A LEADING Merseyside lawyer and crime fiction writer has scooped first prize in a major international short story competition.
Mace & Jones’ head of employment law Martin Edwards saw off best-selling American author Michael Connelly to win the Crime Writers Association (CWA) Short Story award at the CWA's annual Dagger Awards for his spine-tingling tale The Bookbinder’s Apprentice.
The judges described the story as “a subtle, insidious, and disturbingly creepy tale of how an Englishman in Venice finds himself offered the job of apprentice to a bookbinder with unusual methods”.
Mr Edwards said: “I am absolutely delighted to win this award.”
