CWA Dagger Awards

Britain's Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announced the winners of several Dagger Awards.
CWA International Dagger: The Potter’s Field, by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Mantle)


CWA Non-fiction Dagger: The Eleventh Day, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Transworld/Doubleday)

CWA Short Story Dagger: Tie — “The Message,” by Margaret Murphy (from Murder Squad: Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories, edited by Martin Edwards; The Mystery Press) and “Laptop,” by Cath Staincliffe (from Murder Squad: Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories) 

CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger: Icelight, by Aly Monroe (John Murray)

CWA Dagger in the Library: Steve Mosby

CWA Debut Dagger: Beached, by Sandy Gingras

The London event also included the presentation of the CWA’s 2012 Diamond Dagger Award to Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal (1971), The Dogs of War (1974), and numerous other best-selling works.

On top of the six prizes handed ’round today, the CWA released the longlists of nominees for three other Dagger Awards as follows:

The John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger:
• The Doll Princess, by Tom Benn (Jonathan Cape)
• Heart-Shaped Bruise, by Tanya Byrne (Headline)
• A Land More Kind than Home, by Wiley Cash (Bantam)
• So Much Pretty, by Cara Hoffman (Century)
• Good People, by Ewart Hutton (HarperCollins)
• Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante (Harvill Secker)
• The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Faber and Faber)
• What Dies in Summer, by Tom Wright (Canongate)

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
• Dare Me, by Megan Abbott (Picador)
• The Shadow Patrol, by Alex Berenson (Headline)
• A Foreign Country, by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)
• The Fear Index, by Robert Harris (Hutchinson)
• The Dispatcher, by Ryan David Jahn (Macmillan)
• Uncommon Enemy, by Alan Judd (Simon & Schuster)
• The Child Who, by Simon Lelic (Mantle)
• Reamde, by Neal Stephenson (Atlantic)

The Gold Dagger:
• A Land More Kind than Home, by Wiley Cash (Bantam)
• Vengeance in Mind, by N.J. Cooper (Simon & Schuster)
• Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach, by Colin Cotterill (Quercus)
• The Flight, by M.R. Hall (Mantle)
• The Rage, by Gene Kerrigan (Vintage)
• Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante (Harvill Secker)
• The Child Who, by Simon Lelic (Mantle)
• Bereft, by Chris Womersley (Quercus)

Winners in these last three categories will be announced later in the year.

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