CWA Dagger Awards 2022: Crime Writers' Association

Crime Writers' Association (UK) announced the Winners of the 2022 Daggers tonight in London. Congratulations to all and thanks to Ayo Onatade for the news!

 

The Dagger in the Library

Mark Billingham

 

The Dagger for the Best Crime & Mystery Publisher 

Faber & Faber 

The CWA Short Story Dagger

Flesh of a Fancy Woman by Paul Magrs 

 

The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger

Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz (transl. Rachel Ward) 

 

The ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey by Julia Laite

 

The CWA Historical Dagger

Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin

The CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

 

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Dead Ground by M W Craven

The CWA Gold Dagger

Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin: Sunset Swing 

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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

CWA Dagger Award Winners 2021

The results are in. Crime Writers Association (UK) announced the Dagger Award winners last night. Congratulations to all!

Gold Dagger: We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker (Zaffre)

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: When She Was Good, by Michael Robotham (Sphere)

John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: The Creak on the Stairs, by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (Orenda)

Sapere Books Historical Dagger: Midnight at Malabar House, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)

ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction: Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind, by Sue Black (Doubleday)

Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger: The Disaster Tourist, by Yun Ko-eun, translated by Lizzie Buehler (Serpent’s Tail)

Short Story Dagger: “Monsters,” by Clare Mackintosh (from First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books, edited by David Headley and Daniel Gedeon; The Dome Press)

Dagger in the Library (“for a body of work by an established crime writer that has long been popular with borrowers from libraries”): Peter May

Publishers’ Dagger (“awarded annually to the Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year”): Head of Zeus

CWA Debut Dagger (for as-yet-unpublished novels): Deception, by Hannah Redding. Highly commended: Underwater, by Fiona McPhillips

Martina Cole received the 2021 Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement.

CWA Dagger Awards Shortlist

British Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announced the 2019 Dagger Awards Shortlist. The winners will be announced in London, England, on October 24.

CWA Gold Dagger:
• All the Hidden Truths, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Puppet Show, by M.W. Craven: (Constable)
• What We Did, by Christobel Kent (Sphere)
• Unto Us a Son Is Given, by Donna Leon (Heinemann)
• American by Day, by Derek B Miller (Doubleday)
• A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better, by Benjamin Wood (Scribner)

CWA John Creasey (New Blood):
• All the Hidden Truths, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Boy at the Door, by Alex Dahl (Head of Zeus)
• Scrublands, by Chris Hammer (Wildfire)
• Turn a Blind Eye, by Vicky Newham (HQ)
• Blood & Sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle)
• Overkill, by Vanda Symon (Orenda)

CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction:
• All That Remains: A Life in Death, by Sue Black (Doubleday)
• An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere, 
by Mikita Brottman (Canongate)
• Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime, 
by Claire Harman (Viking)
• The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson (Hutchinson)
• The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre (Viking)
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold (Doubleday)

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
• Give Me Your Hand, by Megan Abbott (Picador)
• Safe Houses, by Dan Fesperman (Head of Zeus)
• Killing Eve: No Tomorrow, by Luke Jennings (John Murray)
• Lives Laid Away, by Stephen Mack Jones (Soho Crime)
• To the Lions, by Holly Watt (Bloomsbury)
• Memo from Turner, by Tim Willocks (Jonathan Cape)

CWA Sapere Books Historical Dagger:
• The Quaker, by Liam McIlvanney (Harper Fiction)
• Destroying Angel, by S.G. MacLean: (Quercus)
• Smoke and Ashes, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
• The House on Half Moon Street, by Alex Reeve (Raven)
• Tombland, by C.J. Sansom: (Mantle)
• Blood & Sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle)

CWA International Dagger:
• A Long Night in Paris, by Dov Alfon;
translated by Daniella Zamir (Maclehose Press)
• Weeping Waters, by Karin Brynard;
translated by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon (World Noir)
• The Cold Summer, by Gianrico Carofiglio;
translated by Howard Curtis (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Newcomer, by Keigo Higashino;
translated by Giles Murray (Little, Brown)
• The Root of Evil, by Håkan Nesser;
translated by Sarah Death (Mantle)
• The Forger, by Cay Rademacher;
translated by Peter Millar (Arcadia)

CWA Short Story Dagger:
• “Strangers in a Pub,” by Martin Edwards (from Ten Year Stretch, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller; No Exit Press)
• “Death Becomes Her,” by Syd Moore (from The Strange Casebook, 
by Syd Moore; Point Blank Books)
• “The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing,” by Danuta Reah (from The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and Other Fantastic Female Fables, 
by Danuta Reah [aka Danuta Kot]; Fantastic)
• “I Detest Mozart,” by Teresa Solana (from The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories, by Teresa Solana; Bitter Lemon Press)
• “Bag Man,” by Lavie Tidhar (from The Outcast Hours, 
edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin; Solaris)

Dagger in the Library:
• M.C. Beaton
• Mark Billingham
• John Connolly
• Kate Ellis
• C.J. Sansom
• Cath Staincliffe

Debut Dagger
(for the opening of a crime novel by an uncontracted writer):
• Wake, by Shelley Burr
• The Mourning Light, by Jerry Krause
• Hardways, by Catherine Hendricks
• The Firefly, by David Smith
• A Thin Sharp Blade, by Fran Smith

Diamond Dagger Recipient: Robert Goddard

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