McIlvanneyPrize2020 – Live and Deadly

BLOODY SCOTLAND McIlvanney Prize #blogtour @BloodyScotland @Brownlee_Donald @FrancineElena

I’m delighted to have the opportunity to showcase one of the authors who has been shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year 2020. I reviewed Francine Toon’s Pine at the start of the year and you can see my review here. The judges said of Pine: ‘an impressiveContinue reading “BLOODY SCOTLAND McIlvanney Prize #blogtour @BloodyScotland @Brownlee_Donald @FrancineElena”

Winners to be presented on Friday 18 September 2020 Four years ago the Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award was renamed the McIlvanney Prize in memory of William McIlvanney who is often described as the Godfather of Tartan Noir. Last year Bloody Scotland also introduced a prize for The Bloody Scotland Debut Scottish CrimeContinue reading “SHORTLIST FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT and SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 LONGLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2020 @BloodyScotland @Brownlee_Donald”