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Posted in: Awards, Mystery & Crime
UK author has been awarded the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The book revisits the murder of a three-year-old boy in Victorian England and a Scotland Yard detective's efforts to solve the case.
The prize, worth $60,000, is awarded annually to the best work of non-fiction.
The other books on this year's shortlist are:
- The World Is What It Is by
- Crow Country by
- The Whisperers by
- Blood River by
- The Rest Is Noise by
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