Troubled Blood wins Crime Book of the Year!

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www.thebookseller.com/british-book-awards/crime-thriller

Well done to J. K. Rowling for winning a Nibbie (British Book Awards, organised by The Bookseller) - Troubled Blood has been voted Book of the Year - Crime & Thrillers.

I've just read the entire series of Strike books and watched the first four BBC adaptations. Loved them. Delighted to see this recognition.

I'm posting here, as this feels like a brave decision, in a year when JKR has stood up for women's rights and suffered dog's abuse as a result. Additionally, I thought Troubled Blood contained a lot of interesting insights into women's lives, both in the 1970s and now. The dinner party was excruciating but I was cheering Strike on, as just one example.

After reading jk Rowling position I bought the hard back for myself and my parents we all thought it was excellent

Fantastic, I bought them all directly as a result of what happened (avoided the Harry Potter stuff) and found them a great read so bought them for a friend as well.

Great news! Holding my breath for the next.

My elder two are the HP generation exactly and from age 11 they were both hooked, as was I. So much excitement and pleasure! Then came the film's. And now I have Strike and Robin, who helped me through the anxieties of lockdown. No JKR book could ever be too long for me. ☺️

That's great, I started reading the Strike books last year as a way of saying that I stand with JKR, I haven't got to this one yet but am thoroughly enjoying the series so far.

I’m thrilled. It’s a fabulous novel in its own right, but is also extremely incisive in its analysis of the sex-based experiences that women have in navigating day-to-day life: the insidious ‘drip drip drip’ of innuendo, the frequent sense of fear and physical vulnerability, the assumption that a successful woman is ‘just the secretary’ or is ‘banging the boss’, which is set neatly against the experience of women in the 70s to prompt you to question how far we’ve really come in terms of everyday sexism.

It’s a fabulous book. A thoroughly well-deserved win.

I hope they make a tv adaptation and that it's sufficiently long. 6 hours ought to do it.