CWA Dagger Short List

A number of the CWA Daggers were announced on Friday evening at a drinks reception that took place at CrimeFest.

They are as follows:-

Endeavour Historical Dagger
 

Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh  - (Hodder & Stoughton)

Treachery by S J Parris (HarperCollins)

The City of Strangers by Michael Russell (Avon)

Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders by Kate Griffin (Faber)

Theft of Life by Imogen Robertson (Headline Review)

The Dead Can Wait by Robert Ryan (Simon & Schuster)

 Non-Fiction Dagger

 

Did She Kill Him by Kate Colquhoun (Little, Brown)

Life After Death by Damien Echols (Atlantic Books)

Undercover by Rob Evans & Paul Lewis (Faber & Faber/Guardian Books)

The Girl by Samantha Geimer (Simon & Schuster)

Manson by Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster)

The Seige by Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark (Viking)

International Dagger
 

Strange Shores, by Arnaldur Indridason, (translated by. Victoria Crib) Harvill Secker 

Irène by Pierre Lemaître (Translated by Frank Wynne) Quercus/MacLehose

The Siege by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Translated by Frank Wynne) Weidenfeld

Forty Days without Shadow by Oliver Truc (Translated by Louise Rogers LaLaurie) Little, Brown

Plan D by Simon Urban (Translated by Katy Derbyshire) Harvilll Secker

Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas (Translated by Siân Reynolds) Harvill Secker 

Short Story Dagger
 

Judge Surra by Andrea Camilleri in Judges (Maclehose Press)

Reconciliation by Jeffrey Deaver in Trouble in Mind (Hodder & Stoughton)

In Our Darkened House by Inger Frimansson in A Darker Shade (Head of Zeus)

Fedora by John Harvey in Deadly Pleasures (Severn House)

Night Nurse by Cath Staincliffe in Deadly Pleasures (Severn House)

 

Debut Dagger 

The Long Oblivion by Tim Baker

A Convenient Ignorance by Michael Baker  

Under the Hanging Tree by Barb Ettridge     

The Father by Tom Keenan     

Motherland by Garry Abson      

The Allegory of Art and Science by Graham Brack

Convict by Barb Ettridge  

The Dog of Erbill by Peter Hayes      

Burnt by Kristina Stanley

Deviant Acts by John J.White     

Seeds of a Demon by Anastasia Tyler 

Colours by Tim Emery          

The Movement by Jody Sabral        

Congratulations to all the nominees.  The winners of the awards will be announced on Monday 30th June at the CWA Dagger Awards Dinner