Author who fibbed about his biography is up for a fiction award

So ... crime does sort of pay?

Dan Mallory’s The Woman in the Window — published under the name A.J. Finn — has been nominated for the British Book Awards.

That comes despite his confession earlier this year that he made up portions of his biography, including that he was a brain cancer survivor.

We’ll find out whether Mallory receives the crime and thriller book of the year honors on May 13; other notable nominees include:

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris (debut book of the year).

• Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi (children’s fiction book of the year).

• Transcription, by Kate Atkinson (fiction book of the year).

• Milkman, by Anna Burns (fiction book of the year).

• Becoming, by Michelle Obama (nonfiction narrative book of the year).

• Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff (nonfiction narrative book of the year).

Here are all of the British Book Awards shortlists.