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Val McDermid and Doug Sinclair among McIlvanney Prize 2024 longlist
The longlist for the McIlvanney Prize has been announced today by Bloody Scotland.
The award, previously known as the Bloody Scotland Prize for Scottish Crime Writing, will be presented on Friday 13th September on the first night of the Bloody Scotland Festival.
This year’s longlist features Doug Sinclair, who is also on the shortlist for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize. It also features two previous winners, Chris Brookmyre and Charles Cumming.
Established former longlistees like Val McDermid will battle with first-time longlistees including Abir Mukherjee and Kim Sherwood.
This year’s prize will be judged by BBC Scotland presenter, Bryan Burnett, crime writing manager for Waterstones, Angie Crawford, and journalist and editor, Arusa Qureshi.
The 2024 longlist is selected by a booksellers, librarians, bloggers and broadcasters.
The longlist in full:
- D V Bishop – A Divine Fury (Pan Macmillan)
- Chris Brookmyre – The Cracked Mirror (Sphere)
- Charles Cumming – Kennedy 35 (HarperCollins)
- Andrew James Greig – The Girl in the Loch (Storm Publishing)
- Doug Johnstone – The Collapsing Wave (Orenda)
- S G Maclean – The Winter List (Quercus)
- Val McDermid – Past Lying (Sphere)
- Abir Mukherjee – Hunted (Vintage)
- C S Robertson – The Trials of Marjory Crowe (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Kim Sherwood – A Spy Like Me (HarperCollins)
- Doug Sinclair – Blood Runs Deep (Storm Publishing)
- Douglas Skelton – The Hollow Mountain (Polygon)
