CrimeFest has announced the shortlists for its annual awards!

The awards were due to be presented at a Gala Dinner during the convention at the Bristol Grand Mercure Hotel this June, but in light of Covid-19, the winners will be announced online at www.crimefest.com and via its social media pages on Tuesday 7 July.
CrimeFest was created following the hugely successful one-off visit to Bristol in 2006 of the American Left Coast Crime convention. It was established over ten years ago in 2008. It follows the egalitarian format of most US conventions, making it open to all authors and readers alike.
The convention has grown to become not only one of the biggest crime fiction events in Europe, but also one of the most popular dates in the international crime fiction calendar, with circa 60 panel events and 150 authors over four days.

The Shortlists

SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD
- Fiona Erskine for  The Chemical Detective  (Point Blank)
- Katja Ivar for  Evil Things  (Bitter Lemon Press)
- Carolyn Kirby for  The Conviction of Cora Burns  (No Exit Press)
- Alex Michaelides for  The Silent Patient  (Orion Fiction)
- Laura Shepherd-Robinson for  Blood & Sugar  (Mantle)
- Holly Watt for  To The Lions  (Raven Books)

AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD
- Kate Atkinson for  Big Sky  narrated by Jason Isaacs (Penguin Random House Audio)
- Oyinkan Braithwaite for  My Sister, the Serial Killer  narrated by Weruche Opia (W F Howes)
- Alex Callister for  Winter Dark  narrated by Ell Potter (Audible Studios)
- Lee Child for  Blue Moon  narrated by Jeff Harding (Penguin Random House Audio)
- Lisa Jewell for  The Family Upstairs  narrated by Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn (Penguin Random House Audio)
- T.M. Logan for  The Holiday  narrated by Laura Kirman (Zaffre)
- Peter May for  The Man with No Face  narrated by Peter Forbes (Quercus, Fiction)
- Alex Michaelides for  The Silent Patient  narrated by Louise Brealey, Jack Hawkins (Orion)

H.R.F. KEATING AWARD
- Ursula Buchan for  Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps  (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- John Curran for  The Hooded Gunman  (HarperCollins Crime Club)
- Barry Forshaw for  Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide  (No Exit Press)

LAST LAUGH AWARD
- William Boyle for  A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself  (No Exit Press)
- Hannah Dennison for  Tidings of Death at Honeychurch Hall  (Constable)
- Helen FitzGerald for  Worst Case Scenario  (Orenda Books)
- Christopher Fowler for  Bryant & May - The Lonely Hour  (Transworld)
- Antti Tuomainen for  Little Siberia  (Orenda Books)
- L.C. Tyler for  The Maltese Herring  (Allison & Busby)


eDUNNIT AWARD
- Helen FitzGerald for  Worst Case Scenario  (Orenda Books)
- Sarah Hilary for  Never Be Broken  (Headline)
- Andrew Taylor for  The King's Evil  (HarperFiction)
- L.C. Tyler for  The Maltese Herring  (Allison & Busby)
- Holly Watt for  To The Lions  (Raven Books)
- Don Winslow for  The Border  (HarperFiction)

BEST CRIME FICTION NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (ages 8-12)
- P.G. Bell for  The Great Brain Robbery  (Usborne Publishing)
- Vivian French for  The Steam Whistle Theatre Company  (Walker Books)
- Sophie Green for  Potkin and Stubbs  (Bonnier Books)
- A.M. Howell for  The Garden of Lost Secrets  (Usborne Publishing)
- Simon Lelic for  The Haven  (Hodder Children's Books)
- Thomas Taylor for  Malamander  (Walker Books)

BEST CRIME FICTION NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS (ages 12-16)
- Kathryn Evans for  Beauty Sleep  (Usborne Publishing)
- John Grisham for  Theodore Boone: The Accomplice  (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Samuel J. Halpin for  The Peculiar Peggs of Riddling Woods  (Usborne Publishing)
- Simon Mason for  Hey Sherlock!  (David Fickling Books)
- Tom Pollock for  Heartstream  (Walker Books)
- Nikesh Shukla for  The Boxer  (Hodder Children's Books)