WM cover star Mark Billingham in Theakston's Novel of the Year Longlist

Mark is longlisted for the prestigious crime-writing award, now in its 10th year, which he won in 2005 and 2009
The shortlist for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award will be announced on 30 June, and public voting takes place between 3 and 15 July. The winner will be announced on 17 July, the opening night of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate.
The longlist for this year's prize is:
• Rubbernecker, Belinda Bauer (Transworld)
• The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes (HarperCollins)
• The Dying Hours, Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
• Like This, For Ever, Sharon Bolton (Transworld)
• A Wanted Man, Lee Child (Transworld)
• The Honey Guide, Richard Crompton (Orion)
• The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald (Faber)
• Dying Fall, Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
• Until You're Mine, Samantha Hayes (Random House)
• The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, Malcolm Mackay (Pan Macmillan)
• The Chessmen, Peter May (Quercus)
• I Hear The Sirens In The Street, Adrian McKinty (Profile Books)
• The Red Road, Denise Mina (Orion)
• Ratlines, Stuart Neville (Vintage)
• Standing in Another Man's Grave, Ian Rankin (Orion)
• Children of the Revolution, Peter Robinson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Eleven Days, Stav Sherez (Faber)
• Weirdo, Cathi Unsworth (Profile Books)
Three past winners are in the running for this year's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award: Mark Billingham, Lee Child and Denise Mina. If Denise wins, it will be for the third year running.

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