Nominees for the 2014 CrimeFest Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2014 CrimeFest Awards have been announced by the convention's organizers. The winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner on Saturday, May 17th in Bristol.

Sounds of Crime Award (for the best unabridged crime audiobook first published in the UK in 2013 in both printed and audio formats) …

• Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch; Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion Audio)
• A Delicate Truth by John le Carré; Read by John le Carré (Penguin)
• The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith; Read by Robert Glenister (Hachette Audio)
• Dead Man's Time by Peter James; Read by Daniel Weyman (Macmillan Audio)
• The Chessmen by Peter May; Read by Peter Forbes (Quercus)
• Natural Causes by James Oswald; Read by Ian Hanmore (Penguin)

Last Laugh Award (for the best humorous crime novel first published in the British Isles in 2013) …

• Fire and Brimstone by Colin Bateman (Headline)
• Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley (Orion)
• The Axe Factor by Colin Cotterill (Quercus)
• A Calamitous Chinese Killing by Shamini Flint (Little, Brown)
• Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen (Little, Brown)
• A Little Murder by Suzette A. Hill (Allison & Busby)
• Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller (Faber and Faber)
• The Sound of One Hand Killing by Teresa Solana (Bitter Lemon Press)

eDunnit Award (for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format in the British Isles in 2013) …

• The Beauty of Murder by A.K. Benedict (Orion)
• Sandrine by Thomas H. Cook (Head of Zeus)
• Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran (Faber and Faber)
• Under a Silent Moon by Elizabeth Haynes (Sphere)
• Cross and Burn by Val McDermid (Sphere)
• Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller (Faber and Faber)
• The Red Road by Denise Mina (Orion)
• Sign of the Cross by Thomas Mogford (Bloomsbury)
• The Double by George Pelecanos (Orion)
• The Feast of Artemis by Anne Zouroudi (Bloomsbury)