FINGERPRINT AWARDS SHORTLISTS: Capital Crime Festival

The Capital Crime Festival  (London, UK) announced the shortlists for its annual Fingerprint Awards, which champion the very best in crime writing from the past year across the globe, as voted for by readers. The shortlists were selected by the festival’s board members from a longlist curated by the Tastemakers Committee, a panel of leading independent bloggers and reviewers, who championed their standout titles across each category. 

Readers can now vote for their preferred winners in each category on the Capital Crime website through Saturday, May 30th. The winners will be revealed at the Fingerprint Awards on the evening of Thursday, June 18th as part of the Capital Crime event in London at the Royal Leonardo Hotel. Congrats to this year's finalists!

 
Audiobook of the Year

• Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell 

• King of Ashes by  S A Cosby

• We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough 

• Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

• Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver

True Crime Book of the Year

• Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold 

• Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts-Guiffre 

• Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser 

• A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders by Prof. David Wilson 

• A Flower Travelled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland  

Debut Crime Book

• Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson

• Deadline by  Steph McGovern 

• Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall

• The Day of the Roaring by Nina Bhadreshwar

• This is Not A Game by Kelly Mullen

Genre-Busting Book

• Kill Them with Kindness by Will Carver 

• Little Red Death by A. K. Benedict Book

• Blood Like Ours by Stuart Neville

• Small Fires by Ronnie Turner

• Manhattan Down by Michael Cordy  

Historical Crime Book of the Year

• The Art of A Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson 

• The Rush by Beth Lewis 

• Dangerous by Essie Fox

• Burning Grounds by Abir Mukherjee

• Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz 

Thriller Book of the Year

• The Chemist by A A Dhand

• Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell 

• Human Remains by Jo Callaghan 

• The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North

• Some of Us Are Liars by Fiona Cummins

Overall Crime Book of the Year

• The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani

• The Final Vow by M W Craven

• Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan

• The Good Father by Liam McIlveney

• We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough