Scottish novelist takes £3,000 award with book that judge Elly Griffith said ‘cements his place in the pantheon of great crime writers’
Chris Brookmyre’s story of cyber-abuse, sexism and murder, Black Widow, has collected its second award, after being named crime novel of the year at the Theakston Old Peculier crime writing festival on Thursday night.
“I’m over the moon,” said Brookmyre, whose book beat titles including Val McDermid’s Out of Bounds and Susie Steiner’s Missing, Presumed to win the £3,000 prize. The Scottish novelist has been shortlisted three times before for the award. Last autumn, Black Widow won the inaugural McIlvanney prize at the Bloody Scotland festival.
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