McIlvanney Prize; two of those same books—by Claire Askew and M.R. Mackenzie—are also among the five competing for the inaugural Debut Prize.McIlvanney Prize Longlist:
• All the Hidden Truths, by Claire Askew (Hodder)
• No Man’s Land, by Neil Broadfoot (Little, Brown)
• Fallen Angel, by Chris Brookmyre (Little, Brown)
• Breakers, by Doug Johnstone (Orenda)
• All That’s Dead, by Stuart MacBride (HarperCollins)
• In the Silence, by M.R. Mackenzie (Bloodhound)
• Broken Ground, by Val McDermid (Little, Brown)
• A Breath on Dying Embers, by Denzil Meyrick (Polygon)
• Conviction, by Denise Mina (Vintage)
• The Way of All Flesh, by “Ambrose Parry” (Canongate), aka Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman
• In a House of Lies, by Ian Rankin (Orion)
• A Treachery of Spies, by Manda Scott (Transworld)
• Thunder Bay, by Douglas Skelton (Polygon)
McIlvanney Debut Prize Shortlist:
• All the Hidden Truths, by Claire Askew (Hodder)
• From the Shadows, by G.R. Halliday (Vintage)
• Black Camp 21, by Bill Jones (Polygon)
• In the Silence, by M.R. Mackenzie (Bloodhound)
• The Peat Dead, by Allan Martin (Thunderpoint)
A shortlist of contenders for the McIlvanney Prize is supposed to be revealed in early September. The winners of both awards will be announced on Friday, September 20, during an opening reception at the Bloody Scotland convention in Stirling.
These annual commendations, recognizing “excellence in Scottish crime writing,” are named in honor of William McIlvanney, author of the novel Laidlaw. Previous recipients of the McIlvanney Prize—formerly the Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award—are Liam McIlvanney (for The Quaker in 2018), Denise Mina (for The Long Drop in 2017), Chris Brookmyre (for Black Widow in 2016), Craig Russell (for The Ghosts of Altona in 2015), Peter May (for Entry Island in 2014), Malcolm Mackay (for How a Gunman Says Goodbye in 2013), and Charles Cumming (for A Foreign Country in 2012).
(Hat tip to Promoting Crime Fiction by Lizzie Hayes.)
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