2023 CWA DAGGER SHORTLISTS
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The Crime Writers’ Association of Britain (CWA) announced the shortlists for the 2023 Dagger Awards at a “live gala dinner event” held on May 12, during CrimeFest 2023 in Bristol as follows:
GOLD DAGGER:(6)
The Kingdoms of Savannah, by George Dawes Green (Headline Publishing/Headline Fiction)
The Lost Man of Bombay, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
A Killing in November, by Simon Mason (Quercus/riverrun)
The Clockwork Girl, by Anna Mazzola (Orion/Orion Fiction)
The Winter Guest, by WC Ryan (Bonnier Books UK/Zaffre)
The Silent Brother, by Simon Van der Velde (Northodox Press)
IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER:(6)
Take Your Breath Away, by Linwood Barclay (HarperCollins /HQ)
Seventeen, by John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Botanist, by MW Craven (Little, Brown/Constable)
The Ink Black Heart, by Robert Galbraith (Sphere)
Alias Emma, by Ava Glass (Penguin Random House UK/Century)
May God Forgive, by Alan Parks (Canongate)
JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER: (6)
Breaking, by Amanda Cassidy (Canelo)
The Local, by Joey Hartstone (Pushkin Press/Pushkin Vertigo)
London in Black, by Jack Lutz (Pushkin Press/Pushkin Vertigo)
Dirt Town, by Hayley Scrivenor (Pan Macmillan/Macmillan)
No Country for Girls, by Emma Styles (Sphere)
Outback, by Patricia Wolf (Bonnier Books UK/Embla)
HISTORICAL DAGGER:(6)
The Darkest Sin, by D.V. Bishop (Pan Macmillan/Macmillan)
The Clockwork Girl, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
The Homes, by J.B. Mylet (Profile Books/Viper)
The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra (Little, Brown/Constable)
Blue Water, by Leonora Nattrass (Profile Books/Viper)
Hear No Evil, by Sarah Smith (John Murray Press/Two Roads)
ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: (6)
The Poisonous Solicitor, by Stephen Bates (Icon Books)
The Life of Crime, by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins/Collins Crime Club)
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey, by Wendy Joseph(Transworld/Doubleday)
Tremors In The Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector, by Amit Katwala (Harper Collins/Mudlark)
To Hunt a Killer, by Julie Mackay and Robert Murphy (HarperCollins/Harper Element)
About A Son, by David Whitehouse (Orion Publishing Group/Phoenix)
CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER: (6)
Good Reasons to Die, by Morgan Audic, trans by Sam Taylor (Welbeck Publishing/Mountain Leopard Press)
The Red Notebook, by Michel Bussi, trans by Vineet Lal (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Even the Darkest Night, by Javier Cercas, trans by Anne McLean (Quercus/MacLehose Press)
Bad Kids, by Zijin Chen, trans by Michelle Deeter (Pushkin Press/Pushkin Vertigo)
The Bleeding, by Johana Gustawsson, trans by David Warriner (Orenda Books)
The Anomaly, by Herve Le Tellier, trans by Adriana Hunter (Penguin Random House UK/Michael Joseph)
SHORT STORY DAGGER: (6)
“The Disappearance, “ by Leigh Bardugo (from Marple; HarperCollins)
“The Tears of Venus, “ by Victoria Dowd & Delilah Dowd (from Unlocked; The D20 Authors )
“The Beautiful Game,” by Sanjida Kay (from The Perfect Crime, ed by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski; HarperCollins)
“Paradise Lost,” by Abir Mukherjee (from The Perfect Crime, edited by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski HarperCollins
“Runaway Blues,” by CJ Tudor (from A Sliver of Darkness; Penguin Random House/Michael Joseph)
“Cast A Long Shadow,” by Hazell Ward (from Cast A Long Shadow, edited by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline;Oakley Honno Press/Honno Welsh Women’s Press)
PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER: (6)
Harper Fiction (HarperCollins)
Mantle (PanMacmillan)
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
Pushkin Vertigo (Pushkin Press)
Quercus (Hachette)
Viper (Profile Books)
DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY: (3)
Ben Aaronovitch
Sophie Hannah
Mick Herron
DEBUT DAGGER: (6)
BULLDOG MURPHY, by Chiris Corbett
MALE, UNKNOWN, by Chiris Griffiths
SIDEWAYS, by Jeff Marsick
HEIST, by James Pierson
THE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE, by Jeff Richards
CRADLE OF STORMS, by Margaret Winslow
DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD RECIPIENT:
Walter Mosley
MARGERY ALLINGHAM SHORT MYSTERY PRIZE RECIPIENT:
“How to Catch a Bullet in a Plate and Other Tricks to Astound,” by Judith O’Reilly
The winners will be announced at the Dagger Awards Dinner, on Thursday, July 06 at the Leonardo City Hotel in London.
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