Simon Kernick

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title: "Simon Kernick" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["english-crime-fiction-writers", "alumni-of-the-university-of-brighton", "people-from-slough", "1966-births", "living-people", "writers-from-oxfordshire", "21st-century-british-novelists", "english-male-novelists", "people-educated-at-gillotts-school"] description: "British thriller/crime writer" topic_path: "society/education" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Kernick" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary British thriller/crime writer ::

Simon Kernick (born February 1967 in Slough, Buckinghamshire) is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters. Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruit-picker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in humanities.

His novel Relentless was recommended on Richard & Judy's Summer book club 2007. It was the 8th best-selling paperback, and the best-selling thriller in the UK in the same year.

Awards

::data[format=table title="Awards for Kernick's writing"]

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
2003	**	Barry Award for Best British Crime	Finalist	title=Simon Kernick
2004	**	Barry Award for Best British Crime	Finalist
2005	**	Barry Award for Best British Crime	Finalist
2005	**	Steel Dagger Award	Finalist
2006	**	Barry Award for Best British Crime	Finalist
2007	Relentless	Barry Award for Best Thriller	Finalist
2015		Dagger in the Library	Longlist
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Bibliography

• The Business of Dying (Dennis Milne 1) (2002) — (Bantam, )
• The Murder Exchange (2003) — (Bantam, )
• The Crime Trade (Tina Boyd 1) (2004) — (Bantam, )
• A Good Day To Die (Dennis Milne 2) (2005) — (Bantam, )
• Relentless (Tina Boyd 2, Mike Bolt 1) (2006) — (Bantam, )
• Severed (Mike Bolt 2) (2007) — (Bantam, )
• Deadline (Tina Boyd 3) (2008)
• Target (Tina Boyd 4, Mike Bolt 3) (2009)
• The Last 10 Seconds (Tina Boyd 5, Mike Bolt 4) (2010)
• The Payback (Dennis Milne 3, Tina Boyd 6) (2011)
• Siege(Scope 1, plus Tina Boyd) (2012)
• Wrong Time, Wrong Place (2013, February)
• Ultimatum (Tina Boyd 7, Mike Bolt 5) (2013, June)
• Stay Alive (Mike Bolt 6, Scope 2) (2014)
• The Final Minute (Tina Boyd 8) (2015, January)
• The Witness (DI Ray Mason 1) (2016, January)
• The Bone Field (DI Ray Mason 2, Tina Boyd 9) (2017, January)
• The Hanged Man (DI Ray Mason 3, Tina Boyd 10) (2018, January)
• Dead Mans Gift & Other Stories (2018, July)
• We Can See You (2018, November)
• Die Alone (DI Ray Mason 4, Tina Boyd 11, Mike Bolt 7) (2019, November)
• Kill A Stranger (2020)
• Good Cop Bad Cop (2021)
• The First 48 Hrs (2023)
• You All Die Tonight (2025)

References

References

1. [https://www.xs4all.nl/~embden11/Engels3/kernick.htm Simon Kernick]
2. "Explore". Channel 4.
3. "authonomy writing community - Helping writers get published". Bookarmy.com.
4. "Simon Kernick".
5. (May 13, 2015). "Awards: CWA Dagger in the Library".

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