Dagger Award Winners Announced
The Crime Writers’ Association of Britain has announced the winners for the first batch of the 2011 CWA Dagger Awards as follows:
International Dagger: THREE SECONDS, by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom, translated from Swedeish by Kari Dickson (Quercus)
Non-Fiction Dagger: THE KILLER OF LITTLE SHEPHERDS, by Douglas Starr (Simon & Schuster)
Short Story Dagger: “Homework,” by Phil Lovesey (from THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST BRITISH CRIME 8, edited by Maxim Jakubowski; Constable & Robinson) (originally published int the November 2009 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
Dager in the Library: Mo Hayder (Bantam Press, Transworld)
Debut Dagger (not yet published): WHAT HIDDEN LIES, by Michele Rowe (South Africa)
The Crime Writers’ Association of Britain has announced the longlists for the second batch of the 2011 CWA Dagger Awards as follows:
Gold Dagger:
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin (Macmillan)
Hanging Hill, by Mo Hayder (Bantam Press)
Snowdrops, by A.D. Miller (Atlantic Books)
The Cypress House, by Michael Koryta (Hodder & Stoughton)
The End of the Wasp Season, by Denise Mina (Orion)
The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton (Orion)
The Villa Triste, by Lucretia Grindle (Mantle)
White Heat, by M.J McGrath (Mantle)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
An Agent of Deceit, by Chris Morgan Jones (Mantle)
Before I Go to Sleep, by S.J. Watson (Doubleday)
Cold Rain, by Craig Smith (Myrmidon)
Savages, by Don Winslow (Heinemann)
The Cobra, by Frederick Forsyth (Bantam Press)
The Good Son, by Michael Gruber (Atlantic Books)
The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton (Orion)
The Trinity Six, by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)
John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger:
Before I Go to Sleep, by S.J. Watson (Doubleday)
Into the Darkest Corner, by Elizabeth Haynes (Myriad)
Kiss Me Quick, by Danny Miller (Robinson)
Or the Bull Kills You, by Jason Webster (Chatto & Windus)
Sister, by Rosamund Lupton (Piatkus)
The Dead Woman of Ju?ez, by Sam Hawken (Serpent’s Tail)
The Dogs of Rome, by Conor Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury)
The Poison Tree, by Erin Kelly (Hodder & Stoughton)
ITV3 People’s Bestseller Dagger:
The Sixth Man, by David Baldacci (Macmillan)
Worth Dying For, by Lee Child (Bantam Press)
Good As Dead, by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
Dead Manユs Grip, by Peter James (Macmillan)
Before the Poison, by Peter Robinson (Hodder & Stoughton)
The winners for the first three categories will be announced on August 22, while the winner of the last category will be announced on October 7 on ITV3.