Tuesday, June 03, 2008

The Daggers Are Out

Following last week’s early announcement of nominees for the 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award (formerly the Gold Dagger for Fiction), the British Crime Writers’ Association today named the full list of contenders for this year’s Dagger Awards. Pay attention, now ...

Duncan Lawrie International Dagger:
The Patience of the Spider, by Andrea Camilleri; translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Picador, Macmillan)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson; translated by Reg Keeland (MacLehose Press, Quercus)
Lorraine Connection, by Dominique Manotti; translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz (EuroCrime, Arcadia Books)
A Deal with the Devil, by Martin Suter; translated by Peter Millar (EuroCrime, Arcadia Books)
This Night’s Foul Work, by Fred Vargas; translated by Sîan Reynolds (Harvill Secker, Random House)

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
Ritual, by Mo Hayder (Transworld)
I See You (aka The Crime Writer), by Gregg Hurwitz (Little, Brown)
Shatter, by Michael Robotham (Sphere/Little, Brown)
Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)
The Echelon Vendetta, by David Stone (Penguin)

CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction:
Nationality: Wog--The Hounding of David Oluwale, by Kester Aspden (Jonathan Cape, Random House)
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi, by Francisco Goldman (Atlantic Books)
Violation, by David Rose (HarperPress)
The Lost Boy, by Duncan Staff (Bantam Press)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House, by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)
Into the Darkness, by Peter Zimonjic (Vintage Books, Random House)

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger:
The Night of the Mi’raj (American title: Finding Nouf), by Zoë Ferraris (Little, Brown)
Die with Me, by Elena Forbes (Quercus)
Absolution, by Caro Ramsay (Michael Joseph, Penguin)
The Bethlehem Murders (American title: The Collaborator of Bethlehem), by Matt (Beynon) Rees (Atlantic Books)
Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)

CWA Dagger in the Library (awarded each year to “the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users”):
Elizabeth Corley
Andrew Martin
Denise Mina
Craig Russell
C.J. Sansom
Chris Simms

CWA Short Story Dagger:
“Provenance,” by Robert Barnard (from The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries, edited by Maxim Jakubowkski; Constable Robinson)
“One Dollar Jackpot,” by Michael Connelly (from Dead Man’s Hand, edited by Otto Penzler; Quercus)
“The Bookbinder’s Apprentice,” by Martin Edwards (from The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries)
“One True Love,” by Laura Lippman (from Best American Mystery Stories 2007, edited by Otto Penzler and Carl Hiaasen; Quercus)
“Glazed,” by Danuta Reah (from Getting Even: Revenge Stories, edited by Mitzi Szereto; Serpent’s Tail)

CWA Debut Dagger:
Western Fringes, by Amer Anwar (UK)
Blacklands, by Belinda Bauer (UK)
Desert Storm, by Russell Colman (Canada)
The Eclipse of Lilith, by Peter Dewar (UK)
Nite Lite, by Bill Harrison (Canada)
The Stench of Lilies, by Alison Marlow (UK)
The Book of Souls, by James Oswald (UK)
Wearing the Spider, by Susan Schaab (USA)
Devils and Disciples, by Ian Simpson (UK)
All the Wrong People, by P.J. Watson (USA)

Winners will be announced at an awards dinner, to be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in London’s Park Lane on Thursday, July 10.

READ MORE:The Duncan Lawrie International Dagger?,” by Uriah Robinson (Crime Scraps).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

For the benefit of those (like myself) who like to look up books nominated for awards, I just wanted to note that the Zoë Ferraris book is being published in the U.S. with the title "Finding Nouf". (I bought it this past weekend because it sounded good.) Thanks for posting all the award nominations!

J. Kingston Pierce said...

Thanks for pointing that out, Dorie. I didn't know. I've now inserted a note about the two titles into the original post.

Cheers,
Jeff

Sarah Weinman said...

Same goes for Gregg Hurwitz - the book was published last summer over here as THE CRIME WRITER.