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CWA Dagger Awards shortlists announced
Children’s author Maz Evans’ debut adult novel Over My Dead Body (Headline) and Una Mannion’s Tell Me What I Am (Faber & Faber) have been shortlisted for the Gold Dagger at the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards.
The shortlist for the Gold Dagger, which is awarded for the best crime novel of the year, also features Nilanjana Roy for Black River (Pushkin Press), and Jesse Sutanto for Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (HQ). They are up against stalwarts of the genre, including Mick Herron for The Secret Hours (Baskerville), and Dennis Lehane for Small Mercies (Abacus).
Past winners of the prestigious Gold Dagger include Ian Rankin, John le Carré, Reginald Hill and Ruth Rendell.
In the running for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, which showcases the thriller of the year, are Jordan Harper and T J Newman, shortlisted for Everybody Knows (Faber & Faber) and Drowning (Simon & Schuster), respectively. Also in this category, S A Cosby is shortlisted for All the Sinners Bleed (Headline), alongside Eli Cranor’s Ozark Dogs (Hachette). The final two titles vying for this award are Kōtarō Isaka’s The Mantis (Harvill Secker) and Femi Kayode’s Gaslight (Raven Books).
“Once again, our independent judges across all the Dagger categories have come up trumps,” said Maxim Jakubowski, chair of the CWA Daggers’ committee. “Their selections feature well-established authors and new faces, a refreshingly diverse palette highlighting the talent of writers from all origins and publishers large and small, and a steadfast affirmation of how healthy the crime and mystery field is right now.”
The shortlists were announced on 10th May at Bristol’s CrimeFest, the UK’s largest crime fiction convention. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony at the CWA gala dinner on 4th July.
The shortlists in full:
Gold Dagger
Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans (Headline)
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron (Baskerville)
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane (Abacus)
Tell me What I Am by Una Mannion (Faber & Faber)
Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin)
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto (HQ)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
All the Sinners Bleed by S A Cosby (Headline)
Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor (Headline)
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper (Faber & Faber)
The Mantis by Kōtarō Isaka (Harvill Secker)
Gaslight by Femi Kayode (Raven Books)
Drowning by T J Newman (Simon & Schuster)
ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
In The Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua (Corvus)
The Maiden by Kate Foster (Mantle)
West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman (Raven Books)
Go Seek by Michelle Teahan (Headline Publishing Group)
The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh (Gallic Books)
Historical Dagger
Clara & Olivia by Lucy Ashe (Magpie)
Harlem After Midnight by Louise Hare (HQ)
A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins (Canelo)
Viper’s Dream by Jake Lamar (No Exit Press)
Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattrass (Viper)
Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry (Canongate Books)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado, translated by Nick Caistor (Macmillan)
The Sins of Our Fathers by Âsa Larsson, translated by Frank Perry (Maclehose Press)
Nothing Is Lost by Cloé Mehdi, translated by Howard Curtis (Europa Editions UK)
The Consultant by Im Seong-sun, translated by An Seong Jae (Raven Books)
The Prey by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, translated by Victoria Cribb (Hodder & Stoughton)
My Husband by Maud Ventura, translated by Emma Ramadan (Hutchinson Heinemann)
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel, Simon & Schuster
No Ordinary Day by Matt Johnson, with John Murray (Ad Lib Publishers)
Devil’s Coin by Jennifer McAdam with Douglas Thompson (Ad Lib Publishers)
Seventy Times Seven by Alex Mar (Bedford Square Publishers)
How Many More Women? by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida (Endeavour)
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare (Vintage)
Short Story Dagger
‘Safe Enough’ by Lee Child, from An Unnecessary Assassin, edited by Lorraine Stevens (Rivertree)
‘The Last Best Thing’ by Mia Dalia, from Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction, edited by Andrew Hook (Head Shot Press)
‘The Also-Rans’ by Benedict J Jones, from Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction, edited by Andrew Hook (Head Shot Press)
‘The Divide’ by Sanjida Kay, from The Book of Bristol, edited by Joe Melia and Heather Marks (Comma Press)
The Spendthrift and the Swallow by Ambrose Parry (Canongate Books)
‘Best Served Cold’ by F D Quinn, from An Unnecessary Assassin, edited by Lorraine Stevens (Rivertree)
Dagger in the Library
Louise Candlish
M W Craven
Cara Hunter
Anthony Horowitz
L J Ross
Publishers’ Dagger
Canelo
Headline (Hachette)
Joffe Books
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
Pushkin Press
Simon & Schuster
