SHOTS of the Year announced

SHOTS Magazine – the UK’s leading e-zine dedicated to crime, mystery and thriller fiction – has announced its SHOTS of the Year awards for 2010 in the December issue of the Getting Away With Murder column.

The awards for books published in the UK in calendar year 2010 are as follows:

*Crime Shot of the Year: Started Early, Took My Dog

by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday).

*Thriller Shot of the Year: Our Kind of Traitor

by John le Carre (Viking/Penguin).

*Historical Shot: Spies of the Balkans

by Alan Furst (Weidenfeld).

*Shot In Translation: Thirteen Hours

by Deon Meyer (Hodder)

{translated from the Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers}.

*First Shot (debut novel): Eye of the Red Tsar

by Sam Eastland (Faber).

*Comic Shot: Dr Yes

by Colin Bateman (Headline)