Declan Burke on Goldsboro Last Laugh shortlist

Declan Burke's 2014 novel Crime Always Pays (Severn House Publishers) has been shortlisted for the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award.

Declan also pens the popular Crime Always Pays blog.

The other five nominees for the award are:

• Lawrence Block for The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (Orion Publishing Group)
• Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart (Bantam/Transworld)
• Shane Kuhn for Kill Your Boss (Little, Brown Book Group)
• Chris Pavone for The Accident (Faber & Faber)
• L. C. Tyler for Crooked Herring (Allison & Busby)

Eligible titles were submitted by publishers for the longlist, and a team of British crime fiction reviewers voted to establish the shortlist and winning title.

The Goldsboro Last Laugh Award is for "the best humorous crime novel first published in the British Isles in 2014".

Along with the £500 prize the winner will receive a Bristol Blue Glass vase. The awards will be announced on 16 May at Crimefest 2015 in Bristol.