Hunted Named Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025
18 July 2025
Hunted, Abir Mukherjee's pulse-pounding thriller has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award is for the best crime novel published in paperback in the previous year.
More information about Hunted is below.
Hunted by Abir Mukherjee
Published in CD and MP3 CD audiobook and uLibrary eAudiobook in June 2024.
It's a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall. In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she's missing, potentially plotting another attack. But then a woman called Carrie turns up at Sajid's door after travelling halfway across the world. She claims Aliyah is with her son Greg, and she knows where they could be. Back in the US, Agent Shreya Mistry is closing in on the two fugitives. But the more she investigates, the more she suspects a wider conspiracy. Hunted by the authorities, the two parents are thrown together in a race against time to find their kids before the FBI does, and stop a catastrophe that will bring the country to its knees.