CWA Dagger Award Longlists Announced

(CWA賞一次候補作発表)

On May 20, The CWA (Crime Writers’ Association of Britain) announced its 2016 Dagger Award Longlists at Crimefest as follows:

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 Lemaitre, 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 Carre, the biography, Adam Sisman, Bloomsbury

CWA DEBUT DAGGER

  • 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; and 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, Twenty Books

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

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