A Northumberland author has won a cash prize of £2,500 for her crime novel in a literary competition which celebrates the North East.
The 2022 Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction, which celebrates the work of crime and thriller writers who are from the North East, or whose work celebrates the region, has been won by Bedlington writer Jacqueline Auld. Her submission, The Children of Gaia, was selected by the prize's judging panel, which included crime writer Nicky Black, last year's prizewinner Robert Scragg, and author and founder of the prize LJ Ross.
Jacqueline's submission The Children of Gaia is about a dysfunctional group of adult survivors of childhood abuse. They want to 'out' their abusers on social media and save a young child in the process, without involving the police.
