Dean, Tudor and Cosby among winners of the inaugural Fingerprint Awards

The winners of the inaugural Fingerprint Awards, celebrating international crime and thriller writing, have been announced, with S A Cosby, C J Tudor and Abigail Dean among the winners, while the late Thalia Proctor was also honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Announced by actor and author Paul Clayton on 29th September at Capital Crime, the winners of six out of eight categories were voted for online by crime and thriller fans. 

Winner of Crime Book of the Year was Sarah Pearse for The Sanatorium (Transworld); winner of Thriller Book of the Year was Cosby’s Razorblade Tears (Headline); Laura Purcell took home the prize for Historical Crime Book of the Year for Shape of Darkness (Bloomsbury); and Dean’s Girl A (HarperCollins) won Debut Book of the Year. 

Genre-busting Book of the Year went to The Burning Girl by Tudor (Penguin) and Audiobook of the Year went to Ragnar Jonasson and Amanda Redman for The Girl Who Died (Penguin).

The winners of the Industry Award of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award were chosen solely by the Capital Crime Advisory Board.

The Industry Award of the Year was won by HarperCollins for Girl A by Abigail Dean and the Lifetime Achievement Award was posthumously awarded to editor Proctor, who passed away earlier this year. 

Capital Crime Festival director Lizzie Curle said: “We were honoured to kick off the inaugural Fingerprint Awards with Paul Clayton at the helm. We are grateful for all the support we have received from publishers, authors, and most importantly, the readers, who make these awards possible.”