Capital Crime opened in London yesterday and the highlight of the first day was the annual Fingerprint Awards. Hosted this year by radio and TV broadcaster, Ryan Tubridy of the popular Bookshelf Podcast. This is the fifth year of the Awards.

So Capital Crime 2026 is now well under way.
Goldsboro Books and Capital Crime have created awards that readers love to participate in selecting, these winners are firm fan favourites. There are seven categories: Crime, Thriller, Historical Crime, Debut, True Crime, Genre-Busting and Audiobook of the Year – eclectic and different.
The late Virginia Roberts Giuffre received the True Crime award posthumously for Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, a powerful and harrowing account of the abuse she said she suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and others.

Lisa Jewell’s #1 bestseller Don’t Let Him In has won for two categories: Thriller of the Year and Audiobook of the Year.

M.W. Craven wins Crime Book of the Year for a second year in row, having won last year for The Mercy Chair, and retains the crown this year with The Final Vow.

Will Carver, whose website describes him as “an award-losing writer of ‘wildly original’ fiction” has won the Genre-Busting Book of the Year for Kill Them With Kindness.
Broadcaster Steph McGovern won the Debut Book of the Year for Deadline, and CWA Gold Dagger-winning author Abir Mukherjee won the Historical Crime Book of the Year for The Burning Grounds, the latest in his award-winning Wyndham and Bannerjee series set during the Raj.
In addition, global bestseller Jeffrey Archer, who earlier this year announced that his next book Adam and Eve would be
his last, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s The Art of a Lie, which was shortlisted for Historical Crime Book of the Year, took Publishing Campaign of the Year. The award was given to Pan Macmillan for their unmissable campaign, marking ‘a step up for a hugely talented author’ by the Capital Crime Advisory Board, which is made up of leading publishers, editors, booksellers, authors, bloggers and journalists from the crime writing community.