JOFFE BOOKS SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour! The inaugural Joffe Books Prize was enthusiastically received resulting in a brilliantly diverse list of entries. Completely anonymised for judging, the pool of scripts covered the gamut of gritty police procedurals to wrenching domestic suspense, forensic thrillers to island-hopping private eyes. The one thing they all had in common was their enormous potential.
From an eventual longlist of ten, four swiftly leaped out as the front runners that formed the official shortlist:
Gautam Das, Unholy Liberties
Christie J. Newport, Branded
Mahalia Smith, Unpleasant Creatures
Mithran Somasundrum, Bangkok Phantom
