Award | Year | Title | Author | Status |
Alice B Award for Sustained Achievement | 2008 | "body of work" | Minette Walters | Winner |
Amazon Rising Stars | 2016 | Distress Signals | Catherine Ryan Howard | Winner |
Amazon Rising Stars | 2016 | Rebound | | Winner |
Amazon Rising Stars | 2016 | Gone Astray | Michelle Davies | Winner |
Amazon Rising Stars | 2016 | The Hollow Men | Rob McCarthy | Winner |
Amazon Rising Stars | 2016 | Hester & Harrier | | Winner |
Amazon Rising Stars | 2016 | The Primrose Path | Rebecca Griffiths | Winner |
Anthony Award for Best Critical of Non-Fiction Book | 2016 | Forensics | Val McDermid | Winner |
Anthony Award for Best Novel (USA) | 1995 | Crack Down | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Anthony Award for Best Novel (USA) | 2001 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | Winner |
Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original (USA) | 2001 | A Little Death | Laura Wilson | Shortlisted |
Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel (USA) | 2000 | A Place Of Execution | Val McDermid | Winner |
Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel (USA) | 2004 | The Distant Echo | Val McDermid | Winner |
Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel (USA) | 2005 | Tokyo | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel (USA) | 2005 | First Drop | | Shortlisted |
Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel (USA) | 2007 | Pig Island | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel (USA) | 2009 | Ritual | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
Barry Award for Best Mystery Short Story (USA) | 2003 | Rogue's Gallery | Robert Barnard | Winner |
BBC Audio Drama Awards (Series or Serial) | 2018 | Dangerous Visions: Resistance | Val McDermid | Finalist |
Best Book of 2008 by Publisher’s Weekly | 2008 | The Ritual | Mo Hayder | Winner |
Betty Trask Prize and Awards | 2017 | The Hollow Men | Rob McCarthy | Shortlisted |
Bord Gais Energy Irish Crime Novel of the Year | 2016 | Distress Signals | Catherine Ryan Howard | Shortlisted |
Bouchercon XIX for Best Short Story | 1987 | Breakfast Television | Robert Barnard | Winner |
British Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year | 2008 | The Grave Tattoo | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Broom D'or | 2014 | Born Under Bunches | Martyn Waites | Prize Winner |
Broom D'or | 2014 | Voodoo Eyes | | Second Prize |
Carnegie Gold Medal | 1937 | The Family From One End Street | Eve Garnett | Winner |
Cheshire Prize for Literature | 2012 | Udumbara in Lytham St Anne’s | Sarah Hilary | Winner |
Crime Reader's Assosciation 'Dagger in the Library Award' | 2012 | Body Of Work | Belinda Bauer | Longlisted |
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger | 2003 | Body Of Work | Robert Barnard | Winner |
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger | 2010 | Body Of Work | Val McDermid | Winner |
CWA Dagger in the Library | 2008 | Body Of Work | | Shortlisted |
CWA Dagger in the Library | 2010 | Body Of Work | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
CWA Dagger in the Library | 2010 | Body Of Work | | Shortlisted |
CWA Dagger in the Library | 2011 | Body Of Work | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
CWA Dagger in the Library | 2012 | Body Of Work | Belinda Bauer | Shortlisted |
CWA Dagger in the Library | 2013 | Body Of Work | Belinda Bauer | Winner |
CWA Debut Dagger | 2000 | Demon Of The Air | | Winner |
CWA Debut Dagger | 2008 | Western Fringes | Amer Anwar | Winner |
CWA Debut Dagger | 2008 | Absolution | Caro Ramsay | Shortlisted |
CWA Debut Dagger | 2011 | What Hidden Lies | Michéle Rowe | Winner |
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger | 1999 | A Little Death | Laura Wilson | Shortlisted |
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger | 2004 | The Lover | Laura Wilson | Shortlisted |
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger | 2008 | Stratton War | Laura Wilson | Winner |
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger | 2009 | An Empty Death | Laura Wilson | Shortlisted |
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger | 2012 | A Willing Victim | Laura Wilson | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger | 2017 | The Beautiful Dead | Belinda Bauer | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Duncan Lawrie) | 2006 | A Thousand Lies | Laura Wilson | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Goldsboro) | 2014 | Keep Your Friends Close | Paula Daly | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Goldsboro) | 2014 | The Verdict | Nick Stone | Longlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Goldsboro) | 2015 | The Shut Eye | Belinda Bauer | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 1994 | The Scold’s Bridle | Minette Walters | Winner |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 1994 | Crack Down | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 1995 | The Mermaids Singing | Val McDermid | Winner |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 1995 | The Dark Room | Minette Walters | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 1999 | A Place Of Execution | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 2001 | Acid Row | Minette Walters | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 2003 | Fox Evil | Minette Walters | Winner |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 2004 | The Lover | Laura Wilson | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 2004 | Tokyo | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 2004 | The Torment Of Others | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger (Macallan) | 2004 | The Torment Of Others | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger ITV3 Specsavers Crime Award for Best Actress | 2013 | A Place Of Execution | Val McDermid | Winner |
CWA Gold Dagger ITV3 Specsavers Crime Award for Best Crime Novel | 2010 | Blacklands | Belinda Bauer | Winner |
CWA Gold Dagger ITV3 Specsavers Crime Award for Best Crime Novel | 2012 | Vengeance in Mind | | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger ITV3 Specsavers Crime Award for Best Crime Novel | 2013 | Rubbernecker | Belinda Bauer | Shortlisted |
CWA Gold Dagger ITV3 Specsavers Crime Award International Crime Writer Hall of Fame | 2009 | Body Of Work | Val McDermid | Winner |
CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger | 2017 | Distress Signals | Catherine Ryan Howard | Shortlisted |
CWA John Creasey Dagger (Best Debut Crime Novel) | 1985 | The Latimer Mercy | | Winner |
CWA John Creasey Dagger (Best Debut Crime Novel) | 1992 | The Ice House | Minette Walters | Winner |
CWA John Creasey Dagger (Best Debut Crime Novel) | 2005 | Running Hot | | Winner |
CWA Short Story Dagger (Macallan) | 1994 | The Writing On the Wall and Other Stories | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
CWA Short Story Dagger (Macallan) | 2006 | Sin Of Scarlet | Robert Barnard | Winner |
CWA Short Story Dagger (Macallan) | 2008 | Provenance | Robert Barnard | Winner |
CWA Short Story Dagger (Macallan) | 2009 | Served Cold | | Shortlisted |
CWA Short Story Dagger (Macallan) | 2009 | Mother’s Milk | | Shortlisted |
CWA Steel Dagger (Ian Fleming) | 2003 | Nightspinners | | Shortlisted |
CWA Steel Dagger (Ian Fleming) | 2004 | Tokyo | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
CWA Steel Dagger (Ian Fleming) | 2006 | The Mercy Seat | Martyn Waites | Shortlisted |
CWA Steel Dagger (Ian Fleming) | 2006 | Pig Island | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
CWA Steel Dagger (Ian Fleming) | 2008 | The Ritual | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
CWA Steel Dagger (Ian Fleming) | 2010 | Gone | Mo Hayder | Shortlisted |
Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year | 2013 | The Vanishing Point | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Dilys Award (USA) | 2001 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | Winner |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Critical Work) (USA) | 2000 | A Suitable Job for a Woman | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Fact Crime) (USA) | 2016 | Forensics | Val McDermid | Nominated |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 1960 | The Hours Before Dawn | Celia Fremlin | Winner |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 1993 | The Sculptress | Minette Walters | Winner |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 1999 | A Likeness in Stone | | Shortlisted |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 2001 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 2012 | Gone | Mo Hayder | Winner |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 2015 | Wolf | Mo Hayder | Nominated |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Screenplay) (USA) | 2010 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | Winner |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Paperback Original) (USA) | 2011 | Ten Little Herrings | | Nominated |
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Paperback Original) (USA) | 2014 | Joe Victim | | Nominated |
Edgar Awards (Best Novel) | 2019 | The Liar's Girl | Catherine Ryan Howard | Nominated |
Edgar Awards (Best Short Story) | 2019 | Ancient and Modern | Val McDermid | Nominated |
Elle Magazine Crime Fiction Prize (France) | 2001 | Acid Row | Minette Walters | Shortlisted |
Elle Magazine Crime Fiction Prize (France) | 2004 | Tokyo | Mo Hayder | Winner |
Elle Magazine Crime Fiction Prize (France) | 2015 | Just What Kind of Mother Are You? | Paula Daly | Nominated |
Ellery Queen Readers’ Award for Best Story (USA) | 1987 | The Woman in the Wardrobe | Robert Barnard | Winner |
Guardian Not the Booker Prize | 2013 | Rubbernecker | Belinda Bauer | Longlisted |
GLBTQ Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame | 2004 | "body of work" | Val McDermid | Winner |
Golden Handcuffs award from British Libraries | 1994 | "body of work" | Robert Barnard | Winner |
Grand Prix des Romans d’Adventure (France) | 1998 | Star Struck | Val McDermid | Winner |
Grand Prix du Roman Noir | 2014 | Born Under Punches | Martyn Waites | Winner |
Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere | 2013 | Voodoo Eyes | Nick Stone | Nominated |
Great Scot Awards | 2012 | body of work | Val McDermid | Nominated |
Highland Book Prize | 2018 | Broken Ground | Val McDermid | Longlisted |
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award | 2010 | After River | | Longlisted |
Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award | 2015 | Someone Else's Skin | Sarah Hilary | Shortlisted |
Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award | 2018 | The Trophy Child | Paula Daly | Shortlisted |
Lambda Literary Award for Fiction | 2001 | Booked for Murder | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Lichfield Prize | 1999 | Big Fibs Little Fibs | | Shortlisted |
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/ Thrillers | 2001 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | Winner |
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/ Thrillers | 2009 | A Darker Domain | Val McDermid | Winner |
Macavity Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 1994 | The Sculptress | Minette Walters | Winner |
Macavity Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 2001 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | Winner |
Macavity Award (Best Novel) (USA) | 2015 | Someone Else's Skin | Sarah Hilary | Shortlisted |
Macavity Awatd (Best Critical/ Biographical) (USA) | 2016 | Forensics | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Mail on Sunday Novel Competition | 1999 | Big Fibs Little Fibs | | Winner |
Man Asian Literary Prize | 2012 | Garden of Evening Mists | Tan Twan Eng | Winner |
Man Booker Prize | 2007 | The Gift of Rain | Tan Twan Eng | Longlisted |
Man Booker Prize | 2012 | The Gift of Rain | Tan Twan Eng | Shortlisted |
Man Booker Prize | 2018 | Snap | Belinda Bauer | Longlisted |
McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year | 2016 | Splinter the Silence | Val McDermid | Finalist |
McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year | 2017 | Out of Bounds | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year | 2018 | The Suffering of Strangers | Caro Ramsay | Longlisted |
MPH - Alliance Short Story Competition | 2009 | Some Things Will Remain | Tan Twan Eng | Winner |
Mystery and Thriller Book Club People’s Choice Award | 2004 | The Torment of Others | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Nero Wolfe Award | 1992 | A Scandal in Belgravia | Robert Barnard | Winner |
New York Times Notable Book of the Year Award | 2000 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | Winner |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2010 | Containment | | Shortlisted |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2011 | Blood Men | | Winner |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2012 | Bound | | Finalist |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2012 | Collecting Cooper | | Finalist |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2013 | The Slaughterhouse | | Shortlisted |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2013 | Faceless | | Shortlisted |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2014 | Joe Victim | | Shortlisted |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2015 | 5 Minutes Alone | | Shortlisted |
Ngaio Marsh Award | 2018 | See You In September | Charity Norman | Shortlisted |
The People's Book Prize (Fiction) | 2019 | The Poison Bed | E. C. Fremantle | Nominated |
Pelle Rosencrantz Prize (Denmark) | 2000 | The Shape of Snakes | Minette Walters | Winner |
PG Wodehouse Prize | 1989 | In the Red | Mark Tavener | Nominated |
Polari First Book Prize | 2015 | The Informant | Susan Wilkins | Shortlisted |
Portico Prize | 2006 | The Grave Tattoo | Val McDermid | Winner |
Portico Prize | 2012 | The Retribution | Val McDermid | Shortlisted |
Prix du Polar Européen du Pont (France) | 2005 | The Lover | Laura Wilson | Winner |
Prix SNCF du Polar Européen du Pont (France) | 2005 | Tokyo | Mo Hayder | Winner |
Quick Reads Learners’ Favourite Award | 2006 | Chickenfeed | | Winner |