CWA Dagger in the Library

The CWA Dagger in the Library is a prize for a body of work by a crime writer that users of libraries particularly admire.

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The winner of the 2017 Dagger, this year held in partnership with The Reading Agency, has been announced.

The 2017 winner is:

Mari Hannah

The Dagger in the Library is one of the most prestigious crime writing awards in the UK and previous winners include Elly Griffiths, Christopher Fowler, Sharon Bolton, Belinda Bauer, Mo Hayder, Colin Cotterill, Craig Russell, Stuart MacBride, Jake Arnott, Alexander McCall Smith, Stephen Booth, Peter Robinson and Lindsey Davis.

This year's Longlist included: Kate Ellis, Tana French, James Oswald, C.J. Sansom, And Andrew Taylor.

HT: Bill Gottfried

CWA Dagger in the Library Award Longlist

The CWA Dagger in the Library Award Longlist

The CWA revised the 2017 Dagger in the Library format so that, uniquely among crime writing awards, only library staff were able to nominate authors. Nominations were received from 175 libraries across the UK and Ireland – with 110 authors suggested as worthy winners. The Dagger in the Library is intended to promote crime fiction in general and, in particular, the longlisted authors.

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 Lemaître, 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

CWA Dagger Award Longlists

The CWA (Crime Writers Association) 2016 Dagger Award Longlists were announced at Crimefest tonight.

CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER
Dodgers, Bill Beverly, No Exit Press
Black Widow, Christopher Brookmyre, Little Brown
After You Die, Eve Dolan, Harvill Secker
Real Tigers, Mick Herron, John Murray
Finders Keepers, Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton
Dead Pretty, David Mark, Mulholland books/Hodder & Stoughton
Blood Salt Water, Denise Mina, Orion
She Died Young, Elizabeth Wilson, Serpent’s Tail

CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 
The Cartel, Don Winslow, William Heinemann
The English Spy, Daniel Silva, HarperCollins
Bone by Bone, Sanjida Kay, Corvus
Rain Dogs, Adrian McKinty, Serpent’s Tail
Real Tigers, Mick Herron, John Murray
The Hot Countries, Timothy Hallinan, Soho Crime
Black Eyed Susans, Julia Hearberlin, Michael Joseph
Make Me, Lee Child, Bantam Press
Spy Games, Adam Brookes, Sphere
The American, Nadia Dalbuono, Scribe UK

CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER
Title,  Author,  Translated by,  Publisher

The Truth and Other Lies, Sascha Arango, Imogen Taylor, Simon & Schuster
The Great Swindle, Pierre Lemaître, Frank WynnE, Quercus/Maclehose
Icarus, Deon Meyer, K L Seegers, Hodder & Stoughton
The Sword of Justice, Leif G.W. Persson, Neil Smith, Doubleday
The Murderer in Ruins, Cay Rademacher, Peter Millar, Arcadia
The Father, Anton Svensson, Translation not credited, Sphere
The Voices Beyond, Johan Theorin, Marlaine Delargy, Transworld
Six Four, Hideo Yokoyama, Jonathan Lloyd-Davis, Quercus

CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER

As Alice Did, Andrea Camilleri Montalbano’s First Cases, Pan Macmillan
On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier, John Connolly, Nocturnes 2: Night Music, Hodder and Stoughton
Holmes on the Range: A Tale of the Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository,  John Connolly, Nocturnes 2: Night Music, Hodder and Stoughton
Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman, Christopher Fowler, London’s Glory, Bantam
Stray Bullets, Alberto Barrera, Tyszka Crimes, MacLehose Press
Rosenlaui, Conrad Williams, The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Moriarty: The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes’s Nemesis edited by Maxim Jakubowski, Constable & Robinson

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
Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories, Thomas Grant, John Murray
John le Carré, the biography, Adam Sisman, Bloomsbury

CWA DEBUT DAGGER
For 15 years the CWA has been encouraging new writing with its Debut Dagger competition for unpublished writers. The submissions are judged by a panel of top crime editors and agents, and the short listed entries are sent to publishers and agents.

Dark Valley John Kennedy
Death by Dangerous Oliver Jarvis
The Devil’s Dice Roz Watkins
Hardways Catherine Hendricks
Let’s Pretend Sue Williams
Misconception Jack Burns
A Reconstructed Man Graham Brack
A State of Grace Rita Catching
The Tattoo Killer Joe West
Wimmera Mark Brandi

CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 

Fever City, Tim Baker, Faber&Faber
Dodgers, Bill Beverly, No Exit Press
Mr Miller, Charles Den, Tex World Editions
The Teacher, Katerina Diamond, Avon
Wicked Game, Matt Johnson, Orenda Books
Freedom’s Child, Jax Miller, HarperCollins
Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh, Jonathan Cape
The Dark Inside, Rod Reynolds, Faber&Faber
The Good Liar, Nicholas Searle, Viking

CWA ENDEAVOR HISTORICAL DAGGER

The House at Baker Street Michelle Birkby Pan Books
A Death in the Dales Frances Brody Piatkus
A Man of Some Repute, A Question of Inheritance Elizabeth Edmondson Thomas & Mercer
Smoke and Mirrors Elly Griffiths Quercus
The Last Confessions of Thomas Hawkins Antonia Hodgson Hodder & Stoughton
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
Crime fans everywhere can nominate their favourite authors online and the ten authors with the most votes will make up the longlist. The response received last year was staggering, with 1,384 crime fans voting for 636 different authors, highlighting the extraordinary quality and variety in crime writing.
Unlike most other literary prizes, the Dagger in the Library is awarded not for an individual book but for an author’s entire body of work and is one of six highly prized CWA Dagger Awards awarded to crime writers since 1955.

RC Bridgestock
Tony Black 
Alison Bruce 
Angela Clarke 
Charlie Flowers 
Elly Griffiths 
Keith Houghton 
Quintin Jardine 
Louise Phillips 
Joe Stein 

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY LONGLIST

British Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library Longlist.  The Dagger in the Library is presented to authors in appreciation of their body of work, not any individual novel.


Mark Billingham
Ann Cleeves 
Christopher Fowler 
Elly Griffiths
Elizabeth Haynes 
Susan Hill
Peter James
Simon Kernick
Peter May
Phil Rickman
Tim Weaver 

Finalists will be decided by a panel of judges including previous winner Sharon Bolton, CWA Director Lucy Santos, and a group of UK librarians and will be revealed on Monday 8th June, with the winner being announced at the CWA Annual Awards dinner on 30th June.

HT: The Rap Sheet

CWA 2014 Dagger in the Library

Sharon Bolton has won the British Crime Writers' Association announced the 2014 Dagger in the Library Award. This prize honors “an author’s body of work to date, rather than a single title and an author must have published three books to be eligible for the award.” Bolton’s latest novel is A Dark and Twisted Tide, which was released in the U.S. last June by Minotaur Books.

HT: TheRapSheet

CWA Dagger in the Library

Crime Writers Association  announced the nomination longlist for the Dagger in the Library.

Unlike most other literary prizes, the Dagger in the Library is awarded not for an individual book but for the author’s body of work … The nominated authors must be alive, preferably working in Britain and cannot have won the award before. As the award is for a body of work, authors should have published at least three books. Entries from reading groups or individuals are submitted through libraries. Nomination forms may be downloaded by clicking the links at the top of the right-hand column. Groups who nominated the winning author will be entered into a draw for £300 to be spent on books. The CWA Dagger in the Library is sponsored by The Random House Group. Authors are nominated by UK libraries and Readers’ Groups and judged by a panel of librarians, all of whom work with the public.

Belinda Bauer
Simon Beckett
S.J. Bolton
Frances Brody
Gordon Ferris
Elena Forbes
Nicci French
Elly Griffiths
John Harvey
Susan Hill
Shona MacLean
Peter May
Steve Mosby
Imogen Robertson
M. J. Trow

Hat Tip: It's a Crime

CWA Dagger in the Library

This week is National Library Week, so it's particularly fitting that the The Crime Writers Association announced the longlist for the CWA Dagger in the Library.

SJ Bolton (Bantam Press, Transworld)
William Brodrick (Little, Brown)
RJ Ellory (Orion)
Jason Goodwin (Faber & Faber)
Elly Griffths (Quercus)
Sophie Hannah (Hodder & Stoughton)
John Harvey (Willian Heinemann)
Mo Hayder (Bantam, Transworld)
Susan Hill (Vintage)
Graham Hurley (Orion)
Peter James (Macmillan)
Philip Kerr (Quercus)
Phil Rickman (Quercus)
CJ Sansom (Macmillan)
Andrew Taylor (Penguin)
LC Tyler (Macmillan)

The CWA Dagger in the Library is sponsored by The Random House Group. Authors are nominated by UK libraries and Readers’ Groups and judged by a panel of librarians, all of whom work with the public. The Dagger is awarded to an author for a body of work, rather than a single title. As well as the Dagger, the winning author receives a cheque for £1500. Groups nominating the winning author will be entered into a draw for £300 to be spent on books.

The shortlist will be announced at Crimefest on May 20. The winner will be announced, along with other Daggers, during the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate, on the evening of July 22.

Hat Tip: The Rap Sheet