Crime Thriller Awards Season
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Celebrating the best crime fiction in Books, TV and Film The first ever televised ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards, will be held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on Friday October 3rd, Welcome to ITV3’s Crime Thriller 2008. It promises to be a star-studded event Awards Season: seven weeks of with authors, actors, Televison and Film-makers programming celebrating the genre competing in the following categories: in books, film and TV, culminating • BEST NEW FILM in the Crime Thriller Awards • BEST NEW UK TV DRAMA in October. • BEST NEW US TV DRAMA • BEST ACTRESS IN FILM/TV • BEST ACTOR IN FILM/TV • ITV3 WRITER’S AWARD ITV3 WRITER’S AWARD FORCLASSIC TV DRAMA FORCLASSIC TV DRAMA • BEST UK AUTHOR OF THEYEAR Six of the best British crime thriller writers will • BEST BREAKTHROUGH AUTHOR AWARD be profiled during the season. Each author will be given their own week on ITV3, featuring some of • BEST INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THEYEAR their finest TV adaptations every night. An exclusive In addition there will be 3 established authors from both documentary examines their lives and work, sides of the atlantic to be inducted into the inaugural talking to the stars who have brought their ITV3 CRIME THRILLER HALL OF FAME. characters to life on screen, fellow writers, and the authors themselves. Vote for your favourite
From L to R: Ruth Rendell, PD James, Val McDermid, Colin Dexter, Lynda LaPlante, Ian Rankin, Classic Crime series. To vote go to: CRIMETHRILLER AWARDS SEASON www.itv.com/crimethriller
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BEST INTERNATIONALAUTHOR OF THE YEAR
There are three awards dedicated to Books – the Author of the Year celebrates the best
British Crime writer of the year, International ‘This is a novel that will chill ‘A striking novel, full of The #1 bestseller returns to Superbly thrilling from the your blood on the warmest passion, an evocative sense of Grant County where the first page to the last, the the best writer from beyond these shores and day of any summer holiday. place and subtle insights into lightning-fast plot, vivid latest bestseller from the Keep looking over your venal, corrupt minds’ forensic detail, and heart- author who brought you breakthrough celebrates a newer author shoulder…' THE OBSERVER stopping suspense will Want to Play?, Live Bait and INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY thrust readers into the Dead Run are back – at their whose work most deserves a wider audience. darkest corners of their terrifying best own imaginations… THE
BEST UK ANOMUTHOR OF THE YEAR INATEDBOBEST BREAKTHROUGHAOKSUTHOR AWARD The Awards reward the best Crime Thriller fiction in books and TV and film. Here are the 12 new crime fiction books that have been voted the best by the Academy of British Crime Writing
(Publishing, Film & Television). ‘Child is a great storyteller, ‘A master of the intelligent Peter James’ métier has Prepare yourselves: this is Chelsea Cain has Stuart MacBride’s first ‘... will have you turning the An intriguing and building plots that, although thriller... The Ghost is Harris long been machine-tooled goodbye to Detective reinvented the serial killer novel was released to pages compulsively, desperate atmospheric first novel set complex, are as compelling as back on sparkling form’ plotting, Not Dead Enough Inspector John Rebus, thriller genre with her widespread critical acclaim to get to the end, but not on the Greek islands they are ultimately logical… THE TIMES marks another welcome possibly the most famous unforgettable character, ‘A riveting and gruesome daring to miss a word’ introduces a mysterious another sure-fire hit.‘ appearance for the author’s of the plethora of fictional beautiful but ruthless debut’ DAILY TELEGRAPH THE TIMES investigator set to become DAILY MIRROR quirkily characterised policemen. And it's a Gretchen Lowell a classic: Hermes policeman Roy Grace classic plot to send him ‘Lecter is a lamb compared Diaktoros, otherwise www.itv.com/crimethriller on his way with Lowell.’ DAILY MAIL known as The Fat Man