The Crime Writers Association In-conjunction with sponsors
Crimefest
and The Hazchem Network presented
the 2017 CWA Dagger Shortlists in London on Wednesday 26th 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.
The winners will be announced at the CWA Annual Dagger
Awards on 26th 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
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