2025 CWA DAGGER AWARD LONGLISTS ANNOUNCED
(CWA賞ロングリスト発表)

The Crime Writers’ Association of Britain (CWA) has announced the longlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards as follows:

GOLD DAGGER:(12)
A Divine Fury, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
I Died at Fallow Hall, by Bonnie Burke-Patel (Bedford Square)
Man of Bones, by Ben Creed (Mountain Leopard Press)
The Bell Tower, by R.J. Ellory (Orion)
The Hunter, by Tana French (Penguin)
Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke (Profile)
Book of Secrets, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
How to Solve Your Own Murder, by Kristen Perrin (Quercus)


Nightwatching, by Tracy Sierra (Penguin)
Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney (Zaffre)
D Is for Death, by Harriet F. Townson (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Innocents, by Bridget Walsh (Pushkin Press)

IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER:(12)
Dark Ride, by Lou Berney (Hemlock Press)


The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I.S. Berry (No Exit Press)
The Cracked Mirror, by Chris Brookmyre (Abacus)
Nobody’s Hero, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
Run, by Blake Crouch (Macmillan)
Sanctuary, by Garry Disher (Viper)
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan (HarperCollins)
The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore (Borough Press)
Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill & Secker)
Blood Like Mine, by Stuart Neville (Simon & Schuster)
All the Colours of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker (Orion)
City in Ruins, by Don Winslow (Hemlock Press)

JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER (formerly NEW BLOOD DAGGER): (11)
The Grief Doctor, by Jack Anderson (Raven)
My Name Was Eden, by Eleanor Barker-White (HarperNorth)
Miss Austen Investigates, by Jessica Bull (Michael Joseph)
Knife River, by Justine Champine (Manilla Press)
Three Burials, by Anders Lustgarten (Hamish Hamilton)
A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder, by Gay Marris (Bedford Square)
All Us Sinners, by Katy Massey (Sphere)
The Glass Woman, by Alice McIlroy (Datura)
An Honest Living, by Dwyer Murphy (No Exit Press)
Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney (Zaffre)
Five by Five, by Claire Wilson (Michael Joseph)

HISTORICAL DAGGER:(12)
A Divine Fury, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
Munich Wolf, by Rory Clements (Zaffre)
The Undoing of Violet Claybourne, by Emily Critchley (Manilla Press)
Dr. Spilsbury and the Cursed Bride, by D.L. Douglas (Orion)
Blood Roses, by Douglas Jackson (Canelo)
Banquet of Beggars, by Chris Lloyd (Orion)
Book of Secrets, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge, by Lizzie Pook (Picador)
A Case of Mice and Murder, by Sally Smith (Raven)
The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey, by L.C. Tyler (Constable)
The Betrayal of Thomas True, by A.J. West (Orenda)
Poor Girls, by Clare Whitfield (Head of Zeus/Aries)

DAGGER CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION: (12)
Artifice, by Claire Berest, translated by Sophie Lewis (Mountain Leopard)
The Lover of No Fixed Abode, by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini,translated by Gregory Dowling (Bitter Lemon Press)
Ruthless, by Anne Mette Hancock, translated by Tara Chase (Swift Press)
Hotel Lucky Seven, by Kotaro Isaka, translated by Brian Bergstrom (Harvill Secker)


The Silver Bone, by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (MacLehose
Press)
Dogs and Wolves, by Herve Le Corre, translated by Howard Curtis (Europa Editions UK)
Going to the Dogs, by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne (MacLehose
Press)
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman, by Patricia Melo, translated by Sophie Lewis (Indigo Press)
The Night of Baby Yaga, by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett (Faber & Faber)
The Clues in the Fjord, by Satu Ramo, translated by Kristian London (Zaffre)
Butter, by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton (Fourth Estate)
Clean, by Alia Trabucco Zeran, translated by Sophie Hughes (Fourth Estate)

※上記以外のノンフィクション部門、短編部門など8部門については明日、掲載いたします。