Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is one of the UK's top crime-fiction awards, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier.^[1] It is awarded annually at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in the UK, held every July, as part of the Harrogate International Festivals.^[2] The winner receives £3000 and a small hand-carved oak beer cask carved by one of Britain's last coopers.^[3] Novels eligible are those crime novels published in paperback any time during the previous year.^[4] Voting is by the public with decisions of a jury-panel also taken into account,^[5] a fact not-much publicised by the award organisers, who are keen to emphasize the public-voting aspect of the award.

Recipients

Award winners and nominees

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2005	Mark Billingham	Lazybones	Winner
	Andrew Taylor	The American Boy	Shortlist
	Val McDermid	The Distant Echo
	Simon Kernick	The Murder Exchange
	Ian Rankin	A Question of Blood
	Minette Walters	Disordered Minds
2006	Val McDermid	The Torment of Others	Winner
	Martin Edwards	The Coffin Trail	Shortlist
	Susan Hill	The Various Haunts of Men
	Ian Rankin	Fleshmarket Close
	Stephen Booth	One Last Breath
	Lindsay Ashford	Strange Blood
2007	Allan Guthrie	Two-Way Split	Winner
	Stephen Booth	The Dead Place	Shortlist
	Michael Jecks	The Death Ship of Dartmouth
	Christopher Brookmyre	All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
	Graham Hurley	Blood and Honey
	Stuart MacBride	Cold Granite
2008	Stef Penney	The Tenderness of Wolves	Winner	[6][7]
	Alexander McCall Smith	Blue Shoes and Happiness	Shortlist
	Mark Billingham	Buried
	Stuart MacBride	Dying Light
	Peter James	Not Dead Enough
	Graham Hurley	One Under
	Peter Robinson	Piece of My Heart
	Simon Kernick	Relentless
	C.J. Sansom	Sovereign
	Simon Beckett	The Chemistry of Death
	Reginald Hill	The Death of Dalzeil
	Christopher Brookmyre	A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
2009	Mark Billingham	Death Message	Winner	[8]
	Tom Cain	The Accident Man	Shortlist
	Declan Hughes	The Colour of Blood
	Reginald Hill	A Cure for All Diseases
	Lee Child	Bad Luck and Trouble
	Val McDermid	Beneath the Bleeding
	Stuart MacBride	Broken Skin
	Peter James	Dead Man's Footsteps
	Ian Rankin	Exit Music
	Peter Robinson	Friend of the Devil
	David Hewson	Garden of Evil
	John Harvey	Gone to Ground
	Mo Hayder	Ritual
	Chris Simms	Savage Moon
2010	R. J. Ellory	A Simple Act of Violence	Winner	[9]
	Elly Griffiths	The Crossing Places	Shortlist
	Tania Carver	The Surrogate
	Tom Rob Smith	Child 44
	Peter James	Dead Tomorrow
	Ian Rankin	Doors Open
	Brian McGilloway	Gallows Lane
	Mark Billingham	In the Dark
2011	Lee Child	61 Hours	Winner	[10]
	Andrew Taylor	The Anatomy of Ghosts	Shortlist
	William Ryan	The Holy Thief
	S. J. Bolton	Blood Harvest
	Stuart MacBride	Dark Blood
	Mark Billingham	From the Dead
2012	Denise Mina	The End of the Wasp Season	Winner	[11][12]
	John Connolly	The Burning Soul	Shortlist	[13]
	S. J. Watson	Before I Go to Sleep
	Steve Mosby	Black Flowers
	S. J. Bolton	Now You See Me
	Christopher Brookmyre	Where the Bodies are Buried
2013	Denise Mina	Gods and Beasts	Winner	[14]
	Stav Sherez	A Dark Redemption	Shortlist	[15]
	Peter May	The Lewis Man
	Mark Billingham	Rush of Blood
	Chris Ewan	Safe House
	Stuart Neville	Stolen Souls
2014	Belinda Bauer	Rubbernecker	Winner	[16][17]
	Peter May	The Chess Men	Shortlist	[18]
	Denise Mina	The Red Road
	Malcolm Mackay	Death of Lewis Winter
	Elly Griffiths	Dying Fall
	Stav Sherez	Eleven Days
2015	Sarah Hilary	Someone Else's Skin	Winner	[19]
	Ray Celestin	The Axeman’s Jazz	Shortlist	[20]
	Antonia Hodgson	The Devil in the Marshalsea
	Belinda Bauer	The Facts of Life and Death
	Elly Griffiths	The Outcast Dead
	Peter May	Entry Island
2016	Clare Mackintosh	I Let You Go	Winner	[21][22]
	Robert Galbraith	Career of Evil	Shortlist	[23]
	Renee Knight	Disclaimer
	Adrian McKinty	Rain Dogs
	Eva Dolan	Tell No Tales
	Mark Billingham	Time of Death
2017	Christopher Brookmyre	Black Widow	Winner	[24][25]
	Eva Dolan	After You Die	Shortlist	[26]
	Sabine Durrant	Lie with Me
	Susie Steiner	Missing, Presumed
	Val McDermid	Out of Bounds
	Mick Herron	Real Tigers
2018	Stav Sherez	The Intrusions	Winner	[27][28]
	Denise Mina	The Long Drop	Shortlist	[29]
	Abir Mukherjee	A Rising Man
	Val McDermid	Insidious Intent
	Susie Steiner	Persons Unknown
	Mick Herron	Spook Street
2019	Steve Cavanagh	Thirteen	Winner	[30]
	Liam McIlvanney	The Quaker	Shortlist	[31]
	Val McDermid	Broken Ground
	Khurrum Rahman	East of Hounslow
	Mick Herron	London Rules
	Belinda Bauer	Snap
2020	Adrian McKinty	The Chain	Winner	[32][33]
	Jane Harper	The Lost Man	Shortlist	[34]
	Mick Herron	Joe Country
	Oyinkan Braithwaite	My Sister, the Serial Killer
	Abir Mukherjee	Smoke and Ashes
	Helen Fitzgerald	Worst Case Scenario
2021	Chris Whitaker	We Begin at the End	Winner	[35]
	Elly Griffiths	The Lantern Men	Shortlist	[36]
	Brian McGilloway	The Last Crossing
	Trevor Wood	The Man on the Street
	Rosamund Lupton	The Three Hours
	Abir Mukherjee	Death in the East
2022	Mick Herron	Slough House	Winner	[37]
	Laura Shepherd-Robinson	Daughters of Night	Shortlist	[38]
	Vaseem Khan	Midnight at Malabar House
	Will Dean	The Last Thing to Burn
	Elly Griffiths	The Night Hawks
	Joseph Knox	True Crime Story
2023	M. W. Craven	The Botanist	Winner	[39]
	Fiona Cummins	Into the Dark	Shortlist	[40]
	Elly Griffiths	The Locked Room
	Doug Johnstone	Black Hearts
	Gillian McAllister	Wrong Place, Wrong time
	Ruth Ware	The It Girl
2024	Jo Callaghan	In the Blink of an Eye	Winner
	Mark Billingham	The Last Dance	Shortlist
	Mick Herron	The Secret Hours
	William Hussey	Killing Jericho
	Lisa Jewell	None of This is True
	Liz Nugent	Strange Sally Diamond

Outstanding Contribution

Year	Author	Result	Ref.
2022	Michael Connelly	Awarded
2023	Ann Cleeves	Awarded	[39]
2024	Martina Cole	Awarded