Fighting Irish

Finalists have been selected in 16 categories for the 2018 An Post Irish Book Awards. The half-dozen novels contending for Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year honors are as follows:

• A House of Ghosts, by W.C. Ryan (Zaffre)
• One Click, by Andrea Mara (Poolbeg Press)
• Skin Deep, by Liz Nugent (Penguin)
• The Confession, by Jo Spain (Quercus)
• The Ruin, by Dervla McTiernan (Sphere)
• Thirteen, by Steve Cavanagh (Orion)

As In Reference to Murder explains, “The public are now being asked to cast their votes online for the best books of the year on the Irish Book Awards website—voting runs until Friday, November 23rd.”