Dagger Shortlists Revealed

 

The CWA Dagger shortlists were announced today. The winners of the annual awards, which honor the very best in the crime writing genre, will be announced at an awards ceremony on October 22. (HT to Shots Magazine)

GOLD DAGGER

• What You Pay For by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
• November Road by Lou Berney(Harper Fiction)
• Forced Confessions by John Fairfax (Little, Brown)
• Joe Country by Mick Herron (John Murray)
• Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
• Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham (Sphere)

IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

• November Road by Lou Berney (Harper Fiction)
• This is Gomorrah by Tom Chatfield (Hodder & Stoughton)
• One Way Out by AA Dhand (Bantam Press)
• Between Two Evils by Eva Dolan (Raven Books)
• Cold Storage by David Koepp(HQ)
• The Whisper Man by Alex North:(Michael Joseph)

JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER

• Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha (Faber & Faber)
• My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (Michael Joseph)
• Little White Lies by Philippa East (HQ)
• The Wreckage by Robin Morgan-Bentley (Trapeze)
• The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood(Quercus Fiction)

SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER

• In Two Minds by Alis Hawkins (The Dome Press)
• Metropolis by Philip Kerr(Quercus Fiction)
• The Bear Pit by SG MacLean (Quercus Fiction)
• Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
• The Anarchists’ Club by Alex Reeve (Raven Books)
• The Paper Bark Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu (Constable)

CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER

• Summer of Reckoning by Marion Brunet, translated by Katherine Gregor (Bitter Lemon Press)
• The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre, translated by Stephanie Smee (Old Street Publishing)
• Like Flies from Afar by K Ferrari, translated by Adrian Nathan West (Canongate Books)
• November by Jorge Galán, translated by Jason Wilson (Constable)
• The Fragility of Bodies by Sergio Olguín, translated by Miranda France (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston (Orenda Books)

SHORT STORY DAGGER

• "The Bully" by Jeffery Deaver in Exit Wounds, edited by Paul B Kane and Marie O’Regan (Titan Books)
• "The New Lad" by Paul Finch in Exit Wounds, edited by Paul B Kane and Marie O’Regan (Titan Books)
• "The Washing" by Christopher Fowler in Invisible Blood, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Titan Books)
• "#Me Too" by Lauren Henderson in Invisible Blood, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Titan Books)
• "The Recipe" by Louise Jensen in Exit Wounds, edited by Paul B Kane and Marie O’Regan (Titan Books)
• "Easily Made" by Syd Moore in 12 Strange Days of Christmas (Point Blank Press)

ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

• Furious Hours by Casey Cep (William Heinemann)
• Corrupt Bodies by Peter Everett (Icon Books)
• Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod by Caroline Goode (Oneworld Publications)
• The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury by Sean O’Connor (Simon & Schuster)
• The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking by Adam Sisman (Profile Books)
• The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective by Susannah Stapleton (Picador)

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

• Christopher Brookmyre
• Jane Casey
• Alex Gray
• Quintin Jardine

DEBUT DAGGER

• The Spae-Wife by Anna Caig
• Whipstick by Leanne Fry
• Pesticide by Kim Hays
• Emergency Drill by Nicholas Morrish
• Revolution Never Lies by Josephine Moulds
• Bitter Lake by Michael Munro

PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER

• Bitter Lemon Press
• Harvill Secker
• Head of Zeus
• HQ
• Michael Joseph
• Orenda
• Raven Books
• Severn House