The last "formal" event that took place on Friday was the announcement of a number of the CWA shortlists. These were the International Dagger, the Non-Fiction Dagger, the Dagger in the Library, the Debut Dagger and the Short Story Dagger which as Chair of the Short Story panel I got to anounce.
The short list -THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER-
The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri, Tr. Stephen Sartarelli, (Mantle)
Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo, Tr. Jethro Soutar (Bitter Lemon Press)
The Saint-Florentin Murders by Jean-François Parot, Tr. Howard Curtis (Gallic)
Three Seconds by Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström, Tr. Kari Dickson (Quercus)
River of Shadows by Valerio Varesi, Tr. Joseph Farrell (Maclehose)
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas, Tr. Siân Reynolds (Harvill Secker)
Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar, Tr. Sonia Soto (Abacus)
THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
Judith Flanders: The Invention of Murder (HarperCollins)
Colin Evans: Slaughter on a Snowy Morn (Icon Books)
Douglas Starr: The Killer of Little Shepherds (Simon & Schuster)
Wilbert Rideau: In the Place of Justice (Profile)
Michael Capuzzo: The Murder Room (Michael Joseph)
Kate Colquhoun: Mr Briggs’ Hat (Little, Brown)
CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER
East of Suez, West of Charing Cross Road by John Lawton - Agents of Treachery - Ed Otto Penzler (Atlantic Books)
Wednesday’s Child by Ken Bruen - First Thrills - Ed. Lee Child (Atlantic Books)
The Princess of Felony Flats - by Bill Cameron - First Thrills - Ed. Lee Child - (Atlantic Books)
The Dead Club - by Michael Palmer & Daniel Palmer - First Thrills - Ed. Lee Child (Atlantic Books)
Homework by Phil Lovesey - The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime Vol 8 - Ed Maxim Jakubowski (Constable and Robinson)
CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY
S J Boloton
RJ Ellroy
Jason Goodwin
Mo Hayder
Susan Hill
Phillip Kerr
CWA DEBUT DAGGER
A Burial Place for Strangers – Sharon Hunt (Canada)
A Quiet Night in Entebbe – Peter Wynn Norris (UK)
A Vicious Indulgence – Annie Hauxwell (Australia)
Biographies of a Victim – Gunnar Lange-Nielsen (Norway)
Hide and Seek – Sarah Darby (UK)
Men of the Rose – Jessica Ramage (UK)
The Boy Who Loved Penguins – SWC Webb (UK)
The Greengrocers and Fruiterers’ Convention – Martin Ungless (UK)
The Outrageous Behaviour of Left-Handed Dwarves – Graham Brack (UK)
The Temp – Luke Melia (UK)
Unveiled Threats – Stephanie Light (UK)
What Hidden Lies – Michele Rowe (South Africa)
The winners will be announced at the Harrogate Crime Festival in July. Congratulations to all the nominees!
Dinner was a joyus affair. Nicci Praca from Quercus took the Shotsmag team along with Jake Kerridge, Shona MacLean, Nigel McCrery and Colin Cotterill out to dinner. We all had a wonderful time. Needless to say that once we got back to the hotel none of us went to bed immediately and I spent the evening in the pleasant company of a lady called Caroline (whose surname I must find out) and various other members of the crime fiction fraternity. So what time did I go to bed? Now that would be telling! I can only say that it was rather late and in the wee hours!
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