Nominees for the 2013 CrimeFest Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2013 CrimeFest Awards have been announced by the organizers of the annual CrimeFest International Crime Fiction Convention. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner on Saturday, June 1st, 2013.

The nominees are …

Sounds of Crime Award (for best crime audiobook):
• The Black Box by Michael Connelly; Read by Michael McConnohie (Orion Audio)
• The Racketeer by John Grisham; Read by J. D. Jackson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Lewis Man by Peter May; Read by Peter Forbes (Quercus)
• Phantom by Jo Nesbo; Read by Sean Barrett (Random House)
• Standing In Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin; Read by James MacPherson (Orion Audio)

Last Laugh Award (for best humorous crime novel):
• The Prisoner of Brenda by Colin Bateman (Headline)
• The Corpse on the Court by Simon Brett (Severn House)
• Slaughter's Hound by Declan Burke (Liberties Press)
• Killing the Emperors by Ruth Dudley Edwards (Allison & Busby)
• Bryant & May and the Invisible Code by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
• The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats by Hesh Kestin (Mulholland Books)

eDunnit Award (for best crime fiction ebook):
• The Age of Doubt by Andrea Camilleri (Macmillan)
• Killing the Emperors by Ruth Dudley Edwards (Allison & Busby)
• Bryant & May and the Invisible Code by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
• Dominion by C. J. Sansom (Macmillan)

The H. R. F. Keating Award (for best biography or critical book related to crime fiction published between 2008 and 2012):
• Books To Die For by Declan Burke and John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran (HarperCollins)
• British Crime Writing: An Encyclopaedia by Barry Forshaw, editor (Greenwood World Publishing)
• Following the Detectives by Mixim Jakubowski, editor (New Holland Publishers)
• Invisible Ink by Christopher Fowler (Strange Attractor)
• Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James (The Bodleian Library)