2023 CWA Dagger Longlists
The Gold Dagger Oxblood by Tom Benn Shoot the Moonlight Out by William Boyle The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith The Kingdoms of the Savannah by George Dawes Green The Lost Man of Bombay by Vaseem Khan The Bookseller of Inverness by SG Maclean A Killing in November by Simon Mason The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola The Winter Guest by William Ryan A Killing Rain by Faye Snowdon The Bone Road by NE Solomons The Silent Brother by Simon Van der Velde The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Opera by Julie Anderson A Kiss After Dying by Ashok Banker Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay Seventeen by John Brownlow The Match by Harlan Coben The Botanist by MW Craven Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith Alias Emma by Ava Glass A Loyal Traitor by Tim Glister Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka May God Forgive by Alan Parks The ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge Better the Blood by Michael Bennett Breaking by Amanda Cassidy Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor The Local by Joey Hartstone The Truth Will Out by Rosemary Hennigan London in Black by Jack Lutz Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor No Country for Girls by Emma Styles Nobody But Us by Laure Van Rensburg Outback by Patricia Wolf The Partisan by Patrick Worrall The Historical Dagger The Darkest Sin by DV Bishop Blackstone Fell by Martin Edwards Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys by Jack Jewers The Bookseller of Inverness by SG MacLean The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola Death at the Dolphin by Gretta Mulrooney The Homes by JB Mylet The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith The Mushroom Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu The ALCS Dagger for Non Fiction The Poisonous Solicitor by Stephen Bates Dead in the Water by Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel What We Fear Most by Ben Cave Scandal at Dolphin Square by Simon Danczuk & Daniel Smith The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards Unlawful Killings by Wendy Joseph Tremors In The Blood by Amit Katwala To Hunt a Killer by Julie Mackay & Robert Murphy The Real Special Relationship by Michael Smith The Life Inside by Andy West About A Son by David Whitehouse Stitched Up by Shahed Yousaf The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Good Reasons to Die , by Morgan Audic (tr Sam Taylor) The Red Notebook , by Michel Bussi (tr Vineet Lal) Even the Darkest Night by Javier Cercas (tr Anne Mclean) Bad Kids by Zijin Chen, (tr Michelle Deeter) Impossible , by Erri De Luca (tr NS Thompson) Femicide by Pascal Engman (tr Michael Gallagher) The Bleeding by Johana Gustawsson (tr David Warriner) The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock (tr Tara Chace) The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier (tr Adriana Hunter) The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer (tr KL Seggers) The Tattoo Murder by Akimitsu Takagi (tr Deborah Boehm) Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura (tr Allison Markin Powell & Marie Iida) The Short Story Dagger The Disappearance by Leigh Bardugo - In ‘ Marple ’ The Tears of Venus by Victoria and Delilah Dowd - In ‘ Unlocked ’ Strawberry Moon by John Grisham – In ‘ Sparring Partners ’ Clout Chaser by Rachel Howzell Hall The Beautiful Game by Sanjida Kay Paradise Lost by Abir Mukherjee Death In Darjeeling by Vaseem Khan – In ‘ The Perfect Crime ’ Just One More by Laura Lippman – In ‘ Seasonal Work & Other Killer Stories ’ Auld Bride by Judith O'Reilly – In ‘ Gone ’ The Lake House by Ferdinand von Schirach - In ‘ Punishment ’ (tr: Katharina Hall) Runaway Blues by C J Tudor – In ‘ A Sliver of Darkness ’ Cast A Long Shadow by Hazell Ward – In ‘ Cast A Long Shadow ’ Dagger for the Best Mystery and Crime Publisher Bitter Lemon Press Bookouture Canelo Harper Fiction Hodder & Stoughton Mantle Michael Joseph Raven Pushkin Vertigo Quercus Simon & Schuster Viper Dagger in The Library Ben Aaronovitch Sophie Hannah Mick Herron Erin Kelly Angela Marsons Brian McGilloway Tim Weaver Congratulations to all the nominated authors. The Shortlists will be announced on Friday 12 May at the Crime Writer's Association Dagger Reception announcement which is due to take place at CrimeFest.
