CrimeFest

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Congrats to all! #CrimeFestAwards

Winner of The Thalia Proctor Memorial Award for Best Adapted TV Crime Drama is: Slow Horses, Mick Herron (Apple TV) @AppleTV

Winner of the #CrimeFest Best Crime Fiction Award for Children (8-12) is: @sufiyaahmed for Rosie Raja: Undercover Codebreaker(Bloomsbury Education) @BloomsburyEd

Winner of the #CrimeFest Best Crime Fiction Award for Young Adults (12-16) is: @KayvionLewis for Heist Royale (Simon & Schuster Children's Books) @simonkids_UK @simonYAbooks

Winner of the #CrimeFest Last Laugh Award is: Mike Ripley for Mr Campion's Christmas (Severn House) @severnhouse

Winner of the H.R.F Keating Award for non-fiction, is: @DrMarkAldridge for Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness (HarperCollins) @HarperCollinsUK

Winner of the #CrimeFest eDunnit Award for best electronic book is: @hanff_jean for The Sequel (Faber) @FaberBooks

We begin with the hotly-contended @Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, with a £1k cash prize. Congrats Akira Otani (and translator Sam Bett) for The Night of Baba Yaga (Faber) @FaberBooks

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the (final) #CrimeFestAwards! The awards ceremony took place this eve (Saturday 17 May) in Bristol. The awards began 17 years ago, and honour the best crime fiction and non-fiction books released in the UK in the last year.

Today (7 May) is the last day CrimeFest will take online reservations! After that, full passes and Friday and Saturday Day tickets will be available at the CrimeFest registration desk at the convention hotel. Get your TICKETS now! Head over to crimefest.com

That's it! Please join us in congratulating all the finalists for the #CrimeFestAwards ! It promises to be a historic year as after 17 years sees the final #CrimeFest...See you in #Bristol!

The 2025 #CrimeFest shortlist for The Thalia Proctor Memorial Award for Best Adapted TV Crime Drama is: Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen; Dalgliesh P.D. James; Lady in the Lake Laura Lippman; Moonflower Murders Anthony Horowitz; Slow Horses Mick Herron; The Turkish Detective Barbara Nadel

The 2025 #CrimeFest shortlist for Best Crime Fiction Award for Young Adults (12-16) is: @hf_askwith; @DeniseBrownUK; @alisonclack1; @amiescool; @KayvionLewis; @writerkmc

The 2025 #CrimeFest shortlist for the Last Laugh Award is: @AceCathy; DG Coutinho; Bella Mackie; @orlandomurrin; Mike Ripley; @antti_tuomainen

The 2025 #CrimeFest shortlist for the Best Crime Fiction Award for Children (8-12) is: @sufiyaahmed; @NatashaFarrant1; @AMHowellwrites; @MGLnrd @bethatintervals; @nicki_thornton

The 2025 #CrimeFest shortlist for the H.R.F Keating Award for non-fiction, is: @DrMarkAldridge; @jembloomfield; Ashley Bowden; Dan Coxon & @vivmondo; @LearNonsense; @LaPlanteLynda

The 2025 #CrimeFest shortlist for the eDunnit Award for best electronic book is: @medwardsbooks; @LaurieRKing; - @hanff_jean; Bella Mackie; @LizMooreBooks; Peter Swanson

We begin with the hotly-contended @Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, with a £1k cash prize. The shortlist is: @TBaragwanath; Tasha Coryell @CLMillerAuthor; Akira Otani; @tsierraauthor; @ByClaireWilson