It sounds as if this week’s CrimeFest in Bristol, England, has offered more than a bit of fun. Now it’s also produced four award winners.
The 2009 Last Laugh Award, given to “the best humorous crime novel published in the British Isles in 2008,” goes to Christopher Fowler for The Victoria Vanishes (Transworld/Doubleday). Also nominated for that commendation: Gilbert Adair for And Then There Was No One (Faber and Faber); Christopher Brookmyre for A Snowball in Hell (Little, Brown); Colin Cotterill for Anarchy and Old Dogs (Quercus); Mike Ripley for Angels Unaware (Allison & Busby); and Donald E. Westlake for Don’t Ask (Quercus).
Two prizes were also given to audiobooks. There was a tie in the category of Best Abridged Crime Audiobook, with the two winners being Stieg Larsson for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (reader: Martin Wenner; Quercus) and Ian Rankin for Doors Open (reader: James McPherson; Orion).
Meanwhile, the category of Best Unabridged Crime Audiobook produced but a single victor: Kate Atkinson for When Will There Be Good News? (reader: Steven Crossley; BBC Audiobooks).
To see all of the nominees in the audiobooks categories, click here.
(Hat tip to EuroCrime.)
Saturday, May 16, 2009
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