2024 SILVER FALCHION & CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS: Killer Nashville

Winners of the 2024 Killer Nashville Awards were announced at the final night of the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference held on August 24^th. Awards were given for both the Silver Falchion & Claymore Award in their respective categories. The Silver Falchion Award celebrates the best books of 2023. The Claymore Award for the best first fifty pages of an unpublished manuscript at the time of submission. 

 

 

  

CWA DAGGER AWARD WINNERS 2024

The Crime Writers' Association  Dagger Award Winners. Congratulations to all.

Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement in Crime Writing – Lynda LaPlante and James Lee Burke

Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year – Una Mannion for Tell Me What I am

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger – Jordan Harper for Everybody Knows

ILP John Creasey New Blood Dagger – Jo Callaghan for In the Blink of an Eye

Historical Dagger – Jake Lamar for Viper’s Dream

ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction – Nicholas Shakespeare for Ian Fleming: the Complete Man

Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation – Maud Ventura for My Husband, translated by Emma Ramadan

Short Story Dagger – Sanjida Kay for The Divide

Dagger for the Best Crime & Mystery Publisher – Pushkin/Vertigo

Debut Dagger – Richard Jerram for Makoto Murders

Dagger in the Library – Anthony Horowitz