Saturday 18 July 2015

Inaugural Dead Good Reader Awards winners announced


On Friday 17th July 2015, at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, six authors beat off stiff competition to be crowned the first ever winners of the Dead Good Reader Awards.

Dead Good Books launched the awards in April with six bespoke categories, and readers nominated and voted for their favourite books and authors. The awards were presented at the festival after over 4,000 votes had been received from online readers and festival-goers.


Each award category was created in collaboration with the Dead Good Facebook community and celebrates a unique element in crime writing.

Lee Child, Val McDermid and Mark Lawson presented the awards to the following winners:

Ann Cleeves for The Lee Child Award for Best Loner or Detective
Mark Billingham for The Val McDermid Award for Fiendish Forensics
Val McDermid for The Reichenbach Falls Award for Most Epic Ending
Peter James for The Dr Lecter Award for Scariest Villain
Marnie Riches for The Patricia Highsmith Award for Most Exotic Location
Paula Hawkins for The Dead Good Recommends Award for Most Recommended Book

Each winner received a specially designed magnifying glass trophy.

The winners and full shortlist can be seen below.

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 Forensics
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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