Daggers Seek Their Targets

The British Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) today announced its shortlists of nominees for six different Dagger Awards.

The CWA International Dagger:

• Alex, by Pierre Lemaitre,
translated by Frank Wynne (Quercus)
• The Missing File, by D.A. Mishani,
translated by Steven Cohen (Quercus)
• Two Soldiers, by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström,
translated by Kari Dickson (Quercus)
• Ghost Riders of Ordebec, by Fred Vargas,
translated by Siân Reynolds (Harvill Secker)
• Death in Sardinia, by Marco Vichi,
translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Collini Case, by Ferdinand von Schirach,
translated by Anthea Bell (Michael Joseph)

The CWA Non-Fiction Dagger:

• Midnight in Peking, by Paul French (Penguin Viking)
• The Boy in the River, by Richard Hoskins (Pan Macmillan)
• Against a Tide of Evil, by Mukesh Kapila, with Damien Lewis (Mainstream)
• A Fine Day for a Hanging, by Carol Ann Lee (Mainstream)
• Injustice, by Clive Stafford Smith (Random House)
• Murder at Wrotham Hill, by Diana Souhami (Quercus)

The CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger:

• The Heretics, by Rory Clements (John Murray)
• Pilgrim Soul, by Gordon Ferris (Corvus)
• The Paris Winter, by Imogen Robertson (Headline)
• Dead Men and Broken Hearts, by Craig Russell (Quercus)
• The Twelfth Department, by William Ryan (Mantle)
• The Scent of Death, by Andrew Taylor (HarperCollins)

The CWA Short Story Dagger:

• “Method Murder,” by Simon Brett (from The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime, Volume 10, edited by Maxim Jakubowski; Constable)
• “Stairway C,” by Piero Colaprico (from Outsiders, edited by Ben Faccini; MacLehose Press)
• “Come Away with Me,” by Stella Duffy (from The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime, Volume 10)

• “The Case of Death and Honey,” by Neil Gaiman (from The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime, Volume 10)

• “Ferengi,” by Carlo Lucarelli (from Outsiders)
• “Lost and Found,” by Zoë Sharp (from Vengeance, edited by Lee Child; Corvus)

The CWA Dagger in the Library:

• Belinda Bauer
• Alison Bruce
• Gordon Ferris

• Christopher Fowler
• Elly Griffiths
• Michael Ridpath

(The longlist of contenders for this prize can be found here.)

The CWA Debut Dagger:

• Aine Oomhnaill (Ireland), The Assassin’s Keeper
• Finn Clarke (UK), Call Time
• Sue Dawes (UK), TAG
• Alex Sweeney (UK), Working in Unison
• Marie Hannan-Mandel (USA), Lesson Plan for Murder
• Ron Puckering (UK), Honour or Justice
• David Evans (UK), Torment
• Jayne Barnard (Canada), When the Bow Breaks
• D.B. Carew (Canada), Fighting Darkness: The Killer Trail
• Mike Craven (UK), Born in a Burial Gown
• Emma Melville (UK), The Journeyman
• Joanna Dodd (UK), A Cure for All Evils

The winners of these prizes will be announced during a July 15 dinner at Kings Place in London. Also included in those festivities will be the presentation, to Lee Child, of this year’s Diamond Dagger and an announcement of the nominees for the CWA’s annual Gold, Steel, and John Creasey Daggers.