Who says crime doesn't pay? For one lucky reader it does!

Thank-you to everyone who took part in my competition to win a copy of Karin Fossum's Scandinavian crime thriller Don't Look Back.

I enjoyed discovering everyone's favourite crime novelists, so if you're looking for some inspiration you might like to try:

• Michael Connelly (recommended by Brandon of The Bibliosphere);
• Ian Rankin (Susan Kenna, and Lazy Cow of Only Books All The Time);
• Jim Thompson (Amanda of Amanda's Zen);
• PD James (Leah of Eiron, and Meika of meika loofs samorzewski);
• Lindsey Davis (Julia, and The Wandering Author from the Unending Journey of...);
• Gabrielle Lord (Wendy);
• Patricia Highsmith (Patricia of BookLust);
• Andrew Vachss (Sophie of The Redhead Has Spoken);
• Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night (Amy from Books, Words, and Writing);
• Arnaldur Indriðason (Kate from Books Give Wings);
• John Dunning's Booked To Die (Trav from {head}: sub/head);
• Elmore Leonard (Marshal Zeringue from Campaign for the American Reader);
• Erica Spindler (Ally Tuxhill); and
• Tess Gerritsen (ainelivia from Aine Livia at the Midnight Garden)

Inspiration aside, you want to know who won, right? Well, there were 17 entries. Each name was written onto a piece of paper...

...and those pieces of paper were folded in half.

And because I couldn't find a hat, I shoved them into a ceramic bowl instead!

Before drawing out the winner, who was ...

 

Congrats, Wendy. I've sent you an e-mail, so as soon as you let me know your mailing address I'll pop the book in the post for you!

Comments

[patricia]

Oh Kimbofo, this was a wonderful game! Please do more of this in the future (if you have any books to spare, that is!)

I really loved the fact that you took pics to show how you did it, and the name that won.

Good for Wendy!

[kimbofo]

Thanks, Patricia. I always have books to give away, mainly because I live in a pokey little apartment and don't have room to keep everything I buy, so yes, I'll be running more of these in future.

[ainelivia]

I really enjoyed this. you have very artistic handwriting kim. I'm envious.

[kimbofo]

Thanks ainelivia. You won't believe this, but I trained to write like that (during my undergrad degree when I took many landscape architecture/urban design classes), although my writing is nothing like it used to be, mainly because I do everything on computer these days.