CWA Dagger Longlists

The CWA Gold Dagger

The Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer (Bantam Press)

Dead Man’s Blues by Ray Celestin (Mantle)

The Girl Before by J P Delaney (Quercus)

Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith (No Exit Press)

Little Deaths by Emma Flint (Picador)

The Dry by Jane Harper (Little Brown)

Spook Street by Mick Herron (John Murray Publishers)

Sirens by Joseph Knox (Doubleday)

Ashes of Berlin by Luke McCallin) No Exit Press

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

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (Harvil Secker)

Darktown by Thomas Mullen (Little Brown)

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott (Picador)

Kill The Next One by Frederico Axat (Text Publishing)

The Twenty Three by Linwood Barclay (Orion Fiction)

The Killing Game by J S Carol (Bookouture)

The Heat by Garry Disher (Text Publishing)

A Hero in France by Alan Furst (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

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

Moskva by Jack Grimwood (Michael Joseph)

The One Man by Andrew Gross (Macmillan)

Redemption Road by John Hart (Hodder & Stoughton)

Spook Street by Mick Herron (John Murray Publishers)

Dark Asset by Adrian Magson (Severn House)

Police at the Station and the don’t look Friendly by Adrian McKinty (Serpent’s Tail)

The Constant Soldier by William Ryan (Mantle)

The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong (Text Publishing)

Jericho’s War by Gerald Seymour (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter (Century)

Broken Heart by Tim Weaver (Penguin)

CWA International Dagger

A Cold Death by Antonio Manzini (Tr Anthony Shugaar) (4^th Estate)

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

A Voice in the Dark by Andrea Camilleri (Tr Stephen Sartarelli) (Mantle)

Blackout by Marc Elsberg (Tr Marshall Yarborough) (Black Swan)

Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre (Tr Frank Wynne) (Maclehose Press)

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

Death in the Tuscan Hills by Marco Vichi (Tr Stephen Sartarelli) (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio De Giovanni (Tr Anthony Shugaar) (Europa Editions)

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

The Legacy of The Bones by Dolores Redondo (Tr Nick Caister & Lorenza Garcia) (Harper Fiction)

When It Grows Dark by Jorn Lier Horst (Tr Anne Bruce) (Sandstone Press)

Non-Fiction Dagger

A Dangerous Place by Simon Farquhar (The History Press Ltd)

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

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

Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims (Bloomsbury Publishing)

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

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

The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal-Meth Addiction by Luke Williams (Scribe Publications)

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

Short Story Dagger

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

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

Alive or Dead by Michael Jecks in Motives for Murder Edited by Martin Edwards (Sphere)

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

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

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

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

Debut Dagger

Camera Obscura by Richard McDowell

Strange Fire by Sherry Larkin

The Reincarnation of Himmat Gupte by Neeraj Shah

The Swankeeper’s Wife by Augusta Dwyer

Hardways by Catherine Hendricks

Lost Boys by Spike Dawkins

Victorianoir by Kat Clay

Red Haven by Mette McLeod

In the Shadow of the Tower by Clive Edwards

Broken by Victoria Slotover

Endeavour Historical Dagger

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

The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes (Doubleday Ireland)

The Black Friar By S G MacLean (Quercus)

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

The Long Drop by Denise Mina (Harvil Secker)

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (Harvil Secker)

Darktown by Thomas Mullen (Little Brown)

By Gaslight by Steven Price (Point Blank)

The City in Darkness by Michael Russell (Constable)

Dark Asylum by E S Thomson (Constable)

John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger

The Watcher by Ross Armstrong (Mira)

The Pictures by Guy Bolton (Point Blank)

What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Chaney (Mantle)

Ragdoll by Daniel Cole (Trapeze)

Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg (Faber & Faber)

Epiphany Jones by Michael Grothaus (Orenda Books)

Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard (Corvus)

Himself by Jess Kidd (Canongate)

Sirens by Joseph Knox (Doubleday)

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

The Possession by Sara Flannery Murphy (Scribe)

Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker (Twenty 7)

Dagger in the Library (Shortlist)

Kate Ellis

Tana French

Mari Hannah

James Oswald

C J Sansom

Andrew Taylor

CWA Dagger Shortlist

Over 882 entries were submitted by publishers and individuals to compete for the 2015 Dagger Awards. The shortlists announced at CRIMEFEST 2015 were the CWA Short Story Dagger, International Dagger, Non Fiction Dagger, Endeavour Historical Dagger and Debut Dagger. 

The CWA Daggers Shortlist:

The shortlist for the Dagger In The Library award was announced on Monday 11th May by its sponsor Dead Good (www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk).

The International Dagger
Falling Freely, As If In A Dream by Leif GW Persson (tr Paul Norlen) – published by Transworld.

Camille by Pierre Lemaitre (tr Frank Wynne) – published by Quercus.
Cobra by Deon Meyer (tr K.L Seegers) – published by Hodder & Stoughton.
Arab Jazz by Karim Miské (tr Sam Gordon) – published by MacLehose Press.
The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo (tr Isabelle Kaufeler) – published by HarperCollins.
Into a Raging Blaze by Andreas Norman (tr Ian Giles) – published by Quercus.

The Short Story Dagger
Apocrypha by Richard Lange – Sweet Nothing – published by Mulholland Press

Red Eye by Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane – Face Off – published by Sphere
The Hunter by Dashiell Hammett – The Hunter & Other Stories – published by No Exit Press
Sweet Nothing by Richard Lange – Sweet Nothing – published by Mulholland Press
Juror 8 by Stuart Neville – OxCrimes – published by Profile Books
The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us by George Pelecanos – OxCrimes – published by Profile Books

 The Non Fiction Dagger
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies – published by Quercus

A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer – published by Penguin
Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic by Jill Leovy – published by Bodley Head
Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of the Gun by Iain Overton – published by Canongate
by Ǻsne Seierstad – published by Virago
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson – published by Scrib

Endeavour Historical Dagger – sponsored by Endeavour Press Ltd
Havana Sleeping by Martin Davies – published by Hodder & Stoughton

Lamentation by C. J. Sansom – published by Mantle
The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin – published by No Exit Press
The Seeker by S. G. MacLean – published by Quercus
The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor – published by Harper Collins
The Taxidermist’s Daughterby Kate Mosse – published by Orion

Debut Dagger – sponsored by Orion
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
Last Of The Soho Legends by Greg Keen
The Ice Coffin by Jill Sawyer
The Pure Drop by Nigel Robbins
Lock Me In by Kate Simants

“The CWA Daggers are amongst the most prestigious crime writing awards in the world. The list of past winners reads like a Who’s Who of the genre,” enthuses CWA Chair Len Tyler. “This year the judges have been able to shortlist another fantastic collection of books in each of the categories. My congratulations to all of the nominated authors.”

The CWA Dagger Awards will be presented on 30th June, to mark the end of Crime Reading Month (www.crimereadingmonth.co.uk), at a gala dinner in central London.