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The Seventh Sacrament wins top audio prize

Saul Reichlin

The fifth Nic Costa novel, The Seventh Sacrament, has won the new Audible Sounds of Crime prize for the unabridged crime audiobook of the year. The award, which was based on votes from readers, was announced at the Bristol CrimeFest conference at the weekend.

I’m really honoured and flattered to get such a plaudit for the work, and delighted too that I quite rightly share it with Saul Reichlin, right, the series narrator, whose astonishing performance of the books is surely one of the main reasons for their popularity in audio.

‘Chopin’ wins the world’s top audiobook prize

The Chopin Manuscript, the audio serial thriller collaboration for which David wrote the second chapter, won the top ‘Audie’ awarded by Audio Publishers Association at its awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night.

The work, written by fifteen author members of International Thrillerwriters Inc and published by Audible, beat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and The Bible Experience to take the ultimate prize in audio publishing.

The Chopin Manuscript was the idea of Jeffrey Deaver who wrote the opening chapter and closed the book. David wrote the second chapter, and the story was then handed over to a team of top talented authors made up of Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, Erica Spindler, Joseph Finder, Ralph Pezzullo, SJ Rosan, James Grady, John Ramsey Miller, David Corbett, John Gilstrap, Jim Fusilli (who also edited the story), Peter Spiegelman, and P.J. Parrish.

David said after news of the award, ‘It was a great honour, and an amazing amount of fun, to take part in this unique project which has, I think, helped put audiobooks firmly on the map as a vibrant and important part of the modern publishing world. It was wonderful to be able to work alongside such a talented array of authors.

‘Credit, too, has to go to Jim Fusilli and MJ Rose, as editor and ideas chief respectively, without whom the project could never have happened, and to the wonderful Alfred Molina whose narration of the finished work lends so much character and quality to the story. Congratulations and thanks to you all.’

To read more about The Chopin Manuscript, and listen to a free extract look here for the US version and here for the UK. To meet some of the team, just look below.