CWA Dagger Long lists

Debut Dagger Longlist

Sponsored by Orion Books

Dark Valley by John Kennedy

Death by Dangerous by Oliver Jarvis

The Devil’s Dice by Roz Watkins

Hardways by Catherine Hendricks

Let’s Pretend by Sue Williams

Misconception by Jack Burns

A Reconstructed Man by Graham Brack

A State of Grace by Rita Catching

The Tattoo Killer by Joe West

Wimmera by Mark Brandi

Dagger in the Library Longlist

RC Bridgestock published by Caffeine Nights

Tony Black published by Black & White

Alison Bruce published by Constable & Robinson

Angela Clarke published by Avon

Charlie Flowers published by Endeavour Press

Elly Griffiths published by Quercus

Keith Houghton published by Thomas & Mercer

Quintin Jardine published by Headline

Louise Phillips published by Hachette

Joe Stein published by Ward Wood

Short Story Dagger Longlist

As Alice Did by Andrea Camilleri (from Montalbano's First Cases) published by Pan Macmillan

On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier by John Connolly (from Nocturnes 2: Night Music) published by Hodder and Stoughton

Holmes on the Range: A Tale of the Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository by John Connolly (from Nocturnes 2: Night Music) published by Hodder and Stoughton

Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman by Christopher Fowler (from London's Glory) published by Bantam

Stray Bullets by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (from Crimes) published by MacLehose Press

Rosenlaui by Conrad Williams (from The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Moriarty: The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes’s Nemesis edited by Maxim Jakubowski), published by Constable & Robinson

International Dagger Longlist 

The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango (translated by Imogen Taylor), published by Simon & Schuster

The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaître (translated by Frank Wynne), published by MacLehose Press

Icarus by Deon Meyer (translated by K L Seegers), published by Hodder & Stoughton

The Sword of Justice by Leif G.W. Persson (translated by Neil Smith), published by Doubleday

The Murderer in Ruins by Cay Rademacher (translated by Peter Millar), published by Arcadia

The Father by Anton Svensson (translation not credited), published by Sphere

The Voices Beyond by Johan Theorin (translated by Marlaine Delargy), published by Transworld

Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama (translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davis), published by Quercus

Non-Fiction Dagger Longlist

The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards published by HarperCollins

Sexy Beasts: The Hatton Garden Mob by Wensley Clarkson published by Quercus

You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat)

by Andrew Hankinson, published by Scribe

A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding published by Faber & Faber

Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant published by John Murray

John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman published by Bloomsbury

Endeavour Historical Dagger Longlist

Sponsored by Endeavour Press

The House at Baker Street by Michelle Birkby published by Pan Books

A Death in the Dales by Frances Brody published by Piatkus

A Man of Some Repute and A Question of Inheritance by Elizabeth Edmondson published by Thomas & Mercer

Smoke and Mirrors by Elly Griffiths published by Quercus

The Last Confessions of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson published by Hodder & Stoughton

The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr published by Quercus

A Book of Scars by William Shaw published by Quercus

The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith published by Lion Fiction

Striking Murder by A. J. Wright published by Allison & Busby

Stasi Child by David Young published by Twenty7Books

John Creasey New Blood Dagger Longlist

Fever City by Tim Baker published by Faber & Faber

Dodgers by Bill Beverly published by No Exit Press

Mr Miller by Charles Den Tex published by World Editions

The Teacher by Katerina Diamond published by Avon

Wicked Game by Matt Johnson published by Orenda Books

Freedom's Child by Jax Miller published by HarperCollins

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh published by Jonathan Cape

The Dark Inside by Rod Reynolds published by Faber & Faber

The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle published by Viking

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Longlist

Sponsored by Ian Fleming Publications

The Cartel by Don Winslow published by William Heinemann

The English Spy by Daniel Silva published by HarperCollins

Bone by Bone by Sanjida Kay published by Corvus

Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty published by Serpent’s Tail

Real Tigers by Mick Herron published by John Murray

The Hot Countries by Timothy Hallinan published by Soho Crime

Black Eyed Susans by Julia Hearberlin published by Michael Joseph

Make Me by Lee Child published by Bantam Press

Spy Games by Adam Brookes published by Sphere

The American by Nadia Dalbuono published by Scribe UK

Goldsboro Gold Dagger Longlist

Sponsored by Goldsboro Books

Dodgers by Bill Beverly published by No Exit Press

Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre published by Little Brown

After You Die by Eve Dolan published by Harvill Secker

Real Tigers by Mick Herron published by John Murray

Finders Keepers by Stephen King published by Hodder & Stoughton

Dead Pretty by David Mark published by Mulholland Books

Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina published by Orion

She Died Young by Elizabeth Wilson published by Serpent's Tail

CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition

The Art of Imperfection by Sue Dawes

The Blockage by Ian Cowmeadow

The Box-Shaped Mystery by Peter Guttridge

Echolalia by Ilana Lindsey

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Faceless Killer by Christine Poulson

Gardyloo by Ian Moore

The Litter Artist by Marian Cox

Mrs Pepys Detective and the Cheape-side Thief by Cara Cooper

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Not Quite Nice by Shona MacLean
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Requiem Island by Mirandi Riwoe

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Safe as Houses by Scott Hunter

Through a Glass Darkly by Elizabeth Heery

The Winner of the Margery Allingham Short Story Competition - 

The Box-Shaped Mystery by Peter Guttridge