The 2023 CrimeFest Award Winners

 

Specsavers Crime Fiction Debut Award
Stacy Willingham for A Flicker in the Dark (HarperCollins)

Chloe Davis’ father is a serial killer.
He was convicted and jailed when she was twelve but the bodies of the girls were never found, seemingly lost in the surrounding Louisiana swamps. The case became notorious and Chloe’s family was destroyed.

 

eDunnit Award
for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy
and in electronic format
Sara Gran for The Book of the Most Precious Substance 
(Faber & Faber)
 

Last Laugh Award
for the best humorous crime novel
Christopher Fowler for 
Bryant & May’s Peculiar London (Doubleday)

 

H.R.F. Keating Award
for the best biographical or critical book related to crime
– Martin Edwards for 
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of
Mysteries and their Creators (Collins Crime Club)

 

Thalia Proctor Memorial Award For Best Adapted TV Crime
Slow Horses (seasons 1 & 2), based on the books by Mick Herron. Produced by
See-Saw. Shown on Apple TV

Best Crime Novel for Children (aged 8 – 12)
– Sharna Jackson for The Good Turn (Puffin)
Josephine Williams is definitely a leader - and her teachers know it! What other eleven-year-old is desperate for MORE schoolwork?
Looking for more challenging tasks, Josie enlists her friends her very own Scout troop, the Copseys, name after the street they live on.

Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (aged 12 – 16)
– Holly Jackson for Five Survive (Electric Monkey)

Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. There’s a sniper out there. He’s watching them and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.