Cleeves, James and Hawkins win Dead Good Awards…
Saturday 20 July 2015
By Sarah Shaffi
Established authors Ann Cleeves and Peter James and newcomer Paula Hawkins were among the winners of the inaugural Dead Good Reader Awards.
The awards, given out on Friday 17th July at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, were voted on by readers and members of Penguin Random House’s crime community Dead Good Books.
The awards were presented by Mark Lawson and authors Lee Child and Val McDermid, the latter of whom also won a prize.
McDermid took The Reichenbach Falls Award for Most Epic Ending, for her book The Skeleton Road (Sphere).
