{"id":40579,"date":"2026-05-01T02:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/the-18-thrilling-books-vying-to-become-crime-novel-of-the-year-books-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:43:46","slug":"the-18-thrilling-books-vying-to-become-crime-novel-of-the-year-books-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/the-18-thrilling-books-vying-to-become-crime-novel-of-the-year-books-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"The 18 thrilling books vying to become Crime Novel of the Year | Books | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u2022 What Happens in the Dark by Kia Abdullah (HarperCollins, HQ Fiction)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani (Profile Books, Viper)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer (Penguin Random House, Bantam)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What The Night Brings by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown Book Group, Sphere)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Human Remains by Jo Callaghan (Simon &amp; Schuster)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Death of Us by Abigail Dean (HarperCollins, Hemlock Press)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Chemist by A.A. Dhand (HarperCollins, HQ Fiction)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (Pan Macmillan, Pan Fiction)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths (Quercus Books)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Examiner by Janice Hallett (Profile Books, Viper)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins (Penguin Random House, Doubleday)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Clown Town by Mick Herron (John Murray Books, Baskerville)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan (Bonnier Books, Zaffre)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Paperboy by Callum McSorley (Puskin Press, Vertigo)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Good Liar by Denise Mina (Penguin Random House, Harvill)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Gunner by Alan Parks (John Murray Books, Baskerville)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough (Orion Publishing Group, Orion Fiction)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor (HarperCollins, Hemlock Press)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/books\/2200052\/theakston-crime-novel-of-year\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 What Happens in the Dark by Kia Abdullah (HarperCollins, HQ Fiction) \u2022 The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani (Profile Books, Viper) \u2022 The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer (Penguin&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1023],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}