Bloody Scotland 2022 McIlvanney Prize Long List
The McIlvanney Prize is Bloody Scotland’s annual prize awarded to the best Scottish Crime book of the year. It provides Scottish crime writing with recognition and aims to raise the profile and prestige of the genre as a whole.
The longlisted titles for 2022 are:
May God Forgive, Alan Parks (Canongate)
The Second Cut, Louise Welsh (Canongate)
A Rattle of Bones, Douglas Skelton (Polygon)
From the Ashes, Deborah Masson (Transworld)
A Matter of Time, Claire Askew (Hodder)
A Corruption of Blood, Ambrose Parry (Canongate)
The Heretic, Liam McIlvanney (Harpercollins)
Rizzio, Denise Mina (Polygon)
The Sound of Sirens, Ewan Gault (Leamington Books)
The Blood Tide, Neil Lancaster (Harpercollins)
McIlvanney Prize Bloody Scotland
Previous Winners of the McIlvanney Prize

Although Manda Scott’s A Treachery of Spies was chosen as the 2019 McIlvanney Prize winner, she chose to equally share the prize with the shortlisters Doug Johnstone, Denise Mina and Ambrose Parry.
2018
The Quaker
Liam McIlvanney
2017
Denis Mina
The Long Drop
2016
Chris Brookmyre
Black Widow
2015
Craig Russell
The Ghosts of Altona
2014
Peter May
Entry Island
2013
Malcolm Mackay
How A Gunman Says Goodbye
2012
Charles Cumming
A Foreign Country
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