Congratulations to David Hewson, whose fifth Nic Costa novel, The Seventh Sacrament, has won the new Audible Sounds of Crime prize for the Unabridged Crime Audio Book of the Year.
The award, which was based on votes from readers, was announced at the Bristol CrimeFest conference at the beginning of June.
In his response to receiving the award, David said "I'm really honoured and flattered to get such a plaudit for the work, and delighted too that I quite rightly share it with Saul Reichlin, the series narrator, whose astonishing performance of the books is surely one of the main reasons for their popularity in audio."
"Saul does an astonishing job, as many readers tell me by email. And thanks, too, to the hard-working people at WF Howes, my audio publishers, who perform the magical process of transforming a book into the living, breathing, talking medium of an audio work. I’m very grateful for the wonderful job you do."