The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre, and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century.
The CWA Dagger shortlist will be announced in May with the awards ceremony taking place at the start of July.
The 2021 Diamond Dagger for
lifetime achievement, the highest honour in British crime writing, has
already been announced, awarded to Martina Cole.
LONGLISTS
GOLD DAGGER
Amer Anwar: Stone Cold Trouble (Dialogue Books, Little, Brown Book Group)
S A Cosby: Blacktop Wasteland (Headline, Headline Publishing Group)
M W Craven: The Curator (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)
Ben Creed: City of Ghosts (Welbeck Fiction, Welbeck Publishing Group)
Garry Disher: Peace (Viper, Profile Books)
Mick Finlay: Arrowood and the Thames Corpses (HQ, HarperCollins)
Nicci French: House of Correction (Simon & Schuster)
Robert Galbraith: Troubled Blood (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)
Elly Griffiths: The Postscript Murders (Quercus)
Antonia Hodgson: The Silver Collar (Hodder & Stoughton)
S G Maclean: The House of Lamentations (Quercus Fiction, Quercus)
C D Major: The Other Girl (Thomas & Mercer)
Thomas Mullen: Midnight Atlanta (Little, Brown, Little, Brown Book Group)
S J Parris: Execution (Harper Fiction, HarperCollins)
Tade Thompson: Making Wolf (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)
Nicola Upson: The Dead of Winter (Faber)
Chris Whitaker: We Begin at the End (Zaffre, Bonnier)
Rebecca Whitney: The Hidden Girls (Mantle, Pan Macmillan)
IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER
Charles Cumming: Box 88 (HarperFiction, HarperCollins)
Robert Galbraith: Troubled Blood (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)
Ryan Gattis: The System (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
Ian Rankin: Song for the Dark Times (Orion Fiction, The Orion Publishing Group)
Rod Reynolds: Blood Red City (Orenda Books)
Craig Robertson: Watch Him Die (Simon & Schuster)
Michael Robotham: When She Was Good (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)
Catherine Ryan Howard: The Nothing Man (Atlantic Books)
Stuart Turton: The Devil and the Dark Water (Raven Books, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Ruth Ware: One by One (Harvill Secker, Vintage)
Holly Watt: The Dead Line (Raven Books, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Chris Whitaker: We Begin at the End (Zaffre, Bonnier)
JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir: The Creak on the Stairs (Orenda)
Susan Allott: The Silence (Borough, HarperCollins)
Emma Christie: The Silent Daughter (Welbeck Publishing)
Catherine Cooper: The Chalet (HarperFiction, HarperCollins)
Ben Creed: City of Ghosts (Welbeck Publishing)
Judi Daykin: Under Violent Skies (Joffe Books)
Egan Hughes: The One That Got Away (Little Brown, Sphere)
S W Kane: The Bone Jar (Thomas & Mercer)
Rob McInroy: Cuddies Strip (Ringwood Press)
Stephanie Scott: What’s Left of Me Is Yours (Orion, Weidenfeld)
Stephen Spotswood: Fortune Favours the Dead (Headline, Wildfire)
John Vercher: Three-Fifths (Pushkin Press)
S R White: Hermit (Headline)
SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER
J M Alvey: Justice for Athena (Canelo Digital Publishing Limited)
John Banville: Snow (Faber)
Vaseem Khan: Midnight at Malabar House (Hodder & Stoughton)
Laurie R. King: Riviera Gold (Allison & Busby)
Chris Lloyd: The Unwanted Dead (Orion Fiction, The Orion Publishing Group)
S J Parris: Execution (HarperFiction, HarperCollins)
Ben Pastor: The Night of Shooting Stars (Bitter Lemon Press)
Michael Russell: The City Under Siege (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)
David S. Stafford: Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons (Allison & Busby)
A D Swanston: Chaos (Bantam Press, Transworld)
Nicola Upson: The Dead of Winter (Faber)
Ovidia Yu: The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)
CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER
Fredrik Backman: Anxious People, translated by Neil Smith (Michael Joseph, Penguin)
Roxanne Bouchard: The Coral Bride, translated by David Warriner (Orenda Books)
Marc Elsberg: Greed, translated by Simon Pare (Black Swan, Penguin)
Yun Ko-eun: The Disaster Tourist, translated by Lizzie Buehler (Serpent’s Tail)
Volker Kutscher: The March Fallen, translated by Niall Sellar (Sandstone Press)
D A Mishani: Three, translated by Jessica Cohen (Riverrun, Hachette Book Group)
Jo Nesbo: The Kingdom, translated by Robert Ferguson (Harvill Secker, Penguin)
Håkan Nesser: The Secret Life of Mr. Roos, translated by Sarah Death (Mantle, Pan Macmillan)
Mikael Niemi: To Cook a Bear, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner (MacLehose Press, Quercus)
Agnes Ravatn: The Seven Doors, translated by Rosie Hedger (Orenda Books)
Maike Wetzel: Elly, translated by Lyn Marven (Scribe UK)
SHORT STORY DAGGER
Robert Scragg: ‘A Dog is for Life, Not Just for Christmas’ in Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)
Elle Croft: ‘Deathbed’ in Afraid of the Light, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)
Dominic Nolan: ‘Daddy Dearest’ in Afraid of the Light, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)
Adam Southward: ‘Especially at Christmas’ in Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)
Christopher Fowler: ‘Head Count’ in First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome Press)
Victoria Selman: ‘Hunted’ in Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)
Clare Mackintosh: ‘Monsters’ in First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome Press)
Stuart Turton: ‘Murder Most Vial’ in First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome Press)
Livia Llewelyn: ‘One of These Nights’ in Cutting Edge: Noir Stories by Women, edited by Joyce Carol Oates (Pushkin Press, Pushkin Vertigo)
James Delargy: ‘Planting Nan’ in Afraid of the Light, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)
Simpson Grears: ‘The Foot of the Walk Murders’ in The Foot of the Walk Murders, edited by Simpson Grears (Rymour Books)
ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
Sue Black: Written in Bone (Doubleday, Penguin)
Amanda Brown: The Prison Doctor; Women Inside (HQ, HarperCollins)
Becky Cooper: We Keep the Dead Close (William Heinemann, Penguin)
Martin Edwards: Howdunit (Collins Crime Club, HarperCollins)
Andrew Harding: These Are Not Gentle People (MacLehose, Quercus)
Debora Harding: Dancing with the Octopus (Profile Books Limited)
Nick Hayes: The Book of Trespass (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Ben MacIntyre: Agent Sonya (Viking, Penguin)
Jax Miller: Hell in the Heartland (HarperCollins)
Daniel Smith: The Peer and the Gangster (The History Press)
Ravi Somaiya: Operation Morthor (Viking, Penguin)
Kate Summerscale: The Haunting of Alma Fielding (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Mark Townsend: No Return (Guardian, Faber & Faber)
DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY
Lin Anderson
Nicci French
Lisa Jewell
Erin Kelly
Peter May
Denise Mina
Margaret Murphy
James Oswald
L J Ross
C L Taylor
PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER
Bitter Lemon Press
Faber & Faber
Harper Fiction
Head of Zeus
Michael Joseph
No Exit Press
Orenda Books
Pushkin Vertigo
Raven
Sphere
Viper
1 comment:
A very impressive author list and three of my favorite publishers, starting with Bitter Lemon, who consistently publish top notch talent.
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