In
April Dead Good Books launched the Dead Good Reader Awards, six bespoke awards,
nominated and voted for by readers, which will be presented in Harrogate this
July at the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival.
Each award was created in
collaboration with the Dead Good Facebook community and celebrates a unique
element in crime writing. The full shortlist (below) features such bastions
of crime writing as Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs and Peter James with debut
authors such as Paula Hawkins, Steve Cavanagh and Clare Mackintosh making an
appearance.
The awards will now be open to
a public vote. The winners will be selected online and physically at the
festival itself. Votes made at the festival will be weighted to make up 50% of
the total votes.
The awards will culminate at a
special festival event on Friday 17th July with well-known crime authors
including Lee
Child and Val McDermid presenting the awards. The awards are as follows:
The Lee Child Award for Best Loner
or Detective
The Val
McDermid Award for Fiendish Forensics
The Reichenbach Falls Award for
Most Epic Ending
The Dr Lecter Award for Scariest
Villain
The Patricia Highsmith Award for
Most Exotic Location
The Dead Good Recommends Award for
Most Recommended Book
Each winner will receive a specially
designed magnifying glass trophy.
To vote for your winner visit the Dead Good
website.
For
more information on Val McDermid and her books please visit: http://www.valmcdermid.com/
For
more information on Lee Child and his books please visit: http://leechild.com/
For more
information please contact: Lynsey Dalladay, Senior Digital Marketing Manager,
Penguin Random House. LDalladay@RandomHouse.co.uk or
02082316793
The Dead Good Recommends
Award for Most Recommended Book
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Transworld)
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (Transworld)
The Defence by Steve Cavanagh (Orion)
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh (Sphere)
The Lie by C L Taylor (Avon)
No Other
Darkness
by Sarah Hilary (Headline)
The Lee Child Award for Best Loner or Detective
Cormoran Strike, Robert Galbraith (Little Brown)
John Rebus, Ian Rankin (Orion) Harry Hole, Jo Nesbo (Vintage)
Lacey Flint, Sharon Bolton (Transworld)
David Raker, Tim Weaver (Michael Joseph) Vera Stanhope, Ann Cleeves (Pan Macmillan)
The Val McDermid Award for Fiendish Forensic
Bones are Forever by Kathy Reichs (Cornerstone)
Die Again by Tess Gerritsen (Transworld)
The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths (Quercus) Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell (Harper)
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer (Transworld) Time of Death by Mark Billingham (Sphere)
The Reichenbach Falls Award for
Most Epic Ending
The Defence by Steve Cavanagh (Orion)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Transworld)
The Nightmare Place by Steve Mosby (Orion)
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh (Sphere)
Personal by Lee Child (Transworld)
The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid (Sphere)
The Dr Lecter Award for Scariest
Villain
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (Harper)
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes (Myriad)
An Evil Mind by Chris Carter (Simon and Schuster) The Stand by Stephen King (Hodder)
You are Dead by Peter James (Macmillan)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Quercus)
The Patricia Highsmith Award for
Most Exotic Location
Amsterdam, The Girl who wouldn’t Die by Marnie
Riches (Maze)
Bardsey Island, The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham (Sphere)
Boston,
The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson (Faber)
Greece, The
Long Fall, Julia Crouch (Headline)
Nepal,
The Lie, C L Taylor (Avon)
Oslo,
Police, Jo Nesbo (Vintage)
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