McIlvanney Prize: Scottish Book of the Year Shortlist

Shortlist for the McIlvanny Prize - Scottish Crime Book of the Year.


Craig Robertson – Murderabilia (Simon & Schuster)

Val McDermid - Out of Bounds (Little, Brown)

Denise Mina - The Long Drop (Random House)

Craig Russell - The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid (Quercus)

Jay Stringer - How to Kill Friends and Implicate People (Thomas & Mercer)

McIlvanney Prize Shortlist: Scottish Crime Book of the Year

The organizers of this year’s Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival have revealed the four finalists for the 2016 McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Novel of the Year Award, named after the late novelist William McIlvanney.

Black Widow, by Chris Brookmyre (Little, Brown)
• The Jump, by Doug Johnstone (Faber)
• Splinter the Silence, by Val McDermid (Little, Brown)
• Beloved Poison, by E.S. Thomson (Little, Brown)

The winner will be announced at the opening reception at Bloody Scotland (September 9-11) in Stirling, Scotland.

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