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) (4th 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
