Updated: Winners are in bold and were announced in October.
As has become traditional the CWA Dagger longlists were announced at Crimefest in Bristol in May. The Diamond Dagger has already been confirmed and the shortlists for the remainder have now been published. 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 shortlists for the following daggers are
- 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- Debut (unpublished writers)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
The Puppet Show by M W Craven
What We Did by Christobel Kent
Unto Us a Son Is Given by Donna Leon
American By Day by Derek B. Miller
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better by Benjamin Wood
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Give Me Your Handby Megan Abbott
Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman
No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings
Lives Laid Away by Stephen Mack Jones
To The Lions by Holly Watt
Memo From Turner by Tim Willocks
John Creasey (New Blood)
All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Turn A Blind Eye by Vicky Newham
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
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
Non-Fiction Dagger
All That Remains by Sue Black
An Unexplained Death by Mikita Brottman
Murder by the Book by Claire Harman
The Feather Thief by Kirk Johnson
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
CWA Short Story Dagger
Strangers in a Pub by Martin Edwards 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
Bag Man by Lavie Tidhar in ‘The Outcast Hours’, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
Debut Dagger (unpublished writers)
Shelley Burr – Wake
Jerry Krause – The Mourning Light
Catherine Hendricks – Hardways
David Smith – The Firefly
Fran Smith – A Thin Sharp Blade
Historical Dagger
Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Destroying Angel by S G MacLean
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
Tombland by C J Sansom
The House on Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve
The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney
Dagger in the Library longlist
M C Beaton
Mark Billingham
John Connolly
Kate Ellis
C J Sansom
Cath Staincliffe
So how’s your reading going – will you have read enough to judge a category for yourself?
Novel Heights 
Some great choices here. I don’t envy the judges the choice, that’s for sure. It’ll be really interesting to see which way the CWA judges go. The McIllvanney is also up for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.