Novel Prize Longlist

We are delighted to announce that the following entries have been selected by the judges for the Marlowe and Christie Novel Prize Longlist: ​

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A Girl Called Redemption by Sophie Neville

Ascension by Rachel Mendel

Backhanders by Michael Fleming

Butterflies Can't Kill You by Jonathan Mark Bayliss

Elemental  by James Woods

Exit Interview by Isabel Tejera

French Connections by Beth Wellington

Grounded  by Kelly Railton 

Happy Society by Sarah Buckmaster

Hunted by Vanessa Harbutt

Hunting Moonlight by Charlotta Dawson

I'd Rather be at Greenham by Kate Carne

Ill Met By Murder by Rod Cookson

It's just some old book by Trevor Fritzlaff

Kill Your Darlings by Jade Wright

Layla GL by Rebecca Mansell

Moonsault by Graham Arnold

Moth by Nicky Sargent 

Obeah by Cliff Chen

Perotine by Dreena Collins

Pirjo and her Colours by Andrew Bramwell

Poppy Tucker's Crime of the Century by Lucy Hampton

Spell 30 -  Book of the Dead by Verona McColl

The Clinic by Natasha Preskey 

The Coup by Terry Edney

The Institute by Paul Green

The Invisible Woman by Suzanne Doerr

The Monster of Paddy's Isle by Angela Gregory

The Pearl Hunter 2024 by Louise Pearce

This Is Not About Jack by Nick Thripp

Those Night Court Blues by Simon Wheatley

Time To Leave by Elaine Maguire O'Connor

Tremors by Katrina Moinet

Untethering by Lucy Strutt

Untitled by Olivier Faivre

Untold  by Fiona Longsdon

Upside Down Man by Shirley Skeel

What A Boy Does With Ashes by Jim Hepburn

Yolanda and I by Emily Sharma

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And several others whose authors reserved their right to anonymity.

 

Congratulations to all! Ten pieces will now go forward to the Shortlist. ​​​​