Harrogate International Festivals announced today the 18 titles longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2025, the UK’s most prestigious crime fiction award, now in its twenty-first year.

The 2025 longlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, are announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous...

Mick Herron is the 2025 recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger

In the Blink of An Eye by debut author Jo Callaghan has been announced as the winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024. In the Blink of An Eye introduces an intriguing detective double act as bereaved DCS Kat Frank is chosen to...

The 2024 winners of the Dagger Awards have been announced.