As has become traditional the CWA Dagger longlists were announced at Crimefest in Bristol earlier this month. The Diamond Dagger has already been confirmed and the shortlists for the remainder will be announced in July. The winners of all the CWA Daggers will be announced at the Dagger Awards Dinner to be held on 24 October.
The Diamond Dagger – selected from nominations provided by CWA members – 2019 winner is Robert Goddard and the award will be presented at the CWA Dagger Awards Dinner in October.
The longlists for the following daggers were announced during Crimefest and the shortlists will be announced in July.
- Gold Dagger (best crime novel)
- Ian Fleming Steel (best thriller)
- John Creasey (New Blood)
- International
- Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
- Short Story
- Debut (unpublished writers)
- Historical
- Dagger in the Library
Gold Dagger
All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
Snap by Belinda Bauer
The Mobster’s Lament by Ray Celestin
The Puppet Show by M W Craven
Body and Soul by John Harvey
What We Did by Christobel Kent
Unto Us a Son Is Given by Donna Leon
Fade to Grey by John Lincoln
Cold Bones by David Mark
American By Day by Derek B. Miller
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
Salt Lane by William Shaw
Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better by Benjamin Wood
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Give Me Your Handby Megan Abbott
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh
Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings
Lives Laid Away by Stephen Mack Jones
The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag
Homegrown Hero by Khurrum Rahman
To The Lions by Holly Watt
Memo From Turner by Tim Willocks
John Creasey (New Blood)
Motherland by G D Abson
All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl
When Darkness Calls by Mark Griffin
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Turn A Blind Eye by Vicky Newham
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Something In The Water by Catherine Steadman
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
Overkill by Vanda Symon
International Dagger
A Long Night in Paris by Dov Alfon, translator Daniella Zamir
Weeping Waters by Karin Brynard, translators Maya Fowler & Isobel Dixon
The Cold Summer by Gianrico Carofiglio, translator Howard Curtis
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, translator Giles Murray
The Root of Evil by Håkan Nesser, translator Sarah Death
The Forger by Cay Rademacher, translator Peter Millar
The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri, translator Stephen Sartarelli
The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl, translator Don Bartlett
Slugger by Martin Holmén, translator A A Prime
The Katherina Code by Jørn Lier Horst, translator Anne Bruce
Non-Fiction Dagger
All That Remains by Sue Black
An Unexplained Death by Mikita Brottman
Trace by Rachael Brown
Murder by the Book by Claire Harman
The Feather Thief by Kirk Johnson
Eve Was Shamed by Helena Kennedy
In Your Defence by Sarah Langford
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
My Life with Murderers by David Wilson
CWA Short Story Dagger
Room Number Two by Andrea Camilleri in ‘Death at Sea’ by Andrea Camilleri
Strangers in a Pub by Martin Edwards in ‘Ten Year Stretch’, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller
How Many Cats Have You Killed? by Mick Herron in ‘Ten Year Stretch’, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller
Death Becomes Her by Syd Moore in ‘The Strange Casebook’ by Syd Moore,
The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing by Danuta Reah in ‘The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and other Fantastic Female Fables’
I Detest Mozart by Teresa Solana in ‘The First Historic Serial Killers’ by Teresa Solana
Paradise Gained by TeresaSolana in ‘The First Historic Serial Killers’ by Teresa Solana
Bag Man by Lavie Tidhar in ‘The Outcast Hours’, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
Debut Dagger (unpublished writers)
Shelley Burr – Wake
Mairi Campbell-Jack – Self-Help for Serial Killers: Let Your Creativity Bloom
Jerry Krause – The Mourning Light
Michael Fleming – The Fruits of Rashness
Carol Glaser – Down the Well
Catherine Hendricks – Hardways
Anna Maloney – The Right Man
David Smith – The Firefly
Fran Smith – A Thin Sharp Blade
Matthew Smith – InWolf’s Clothing
Historical Dagger
Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Destroying Angel by S G Maclean
Gallows Court by Martin Edwards
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
Tombland by C J Sansom
The Angel’s Mark by S W Perry
The House on Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve
The Mathematical Bridge by Jim Kelly
The Mobster’s Lament by Ray Celestin
The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney
Dagger in the Library longlist
M C Beaton
Simon Beckett
Mark Billingham
Christopher Brookmyre
John Connolly
Kate Ellis
Sophie Hannah
Graham Masterton
Denise Mina
C J Sansom
Cath Staincliffe
Jacqueline Winspear
So how’s your reading going – will you have read enough to judge a category for yourself?
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