Respondents are asked to cast votes only once, and to do so by noon GMT on Wednesday, November 30. Below are the shortlisted nominees, chosen by CFL followers:Best Crime Novel:
• The Accomplice, by Steve Cavanagh (Orion)
• The Locked Room, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
• The Twist of a Knife, by Anthony Horowitz (Penguin)
• City on Fire, by Don Winslow (HarperCollins)
• The Shadows of Men, by Abir Mukherjee (Vintage)
• The Twyford Code, by Janice Hallett (Viper)
Best Debut Crime Novel:
• Breaking, by Amanda Cassidy (Canelo)
• A Christmas Murder of Crows, by D.M. Austin (Whitefox)
• The Redeemer, by Victoria Goldman (Three Crowns)
• Bad for Good, by Graham Bartlett (Allison & Busby)
• Don’t Know Tough, by Eli Cranor (Soho Press)
• More Than You’ll Ever Know, by Katie Gutierrez (Michael Joseph)
Best Indie Crime Novel:
• How to Murder a Marriage, by Gabrielle St. George (Level Best)
• Unjust Bias, by Liz Mistry (Liz Mistry)
• The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes, by Cathy Ace (Four Tails)
• Five Moves of Doom, by A.J. Devlin (Newest Press)
• The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill (Ultimo Press)
• A Mourning Song, by Mark Westmoreland (Shotgun Honey)
Best Crime Novel in Translation:
• Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight, by Riku Onada,
translated by Alison Watts (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Turf Wars, by Olivier Norek,
translated by Nick Caistor (MacLehose Press)
• Even the Darkest Night, by Javier Cercas,
translated by Anne McLean (MacLehose Press)
• The Old Woman with the Knife, by Gu Byeong-Mo,
translated by Chi-Young Kim (Canongate)
• The Reptile Memoirs, by Silje Ulstein,
translated by Alison McCullough (Grove Press)
• The Dark Flood, by Deon Meyer,
translated by K.L. Seegers (Hodder & Stoughton)
Best Crime Show:
• Shetland (BBC One)
• Dahmer – Monster (Netflix)
• Bosch: Legacy (Freevee)
• Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
• Black Bird (Apple TV+)
• Reacher (Amazon Prime)
Best Crime Author:
• Steve Cavanagh
• Elly Griffiths
• Ann Cleeves
• S.A. Cosby
• Michael Connelly
• Val McDermid
When you’re prepared to submit your ballot in this opening round of the 2022 Crime Fiction Awards contest, go here. There is no requirement that you vote in every one of the six categories. After this initial polling is complete, a list of finalists will be posted and reader opinions solicited to choose the winners.
2 comments:
SHADOWS OF MEN by Abir Mukherjee is an excellent history mystery, but it was published in the U.K. and in the U.S. in 2021, so it seems strange for it to appear on a list of "Best of 2022."
Hey, George:
I assume Abir Mukherjee's fifth Wyndham and Banerjee novel qualifies for this competition because its paperback release, in Great Britain, came in mid-June of 2022.
Cheers,
Jeff
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