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John Murray author Rory Clements has been awarded the 2010 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award, beating his stablemates Aly Monroe and Andrew Williams.
Clements took home the £3,000 prize for his novel Revenger, set in the late 16th century during the reign of Elizabeth I.
The other runners up were John Murray authors Aly Monroe for Washington Shadow and Andrew Williams’ To Kill A Tsar, plus Heartstone by C J Sansom (Mantle), Heresy by S J Parris (HarperCollins) and The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor (Penguin).
The prize, which is sponsored by the estate of Ellis Peters, Headline and Little, Brown, was awarded yesterday evening (4th November). Set up to award the best historical crime novel (set in any period up to 35 years prior), the prize commemorates the work of the Cadfael author.