The Crime Writers Association (CWA) announced the Dagger Awards Winners last night. The prestigious CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century. Congratulations to all the winners and finalists!
Diamond Dagger (previously announced): Walter Mosley
Gold Dagger: The Kingdoms of Savannah, by George Dawes Green (Headline)
Other finalists:
The Lost Man of Bombay, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
A Killing in November, by Simon Mason (Riverrun)
The Clockwork Girl, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
The Winter Guest, by W.C. Ryan (Zaffre)
The Silent Brother, by Simon Van der Velde (Northodox Press)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: Seventeen, by John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)
Other finalists:
Take Your Breath Away, by Linwood Barclay (HQ)
The Botanist, by M. W. Craven
The Ink Black Heart, by Robert Galbraith
Alias Emma, by Ava Glass (Century)
May God Forgive, by Alan Parks (Canongate)
John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor
Other finalists:
Breaking by Amanda Cassidy
The Local, by Joey Hartstone (Pushkin Vertigo)
London in Black, by Jack Lutz (Pushkin Vertigo)
No Country for Girls, by Emma Styles (Sphere)
Outback, by Patricia Wolf (Embla)
Historical Dagger: The Darkest Sin, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
The Clockwork Girl, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
The Homes, by J.B. Mylet (Viper)
The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra (Constable)
Blue Water, by Leonora Nattrass (Viper)
Hear No Evil, by Sarah Smith (Two Roads)
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction: Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey, by Wendy Joseph (Doubleday)
Other finalists:
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery, by Stephen Bates (Icon)
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector, by Amit Katwala (Mudlark)
To Hunt a Killer: How I Brought Melanie Road’s Murderer to Justice, by Julie Mackay and Robert Murphy (Harper Element)
About A Son: A Murder and A Father’s Search for Truth, by David Whitehouse (Phoenix)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger: Even the Darkest Night, by Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean (MacLehose Press)
Other finalists:
Good Reasons to Die, by Morgan Audic, translated by Sam Taylor (Mountain Leopard Press)
The Red Notebook, by Michel Bussi, translated by Vineet Lal (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Bad Kids, by Zijin Chen, translated by Michelle Deeter (Pushkin Vertigo)
The Bleeding, by Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner (Orenda)
The Anomaly, by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
Short Story Dagger: “Cast a Long Shadow,” by Hazell Ward (from Cast a Long Shadow, edited by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline; Honno Welsh Women’s Press)
Other finalists:
“The Disappearance,” by Leigh Bardugo (from Marple; HarperCollins)
“The Tears of Venus,” by Victoria Dowd and Delilah Dowd (from Unlocked; The D20 Authors)
“The Beautiful Game,” by Sanjida Kay (from The Perfect Crime)
“Paradise Lost,” by Abir Mukherjee (from The Perfect Crime)
“Runaway Blues,” by C.J. Tudor (from A Sliver of Darkness, by C.J. Tudor; Michael Joseph)
Best Crime & Mystery Publisher Dagger: Viper (Profile Books)
Other finalists:
Harper Fiction (HarperCollins)
Mantle (PanMacmillan)
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
Pushkin Vertigo (Pushkin Press)
Quercus (Hachette)
Debut Dagger: Sideways, by Jeff Marsick
Other finalists:
Bulldog Murphy, by Chris Corbett
Male, Unknown, by Chris Griffiths
Heist, by James Pierson
The Line of Least Resistance, by Jeff Richards
Cradle of Storms, by Margaret Winslow
Dagger in the Library for Body of Work: Sophie Hannah
Other finalists:
Ben Aaronovitch
Mick Herron