Crime writer Neil Lancaster based on the Black Isle is longlisted for top crime award the McIlvanney Prize
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Black Isle crime writer neil Lancaster has been named on the longlist for the McIlvanney Prize 2022.
In Bloody Scotland’s 10th Anniversary year, 10 books emerged after the prize readers scores were tallied.
Six years ago, the Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award was renamed the McIlvanney Prize in memory of William McIlvanney. The prize recognises excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000 and nationwide promotion in Waterstones.
Neil Lancaster's The Blood Tide, (Harpercollins) – the second in the DS Max Craigie series and partially-set on a remote loch on the West Coast – is joined on the longlist by:
May God Forgive, Alan Parks (Canongate)
The Second Cut, Louise Welsh (Canongate)
A Rattle Of Bones, Douglas Skelton (Polygon)
From The Ashes, Deborah Masson (Transworld)
A Matter of Time, Claire Askew (Hodder)
A Corruption Of Blood, Ambrose Parry (Canongate)
The Heretic, Liam McIlvanney (Harpercollins)
Rizzio, Denise Mina (Polygon)
The Sound of Sirens, Ewan Gault (Leamington Books).
The McIlvanney Prize will be judged by Ayo Onatade, winner of the CWA Red Herring Award and freelance crime fiction critic, Janice Forsyth, presenter of the Afternoon Show on BBC Radio Scotland and Ewan Wilson, crime fiction buyer from Waterstones Glasgow. The Glencairn Glass, the world’s favourite whisky glass, is again sponsoring both The McIlvanney Prize and The Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel of the Year for 2022.
