We’re all getting
excited for the upcoming Crimefest
Event. This year’s CrimeFest will be taking
place in Bristol from 24th-27th May. A host of top names from the crime
world, including Lee
Child, Sue Grafton, P.D. James, Jeffrey Deaver and Roslund
& Hellström, are lined up to help CrimeFest celebrate its fifth year as
one of the most popular events in the crime fiction calendar.
CrimeFest 2012 will be host
to several special events, including a launch event in association with Pan
Macmillan for the novelisation of the Scandinavian TV drama ‘The Killing’, and
the CWA Shortlist Reception - announcing the shortlist for their prestigious
Dagger awards, as well as a full
programme of author talks and panels.
Crime’s biggest hitters Lee
Child, George
Pelecanos and Anthony Horowitz are pitted against newcomers including S.J.
Watson and Thomas Enger in CrimeFest’s fifth annual awards ceremony
CrimeFest is thrilled to
announce the shortlists for the 2012 CrimeFest Awards. Now in their fifth year,
the awards shortlists are stronger than ever, as high profile names battle for
acclaim in the following categories:
The Audible Sounds of Crime
Awards are for the best abridged and unabridged crime audiobooks in both
printed and audio formats, with shortlists and winning titles selected by
Audible UK listeners.
Nominees for Best Abridged Crime Audiobook:
Lee Child / The Affair
read by Kerry Shale [Random House Audiobooks]
James Henry / First
Frost read by David Jason [Random House Audiobooks]
Simon Kernick /
The Payback read by Daniel Weyman [Random House Audiobooks]
Donna Leon / Drawing
Conclusions read by Andrew Sachs [Random House Audiobooks]
Alexander McCall
Smith / The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party [Hachette Digital read
by Adjoa Andoh]
Nominees for Best Unabridged Crime Audiobook:
Ben Aaronovitch / Rivers of London
Michael
Connelly / The Fifth Witness read by Peter Giles [Orion Audio]
David Hewson / The Fallen
Angel read by Saul Reichlin [Whole Story Audio Books]
Anthony Horowitz / The House
of Silk read by Derek Jacobi [Orion Audio]
S. J. Watson / Before I Go
To Sleep read by Susannah Harker [Random House Audio with AudioGO]
The Goldsboro Last Laugh Award is for the best humorous crime novel, with shortlist
and winning title selected by a team of British crime fiction reviewers. The
shortlist is:
Declan Burke / Absolute
Zero Cool [Liberties Press]
Colin Cotterill / Killed at
the Whim of a Hat [Quercus Publishing]
Chris Ewan / The Good
Thief's Guide to Venice
Christopher Fowler / Bryant
& May and the Memory of Blood [Doubleday]
Carl Hiaasen / Star Island
Doug Johnstone / Smokeheads
[Faber and Faber]
Elmore Leonard / Djibouti
L.C. Tyler / Herring on
the Nile [Macmillan]
The eDunnit Award is for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy
and in electronic format, with the shortlist and winning title selected by a
team of British crime fiction reviewers. The nominees are:
Linwood
Barclay / The Accident [Orion]
Thomas Enger / Burned [Faber
and Faber]
Dennis
Lehane / Moonlight Mile [Little, Brown Book Group]
Adrian
Magson / Death on the Rive Nord [Allison & Busby]
Denise Mina / The End
of the Wasp Season [Orion]
Steve Mosby / Black Flowers
[Orion]
George Pelecanos / The
Cut [Orion]
With both major and
independent publishers represented, and the mix of national and international, new
and established authors, the shortlists very much reflect the spirit of
CrimeFest.
Co-organiser and co-founder
of CrimeFest, Adrian Muller, said: “The
shortlists are the best we have ever had, and they fit in perfectly with the
killer line-up of Featured Guest Authors and our extensive programme of events
to help us celebrate CrimeFest’s fifth anniversary”.
The winners of each award
are to be announced at CrimeFest’s annual Gala Dinner on Saturday 26th May.
To book you place go to >
www.crimefest.com
as we hope to see you in the bar!
Photo Top © 2009 Ali Karim
of The Shots Team with one of Crimefest 2009 Guests of Honour Michael Connelly.
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