In Two Minds
Alis Hawkins
The Dome Press
Sapere Books Historical Dagger
This Year's Winner
Death in the East
Abir Mukherjee
Harvill Secker
Young constable Sam Wyndham deals with a death in Edwardian Whitechapel that has personal issues for him. Seventeen years later in 1920s Raj-era India, assisted by Sergeant Banerjee, Sam finds himself faced with the same ruthless killer and a fiendishly clever murder.
This award is for the best historical crime novel, first published in the UK in English during the Judging Period, set in any period up to 50 years prior to the year in which the award will be made. For novels that involve passages set later than this time period, at least three quarters of the book should be set in an earlier period.
Shortlist
Metropolis
Philip Kerr
Quercus
Death in the East
Abir Mukherjee
Harvill Secker
The Bear Pit
S.G. MacLean
Quercus
The Anarchists’ Club
Alex Reeve
Raven Books
The Paper Bark Tree Mystery
Ovidia Yu
Constable
The Judges 2021
Janet Laurence
Janet Laurence has written four cookery books and has contributed articles to a number of publications, including a series on historical cooking for Country Life. Under a pseudonym she also writes contemporary women’s fiction and was recently chair of the judging panel for the CWA International Dagger (now Crime in Translation).
Angela Rippon
Angela May Rippon CBE is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Angela presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One’s Nine O’Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975.
Professor Edward James (Chair)
Edward James is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College Dublin. He has published numerous papers on the archaeology, art and history of early medieval Europe. He is also an enthusiastic reader of science fiction and fantasy. In 2017 the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts presented him with their Distinguished Scholarship Award.
2020 Shortlist
Title | Author | Publisher |
THE BEAR PIT | SG MacLean | Quercus Fiction |
THE ANARCHISTS’ CLUB | Alex Reeve | Raven Books |
METROPOLIS | Philip Kerr | Quercus Fiction |
THE PAPER BARK TREE MYSTERY | Ovidia Yu | Constable |
IN TWO MINDS | Alis Hawkins | The Dome Press |
DEATH IN THE EAST | Abir Mukherjee | Harvill Secker |
2020 Longlist
Title | Author | Publisher |
THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY | Lynne Truss | Raven Books |
THE KING’S EVIL | Andrew Taylor | Harper Collins |
THE BEAR PIT | SG MacLean | Quercus Fiction |
THE ANARCHISTS’ CLUB | Alex Reeve | Raven Books |
METROPOLIS | Philip Kerr | Quercus Fiction |
THE PAPER BARK TREE MYSTERY | Ovidia Yu | Constable |
THE SERPENT’S MARK | SW Perry | Corvus |
IN TWO MINDS | Alis Hawkins | The Dome Press |
LIBERATION SQUARE | Gareth Rubin | Michael Joseph |
THE BONE FIRE | SD Sykes | Hodder & Stoughton |
SORRY FOR THE DEAD | Nicola Upson | Faber & Faber |
DEATH IN THE EAST | Abir Mukherjee | Harvill Secker |