Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is the UK's top crime-fiction award, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in the UK, held every July, as part of the Harrogate International Festivals. The winner receives £3000 and a small hand-carved oak beer cask carved by one of Britain's last coopers. Novels eligible are those crime novels published in paperback any time during the previous year, thus making the shortlists seem more out-of-date than for most prizes. It is also the only such crime-fiction award in the UK to be voted for partly by the public. Decisions of a jury-panel are also taken into account, a fact not-much publicised by the award organisers, who are keen to emphasize the public-voting aspect of the award.

Winners and nominees

2005

• Mark Billingham – Lazybones
  • Simon Kernick – The Murder Exchange
  • Val McDermid – The Distant Echo
  • Ian Rankin – A Question of Blood
  • Andrew Taylor – The American Boy
  • Minette Walters – Disordered Minds

2006

• Val McDermid – The Torment of Others
  • Lindsay Ashford – Strange Blood
  • Stephen Booth – One Last Breath
  • Martin Edwards – The Coffin Trail
  • Susan Hill – The Various Haunts of Men
  • Ian Rankin – Fleshmarket Close

2007

• Allan Guthrie – Two-Way Split
  • Stephen Booth – The Dead Place
  • Christopher Brookmyre – All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
  • Michael Jecks – The Death Ship of Dartmouth
  • Stuart MacBride – Cold Granite
  • Graham Hurley – Blood and Honey

2008

• Stef Penney – The Tenderness of Wolves^[1]
  • Simon Beckett
  • Mark Billingham

2009

• Mark Billingham – Death Message^[2]
  • Reginald Hill - A Cure for All Diseases^[3]
  • Lee Child - Bad Luck and Trouble^[3]
  • Val McDermid - Beneath The Bleeding^[3]
  • Stuart MacBride - Broken Skin^[3]
  • Peter James - Dead Man’s Footsteps^[3]
  • Ian Rankin - Exit Music^[3]
  • Peter Robinson - Friend of the Devil^[3]
  • David Hewson - Garden of Evil^[3]
  • John Harvey - Gone to Ground^[3]
  • Mo Hayder - Ritual^[3]
  • Chris Simms - Savage Moon^[3]
  • Tom Cain - The Accident Man^[3]
  • Declan Hughes - The Colour of Blood^[3]

2010

• R J Ellory – A Simple Act of Violence

2011

• Lee Child – 61 Hours

2012

• Denise Mina - The End of the Wasp Season^[4]
  • S.J. Bolton - Now You See Me
  • Christopher Brookmyre - Where the Bodies are Buried
  • John Connolly - The Burning Soul
  • Steve Mosby - Black Flowers
  • S. J. Watson - Before I Go to Sleep

2013

• Denise Mina - Gods and Beasts^[5]
  • Mark Billingham - Rush of Blood
  • Chris Ewan - Safe House
  • Peter May - The Lewis Man
  • Stuart Neville - Stolen Souls
  • Stav Sherez - A Dark Redemption

2014

• Belinda Bauer - Rubbernecker
  • Elly Griffiths - Dying Fall
  • Malcolm Mackay - Death of Lewis Winter
  • Peter May - The Chess Men
  • Denise Mina - The Red Road
  • Stav Sherez - Eleven Days

References

1. "Theakston's Crime award goes to mainstream first novel". The Guardian (London). 2008-07-18. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
2. Flood, Alison (2009-07-27). "Mark Billingham wins crime novel of the year award". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2010-03-06.
3. "Book Prize Information". Retrieved 2013-05-07.
4. Alison Flood (20 July 2012). "Denise Mina wins crime novel of the year award". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
5. Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2013