During a festive reception at CrimeFest , taking place this weekend in Bristol, England, the UK Crime Writers’ Association announced its shortlist of nominees for the 2024 Dagger Awards.
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 and Faber)
• Black River , by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Vertigo)
• 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 and Faber)
• The Mantis , by Kotaro Isaka (Harvill Secker)
• Gaslight , by Femi Kayode (Raven)
• 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)
• Go Seek , by Michelle Teahan (Headline)
• The Tumbling Girl , by Bridget Walsh (Gallic)
Historical Dagger:
• Clara & Olivia , by Lucy Ashe (Magpie)
• Harlem After Midnight , by Louise Hare Harlem (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)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger:
• Red Queen , by Juan Gómez-Jurado,
translated by Nick Caistor (Macmillan)
• The Sins of Our Fathers , by Åsa 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)
• The Prey , by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir,
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: Espionage, Betrayal, Terrorism and Corruption—The Truth Behind the Murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher , by Matt Johnson with John Murray (Ad Lib)
• Devil’s Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious OneCoin Cryptoqueen, by Jennifer McAdam with Douglas Thompson (Ad Lib)
• Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy , by Alex Mar (Bedford Square)
• How Many More Women?: The Silencing of Women by the Law and How to Stop It , 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 )
• “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)
• “Best Served Cold,” by F.D. Quinn (from An Unnecessary Assassin )
Dagger in the Library (“for a body of work by an established crime writer that has long been popular with borrowers from libraries”):
• Louise Candlish
• M.W. Craven
• Cara Hunter
• Anthony Horowitz
• L.J. Ross
Publishers’ Dagger (“awarded annually to the Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year”):
• Canelo
• Headline (Hachette)
• Joffe Books
• Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
• Pushkin Press
• Simon & Schuster
Debut Dagger (“for the opening of a crime novel by an
unpublished writer”):
• Burnt Ranch , by Katherine Ahlert
• Unnatural Predators , by Caroline Arnoul
• Makoto Murders , by Richard Jerram
• Not a Good Mother , by Karabi Mitra
• Long Way Home , by Lynn McCall
• The Last Days of Forever , by Jeremy Tinker
• The Blond , by Megan Toogood
The longlist of 2024 contenders is available here .
This year’s winners will be announced during an awards ceremony at the CWA gala dinner on July 4.
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