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Hawkins, Billingham, Hallett and Banville on CWA Dagger longlists
The 2022 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards longlists have been revealed with Paula Hawkins, Mark Billingham, Janice Hallett and John Banville among the chosen.
Honouring the very best in crime writing, the annual awards are the oldest in the genre.
The headline Gold Dagger, awarded for the crime novel of the year, sees Hawkins nominated for A Slow Fire Burning (Doubleday), alongside Billingham’s Rabbit Hole (Sphere) and Imran Mahmood’s I Know What I Saw (Raven). Ray Celestin is also in contention for the award for Sunset Swing (Mantle), which has also received nominations for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for thriller of the year, and the Historical Dagger.
Other writers on the prestigious 20-strong list include Kia Abdullah for Next of Kin (HQ), Alexandra Benedict for The Christmas Murder Game (Zaffre), DV Bishop for City of Vengeance (Macmillan), Jacqueline Bublitz for Before You Knew My Name (Sphere) and SA Cosby for Razorblade Tears (Headline), which is also up for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
They are joined by Will Dean with The Last Thing to Burn (Hodder & Stoughton), Melissa Ginsburg’s The House Uptown (Faber), John Hart’s The Unwilling (Zaffre), Femi Kayode’s Lightseekers (Raven), Abir Mukherjee’s The Shadows of Men (Harvill Secker) and Chris Offutt’s The Killing Hills (No Exit Press).
Peter Papathanasiou’s The Stoning (MacLehose) is also in contention, with another appearance on the New Blood Dagger for the best debut novel. William Shaw’s The Trawlerman (riverrun), Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Daughters of Night (Mantle), Rosalind Stopps’ A Beginner’s Guide to Murder (HQ) and Joe Thomas’ Brazilian Psycho (Arcadia) complete the longlist for the Gold Dagger.
Stalwarts in contention for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger are MW Craven for Dead Ground (Constable), Laura Lippman for Dream Girl (Faber), Belinda Bauer’s Exit (Bantam Press) and Linwood Barclay’s Find You First (HQ).
The much-anticipated John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger highlights the best debut novels. Among the rising stars of 2022 is Hallett with her debut The Appeal (Viper Books) which was a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year.
Booker Prize-winner Banville is a heavyweight contender on the Historical Dagger longlist for April in Spain (Faber), while the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger sees the award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen with The Rabbit Factor (Orenda Books) and the French author Victor Jestin, for his dark, coming-of-age-novel Heatwave (Scribner) in the longlist.
The Short Story Dagger gives a nod to bestselling Norwegian juggernaut Jo Nesbo with his story “London" from his first book of short stories, The Jealousy Man (Harvill Secker).
The ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction features The Jigsaw Murders (The History Press), the debut book by Jeremy Craddock who worked as journalist and crime reporter for over 20 years which traces the true story of a shocking 1930s murder case, as well as Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain (Picador), which recently won the Baillie Gifford Prize.
The Dagger in the Library is voted on exclusively by librarians, chosen for the author’s body of work and support of libraries. This year sees firm favourites from the genre including Mark Billingham, Susan Hill, Lin Anderson and Cath Staincliffe.
The Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year Dagger, which celebrates publishers and imprints demonstrating excellence and diversity in crime writing, pits big publishing houses including HarperFiction against independent publishers Titan Books and the Amazon imprint Thomas & Mercer among others.
Maxim Jakubowski, chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, said: “The CWA Dagger awards are unparalleled for their reputation and longevity and celebrate the very best of the genre. This year’s longlists showcase authors—established and new—at the top of their game. The sheer diversity of the titles on these longlists illustrates how the genre can entertain and thrill but also provide healthy arguments for much societal debate. In a year when more crime and mystery titles were issued than ever before, our independent judges found making choices difficult, and winnowing these titles down to a forthcoming shortlist will prove fascinating."
The CWA Dagger shortlists will be announced on 13th May at CrimeFest. The awards ceremony will be held at the Leonardo City hotel in London on 29th June, coinciding with National Crime Reading Month. The 2022 Diamond Dagger, awarded to an author whose crime-writing career has been marked by sustained excellence, has already been announced as going to C J Sansom.
The Longlists in Full:
Gold Dagger
Next of Kin, Kia Abdullah (HQ)
The Christmas Murder Game, Alexandra Benedict (Zaffre)
Rabbit Hole, Mark Billingham (Sphere)
City of Vengeance DV Bishop (Macmillan)
Before You Knew My Name, Jacqueline Bublitz (Sphere)
Sunset Swing, Ray Celestin (Mantle)
Razorblade Tears, SA Cosby (Headline)
The Last Thing to Burn, Will Dean (Hodder & Stoughton)
The House Uptown, Melissa Ginsburg (Faber)
The Unwilling, John Hart (Zaffre)
A Slow Fire Burning, Paula Hawkins (Doubleday)
Lightseekers, Femi Kayode (Raven)
I Know What I Saw, Imran Mahmood (Raven)
The Shadows of Men, Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
The Killing Hills, Chris Offutt (No Exit Press)
The Stoning, Peter Papathanasiou (MacLehose)
The Trawlerman, William Shaw (riverrun)
Daughters of Night, Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle)
A Beginner’s Guide to Murder, Rosalind Stopps (HQ)
Brazilian Psycho, Joe Thomas (Arcadia)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
A Man Named Doll, Jonathan Ames (Pushkin Vertigo)
Find You First, Linwood Barclay (HQ)
Exit, Belinda Bauer (Bantam Press)
The Pact, Sharon Bolton (Orion)
The Devil’s Advocate, Steve Cavanagh (Orion)
Sunset Swing, Ray Celestin (Mantle)
Razorblade Tears, SA Cosby (Headline Publishing Group)
Dead Ground, MW Craven (Constable)
The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz (Faber)
Dream Girl, Laura Lippman (Faber)
Rizzio, Denise Mina (Polygon)
The Lonely Ones, Håkan Nesser (Mantle)
John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Welcome to Cooper, Tariq Ashkanani (Thomas & Mercer)
Sixteen Horses, Greg Buchanan (Mantle)
Repentance, Eloísa Díaz (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Hunted, Antony Dunford (Hobeck Books)
The Mash House, Alan Gillespie (Unbound Digital)
Raft of Stars, Andrew J Graff (HQ)
The Appeal, Janice Hallett (Viper Books)
Falling, TJ Newman (Simon & Schuster)
Where Ravens Roost, Karin Nordin (HQ)
The Stoning, Peter Papathanasiou (MacLehose Press)
How to Kidnap the Rich, Rahul Raina (Little, Brown)
A Mumbai Murder Mystery, Meeti Shroff-Shah (Joffe Books)
The Source, Sarah Sultoon (Orenda Books)
Waking the Tiger, Mark Wightman (Hobeck Books)
Historical Dagger
April in Spain, John Banville (Faber)
City of Vengeance, DV Bishop (Macmillan)
Sunset Swing, Ray Celestin (Mantle)
Crow Court, Andy Charman (Unbound)
Not One Of Us, Alis Hawkins (Canelo)
The Drowned City, KJ Maitland (Headline)
Where God Does Not Walk, Luke McCallin (No Exit Press)
Edge of the Grave, Robbie Morrison (Macmillan)
A Corruption of Blood, Ambrose Parry (Canongate Books)
Blackout, Simon Scarrow (Headline)
The Royal Secret, Andrew Taylor, (HarperFiction)
The Cannonball Tree Mystery, Ovidia Yu (Constable)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
Girls Who Lie, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir translated by Victoria Cribb (Orenda Books)
Hotel Cartagena, Simone Buchholz translated by Rachel Ward (Orenda Books)
Riccardino, Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Mantle)
Seat 7a, Sebastian Fitzek translated by Steve Anderson (Head of Zeus)
Bullet Train, Kōtarō Isaka translated by Sam Malissa (Harvill Secker)
Heatwave, Victor Jestin translated by Sam Taylor (Scribner)
Oxygen, Sacha Naspini translated by Clarissa Botsford (Europa Editions)
People Like Them, Samira Sedira translated by Lara Vergnaud (Raven Books)
The Rabbit Factor, Antti Tuomainen translated by David Hackston (Orenda Books)
The Scorpion’s Head, Hilde Vandermeeren translated by Laura Watkinson (Pushkin Vertigo)
Short Story Dagger
‘Blindsided’ by Caroline England in Criminal Pursuits: Crime Through Time edited by Samantha Lee Howe (Telos Publishing)
‘The Victim’ by Awais Khan in Criminal Pursuits: Crime Through Time edited by Samantha Lee Howe (Telos Publishing)
‘New Tricks’ by Matt Wesolowski in Afraid of the Shadows edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds)
‘London’ in The Jealousy Man and other stories by Jo Nesbo edited by Robert Ferguson (Harvill Secker)
‘With the Others’ by TM Logan in Afraid of the Shadows edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds)
‘The Clifton Vampire’ by TE Kinsey in Afraid of the Shadows edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds)
‘Flesh of a Fancy Woman’ by Paul Magrs in Criminal Pursuits: Crime Through Time edited by Samantha Lee Howe (Telos Publishing)
‘Changeling’ by Bryony Pearce in Criminal Pursuits: Crime Through Time edited by Samantha Lee Howe (Telos Publishing)
‘The Way Of All Flesh’ by Raven Dane in Criminal Pursuits: Crime Through Time edited by Samantha Lee Howe (Telos Publishing)
‘When I Grow Up’ by Robert Scragg in Afraid of the Shadows edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds)
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion, Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne (Faber)
The Seven Ages of Death Richard Shepherd (Michael Joseph)
The Jigsaw Murders, Jeremy Craddock (The History Press)
The Dublin Railway Murder, Thomas Morris (Harvill Secker)
What Lies Buried, Kerry Daynes (Octopus)
The Unusual Suspect, Ben Machell (Canongate Books)
The Good Girls, Sonia Faleiro (Bloomsbury Circus)
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice, Julia Laite (Profile Books)
We Are Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe ( Picador)
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire, Julie Kavanagh (Grove Press UK)
Dagger in the Library
Ben Aaronovitch
Lin Anderson
Mark Billingham
Susan Hill
Edward Marston
Kate Rhodes
Sara Sheridan
Cath Staincliffe
Rebecca Tope
Publishers’ Dagger
Faber & Faber
HarperCollins: Harper Fiction
Pan Macmillan: Mantle
Penguin Random House: Michael Joseph
Oneworld Publications: Point Blank
Pushkin Press: Pushkin Vertigo
Hachette UK: Quercus
Bloomsbury: Raven Books
Amazon: Thomas & Mercer
Titan Books
Profile Books: Viper
Debut Dagger (Sponsored by ProWritingAid)
Henry’s Bomb, Kevin Bartlett
Lufkin, Texas, Katherine Futers
Holloway Castle, Laura Aston Hill
The 10:12, Anna Maloney
The Mercy Seat, Rachel Nixon
The Two Murders at Manor Park, Elizabeth Opalka
Blood Caste, Shylashri Shankar
Dead Reckoning, Jennifer Slee & Jessica Slee
The Dead of Egypt, David Smith
The Dieppe Letters, Liz Rachel Walker
