This year’s Bloody Scotland crime-writing festival, which will take place in Stirling, Scotland, from September 15 to 17, announced the finalists for their two prestigious awards, the McIlvanney Prize, awarded to the best Scottish Crime book of the year (renamed in 2016 in memory of William McIlvanney, often described as the "Godfather of Tartan Noir"); and the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize. The winners will be declared at Bloody Scotland on Friday, September 15. Congrats to all!
This list of this year's nominees include:
McIlvanney Prize
- Ritual of Fire, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
- The Things We Do to Our Friends, by Heather Darwent (Penguin)
- The Maiden, by Kate Foster (Mantle)
- Penitent, by Mark Leggatt (Fledgling Press)
- The Bookseller of Inverness, by S.G. Maclean (Quercus)
- Squeaky Clean, by Callum McSorley (Pushkin)
- 1989, by Val McDermid (Little, Brown)
- The Second Murderer, by Denise Mina (Vintage)
- Cast a Cold Eye, by Robbie Morrison (Macmillan)
- A Heart Full of Headstones, by Ian Rankin (Orion)
- The Devil’s Playground, by Craig Russell (Little, Brown)
- An Honourable Thief, by Douglas Skelton (Canelo)
Debut Prize
- Unsolved, by Heather Critchlow (Canelo)
- The Things We Do to Our Friends, by Heather Darwent (Penguin)
- The Maiden, by Kate Foster (Mantle)
- Squeaky Clean, by Callum McSorley (Pushkin)
- The Unforgiven Dead, by Fulton Ross (Inkshares)
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