The results of the Five Book Giveaway competition. The winner – Andy Boat from Leicester, who correctly identified the mystery legs!

To celebrate The Crime Warp’s first birthday we ran a competition asking Crime Warp readers to identify a pair of legs spotted at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.  Just as a reminder, here is a photo of the legs.  The prize was a box of books by popular crime and thriller authors featured during 2013 on The Crime Warp.

 

The competition’s winner, Andy Boat from Leicester, correctly identified the legs’ owner as bestselling author Simon Kernick – congratulations to Andy.  When I contacted Andy to tell him he’d won, he was more than pleasantly surprised, saying “Wow what a shock to actually win!”

 

I posted the books shortly after and Royal Mail did me proud getting the books to Leicester within 48 hours.  Andy said “I was amazed to receive the books. Thanks so much to the Crime Warp team. This is an excellent set of books and to receive them as a prize is a real bonus.”

 

I asked Andy to let me know which of the books he had his eye on.  He replied promptly saying “Well all of them of course, but I am particularly looking forward to The Chess Men. This is the third book in Peter May's recent and highly acclaimed trilogy of books with the first of these 'The Black House' winning many awards. May also brings you closer into his books with detailed descriptions of each landscape.”  It sounds like Peter May has a real fan in Leicester.

 

There’s plenty of reading in the box to keep Andy occupied for a while.  For everyone else watching The Crime Warp, a quick reminder that there’s another competition coming up shortly for a signed copy of Ian Rankin’s book Standing in Another Man's Grave, so please do keep an eye out for this – a great way to start 2014!

 

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