The CWA
International Dagger: TIE -- Alex, by Pierre Lemaitre,
translated by Frank Wynne (Quercus); and The Ghost Riders of Ordebec, by Fred
Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds (Harvill Secker)
Also nominated: 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); Death
in Sardinia, by Marco Vichi, translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Hodder
& Stoughton); and 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)
Also nominated: 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); and Murder at Wrotham Hill, by Diana Souhami
(Quercus)
The CWA Ellis
Peters Historical Dagger: The Scent of Death, by Andrew Taylor (HarperCollins)
Also nominated: 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); and The Twelfth Department,
by William Ryan (Mantle)
The
CWA Short Story Dagger: “Come
Away with Me,” by Stella Duffy (from The Mammoth Book of
Best British Crime, Volume 10, edited by Maxim Jakubowski; Constable)
Also nominated: “Method
Murder,” by Simon Brett (from The Mammoth Book of Best British
Crime, Volume 10); “Stairway C,”
by Piero Colaprico (from Outsiders, edited by Ben Faccini;
MacLehose Press); “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);
and “Lost and Found,” by
Zoë Sharp (from Vengeance, edited by Lee Child; Corvus)
The CWA Dagger in the
Library: Belinda Bauer
Also nominated: Alison Bruce, Gordon Ferris, Christopher
Fowler, Elly Griffiths, and Michael Ridpath
The CWA Debut Dagger: Finn Clarke (UK), Call Time
Also nominated: Aine
Oomhnaill (Ireland), The Assassin’s Keeper; 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; and Joanna Dodd (UK), A Cure
for All Evils
Lee Child received this year’s Diamond
Dagger.
In addition, longlists of nominees were announced for three
other annual CWA commendations:
• Rubbernecker, by Belinda Bauer (Bantam/Transworld)
• The Shining Girls, by Lauren Beukes (HarperCollins)
• Tequila Sunset, by Sam Hawken Serpent’s Tail)
• Dead Lions, by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
• Rage Against the Dying, by Becky Masterman (Orion)
• Breakdown, by Sara Paretsky (Hodder &
Stoughton)
• Say You’re Sorry, by Michael Robotham (Sphere)
• The Kings of Cool, by Don Winslow (Heinemann)
• Ghostman, by Roger Hobbs (Transworld)
• The Uninvited, by Liz Jensen (Bloomsbury)
• The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, by Malcolm
Mackay
(Pan Macmillan)
(Pan Macmillan)
• Ratlines, by Stuart Neville (Random House)
• The Sentinel, by Mark Oldfield (Head of Zeus)
• The Poison Tide, by Andrew Williams (John Murray)
• Capital Punishment, by Robert Wilson (Orion)
• Ghostman, by Roger Hobbs (Doubleday)
• Something You Are, by Hanna Jameson (Head of Zeus)
• The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, by Malcolm
Mackay (Mantle)
• Rage Against the Dying, by Becky Masterman (Orion)
• Norwegian by Night, by Derek B. Miller (Faber and
Faber)
• Shadow of the Rock, by Thomas Mogford (Bloomsbury)
• The City of Shadows, by Michael Russell (Avon)
• City of Blood, by M.D. Villiers (Harvill Secker).
These last longlists are supposed to be trimmed to four titles apiece by later in the summer, with the eventual winners to be
revealed during the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards this coming fall.
(Hat tip to It’s a Crime! [Or a Mystery …])
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