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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