2026 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 2026 Dagger Awards as follows:
GOLD DAGGER:(13)
Carnival of Lies, by D.V. Bishop (Pan Macmillan/Macmillan)
Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie, by James Lee Burke (Orion Fiction/Orion Fiction)
King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby (Headline)※ハーパーコリンズ・ジャパンより翻訳刊行予定
The Death of Us, by Abigail Dean (HarperCollins/Hemlock Press)
Not Quite Dead Yet, by Holly Jackson (Penguin Random House/Michael Joseph)
Quantum of Menace, by Vaseem Khan (Bonnier Books UK/Zaffre)
The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon (River Swift Press)
The Rush, by Beth Lewis (Profile Books/Viper)
A Voice in the Night, by Simon Mason (Quercus/Riverrun)
The Good Father, by Liam McIlvanney (Bonnier Books UK/Zaffre)
Hotel Ukraine, by Martin Cruz Smith (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Art of a Lie, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Pan Macmillan/Mantle)
A Case of Life and Limb, by Sally Smith (Bloomsbury Publishing/Raven Books)
IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER:(12)
The Midnight King, by Tariq Ashkanani (Profile Books/Viper)
The Ghostwriter, by Julie Clark (Bonnier Books UK/Zaffre)
King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby (Headline)※ハーパーコリンズ・ジャパンより翻訳刊行予定
The Big Empty, by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Death of Us, by Abigail Dean (HarperCollins/Hemlock Press)
The Chemist, by A.A. Dhand (HarperCollins/HQ Fiction)
A Dead Draw, by Robert Dugoni (Amazon Publishing/Thomas & Mercer)
A Sting in Her Tale, by Mark Ezra (Bedford Square Publishers/No Exit Press)
Burying Jericho, by William Hussey (Bonnier Books UK/Zaffre)
Such Quiet Girls, by Noelle Ihli (Pan Macmillan/Pan)
The Good Father, by Liam McIlvanney (Bonnier Books UK/Zaffre)
We Are All Guilty Here, by Karin Slaughter (HarperCollins)
GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: (12)
The Devil Takes Bitcoin, by Jake Adelstein (Scribe)
Shadow of the Bridge: The Delphi Murders and the Dark Side of the American Heartland, by Aine Cain and Kevin Greenlee (Pegasus Crime)
Saffie, by David Collins (Silvertail Books)
The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB, by Gordon Corera (HarperCollins/ William Collins)
The Murder Game, by John Curran (HarperCollins/Collins Crime Club)
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War, by Charlie English (HarperCollins/William Collins)
Murderland, by Caroline Fraser (Little, Brown Book Group/Fleet)
The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a True Story of Murder, by Thomas Harding (Penguin/Michael Joseph)
A Spy in the Family, by Paul Henderson and David Gardner (Mirror Books)
The Cleveland Street Scandal, by Neil Root (The History Press)
That Dark Spring, by Susannah Stapleton (Pan Macmillan/Picador)
The Illegals, by Shaun Walker (Profile Books)
HISTORICAL DAGGER:(12)
A Granite Silence, by Nina Allan (Quercus/Riverrun)
Spoiler’s Prey, by Robin Blake (Severn House)
Benecula, by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Birlinn Ltd/Polygon)
The Mourning Necklace, by Kate Foster (Pan Macmillan/Mantle)
The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon (Swift Press)
The Rush, by Beth Lewis (Profile Books/Viper)
Barvick Falls, by Rob McInroy (Tippermuir Books)
The Devil’s Draper, by Donna Moor (Fly on the Wall Press)
Gunner, by Alan Parks (John Murray Press/Baskerville)
Cairo Gambit, by S.W. Perry (Atlantic Books/Corvus)
The Art of a Lie, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Pan Macmillan/Mantle)
A Case of Life and Limb, by Sally Smith (Bloomsbury Publishing/Raven Books)