The CWA 2017 Dagger Shortlists

The Crime Writers Association In-conjunction with sponsors Crimefest and The Hazchem Network presented the 2017 CWA Dagger Shortlists in London on Wednesday 26^th July [Hosted by Waterstones Piccadilly].

The Full Results from last night can be viewed HERE or downloaded as a .pdf [right click and ‘save as’ to your hard drive].

Shots Magazine obtained permission from the CWA Dagger Liaison Officer Mike Stotter to film the event [it helps as he is also editor-in-chief of Shots Magazine……], so pour yourself a large Gin and watch the proceedings.

All the work the CWA Judges have shortlisted for the 2017 Dagger Awards are well worth exploring, especially prescient for our Summer Holiday Reads - and can all be purchased from the Shots Magazine online bookstore HERE using our search facility.

We present a selection of photographs from the CWA Gathering in London.

More information about Crimefest click Here and remember to book for next year’s event which runs 17-20 May in Bristol in 2018, and we’d urge you to book early as the event is at capacity.

To see what happened at Crimefest 2017 click Here and Here

The winners will be announced at the CWA Annual Dagger Awards on 26^th October and we present all the shortlisted work that is in competition for 2017

The CWA Gold Dagger

The Beautiful Dead (Bantam Press) by Belinda Bauer

Dead Man’s Blues (Mantle) by Ray Celestin

The Dry (Little, Brown) by Jane Harper

Spook Street (John Murray) by Mick Herron

A Rising Man (Harvill Secker) by Abir Mukherjee

The Girl in Green (Faber & Faber) by Derek B. Miller

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

You Will Know Me (Picador) by Megan Abbott

The Killing Game (Bookouture) by J S Carol

We Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire (Myriad Editions) by Jules Grant

Redemption Road (Hodder & Stoughton) by John Hart

Spook Street (John Murray) by Mick Herron

The Constant Soldier (Mantle) by William Ryan

THE JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER

The Pictures (Point Blank) by Guy Bolton

Ragdoll (Trapeze) by Daniel Cole

Distress Signals (Corvus) by Catherine Ryan Howard

Sirens (Doubleday) by Joseph Knox

Good Me, Bad Me (Michael Joseph) by Ali Land

Tall Oaks (Twenty 7) by Chris Whitaker

THE GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

A Dangerous Place (The History Press) by Simon Farquhar

Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) by Stephen Purvis

The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage (Text Publishing) by Anja Reich-Osang

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (Bloomsbury Publishing) by Kate Summerscale

A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II (Jonathan Cape) by A. T. Williams

Another Day in the Death of America (Guardian Faber Publishing) by Gary Younge

The CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger

The Devil’s Feast (Fig Tree) by M. J. Carter

The Ashes of Berlin (No Exit Press) by Luke McCallin

The Long Drop (Harvill Secker) by Denise Mina

A Rising Man (Harvill Secker) by Abir Mukherjee

By Gaslight (Point Blank) by Steven Price

The City in Darkness (Constable) by Michael Russell

The CWA International Dagger

A Cold Death (4th Estate) by Antonio Manzini, Tr Antony Shugaar

A Fine Line (Bitter Lemon Press) by Gianrico Carofiglio, Tr Howard Curtis

Blood Wedding (MacLehose Press) by Pierre Lemaître, Tr Frank Wynne

Climate of Fear (Harvill Secker) by Fred Vargas, Tr Siân Reynolds

The Dying Detective  (Doubleday) by Leif G W Persson, Tr Neil Smith

The Legacy of the Bones (HarperCollins) by Delores Redondo, Tr Nick Casiter & Lorenza Garcia

The CWA Short Story Dagger

The Assassination by Leye Adenle in Sunshine Noir  (White Sun Books) Edited by AnnaMaria Alfieri & Michael Stanley

Murder and its Motives by Martin Edwards in Motives for Murder (Sphere) Edited by Martin Edwards

The Super Recogniser of Vik by Michael Ridpath in Motives for Murder (Sphere) Edited by Martin Edwards

What You Were Fighting For by James Sallis in The Highway Kind (Mulholland Books) Edited by Patrick Millikin

The Trials of Margaret by LC Tyler in Motives for Murder (Sphere) Edited by Martin Edwards

Snakeskin by Ovidia Yu in Sunshine Noir (White Sun Books) Edited by AnnaMaria Alfieri & Michael Stanley

DEBUT DAGGER sponsored by Orion Publishing Group

For the opening of a crime novel from a writer with no publishing contract.

Strange Fire by Sherry Rankin

The Reincarnation of Himmat Gupte by Neeraj Shah

Lost Boys by Spike Dawkins

Red Haven by Mette McLeod

Broken by Victoria Slotover

The winners of all the above CWA Daggers will be announced at the glittering Dagger Awards Gala Dinner to be held at the Grange City Hotel, London on 26 October. Ann Cleeves will be awarded the Diamond Dagger at the same occasion and Mari Hannah will be presented with the Dagger in the Library award. The after-dinner speaker will be Robert Thorogood, creator and writer of Death in Paradise, and master of ceremonies will be Barry Forshaw, the acclaimed crime fiction expert. Everyone is welcome to attend. For details and a booking form, please visit www.thecwa.co.uk/dinner or email admin@thecwa.co.uk