Longlist Announced For The Mcilvanney Prize For Scottish Criminal Offence Mass Of The Twelvemonth 2018

"Forty-one years ago, William McIlvanney rocked the British literary world with Laidlaw, a gritty too socially witting criminal offense new that brought Glasgow to life to a greater extent than vividly than anything before. This year's longlistees for the McIlvanney Prize demonstrate how modern Scottish criminal offense writing has flourished from those seeds. From debutants to authors with more than xx books, spy thrillers to long-running detective series, nineteenth-century mysteries to futuristic space station noir, there's an amazing hit of talent on show."

Craig Sisterson – Chair of the Judges 2018

 

‘I went to Bloody Scotland too I was simply knocked out... this effect was too hence friendly, too hence supportive I was honestly overwhelmed’

William McIlvanney – speaking on BBC Scotland, 2012

 

Two years agone the Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award was renamed the McIlvanney Prize inwards retentiveness of William McIlvanney who established the tradition of Scottish detective fiction. This twelvemonth his son, Liam McIlvanney, has made the longlist for the 2018 McIlvanney Prize.

The consummate longlist, revealed today, has been chosen past times an independent panel of readers:
Follow the Dead by Lin Anderson (Macmillan),

Places inwards the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre (Little, Brown)
Presumed Dead  past times Mason Cross (Orion)
The Man Between by Charles Cumming (Harper Collins)

The Loch of the Dead by Oscar De Muriel (Michael Joseph),

Perfect Death past times Helen Fields (Harper Collins)

Now She’s Gone by Alison James (Bookouture)

The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney (Harper Collins)

No Time to Cry past times James Oswald (Headline)
The Suffering of Strangers by Caro Ramsay (Severn House)

The Hunter by Andrew Reid (Headline)

The Photographer by Craig Robertson (Simon & Schuster)

It features an intriguing mix of previous winners, established criminal offense writing luminaries, unopen to emerging talent too a debut.  The honour recognises excellence inwards Scottish criminal offense writing, includes a prize of £1,000 too nationwide advertisement inwards Waterstones.

The judges for the side past times side circular volition live chaired past times Craig Sisterson too include comedian too criminal offense fiction fan, Susan Calman who similar Craig is joining the panel for a minute twelvemonth too criminal offense reviewer, Alison Flood.

The finalists volition live revealed at the commencement of September too the winner kept nether wraps until the ceremony itself which this twelvemonth volition accept house at the Church of the Holy Rude inwards Stirling too followed past times a torchlight procession – led past times the winner accompanied past times Denise Mina too Val McDermid – to their inaugural off effect at the Albert Halls.

Both the opening ceremony too the torchlight procession are opened upwards to the populace but tickets are selling fast too capacity is less than at the castle lastly twelvemonth too hence people are urged to majority them now.

Previous winners are Denise Mina with The Long Drop 2017, Chris Brookmyre with Black Widow 2016, Craig Russell alongside The Ghosts of Altona inwards 2015, Peter May with Entry Island in 2014, Malcolm Mackay with How Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Gunman Says Goodbye in 2013 too Charles Cumming with A Foreign Country in 2012.
 

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