A SHEFFIELD author has been nominated for an award honouring the best in crime fiction.
Simon Beckett, aged 47, who lives in Ranmoor but works in Nether Edge, is on a 'longlist' of 20 authors for his novel The Chemistry Of Death, first published in 2006.
The public will vote to narrow down the entrants to a shortlist to decide the w
inner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
Simon's book features forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter who, after a crisis in his life, goes back to being a GP until the police coax him out of retirement.
Simon first became an author in the 1990s with a series of thrillers, one of which, Where There's Smoke, was adapted for TV.
For a time Simon went back to working as a journalist before The Chemistry of Death restored his reputation and earned him a three book deal.
Since then he has published a sequel, Written In Bone, and has been working on the third in the series.
The Theakstons award is now in its fourth year and the winner takes home £3,000 and a handmade Theakstons cask.
Voting for the winner is now underway in Waterstones' stores and online, and will continue until June 17. The winner will be announced in Harrogate on July 17.
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