– Antti Tuomainen, The Man Who Died (Orenda Books) – Khurrum Rahman, East of Hounslow (HQ – HarperCollns)
– Vaseem Khan, The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star (Mullholland Books) – Mick Herron, Spook Street (John Murray) – WINNER! – Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May – Wild Chamber (Doubleday) – Simon Brett, Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the Silver Screen (Little, Brown Book Group) The winner receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
The Last Laugh Award is for the best humorous crime novel first published in the British Isles in 2017. – Sarah Stovell, Exquisite (Orenda Books)Įligible titles were submitted by publishers, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and the winning title. – Gunnar Staalesen, Wolves in the Dark (Orenda Books) – Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell (Little, Brown Book Group) – Michael Connelly, The Late Show(Orion) – WINNER! – Ken Bruen, The Ghosts of Galway (Head of Zeus) – Chris Brookmyre, Want You Gone (Little, Brown Book Group) The winning author receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award. The eDunnit Award is for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format in the British Isles in 2017. – David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Quercus), read by Saul ReichlinĮligible titles were submitted by publishers, and Audible UK listeners established the shortlist and the winning title. – Anthony Horowitz, The Word is Murder (Penguin Random House Audio), read by Rory Kinnear – Michelle Frances, The Girlfriend (Pan Macmillan Audio), read by Antonia Beamish – Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie (HQ – Harper Collins), read by Stephanie Racine Denzil, Silent Child (Audible Studios), read by Joanne Froggatt Delaney, The Girl Before (Quercus), read by Emilia Fox, Finty Williams & Lise Aagaard Knudsen – WINNER! – Lee Child, The Midnight Line (Transworld), read by Jeff Harding – Fiona Barton, The Child(Audible Studios), read by Clare Corbett, Adjoa Andoh, Finty Williams, Fenella Woolgar & Steven Pacey Courtesy of sponsor Audible UK, the winning author and audiobook reader(s) share the £1,000 prize equally and each receives a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.
The Audible Sounds of Crime Award is for the best unabridged crime audiobook first published in the UK in 2017 in both printed and audio formats, and available for download from .uk, Britain’s largest provider of downloadable audiobooks. – BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS (AGES 12–16) – BEST CRIME NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (AGES 8–12)