Readers, we salute you. We asked you to have your say and now we’ve crowned your winners!
On Friday 22 July 2022, crime and thriller lovers came together at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate to celebrate their favourite books and authors at the sixth Dead Good Reader Awards.
Here are the authors voted best in class – by YOU!
The Something in the Air Award for Most Atmospheric Novel:
Winner
I Know What You’ve Done by Dorothy Koomson
Shortlist
Bamburgh by L J Ross Breathless by Amy McCulloch I Know What You’ve Done by Dorothy Koomson No Honour by Awais Khan The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee The Shape of Darkness by Laura PurcellBreathless by Amy McCulloch
I Know What You've Done by Dorothy Koomson
The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee
The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell
The Love is Blind Award for Most Twisted Couple:
Winner
The Couple at No 9 by Claire Douglas
Shortlist
The Couple at No 9 by Claire Douglas The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Into the Dark by Fiona Cummins Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge Nasty Little Cuts by Tina Baker Nobody But Us by Laure van RensburgThe Couple at No. 9 by Claire Douglas
The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Into the Dark by Fiona Cummins
Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge
Nasty Little Cuts by Tina Baker
Nobody But Us by Laure Van Rensburg
The Cold as Ice Award for Most Chilling Read:
Winner
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
Shortlist
Breathless by Amy McCulloch Deadly Cure by Mahi Cheshire The Hollows by Mark Edwards The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson One For Sorrow by Helen Fields The Sanatorium by Sarah PearseBreathless by Amy McCulloch
Deadly Cure by Mahi Cheshire
The Hollows by Mark Edwards
The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson
One For Sorrow by Helen Fields
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
The Race-Against-Time Award for Best Action Thriller:
Winner
Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
Shortlist
Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz Dead Ground by M W Craven The Devil’s Advocate by Steve Cavanagh Hostage by Clare Mackintosh No Way to Die by Tony KentBetter Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child
Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz
Dead Ground by M. W. Craven
The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh
Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
No Way to Die by Tony Kent
The New Kid on the Block Award for Best New Series:
Winner
Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series
Shortlist
Joy Kluver’s Bernadette Noel series Neil Lancaster’s Max Craigie series Val McDermid’s Allie Burns series C K McDonnell’s Stranger Times series Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series Glenda Young’s Helen Dexter seriesLeft For Dead by Joy Kluver
The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster
This Charming Man by C K McDonnell
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young
The Dead Good Recommends Awards for Most Recommended Book:
Winner
The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths
Shortlist
Deadly Cure by Mahi Cheshire Do No Harm by Jack Jordan I Know What You’ve Done by Dorothy Koomson The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge The Locked Room by Elly GriffithsDeadly Cure by Mahi Cheshire
Do No Harm by Jack Jordan
I Know What You've Done by Dorothy Koomson
The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean
Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge
The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths
Congratulations to all the winning authors and those shortlisted for the Dead Good Reader Awards 2022!
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