During the annual UK Crimefest crime fiction convention taking place in Bristol this weekend, the Crime Writers’ Association announced the shortlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards. (The longlists were previously announced on April 20, and you can see them here.) The winners will be revealed during a CWA gala dinner and awards ceremony on July 4.
Gold Dagger:
Over My Dead Body, by Maz Evans (Headline)
The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron (Baskerville)
Small Mercies, by Dennis Lehane (Abacus)
Tell Me What I Am, by Una Mannion (Faber and Faber)
Black River, by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Vertigo)
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Sutanto (HQ)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Headline)
Ozark Dogs, by Eli Cranor (Headline)
Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Faber and Faber)
The Mantis, by Kotaro Isaka (Harvill Secker)
Gaslight, by Femi Kayode (Raven)
Drowning, by T.J. Newman (Simon & Schuster)
ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger:
In the Blink of an Eye, by Jo Callaghan (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Golden Gate, by Amy Chua (Corvus)
The Maiden, by Kate Foster (Mantle)
West Heart Kill, by Dann McDorman (Raven)
Go Seek, by Michelle Teahan (Headline)
The Tumbling Girl, by Bridget Walsh (Gallic)
Historical Dagger:
Clara & Olivia, by Lucy Ashe (Magpie)
Harlem After Midnight, by Louise Hare Harlem (HQ)
A Bitter Remedy, by Alis Hawkins (Canelo)
Viper's Dream, by Jake Lamar (No Exit Press)
Scarlet Town, by Leonora Nattrass (Viper)
Voices of the Dead, by Ambrose Parry (Canongate)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger:
Red Queen, by Juan Gómez-Jurado, translated by Nick Caistor (Macmillan)
The Sins of Our Fathers, by Åsa Larsson, translated by Frank Perry (Maclehose Press)
Nothing Is Lost, by Cloé Mehdi, translated by Howard Curtis (Europa Editions UK)
The Consultant, by Im Seong-sun, translated by An Seong Jae (Raven)
The Prey, by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb (Hodder & Stoughton)
My Husband, by Maud Ventura, translated by Emma Ramadan (Hutchinson Heinemann)
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction:
The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel (Simon & Schuster)
No Ordinary Day: Espionage, Betrayal, Terrorism and Corruption—The Truth Behind the Murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, by Matt Johnson with John Murray (Ad Lib)
Devil’s Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious OneCoin Cryptoqueen, by Jennifer McAdam with Douglas Thompson (Ad Lib)
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy, by Alex Mar (Bedford Square)
How Many More Women?: The Silencing of Women by the Law and How to Stop It, by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida (Endeavour)
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man, by Nicholas Shakespeare (Vintage)
Short Story Dagger:
“Safe Enough,” by Lee Child (from An Unnecessary Assassin, edited by Lorraine Stevens; Rivertree)
“The Last Best Thing,” by Mia Dalia (from Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction, edited by Andrew Hook; Head Shot Press)
“The Also-Rans,” by Benedict J. Jones (from Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction)
“The Divide,” by Sanjida Kay (from The Book of Bristol, edited by Joe Melia and Heather Marks; Comma Press)
“The Spendthrift and the Swallow,” by Ambrose Parry (Canongate)
“Best Served Cold,” by F.D. Quinn (from An Unnecessary Assassin)
Dagger in the Library (for a body of work):
Louise Candlish
M.W. Craven
Cara Hunter
Anthony Horowitz
L.J. Ross
Publishers’ Dagger:
Canelo
Headline (Hachette)
Joffe Books
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
Pushkin Press
Simon & Schuster
Debut Dagger (for unpublished novel):
Burnt Ranch, by Katherine Ahlert
Unnatural Predators, by Caroline Arnoul
Makoto Murders, by Richard Jerram
Not a Good Mother, by Karabi Mitra
Long Way Home, by Lynn McCall
The Last Days of Forever, by Jeremy Tinker
The Blond, by Megan Toogood
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