Dagger Longlists 2022

 

The Crime Writers Association Dagger Longlists were announced this evening at the CWA Gala Dinner which took place during the annual Crime Writer's Association Conference in the UK. Celebrated since 1955, the prestigious Dagger Awards celebrate the very best in crime writing. Dagger shortlists will be announced on May 13 at CrimeFest in Bristol, with the winners celebrated at a live gala event on June 29 in London.  

The Dagger in the Library

• Ben Aaronovitch
• Lin Anderson
• Mark Billingham
• Susan Hill
• Edward Marston
• Kate Rhodes
• Cath Staincliffe
• Rebecca Tope
• Sara Sheridan
  

The Dagger for the Best Crime & Mystery Publisher

• Faber & Faber 
• Harper Fiction 
• Mantle 
• Michael Joseph 
• Point Blank 
• Pushkin Vertigo 
• Quercus 
• Raven Books 
• Thomas & Mercer 
• Titan Books 
• Viper

The CWA Short Story Dagger

• The Clifton Vampire by T E Kinsey  
• With the Others by T M Logan 
• When I Grow Up by Robert Scragg
• New Tricks by Matt Wesolowski
• London by Jo Nesbø  
• The Way Of All Flesh by Raven Dane
• Blindsided by Caroline England
• The Victim by Awais Khan 
• Flesh of a Fancy Woman by Paul Magrs 
• Changeling by Bryony Pearce

 The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger

• Girls Who Lie by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (trans Victoria Cribb)
• Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz (trans Rachel Ward) 
• Riccardino by Andrea Camilleri, (trans Stephen Sartarelli) 
• Seat 7a by Sebastian Fitzek (trans Steve Anderson)
• Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka (trans Sam Malissa): 
• Heatwave by Victor Jestin (trans Sam Taylor) 
• Oxygen by Sacha Naspini (trans Clarissa Botsford)
• People Like Them by Samira Sedira (trans Lara Vergnaud) 
• The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen, (trans David Hackston) 
• The Scorpion's Head by Hilde Vandermeeren (trans Laura Watkinson) 

The ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

• The Devil You Know by Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne:
• The Jigsaw Murders by Jeremy Craddock
• What Lies Buried by Kerry Daynes
• The Good Girls by Sonia Faleiro
• We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins
• The Irish Assassins by Julie Kavanagh
• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey by Julia Laite
• The Unusual Suspect by Ben Machell
• The Dublin Railway Murder by Thomas Morris
• The Seven Ages of Death by Richard Shepherd 

The CWA Historical Dagger

• April in Spain by John Banville
• City of Vengeance by DV Bishop
• Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
• Crow Court by Andy Charman
• Not One Of Us by Alis Hawkins
• The Drowned City by KJ Maitland
• Where God Does Not Walk by Luke McCallin
• Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison
• A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry
• Blackout by Simon Scarrow
• The Royal Secret by Andrew Taylor
• The Cannonball Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu

The CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger

• Welcome to Cooper by Tariq Ashkanani
• Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan
• Repentance by Eloísa Díaz
• Hunted by Antony Dunford
• The Mash House by Alan Gillespie
• Raft of Stars by Andrew J Graff
• The Appeal by Janice Hallett
• Falling by TJ Newman
• Where Ravens Roost by Karin Nordin
• The Stoning by Peter Papathanasiou
• How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina
• The Death of Kirti Kadakia by Meeti Shroff-Shah
• The Source by Sarah Sultoon
• Waking the Tiger by Mark Wightman 

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

• A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames
• Find You First by Linwood Barclay 
• Exit by Belinda Bauer
• The Pact by Sharon Bolton
• The Devil’s Advocate by Steve Cavanagh 
• Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
• Razorblade Tears by S A Cosby
• Dead Ground by M W Craven
• The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
• Rizzio by Denise Mina 
• The Lonely Ones by Håkan Nesser

The CWA Gold Dagger

• Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah
• The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict: 
• Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham
• City of Vengeance by DV Bishop
• Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
• Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
• Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby
• The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean 
• The House Uptown by Melissa Ginsburg
• The Unwilling by John Hart
• A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
• Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
• I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood
• The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee
• The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt 
• The Stoning by Peter Papathanasiou
• The Trawlerman by William Shaw
• Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
• A Beginner's Guide to Murder by Rosalind Stopps
• Brazilian Psycho by Joe Thomas