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Capital Crime Reveals Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards Shortlists

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The Capital Crime Festival is cancelled this year, however, through their social media the Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards shortlist was announced. The crime fiction and media award sponsored by Amazon Publishing premiered last year at the Capital Crime event in London.

The shortlists were decided by Capital Crime’s advisory board of authors, industry leaders and reviewers. Festival passholders and Capital Crime Book Club members will vote on the winners, which will be announced on October 13.

CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 

  • Find Them Dead by Peter James 
  • Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha 
  • Bryant & May – Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler 
  • Without A Trace by Mari Hannah 
  • Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz 

DEBUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 

  • Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi 
  • The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Björg Ægisdottir 
  • Black Sun by Owen Matthews 
  • A Shadow on the Lens by Sam Hurcom 
  • The Wreckage by Robin Morgan Bentley 

THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 

  • The Split by Sharon Bolton 
  • Witchfinder by Andrew Wilson 
  • Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
  • Knife Edge by Simon Mayo 
  • All Fall Down by MJ Arlidge 

MYSTERY BOOK OF THE YEAR 

  • Rules for Perfect Murder by Peter Swanson 
  • The Mist by Ragnar Jónasson 
  • The House Guest by Mark Edwards 
  • Island of Secrets by Rachel Rhys 
  • The Holdout by Graham Moore 

E-BOOK OF THE YEAR 

  • Three Perfect Liars by Heidi Perks 
  • Strangers by C L Taylor 
  • Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee 
  • The Less Dead by Denise Mina 
  • Remember Me by Amy McLellan 

AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR 

  • The Guest List by Lucy Foley 
  • If It Bleeds by Stephen King 
  • Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee 
  • The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar Muriel 
  • Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz 

INDEPENDENT VOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR 

  • Beast by Matt Wesolowski 
  • The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda 
  • Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen 
  • The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Bjorg Ægisdóttir 
  • A Dark Matter by Doug Johnstone 

CRIME MOVIE OF THE YEAR 

  • Knives Out 
  • Joker 
  • Uncut Gems 
  • Parasite
  • Queen & Slim 

CRIME TV SHOW OF THE YEAR 

  • The Stranger 
  • I May Destroy You 
  • Giri/Haji
  • Quiz 
  • The Liar (Season 2) 

[Thanks to Cora Buhlert for the story.]

Latest Crime Fiction Awards

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Three more crime fiction awards have named their honorees, the Golden Fedora, the Capital Crime Awards, and the T. Jefferson Parker Award.

GOLDEN FEDORA. The magazine Noir Nation has announced the winners of the 2019 Golden Fedora Award.

The Golden Fedora is awarded in different years for poetry and fiction. The 2019 prize is for short crime fiction.. 

2019 Noir Nation Golden Fedora Fiction Prize Winners

  • Erika Nichols-Frazer
  • BV Lawson
  • Anne Swardson

CAPITAL CRIME AWARDS. The new conference Capital Crime, held in London, announced their inaugural award winners on September 27. The Capital Crime New Voices Award  was also presented.

Best Crime Novel of the Year

  • Ian Rankin’s In a House of Lies

Best Mystery

  • Ian Rankin’s In a House of Lies

Best Thriller

  • Mick Herron’s London Rules

Best Debut Novel

  • Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer

Best e-Book

  • C.L. Taylor’s Sleep

Independent Voice

  • Will Dean’s Red Snow

Best Audiobook

  • Stuart Turton’s The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Read by Jot Davies

Best Television Show

  • Killing Eve

Best Feature Film

  • Black Klansman

Capital Crime New Voices Award

  • Ashley Harrison for The Dysconnect

T. JEFFERSON PARKER AWARD. The winner of the T. Jefferson Parker Award for best mystery, which is given by the Southern California Indpendent Booksellers Association (SCIBA), was announced on September 28.

Winner

  • The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem  (Ecco)

Also Nominated

  • The Good Detective by John McMahon  (Putnam)
  • The Border by Don Winslow (Morrow)

[Thanks to Cora Buhlert for the story.]