Stuart Neville is a Northern Irish

Northern Ireland

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 author known mainly for his novel The Twelve or, as it is known in the United States, The Ghosts of Belfast.

Works

The Twelve was placed on the Best of 2009 lists by both The New York Times

The New York Times

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and Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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, and the "Ultimate Summer" list by the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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. The book has been given full reviews in a number of publications in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom, appearing in The New York Times, The Irish Times

The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...

, Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

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and The Guardian

The Guardian

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, among others.

Collusion, the sequel to The Twelve, will be published in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker in August 2010, and in the USA by Soho Press

Soho Press

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 in October 2010.

Awards and nominations

The Ghosts of Belfast, the American edition of The Twelve, won the Mystery/Thriller category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in April 2010. It also won the New Voice category of the 2010 Spinetingler Awards, and was nominated for the 2010 Dilys Award

Dilys Award

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, Anthony Award

Anthony Award

The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher , one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America....

, Barry Award

Barry Award (for crime novels)

The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually since 1997 by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an American quarterly publication for crime fiction readers. From 2007-2009 the award was jointly presented with the publication Mystery News...

, and Macavity Award.