CAPITAL CRIME FINGERPRINT AWARDS

Capital Crime, a crime fiction con in London, has announced the winners of The Fingerprint Awards 2023.

CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 

• Elly Griffiths for Bleeding Heart Yard

THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR

• Gillian McAllister for Wrong Place Wrong Time

HISTORICAL CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR

• Tom Hindle for A Fatal Crossing

GENRE-BUSTING BOOK OF THE YEAR

• Erin Keely for The Skeleton Key

DEBUT BOOK OF THE YEAR

• Nita Prose for The Maid

AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR

• Adele Parks, narrated by Kristin Atherton for One Last Secret

THE THALIA PROCTOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for her invaluable contribution to fiction publishing

• Jane Wood

PUBLISHING CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR 2023

• Viking BooksUK for The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

LINDISFARNE PRIZE FOR CRIME FICTION

The Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction is a literary prize which recognizes outstanding unpublished writing in the genre of crime or thriller fiction by those who are from, or whose work celebrates, the North East of England.. The 2023 winner has been announced.

• Stone Cold Truth by Karys Frank

The winning entry is awarded a prize of £2500 to support the completion of their work and funding towards a year’s membership of both the Society of Authors (SoA) and the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). 

PETRONA AWARD SHORTLIST

Seven crime novels from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland have made the shortlist for the 2023 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.

The award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.

• Pascal Engman – Femicide. Translated by Michael Gallagher (Sweden, Legend Press)
• Anne Mette Hancock — The Corpse Flower. Translated by Tara F Chace (Denmark, Swift Press)
• Håkan Nesser — The Axe Woman. Translated by Sarah Death (Sweden, Mantle)
• Petra Rautiainen — Land of Snow and Ashes. Translated by David Hackston (Finland, Pushkin Press)
• Joachim B Schmidt – Kalmann. Translated by Jamie Lee Searle (Switzerland, Bitter Lemon Press)
• Lilja Sigurðardóttir — Red as Blood. Translated by Quentin Bates (Iceland, Orenda Books)
• Gunnar Staalesen — Bitter Flowers. Translated by Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books)

The winning title will be announced on October 5, 2023.