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Quercus fiction publisher Jane Wood has won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the opening of the Capital Crime festival, while the Vintage publicity team and authors Gillian McAllister and Adele Parks also scooped major prizes.
The awards were presented at a ceremony last night (Thursday 31st August) at the Leonardo Royal Hotel, in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral.
Crime and thriller fans voted online to name McAllister’s Wrong Place Wrong Time (Michael Joseph) Thriller Book of the Year while Bleeding Heart Yard (Quercus) by Elly Griffiths scooped Crime Book of the Year; The Maid (HarperCollins) by Nita Prose won Debut Book of the Year and One Last Secret by Parks (HQ), narrated by Kristen Atherton, snapped up Audiobook of the Year.
The Genre-Busting Book of the Year went to Erin Kelly for The Skeleton Key (Hodder) while Tom Hindle won Historical Crime Book of the Year for A Fatal Crossing (Cornerstone).
The winners of the Publishing Campaign of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award were chosen solely by the Capital Crime Advisory Board, which is made up of people from all aspects of publishing including publishers, editors, booksellers, authors, bloggers and journalists. The Publishing Campaign of the Year was won by Viking for Richard Osman’s The Bullet That Missed and the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Jane Wood, fiction publisher at Quercus Publishing.
Capital Crime co-founder and Goldsboro Books m.d. David Headley said: “Capital Crime is a festival for readers, and we were delighted that so many of them voted in droves for the winners of the Fingerprint Awards – what better way to honour the authors in each category than by their fans voting for the winner? The competition was very close indeed – understandably given the incredible quality of the shortlisted authors.
“But I was overjoyed to see some of my favourite books from 2022 recognised by the readers who make everything we do worthwhile."
With over 2,000 votes cast, the winners saw stiff competition from authors such as Janice Hallett, M W Craven, Ruth Ware and Vaseem Khan. The shortlist was revealed back in July.
The first day at Capital Crime also saw Shari Lapena play a game of ‘Two Truths and a Lie’ with Clare Mackintosh, and Dorothy Koomson and Louise Candlish discuss ‘villainous women and untrustworthy husbands’ with Lisa Howells.