WINNER REVEALED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2024


WINNER REVEALED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2024:

Chris Brookmyre – The Cracked Mirror (Sphere) 

LONGLIST:

D V Bishop – A Divine Fury (Pan Macmillan)

Val McDermid – Past Lying (Sphere)

Charles Cumming – Kennedy 35 (HarperCollins)

Andrew James Greig – The Girl in the Loch (Storm Publishing)

Doug Johnstone – The Collapsing Wave (Orenda)

S G Maclean – The Winter List (Quercus)

Abir Mukherjee – Hunted (Vintage)

C S Robertson – The Trials of Marjory Crowe (Hodder & Stoughton)

Kim Sherwood – A Spy Like Me (HarperCollins)

Doug Sinclair – Blood Runs Deep (Storm Publishing)

Douglas Skelton – The Hollow Mountain (Polygon) 

This year the prize was judged by BBC Scotland presenter, Bryan Burnett; Category Manager for Waterstones, Angie Crawford and Journalist and Editor, Arusa Qureshi.

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