Scottish author Denise Mina won the £3,000 (US$4,659) Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for The End of the Wasp Season, the Bookseller reported. In addition to the cash prize, she will receive a handmade, engraved beer barrel provided by Theakstons brewery. Simon Theakston, executive director of T&R Theakston, called the novel a great example of "tartan noir" as well as a "hugely atmospheric and haunting book."
