The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Belfast born Adrian McKinty has been awarded the UK’s most prestigious accolade in crime writing, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, for his best-selling thriller, The Chain, that sees parents forced to abduct children to save the lives of their own.
The Chain was chosen by public vote and the prize judges.
From Fictionophile:
What Adrian McKinty says about his win:
“I am gobsmacked and delighted to win
this award. Two years ago, I had given up on writing altogether and was
working in a bar and driving an uber, and so to go from that to this is
just amazing. People think that you write a book and it will be an
immediate bestseller. For twelve books, my experience was quite the
opposite, but then I started this one. It was deliberately high concept,
deliberately different to everything else I had written – and I was
still convinced it wouldn’t go anywhere… but now look at this. It has
been completely life changing.”
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2020 marks the 16th year of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. The prize was created to celebrate the very best in
crime fiction and is open to UK and Irish crime authors whose novels
were published in paperback from 1 May 2019 to 30 April 2020. The award is run in partnership with T&R Theakston Ltd, WHSmith, and The Mail on Sunday. 
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