At the recent Bloody Scotland festival, Craig Russell took the McIlvanney Prize for best crime novel of the year for Hyde, becoming the first author to win the award twice. The judges called Hyde "a fantastic book with a gothic background that draws you in and brings the reader back to the Scottish origins of Jekyll and Hyde's creator, Robert Louis Stevenson. A dark tale that was a delight and a thoroughly entertaining read. It shows that Scottish crime writing is amongst the best in the world."
Robbie Morrison won the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year award for Edge of the Grave, described by the judges as a "terrific debut novel, with a memorable cast of characters, which impressed the judges with its ambitious, authentic, deep dive into the Glasgow gangland and class divides of the 1930s."