Nominees for the 2015 CrimeFest Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2015 CrimeFest Awards have been announced by the organizers of this year's CrimeFest International Crime Fiction Convention. The winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner on Saturday, May 16th, 2015.

And the nominees are …

Sounds of Crime Award (for best crime audiobook):

• Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch; Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Orion)
• Personal by Lee Child; Read by Jeff Harding (Penguin Random House Audio)
• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith; Read by Robert Glenister (Little, Brown)
• Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz; Read by Derek Jacobi & Julian Rhind-Tutt (Orion)
• Want You Dead by Peter James; Read by Daniel Weyman (Macmillan Digital Audio)
• Mr Mercedes by Stephen King; Read by Will Patton (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Son by Jo Nesbø; Read by Sean Barrett (Penguin Random House Audio)
• The Hangman’s Song by James Oswald; Read by Ian Hanmore (Penguin Random House Audio)

Last Laugh Award (for best humorous crime novel):

• The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons by Lawrence Block (Orion)
• Crime Always Pays by Declan Burke (Severn House)
• Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart by Christopher Fowler (Bantam/Transworld)
• Kill Your Boss by Shane Kuhn (Little, Brown)
• The Accident by Chris Pavone (Faber & Faber)
• Crooked Herring by L. C. Tyler (Allison & Busby)

eDunnit Award (for best crime fiction ebook):

• No Safe House by Linwood Barclay (Orion)
• The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons by Lawrence Block (Orion)
• A Colder War by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)
• Dark Tides by Chris Ewan (Faber & Faber)
• Natchez Burning by Greg Illes (HarperCollins)
• Hollow Mountain by Thomas Mogford (Bloomsbury)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Thomas Sweterlitsch (Headline)
• The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor (HarperCollins)

H.R.F. Keating Award (for best biography or critical book related to crime fiction):

• Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction by Pamela Bedore (Palgrave)
• Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock by Clare Clarke (Palgrave)
• Nordic Noir by Barry Forshaw (Pocket Essentials)
• Euro Noir by Barry Forshaw (No Exit Press)
• Crime Scene: Britain & Ireland by John Martin (Five Leaves)
• A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley (BBC Books)