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The audiobook of Ian Rankin's Standing in Another Man's Grave, read by James MacPherson (Orion Audio), has won Audible's Sounds of Crime Award for best crime audiobook at the CrimeFest 2013 Awards. The winning author and reader share the £1,000 prize.
Meanwhile Ruth Dudley Edwards won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award (£500), sponsored by Goldsboro Books, for best humorous crime novel with Killing The Emperors (Allison & Busby); Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May and the Invisible Code (Transworld) won the eDunnit Award (£500 and an e-reader) for best crime fiction e-book.
British Crime Writing: an Encyclopaedia (Greenwood World Publishing), edited by Barry Forshaw [pictured], took the H R F Keating Award for best biography/critical book related to crime fiction published between 2008-2012. The award was set up in the name of Harry Keating, a crime novelist and reviewer for the Times who died in 2011.
The ceremony took place at the Bristol Royal Marriott Hotel on Friday (1st June) as the climax of the CrimeFest convention, which attracted over 400 delegates.
CrimeFest co-founder and co-organiser Adrian Muller said the awards "very much reflect the variety of crime fiction which is celebrated at CrimeFest", adding: "Two awards categories particularly stood out this year; the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award, where four past winners were nominated and battled it out for this year's trophy; and the H R F Keating Award, which allowed us to highlight some criminally overlooked publications that are about the genre we all love."