Dazzling Daggers
The Crime Writers Association (CWA) announced the Dagger Awards Winners last night . The prestigious CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century. Congratulations to all the winners and finalists!
Diamond Dagger (previously announced): Walter Mosley
Gold Dagger: The Kingdoms of Savannah , by George Dawes Green (Headline)
Other finalists:
The Lost Man of Bombay , by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
A Killing in November , by Simon Mason (Riverrun)
The Clockwork Girl , by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
The Winter Guest , by W.C. Ryan (Zaffre)
The Silent Brother , by Simon Van der Velde (Northodox Press)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: Seventeen , by John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)
Other finalists:
Take Your Breath Away , by Linwood Barclay (HQ)
The Botanist, by M. W. Craven
The Ink Black Heart, by Robert Galbraith
Alias Emma , by Ava Glass (Century)
May God Forgive , by Alan Parks (Canongate)
John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor
Other finalists:
Breaking by Amanda Cassidy
The Local , by Joey Hartstone (Pushkin Vertigo)
London in Black , by Jack Lutz (Pushkin Vertigo)
No Country for Girls , by Emma Styles (Sphere)
Outback , by Patricia Wolf (Embla)
Historical Dagger: The Darkest Sin , by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
The Clockwork Girl , by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
The Homes , by J.B. Mylet (Viper)
The Bangalore Detectives Club , by Harini Nagendra (Constable)
Blue Water , by Leonora Nattrass (Viper)
Hear No Evil , by Sarah Smith (Two Roads)
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction: Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey , by Wendy Joseph (Doubleday)
Other finalists:
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery , by Stephen Bates (Icon)
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators , by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector , by Amit Katwala (Mudlark)
To Hunt a Killer: How I Brought Melanie Road’s Murderer to Justice , by Julie Mackay and Robert Murphy (Harper Element)
About A Son: A Murder and A Father’s Search for Truth , by David Whitehouse (Phoenix)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger: Even the Darkest Night , by Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean (MacLehose Press)
Other finalists:
Good Reasons to Die , by Morgan Audic, translated by Sam Taylor (Mountain Leopard Press)
The Red Notebook , by Michel Bussi, translated by Vineet Lal (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Bad Kids , by Zijin Chen, translated by Michelle Deeter (Pushkin Vertigo)
The Bleeding , by Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner (Orenda)
The Anomaly , by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
Short Story Dagger : “Cast a Long Shadow,” by Hazell Ward (from Cast a Long Shadow , edited by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline; Honno Welsh Women’s Press)
Other finalists:
“The Disappearance,” by Leigh Bardugo (from Marple ; HarperCollins)
“The Tears of Venus,” by Victoria Dowd and Delilah Dowd (from Unlocked ; The D20 Authors)
“The Beautiful Game,” by Sanjida Kay (from The Perfect Crime )
“Paradise Lost,” by Abir Mukherjee (from The Perfect Crime )
“Runaway Blues,” by C.J. Tudor (from A Sliver of Darkness , by C.J. Tudor; Michael Joseph)
Best Crime & Mystery Publisher Dagger : Viper (Profile Books)
Other finalists:
Harper Fiction (HarperCollins)
Mantle (PanMacmillan)
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
Pushkin Vertigo (Pushkin Press)
Quercus (Hachette)
Debut Dagger: Sideways, by Jeff Marsick
Other finalists:
Bulldog Murphy , by Chris Corbett
Male, Unknown , by Chris Griffiths
Heist, by James Pierson
The Line of Least Resistance , by Jeff Richards
Cradle of Storms , by Margaret Winslow
Dagger in the Library for Body of Work: Sophie Hannah
Other finalists:
Ben Aaronovitch
Mick Herron
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