Press Release: SHOTS Magazine, the UK's leading online fanzine, has announced the annual Shots Awards for mystery fiction in its December "Getting Away With Murder" column.
The Shots Awards are given in six categories for books published in the UK in 2009. And the winners are:
• Shots Thriller of the Year: The Information Officer by Mark Mills [HarperCollins].
• Crime Shot of the Year: At The City's Edge by Marcus Sakey [Penguin].
• Historical Shot: The Interrogator by Andrew Williams [John Murray].
• Shot in Translation: Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura [Bitter Lemon].
• First Shot (debut novel): The Twelve (US title: The Ghosts of Belfast) by Stuart Neville [Harvill Secker].
• Comic Shot: Mystery Man by Colin Bateman [Headline].
The winning titles include two British novels set during WWII (Mills and Williams); two set in Belfast by writers from Northern Ireland (Neville and Bateman); plus one set in Chicago (Sakey) and one in Cuba (Padura).
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