Although this year’s Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition for the 2020 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year continues. Award organizers have released a longlist of 18 contenders, all of them composed by UK or Irish crime fictionists and published in paperback between May 1, 2019, and April 30, 2020. From now until Thursday, June 4, readers are invited to vote online for their favorites.
Here are the nominees:
• My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Fallen Angel, by Chris Brookmyre
• Nothing Important Happened Today, by Will Carver
• Cruel Acts, by Jane Casey
• Blue Moon, by Lee Child
• The Long Call, by Ann Cleeves
• Red Snow, by Will Dean
• Platform Seven, by Louise Doughty
• Worst Case Scenario, by Helen Fitzgerald
• The Lost Man, by Jane Harper
• Joe Country, by Mick Herron
• How the Dead Speak, by Val McDermid
• The Chain, by Adrian McKinty
• Conviction, by Denise Mina
• Smoke and Ashes, by Abir Mukherjee
• The Whisper Man, by Alex North
• Blood & Sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
• Blood Orange, by Harriet Tyce
The six books receiving the most votes in this phase of the tournament will go forward onto the shortlist, which is scheduled to be announced on Monday, June 8.
Again, click here to cast your ballot for the longlisted novel you think deserves a place in the next round of this contest.
Thursday, May 07, 2020
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