Rennie Airth

Rennie Airth (born 1935)^[1] is a South African novelist who currently resides in Italy.^[2] Airth has also worked as foreign correspondent for the Reuters news service.^[2]

Rennie Airth
Born	1935
Nationality	South African
Notable awards	Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 2000 River of Darkness

Novels

His works include Snatch! (1969), Once A Spy (1981), and a series of murder mysteries set in England between 1921 and 1949 featuring Detective Inspector John Madden of Scotland Yard (later retired). The first of these, River of Darkness (1999), won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for best international crime novel in 2000 and was nominated for Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity awards in the States.^[3] Airth found inspiration for that tale in a scrapbook about his uncle, a soldier killed in World War I.^[4] A sequel, The Blood-Dimmed Tide, was published in 2003, and a third book, The Dead of Winter, in 2009.^[5] Although Airth initially intended to write a trilogy about Madden,^[6] in 2014 he produced a fourth entry in the series, The Reckoning, and followed that with The Death of Kings (2017).

Awards

Awards for Airth's writing

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
2000	River of Darkness	Anthony Award for Best Novel	Finalist	[7]
		Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel	Finalist	[7]
		Dilys Award	Finalist	[7]
		Edgar Award for Best Novel	Finalist	[7][1]
		Grand Prix de Littérature Policière	Winner	[3][1]
		Historical Dagger Award	Finalist	[7]
		Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel	Finalist	[7]
2006	The Blood-Dimmed Tide	Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel	Finalist	[7]
2009	The Dead of Winter	Historical Dagger Award	Finalist	[7]

Publications

• Snatch (1969)
• Once A Spy (1981)
• Detective Inspector John Madden
  • River of Darkness (1999)
  • The Blood-Dimmed Tide (2004)
  • The Dead of Winter (2009)
  • The Reckoning (2014)
  • The Death of Kings (2017)
  • The Decent Inn of Death (2020)