Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Announced

The short list was

Blue Shoes & Happiness Alexander McCall Smith	Buried Mark Billingham	A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil Christopher Brookmyre	Not Dead Enough Peter James
Sovereign CJ Sansom	One Under Graham Hurley	Dying Light Stuart Macbride	The Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney
Piece of My Heart Peter Robinson	The Death of Dalziel Reginald Hill	The Chemistry of Death Simon Becket	Relentless Simon Kernick

And the winner was a first novel which has already found acclaim as a work of mainstream literary fiction, Stef Penny's THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES.

Harrogate Festival looks set to have 7,000 participants. Listen to a series of interviews with Stef Penney, Zoe Sharp, and Peter Robinson.