Saturday 19 May 2018

2018 CWA Dagger Longlists


Gold Dagger
Head Case by Ross Armstrong (HQ)
The Liar by Steve Cavanagh (Orion)
London Rules by Mick Herron (John Murray)
Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane (Little Brown)
Sunburn by Laura Lippman (Faber & Faber)
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (Serpent’s Tail)
You Don’t Know Me by Imran Mahmood (Michael Joseph)
A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Raven Books)
Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic (Pushkin Vertigo)

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
The Switch by Joseph Finder (Head of Zeus)
London Rules by Mick Herron (John Murray Publishers)
If I Die Before I Wake by Emily Koch (Harvill Secker)
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (Serpent’s Tail)
An Act of Silence by Colette McBeth (Wildfire)
A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips (Doubleday)
The Chalk Man by C J Tudor (Michael Joseph)
The Force by Don Winslow (HarperFiction)

The CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Gravesend by William Boyle (No Exit Press)
I.Q by Joe Ide (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Soho Dead by Greg Keen (Thomas & Mercer)
Girl In Snow by Danya Kukafka (Picador)
Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love (Point Blank)
East Of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman (HQ)
Ravenhill by John Steele (Silvertail)
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (Fourth Estate)
The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Raven Books)
Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic Pushkin Vertigo

The CWA International Dagger
Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini tr. Jamie Bulloch (MacLehose)
The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indriðason tr. Victoria Cribb (Harvill Secker)
Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre tr. Frank Wynne (MacLehose)
After the Fire by Henning Mankell tr. Marlaine Delargy (Harvill Secker)
The Frozen Woman by Jon Michelet tr. Don Bartlett (No Exit Press)
Offering to the Storm by Dolores Redondo tr. Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garzía, (HarperCollins)
Three Minutes by Roslund & Hellström tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel, (Quercus/riverrun)
Snare by Lilja Sigurdardóttir tr. Quentin Bates, (Orenda)
The Accordionist by Fred Vargas tr. Sian Reynolds (Harvill Secker)
Can You Hear Me? By Elena Varvello tr. Alex Valente (Two Roads/John Murray)

The CWA Historical Dagger
A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
Death in the Stars by Frances Brody (Piatkus)
Fire by L. C. Tyler (Constable)
Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen (Little Brown)
Merlin at War by Mark Ellis (London Wall Publishing)
Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy (HarperCollins)
Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson (Faber & Faber)
Nucleus by Rory Clements (Zaffre Publishing)
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr (Quercus Fiction)
The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellows (Sphere)

The CWA Short Story Dagger
The Corpse on the Copse by Sharon Bolton from “The Body” Killer Women Crime Club Anthology 2 Edited by Susan Opie (Killer Women Ltd)
The Last Siege of Bothwell Castle by Chris Brookmyre from Bloody Scotland ( Historic Environment Scotland)
Too Much Time by Lee Child from No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories (Bantam Press)
Second Son by Lee Child from No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories (Bantam Press)
Authentic Carbon Steel Forged by Elizabeth Haynes from Deadlier: 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written by Women Edited by Sophie Hannah (Head of Zeus)
Smoking Kills by Erin Kelly from “The Body” Killer Women Crime Club Anthology 2 Edited by Susan Opie (Killer Women Ltd)
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit by Denise Mina from Bloody Scotland (Historic Environment Scotland)
Accounting for Murder by Christine Poulson from Mystery Tour: CWA Anthology of Short Stories Edited by Martin Edwards (Orenda Books)
Faking a Murder by Kathy Reichs and Lee Child from Match Up Edited by Lee Child (Sphere)
Trouble is a Lonesome Town by Cathi Unsworth from Deadlier: 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written by Women Edited by Sophie Hannah (Head of Zeus)

CWA Dagger In The Library
Selected by nominations from libraries.
Simon Beckett
Martina Cole
Martin Edwards
Nicci French
Sophie Hannah
Simon Kernick
Edward Marston
Peter May
Rebecca Tope

The shortlists in all of these categories will be announced in July, with winners to be declared during a Dagger Awards dinner in London on Thursday 25 October 2018.  Congratulations to all the nominated authors.

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