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CrimeFest goes annual
10.06.08 Anna Richardson
Organisors of Bristol's CrimeFest crime writing convention have decided to make the event annual, following this year's success. Originally conceived as a biennial event, the festival will return next year, from 14th to 17th May.
This year's festival took place last week (5th to 8th June), with its crime fiction awards among the higlights.
The Last Laugh Award went to Ruth Dudley Edwards for Murdering Americans, while the new Audible Sounds of Crime prize for best abridged crime audiobook was awarded to Ian Rankin's Exit Music and the best unabridged audiobook went to David Hewson's The Seventh Sacrament.
The awards will be presented again next year, with Audible UK continuing as sponsor of the Sounds of Crime prizes. Thriller writer Meg Gardiner will be the 2009 Toastmistress, and one of the featured guest authors will be Simon Brett.
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