2019 winning story
A Perfect Murderer - Ray Bazowski “There’s something that needs to be said at the start.” This forbidding sentence was how Mother always began family meetings. Since flight was impractical and fight inconceivable, we all looked for ways to b...
Alis Hawkins’ Indie Bookshop Tour: Crickhowell
Bookish, Crickhowell : Alis Hawkins is celebrating National Crime Reading Month and the publication of In Two Minds, the second in her Teifi Valley Coroner historical crime series by visiting all of Wales’s independent bookshops. Alis ...
2019 runner up
Decluttering - Rosie De Vekey The Greenville Herald 21st December 2018 ‘Ghosting husbands’ on the rise! Pressures of Trump’s America blamed for men disappearing from families in record numbers. A beginning It’s a war...
Alis Hawkins Indie Bookshop Tour: Haverfordwest
Victoria Bookshop, Haverfordwest: Alis Hawkins is celebrating National Crime Reading Month and the publication of In Two Minds, the second in her Teifi Valley Coroner historical crime series by visiting all of Wales’s independent bookshops. &nbs...
2019 shortlisted story
Trick of the Eye - Louise Harnby ‘Maybe they bricked it up and skimmed it but it was there.’ Laura Hughes swears there was a door but I’m looking at concrete. On the other side is a room that never sleeps. The call centre runs twenty-four...
Alis Hawkins’ Indie Bookshop Tour: St David’s Bookshop
St David’s Bookshop, St David’s, Pembrokeshire Britain’s smallest bookshop: Alis Hawkins is celebrating National Crime Reading Month and the publication of In Two Minds, the second in her Teifi Valley Coroner historical crime series by visi...
2019 shortlisted story
Slipher’s Rail - Sherry Rankin One summer in Arkansas, I fell in love with my cousin. When I first told Marta, she said, “How original” in that dry, measured tone of hers. “That’s a disgusting stereotype with absolutely no basis in...
RIP Sue Grafton
The crime and thriller community mourns the loss of Sue Grafton. Not only was she a magnificent writer and the alphabet series, featuring doughty sleuth Kinsey Millhone, which began with A Is For Alibi in 1982 and ended just prematurely with Y Is For...
2018 winning story
The Value of Vermin Control - Russell Day I took my hat off and cleared my throat. The young man behind the armour glass and the steel bars didn’t look up, even though I was his only customer. I wasn’t especially surprised. In my experience, p...
2017 winning story
Box Clever - Sam Hepburn I’ve always been a dreamer – the nerdy kid hunched over his Playstation dreaming of being popular, the geeky teenager in sweaty boxers dreaming of hitting the big time with his latest bit of software, the broke student...
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