Novels Listed for the ITV3 Crime Awards

From The Bookseller, in addition to the ITV3 Writer’s Award for Classic TV Drama (shortlist of P.D.James, Ruth Rendell, Colin Dexter, Lynda La Plante, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid), the following awards and their shortlists are now announced:

Breakthrough Author Award    
Chelsea Cain Heartsick (Pan)
Stuart MacBride Broken Skin (Harper)
Michael Robotham Shatter (Sphere)
Anne Zouroudi The Messenger of Athens (Bloomsbury)

International Author of the Year    
Jeffery Deaver The Sleeping Doll (Hodder & Stoughton)
Stieg Larsson The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Quercus)
Karin Slaughter Skin Privilege (Arrow)
PJ Tracy Snow Blind (Penguin)

Author of the Year    
Lee Child Bad Luck and Trouble (Bantam)
Robert Harris The Ghost (Hutchinson)
Peter James Not Dead Enough (Pan)
Ian Rankin Exit Music  (Orion)

TV programming kicks off on Monday August 18, with Ian Rankin as the first featured author.  You can more information at ITV3 here.  Press pack information here.

I suppose the awards are the culmination of a TV festival celebrating crime and

thriller fiction on the TV, but it all looks a bit badly designed to me.  First we have the Writer’s Award for Classic TV Drama, but, apart from La Plante, I don't think anyone on the list was involved in script writing.  To varying degrees, the original books and stories were used.  But the writers of the books have all created the characters that TV audiences have grown to love on screen as well as on the page, in original format.

For the next categories, there appears to be split suggesting Author (British) of the Year and International Author of the Year, along with an internationally open Breakthrough Author Award.  No information has been given - as far as I can find - indicating how the lists were put together and how eligibility was determined.  We'll simply have to watch the telly then...