Black Widow, a novel of ‘twists within twists’, takes £1,000 award now rebranded as the William McIlvanney prize
Chris Brookmyre has beaten Val McDermid to the Scottish crime book of the year award with his novel Black Widow, a story of cyber-abuse in which, judges said, “even the twists have twists”.
Telling of a surgeon, Diana Jager, whose personal details are released online after she is exposed as the author of an anonymous blog about sexism in surgery, Black Widow was named winner of the inaugural McIlvanney prize at the Bloody Scotland festival this weekend. Formerly the Scottish crime book of the year award, the prize was renamed in honour of the late author William McIlvanney, who was known as “the godfather of tartan noir”.
@cbrookmyre so it is! Finished in early hours of this morning - brilliant!
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