CWA DAGGER SHORTLISTS 2022

 

 

 

 

 

CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION (UK) announced the CWA Dagger Shortlists. Congratulations to all!

DIAMOND DAGGER
WINNER 2022: CJ SANSOM
 

GOLD DAGGER

BEFORE YOU KNEW MY NAME by JACQUELINE BUBLITZ
Little, Brown • Sphere
SUNSET SWING by RAY CELESTIN
Pan Macmillan • Mantle
RAZORBLADE TEARS by SA COSBY
Headline Publishing Group • Headline
THE UNWILLING by JOHN HART
Bonnier Books UK • Zaffre
THE SHADOWS OF MEN by ABIR MUKHERJEE
Penguin Random House • Harvill Secker
THE TRAWLERMAN by WILLIAM SHAW
Quercus • riverrun

IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

FIND YOU FIRST by LINWOOD BARCLAY
HarperCollins • HQ
THE PACT by SHARON BOLTON
Orion Publishing Group
THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE by STEVE CAVANAGH
Orion Publishing Group
RAZORBLADE TEARS by SA COSBY
Headline Publishing Group
DEAD GROUND by MW CRAVEN
Little, Brown • Constable
DREAM GIRL by LAURA LIPPMAN Faber

JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER

WELCOME TO COOPER by TARIQ ASHKANANI
Thomas & Mercer
REPENTANCE by ELOÍSA DÍAZ
Orion Publishing Group • Weidenfeld & Nicolson
THE MASH HOUSE by ALAN GILLESPIE
Unbound • Unbound Digital
THE APPEAL by JANICE HALLETT Profile Books • Viper Books
WHERE RAVENS ROOST by KARIN NORDIN
HarperCollins • HQ
HOW TO KIDNAP THE RICH by RAHUL RAINA
Little, Brown
WAKING THE TIGER by MARK WIGHTMAN
Hobeck Books
 

HISTORICAL DAGGER

APRIL IN SPAIN by JOHN BANVILLE
Faber
SUNSET SWING by RAY CELESTIN
Pan Macmillan • Mantle
CROW COURT by ANDY CHARMAN
Unbound
NOT ONE OF US by ALIS HAWKINS
Canelo
EDGE OF THE GRAVE by ROBBIE MORRISON
Pan Macmillan • Macmillan
A CORRUPTION OF BLOOD by AMBROSE PARRY
Canongate Books

 

CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER

HOTEL CARTAGENA by SIMONE BUCHHOLZ
Translated by RACHEL WARD Orenda Books
BULLET TRAIN by KŌTARŌ ISAKA
Translated by SAM MALISSA
Penguin Random House • Harvill Secker
OXYGEN by SACHA NASPINI
Translated by CLARISSA BOTSFORD
Europa Editions UK
PEOPLE LIKE THEM by SAMIRA SEDIRA
Translated by LARA VERGNAUD
Bloomsbury Publishing • Raven Books
THE RABBIT FACTOR by ANTTI TUOMAINEN
Translated by DAVID HACKSTON Orenda Books

 

ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW: STORIES OF HUMAN
CRUELTY AND COMPASSION
by DR GWEN ADSHEAD & EILEEN HORNE
Faber
THE IRISH ASSASSINS:
CONSPIRACY, REVENGE AND THE MURDERS
THAT STUNNED AN EMPIRE
by JULIE KAVANAGH
Atlantic Books • Grove Press UK
EMPIRE OF PAIN by PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
Pan Macmillan • Picador
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LYDIA HARVEY:
A TRUE STORY OF SEX, CRIME AND THE MEANING
OF JUSTICE by JULIA LAITE
Profile Books
THE UNUSUAL SUSPECT by BEN MACHELL
Canongate Books
THE DUBLIN RAILWAY MURDER by THOMAS MORRIS
Penguin Random House • Harvill Secker

 

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

LIN ANDERSON
MARK BILLINGHAM
SUSAN HILL
EDWARD MARSTON
CATH STAINCLIFFE
 

SHORT STORY DAGGER

BLINDSIDED by CAROLINE ENGLAND
in Criminal Pursuits: Crime Through Time
Editor: Samantha Lee Howe
Telos Publishing
WITH THE OTHERS by TM LOGAN
in Afraid of the Shadows
Editor: Miranda Jewess
Criminal Minds
FLESH OF A FANCY WOMAN by PAUL MAGRS
in Criminal Pursuits: Crime Through Time
Editor: Samantha Lee Howe
Telos Publishing
LONDON by JO NESBØ
in The Jealousy Man and other stories
Editor: Robert Ferguson
Penguin Random House • Harvill Secker
CHANGELING by BRYONY PEARCE
in Criminal Pursuits: Crime Through Time
Editor: Samantha Lee Howe
Telos Publishing
WHEN I GROW UP by ROBERT SCRAGG
in Afraid of the Shadows
Editor: Miranda Jewess
Criminal Minds

 

DAGGER FOR THE BEST CRIME & MYSTERY PUBLISHER

FABER & FABER
HARPER FICTION (HARPERCOLLINS imprint)
MICHAEL JOSEPH (PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
imprint)
PUSHKIN VERTIGO (PUSHKIN PRESS imprint)
TITAN BOOKS
VIPER (PROFILE BOOKS imprint)

DEBUT DAGGER 

HENRY’S BOMB by KEVIN BARTLETT HOLLOWAY CASTLE by LAURA ASHTON HILL
THE 10:12 by ANNA MALONEY
THE DEAD OF EGYPT by DAVID SMITH
THE DIEPPE LETTERS by LIZ RACHEL WALKER
 

Winners will be announced at the Daggers Awards Gala Dinner,
Wednesday 29 June at the Leonardo City Hotel on Cooper’s Row in London.
Open to all. To book tickets: www.thecwa.co.uk