weaver (Michael Joseph)

The full rundown of 2025 Fingerprint Award seekers can be found here. Readers are invited to vote for their favorites at this link from now through Saturday, May 31, with the winners to be declared during an event at London’s Leonardo Royal Hotel on Thursday, June 12.

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By the way, Capital Crime only recently released its full program for the June 13-14 conference. Among the notable authors participating in panel discussions will be Chris Whitaker, Karin Slaughter, Linwood Barclay, Ruth Ware, Stuart Turton, Michael Connelly, Clare Mackintosh, Vaseem Khan, and Belinda Bauer. Learn more here.