Long List Announced - Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2014

2014 marks the tenth year of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The award, run in partnership with T & R Theakston, WHSmith and Radio Times, was created to celebrate the very best in crime writing and is open to British and Irish authors whose novels were published in paperback over the previous twelve months. Crime writing’s most coveted accolade, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award returns to highlight the cream of the crop of crime novels. The winning author receives a cash prize of £3000 and a handmade, engraved beer barrel provided by Theakstons Old Peculier.

2014 Longlist Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes The Dying Hours by Mark Billingham Like This, For Ever by Sharon Bolton A Wanted Man by Lee Child The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths Until You're Mine by Samantha Hayes The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay The Chessmen by Peter May I Hear The Sirens In The Street by Adrian McKinty The Red Road by Denise Mina Ratlines by Stuart Neville Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson Eleven Days by Stav Sherez Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth