Hilary wins Harrogate crime novel award

LONDON: Author Sarah Hilary won one of the UK’s top crime-writing awards for “Someone Else’s Skin,” her debut novel.
Hilary won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in Harrogate, BBC reported.
Radio Times TV editor Alison Graham, who was one of the judges, described the book as “an emotionally exhausting and powerful story.”
US author Sara Paretsky, who created detective VI Warshawski, received an outstanding contribution honor.
The accolades were handed out at the start of the North Yorkshire town’s annual crime writing festival.
Shetland and Vera writer Ann Cleeves, this year’s festival programming chair, said the crime novel of the year shortlist had been “really strong” this year.
The panel had felt Hilary’s winning book was “so finely written and tightly written,” she said.