PAST WINNERS


2025 Hunted Harvill Secker/Mukherjee


2024 None of This Is True Century/Jewell


2023 The Twyford Code Viper/Hallett


2022 The Dark Remains Canongate/McIlvanney, Rankin


2021 Troubled Blood Sphere/Galbraith


BOOK OF THE YEAR Crime & Thriller


A Case of Mice and Murder, Sally Smith’s “exquisitely written” murder mystery, set in London’s Inner Temple, was singled out by the judges as a “standout in this category”. The panel agreed that Smith’s creation, Edwardian barrister Gabriel Ward KC, was a new “memorable sleuth” on the crime and thriller shelves. Raven Books set out to make Smith’s debut a hit, executing Bloomsbury’s biggest paperback campaign of the year. In a “tremendously successful” marketing campaign, the team created their


first-ever television book trailer and executed a Daily Mail website takeover. They put author care at the heart of their publicity strategy, deferring to Smith’s wish that her legal career not be used to publicise the book. However, appearances at Capital Crime and Bloody Scotland festivals made Smith a new talent to watch. The panel agreed that A Case of Mice and Murder represented “everything we want to foster in great British crime writing”.


A Case of Mice and Murder Sally Smith RAVEN BOOKS


THE SHORTLIST


Death at the White Hart CHRIS CHIBNALL


The God of the Woods LIZ MOORE


The Impossible Fortune RICHARD OSMAN


The Secret


of Secrets DAN BROWN


The Tenant FREIDA MCFADDEN


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