The Bloody Scotland festival has announced contenders for the two awards it hosts that celebrate Scottish noir, the longlist for the McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, and finalists for the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Book of the Year award.
Both awards will be presented at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, Scotland on September 13.
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000. Below is the McIlvanney Prize 2024 longlist. (The shortlist will be announced in August.)
MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2024 LONGLIST
D V Bishop – A Divine Fury (Pan Macmillan)
Chris Brookmyre – The Cracked Mirror (Sphere)
Val McDermid – Past Lying (Sphere)
Charles Cumming– Kennedy 35 (HarperCollins)
Andrew James Greig – The Girl in the Loch (Storm Publishing)
Doug Johnstone – The Collapsing Wave (Orenda)
S G Maclean – The Winter List (Quercus)
Abir Mukherjee – Hunted (Vintage)
C S Robertson – The Trials of Marjory Crowe (Hodder & Stoughton)
Kim Sherwood – A Spy Like Me (HarperCollins)
Doug Sinclair – Blood Runs Deep (Storm Publishing)
Douglas Skelton – The Hollow Mountain (Polygon)
BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE SHORTLIST
Crow Moon, by Suzy Aspley (Orenda)
Dark Island, by Daniel Aubrey (Harper North)
The Silent House of Sleep, by Allan Gaw (SA Press)
Blood Runs Deep, by Doug Sinclair (Storm)
Double Proof, by Martin Stewart (Polygon)
The Debut Prize winner is awarded a cheque of £500 and a trophy sponsored by The Glencairn Glass.
The Bloody Scotland festival today announced contenders for the two awards it hosts that celebrate Scottish noir, the McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, and the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Book of the Year award.
Both awards are handed out at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, Scotland which takes place September 15-17.
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000. Below is the McIlvanney Prize 2023 longlist. (The shortlist will be announced in August.)
THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLIST
D V Bishop – Ritual of Fire(Macmillan)
Heather Darwent – The Things We Do To Our Friends (Penguin)
Kate Foster – The Maiden (Mantle)
Mark Leggatt – Penitent (Fledgling Press)
S G Maclean – The Bookseller of Inverness (Quercus)
Callum McSorley – Squeaky Clean (Pushkin)
Val McDermid – 1989(Little,Brown)
Denise Mina – The Second Murderer (Vintage)
Robbie Morrison – Cast A Cold Eye (Macmillan)
Ian Rankin – A Heart Full of Headstones (Orion)
Craig Russell – The Devil’s Playground (Little,Brown)
Douglas Skelton – An Honourable Thief (Canelo)
THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE SHORTLIST
Heather Critchlow — Unsolved(Canelo)
Heather Darwent — The Things We Do To Our Friends (Penguin)
Kate Foster — The Maiden (Mantle)
Callum McSorley — Squeaky Clean (Pushkin)
Fulton Ross — The Unforgiven Dead (Inkshares)
The Debut Prize winner is awarded a cheque of £500 and a trophy sponsored by The Glencairn Glass.
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000 and nationwide promotion in Waterstones. The 2022 winner is:
May God Forgive by Alan Parks (Canongate)
BLOODY SCOTLAND SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR
The 2022 Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year goes to a writer born in Scotland or living there, and setting their books there. The winner is awarded a cheque of £500 and a trophy sponsored by The Glencairn Glass.
The winner is:
Tariq Ashkanani, Welcome to Cooper (Thomas & Mercer, Amazon)
The winners of the 2022 Barry Awards were announced September 8 at Bouchercon. The Barry Award winners are selected by subscribers and readers of Deadly Pleasures, where one of the magazine’s stated goals is to search out and report on the best works being published in the field of crime fiction each year.
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000 and nationwide promotion in Waterstones. Here is the McIlvanney Prize 2022 shortlist which was announced September 6:
May God Forgive by Alan Parks (Canongate)
The Second Cut by Louise Welsh (Canongate)
A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry (Canongate)
The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney (Harpercollins)
The McIlvanney Prize winner will be announced on September 15.
Her submission, Murder in Tokyo, is a story of a Japanese American teen’s life which is shattered when her boyfriend is arrested as the prime suspect in a classmate’s murder. “I lived in Tokyo as an adult and found it painful to be viewed as different,” said Otake. “I expected to fit in and wondered how much harder that experience would have been if I was a vulnerable teen.”
Sisters in Crime has also awarded five runners-up:
Danielle Arceneaux
Amber Boothe
Jennifer K. Morita
Valerie Kemp
Kathy A. Norris
The winner receives a $2,000 grant intended to support the recipient in crime fiction writing and career development activities. The grant may be used for activities that include workshops, seminars, conferences, and retreats, online courses, and research activities required for completion of the work. Otake said, “With this generous grant, I plan to either visit Japan to do more research for my manuscript or attend a mystery writing class at Moniack Mhor in Scotland.”
MCILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLIST
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000 and nationwide promotion in Waterstones. Here is the McIlvanney Prize 2022 longlist which was announced June 8:
May God Forgive by Alan Parks (Canongate)
The Second Cut by Louise Welsh (Canongate)
A Rattle of Bones by Douglas Skelton (Polygon)
From the Ashes by Deborah Masson (Transworld)
A Matter of Time by Claire Askew (Hodder)
A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry (Canongate)
The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney (Harpercollins)
Rizzio by Denise Mina (Polygon)
The Sound of Sirens by Ewan Gault (Leamington Books)
The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster (Harpercollins)
Finalists for the McIlvanney Prize will be revealed at the beginning of September. The winner will be announced on September 15.
The Davitts are named after Ellen Davitt, the author of Australia’s first mystery novel, Force and Fraud, in 1865.
The judging panel for 2021 comprised Philomena Horsley, winner of the 2018 Scarlet Stiletto Award and medical autopsy expert; Joy Lawn, YA expert, and reviewer; Janice Simpson, author and academic; Emily Webb, true crime author, and podcaster; and Sisters in Crime national co-convenors, Moraig Kisler and Tara Mitchell.
MCILVANNEY PRIZE SHORTLIST
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000 and nationwide promotion in Waterstones.. Here is The McIlvanney Prize 2021 shortlist:
The Silent Daughter, Emma Christie (Wellbeck)
The Coffinmaker’s Garden, Stuart MacBride (HarperCollins)
The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths (Quercus, Quercus Fiction)
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton (Penguin Random House UK, Viking)
The Last Crossing by Brian McGilloway (Little, Brown Book Group, Constable)
Death in the Eastby Abir Mukherjee (VINTAGE, Harvill Secker)
We Begin At The End by Chris Whitaker (Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre)
The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood (Quercus, Quercus Fiction)
The public is invited to vote for the winner here. The award will be announced Thursday July 22. The author will receive £3,000, and a handmade, engraved beer barrel provided by Theakston Old Peculier.
MCILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLIST
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000 and nationwide promotion in Waterstones.. Here is the McIlvanney Prize 2021 longlist:
The Cut, Chris Brookmyre (Little,Brown)
The Silent Daughter, Emma Christie (Wellbeck)
Before the Storm, Alex Gray (Little, Brown)
Dead Man’s Grave, Neil Lancaster (HarperCollins, HQ)
The Coffinmaker’s Garden, Stuart MacBride (HarperCollins)
Still Life, Val McDermid (Little,Brown)
Bad Debt, William McIntyre (Sandstone)
The Less Dead, Denise Mina (Vintage)
How To Survive Everything, Ewan Morrison (Saraband)
Edge of the Grave, Robbie Morrison (Macmillan)
The April Dead, Alan Parks (Canongate)
Hyde, Craig Russell (Constable)
Waking the Tiger, Mark Wightman (Hobeck Books)
MACAVITY AWARDS FINALISTS
Mystery Readers International announced the finalists for the 2021 Macavity Awards on June 1.
The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in five categories.
Best Mystery Novel:
Caroline B. Cooney:Before She Was Helen (Ecco)
S.A. Cosby:Blacktop Wasteland (Flatiron Books)
Matt Coyle:Blind Vigil (Oceanview Publishing)
Louise Penny:All the Devils Are Here (Minotaur)
Ivy Pochoda:These Women (Poisoned Pen Press)
Michael Robotham:When She Was Good (Scribner)
Best First Mystery:
Deepa Anappara:Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (Random House)
Nev March:Murder in Old Bombay (Minotaur)
Richard Osman:The Thursday Murder Club (Pamela Dorman Books)
Art Taylor: “The Boy Detective & The Summer of ‘74” (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2020)
Gabriel Valjan: “Elysian Fields” (California Schemin’: The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, edited by Art Taylor; Wildside Press)
Elaine Viets: “Dog Eat Dog” (The Beat of Black Wings:Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, edited by Josh Pachter; Untreed Reads Publishing)
James W. Ziskin: “The Twenty-Five Year Engagement” (In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon, edited by Laurie R. King; Pegasus Crime)
Best Mystery Critical/Biographical:
Leslie Brody:Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy (Seal Press)
Martin Edwards, editor: Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club (HarperCollins)
Erin E. MacDonald:Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (McFarland)
Sheila Mitchell:H.R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime (Level Best Books)
Craig Sisterson:Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand (Oldcastle Books)
Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery:
Rhys Bowen:The Last Mrs. Summers (Berkeley)
Elsa Hart:The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne (Minotaur)
