The winner of the prestigious Award will be announced at the opening night of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival (20 July), which this year celebrates its 20 th anniversary. The search for the best crime novel of the past year gets underway as the public are now invited to vote for their favourites to reach the next stage.
Agent: Eve White, Eve White Literary (U.K.).The longlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 has been announced by Harrogate International Festivals. This showcases Ware’s gifts to the fullest. Alternating past and present chapters build toward a gripping denouement as nicely chosen details bring each character vividly to life. The memories shared by mild-mannered doctor Hugh, mathematician Emily, and Ryan, who has suffered a stroke since their college years, call most of what she’s believed about April and her death into question.
Fearing her testimony helped convict an innocent man, Hannah feels compelled to revisit the murder with the three Oxford friends that knew April best. Days after Neville dies in prison, a journalist emails her with evidence that calls the porter’s guilt into doubt. Ten years later, she’s living in Edinburgh, married to Will, and pregnant. Though Neville is later convicted of the murder, the crime, trial, and subsequent media furor upend Hannah’s life. Moments after Hannah sees college porter John Neville leaving their residence building, she finds April strangled.
The two become best friends despite their differences and the unspoken attraction between Hannah and April’s boyfriend, Will. Hannah Jones’s Oxford University roommate, April Clarke-Cliveden, is everything Hannah isn’t: wealthy, sophisticated, sexually adventurous, and occasionally cruel. This exceptional psychological thriller from Ware ( One by One) probes how much one can trust others-and one’s self.
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