CWA Dagger Shortlists Announced

The Crime Writers’ Association, in partnership with Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3, is pleased to announce the shortlists for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2009, celebrating the crème de la crème of Crime and Thriller fiction, and including the three remaining CWA Daggers. This follows hard on the news of the groundbreaking TV deal that will see the awards ceremony televised as the culmination of a six-week season of ITV3 crime and drama programming

CWA GOLD DAGGER 2009
for the best crime novel of the year
Kate Atkinson -When Will There Be Good News? (Black Swan)
Mark Billingham - In the Dark (Little, Brown)
Lawrence Block - Hit and Run (Orion)
William Brodrick - A Whispered Name (Little, Brown)
M R Hall - The Coroner (Pan Macmilan)
Gene Kerrigan - Dark Times In The City (Harvill Secker)

CWA JOHN CREASEY 2009
for first books by previously unpublished writers
David Fuller Sweetsmoke (Abacus)
James Green - Bad Catholics (Luath Press)
Rod Madocks - No Way To Say Goodbye (Five Leaves)
Robert Rotenberg - Old City Hall (John Murray)
Johan Theorin - Echoes from The Dead (Doubleday)
Dan Waddell - The Blood Detective (Penguin)

THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2009
for the year's best thriller
Michael Connelly - The Brass Verdict (Orion)
Gillian Flynn - Dark Places (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
John Hart - The Last Child (John Murray)
Charlie Newton - Calumet Cit' (Bantam)
Daniel Silva - Moscow Rules (Michael Joseph)
Olen Steinhauer - The Tourist (HarperCollins)
Andrew Williams - The Interrogator (John Murray)

Hat Tip to Adrian Muller of CrimeFest for the news!