Excellent news from the UK!
Silver has been named a Times/Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year for 2020. This is a great honour, and follows on from Scrublands being named a Crime Book of the Year for 2019. Huge thanks to UK publishers Headline/Wildfire who have done so much to promote the book.
Here’s the whole list. You can Silver is in some pretty good company.
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Victoria Cribb
Silver by Chris Hammer
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts
Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi
Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
Three-Fifths by John Vercher
Trace Elements by Donna Leon
Three by DA Mishani, translated by Jessica Cohen
Cry Baby by Mark Billingham
A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
Darkness for Light by Emma Viskic
Hi Five by Joe Ide
Snow by John Banville
And congratulation to Emma Viskic – the other Aussie to make the cut!