Showing posts with label Dagger Shortlist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dagger Shortlist. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2016

CWA Dagger Awards Shortlist

The CWA (Crime Writers Association) 2016 Dagger Award Shortlist.

CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER
Dodgers, Bill Beverly, No Exit Press
Black Widow, Christopher Brookmyre, Little Brown
Real Tigers, Mick Herron, John Murray
Blood Salt Water, Denise Mina, Orion

CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 
The Cartel, Don Winslow, William Heinemann
Rain Dogs, Adrian McKinty, Serpent’s Tail
Real Tigers, Mick Herron, John Murray
Make Me, Lee Child, Bantam Press
The English Spy, Daniel Silva, Harper Collins

CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER
Title,  Author,  Translated by,  Publisher

The Truth and Other Lies, Sascha Arango, Imogen Taylor, Simon & Schuster
The Great Swindle, Pierre LemaƮtre, Frank WynnE, Quercus/Maclehose
Icarus, Deon Meyer, K L Seegers, Hodder & Stoughton
The Murderer in Ruins, Cay Rademacher, Peter Millar, Arcadia

CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER
As Alice Did, Montalbano’s First Cases, Andrea Camilleri , Pan Macmillan
On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier, John Connolly, Hodder and Stoughton
Nocturnes 2: Night Music, John Connolly, Hodder and Stoughton
Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman, Christopher Fowler, London’s Glory, Bantam

CWA NON FICTION DAGGER
The Golden Age of Murder, Martin Edwards, HarperCollins
Sexy Beasts: The Hatton Garden Mob, Wensley Clarkson, Quercus
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat), Andrew Hankinson, Scribe
A Very Expensive Poison, Luke Harding, Faber

CWA DEBUT DAGGER
For 15 years the CWA has been encouraging new writing with its Debut Dagger competition for unpublished writers.

A Reconstructed Man, Graham Brack
A State of Grace, Rita Catching
Dark Valley, John Kennedy
Wimmera, Mark Brandi
The Devil's Dice, Roz Watkins

CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 
Fever City, Tim Baker, Faber&Faber
Dodgers, Bill Beverly, No Exit Press
Freedom’s Child, Jax Miller, HarperCollins
The Good Liar, Nicholas Searle, Viking

CWA ENDEAVOR HISTORICAL DAGGER
The House at Baker Street, Michelle Birkby, Pan Books
The Other Side of Silence, Philip Kerr, Quercus
A Book of Scars, William Shaw, Quercus
The Jazz Files, Fiona Veitch Smith, Lion Fiction
Striking Murder, A. J. Wright, Allison & Busby
Stasi Child, David Young, Twenty7Books

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY
The Dagger in the Library is awarded for an author’s entire body of work.

Tony Black 
Alison Bruce
Elly Griffiths 
Quintin Jardine 

HT: Erin Mitchell

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Even More CWA Dagger Award Shortlists Announced!

So since the other day, even more CWA (Crime Writers Association-UK) Dagger Award Shortlists have been announced. Here's the Round-Up! HT: The Rap Sheet. Winners will be announced at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards ceremony on October 24.

The Film Dagger:
• Cold in July
• Dom Hemingway
• Filth
• Prisoners
• Starred Up

The TV Dagger:
• Happy Valley
• Line of Duty, Series 2
• Sherlock, Series 3
• The Bletchley Circle, Series 2
• The Honourable Woman

The International TV Dagger:
• Fargo, Season 1
• Inspector Montalbano, Series 9
• Orange Is the New Black, Season 2
• The Bridge, Series 2
• True Detective, Season 1

The Best Actor Dagger:
• Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock
• Shaun Evans for Endeavour
• Martin Freeman for Fargo and Sherlock
• Matthew McConaughey for True Detective
• Steve Pemberton for Happy Valley

The Best Actress Dagger:
• Brenda Blethyn for Vera
• Maggie Gyllenhaal for The Honourable Woman
• Keeley Hawes for Line of Duty
• Sarah Lancashire for Happy Valley
• Anna Maxwell Martin for Death Comes to Pemberley and
The Bletchley Circle

The Best Supporting Actor Dagger:
• Mark Gatiss for Sherlock
• David Leon for Vera
• James Norton for Happy Valley
• Mandy Patinkin for Homeland
• Billy Bob Thornton for Fargo

The Best Supporting Actress Dagger:
• Amanda Abbington for Sherlock
• Vicky McClure for Line of Duty
• Helen McCrory for Peaky Blinders
• Gina McKee for By Any Means
• Michelle Monaghan for True Detective