For the fourth year running, Crime Fiction Lover and its readers are celebrating the best in the genre with our awards. The shortlists for the 2024 accolades are ready, and now we’re inviting crime fiction lovers everywhere to vote on their winners.

Across the six categories you see below, every book, crime show and author has been nominated by CFL readers. After nominations closed on 6 November, we compiled these shortlists – and things are getting pretty exciting because soon we’ll know who the winners will be. If you love crime fiction as much as we do, then make sure you vote for your top picks in every category.

For more on how our nominations worked, click here.

BIG CONGRATULATIONS must go out to every author, publisher, editor, producer, actor, translator etc who was involved in creating the shortlisted books and shows. (If you want our Shortlisted badge for 2024, just drop us a line and we’ll send it over.) And the many hundreds that were nominated too. We LOVE your work. In addition to a winner in each section, our team will also give an Editor’s Choice award.

These shortlists are great for Christmas gift ideas if you know someone who reads a lot of crime. But right now, let’s have your vote. Our online ballot closes at noon UK time on Wednesday 4 December 2024.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON OUR SHORTLISTS!

Best Crime Novel of 2024 Shortlist

Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin 
The Mercy Chair by MW Craven 
Guide Me Home by Attica Locke
The Examiner by Janice Hallett 
The Death Watcher by Chris Carter 
All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

Best Crime Debut of 2024 Shortlist

Helle and Death by Oskar Jensen 
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey 
Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin
Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney 
Crow Moon by Suzy Aspley 
A Reluctant Spy by David Goodman 

Best Crime Novel in Translation of 2024 Shortlist

Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-Jurado, translated by Nicolas Caistor
The Snow Angel by Anki Edvinsson, translated by Paul Norlen
The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, translated by Gregory Dowling
Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Victoria Cribb
The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz, translated by Rachel Ward
The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett

Best Indie Crime Novel of 2024 Shortlist

The Corpse with the Pearly Smile by Cathy Ace
A Killer of Influence by JD Kirk 
Bronco Buster by AJ Devlin 
Westerwick by George Paterson 
Namaste Mart Confidential by Andrew Miller 
Dying For Crystal by Katherine Black 

Best Crime Show of 2024 Shortlist

Bad Monkey 
Ludwig 
Slow Horses S4
Nordic Murders S5
Rebus 
True Detective S4

Best Crime Author of 2024 Shortlist

Tana French
Ian Rankin 
Attica Locke 
Ace Atkins 
Janice Hallett
Abir Mukherjee 

CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON OUR SHORTLISTS!