The 18 thrilling books vying to become Crime Novel of the Year | Books | Entertainment

• What Happens in the Dark by Kia Abdullah (HarperCollins, HQ Fiction)

• The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani (Profile Books, Viper)

• The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer (Penguin Random House, Bantam)

• What The Night Brings by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown Book Group, Sphere)

• Human Remains by Jo Callaghan (Simon & Schuster)

• The Death of Us by Abigail Dean (HarperCollins, Hemlock Press)

• The Chemist by A.A. Dhand (HarperCollins, HQ Fiction)

• Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (Pan Macmillan, Pan Fiction)

• The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths (Quercus Books)

• The Examiner by Janice Hallett (Profile Books, Viper)

• The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins (Penguin Random House, Doubleday)

• Clown Town by Mick Herron (John Murray Books, Baskerville)

• Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan (Bonnier Books, Zaffre)

• Paperboy by Callum McSorley (Puskin Press, Vertigo)

• The Good Liar by Denise Mina (Penguin Random House, Harvill)

• Gunner by Alan Parks (John Murray Books, Baskerville)

• We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough (Orion Publishing Group, Orion Fiction)

• A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor (HarperCollins, Hemlock Press)