Paula Hawkins triumphs at CrimeFest

Paula Hawkins has been honoured at the CrimeFest 2016 Awards.

Hawkins won the £1,000 Audible Sounds of Crime Award for The Girl on the Train (Doubleday), read by Clare Corbett, after beating off competition from Clare Mackintosh, Stephen King and JK Rowling’s Robert Galbraith.

Other winners were Michael Connelly for The Crossing (Orion Publishing Group), who won the Kobo eDunnit Award, Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May and the Burning Man (Transworld) who won the Last Laugh Award and Martin Edwards for The Golden Age of Murder (HarperCollins), who bagged the H.R.F. Keating prize.

The ceremony took place at the Bristol Royal Marriott Hotel to mark the climax of a convention that saw hundreds of authors, publishers, agents and lovers of crime fiction descend on the city for four days of panel discussions, author talks and interviews with award-winning, bestselling crime fiction authors, including appearances from Peter James, Anne Holt, Ian Rankin and Hugh Fraser.

Representing her fellow organisers, CrimeFest co-director Donna Moore said: “These awards recognise and celebrate the breadth and depth of quality in crime fiction and non-fiction. We are thrilled to have such an eclectic mixture of winners that will delight both fans and newcomers to the genre.”