The British Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) today announced its longlists of nominees for the 2025 Dagger Awards. There are 11 categories of contenders, including two new classifications: the Twisted Dagger, which “celebrates psychological thrillers and dark and twisty tales that often feature unreliable narrators, disturbed emotions, a healthy dose of moral ambiguity, and a sting in the tail”; and the Whodunnit Dagger, honoring “books that focus on the intellectual challenge at the heart of a good mystery.”
And the nominees are …
Gold Dagger:
• 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:
• 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)
ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger:
• 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:
• 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)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger:
• 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 Hervé 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 Patrícia 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 Rämö,
translated by Kristian London (Zaffre)
• Butter, by Asako Yuziki,
translated by Polly Barton (Fourth Estate)
• Clean, by Alia Trabucco Zerán,
translated by Sophie Hughes (Fourth Estate)
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction:
• Secrets From the Agatha Christie Archive, by Jared Cade
(Pen & Sword)
• The Autistic Sleuth, by Chris Chan with Patricia Meyer
Chan, Ph.D. (MX)
• Unmasking Lucy Letby, by Jonathan Coffey and Judith Moritz
(Seven Dials)
• The Lady in the Lake, by Jeremy Craddock (Mirror)
• Framed, by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Criminal Mind, by Duncan Harding (Michael Joseph)
• Four Shots in the Night, by Henry Hemming (Quercus)
• The Book Forger, by Joseph Hone (Chatto & Windus)
• The Serial Killer Next Door, by Emma Kenny (Sphere)
• Getting Away with Murder, by Lynda LaPlante (Zaffre)
• Drawn Testimony, by Jane Rosenberg (Manilla Press)
• The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Circus)
Short Story Dagger:
• “The Glorious Twelfth,” by S.J. Bennett (from Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards; Flame Tree Collections)
• “A Date on Yarmouth Pier,” by J.C. Berthal (from Midsummer Mysteries)
• “Parkrun,” by Ann Cleeves (from Murder in Harrogate, edited by Vaseem Khan; Orion)
• “The Valley of the Queens,” by Elly Griffiths (from The Man in Black and Other Stories, by Elly Griffiths; Quercus)
• “Why Harrogate?” by Janice Hallett (from Murder in Harrogate)
• “Murder in Masham,” by Vaseem Khan (from Murder in Harrogate)
• “The Perfect Smile,” by Clare Mackintosh (from Murder in Harrogate)
• “City Without Shadows,” by William Burton McCormick (from Midsummer Mysteries)
• “A Ruby Sun,” by Meeti Shroff-Shah (from Midsummer Mysteries)
• “Murder at the Turkish Baths,” by Ruth Ware (from Murder in Harrogate)
Twisted Dagger:
• The Neighbour’s Secret, by Sharon Bolton (Orion)
• The Perfect Couple, by N.J. Cracknell (Bloodhound)
• The Playdate, by Clara Dillon (Penguin Sandycove)
• Five Bad Deeds, by Caz Frear (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Missing White Woman, by Kellye Garrett (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Emma, Disappeared, by Andrew Hughes (Hachette Ireland)
• Beautiful People, by Amanda Jennings (HQ)
• The Stranger in Her House, by John Marrs (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Search Party, by Hannah Richell (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Trials of Marjorie Crowe, by C.S. Robertson (Hodder & Stoughton)• Nightwatching, by Tracy Sierra (Penguin)
• Look in the Mirror, by Catherine
Steadman (Quercus)
Whodunnit Dagger:
• A Death in Diamonds, by S.J.
Bennett (Zaffre)
• Murder at the Christmas Emporium, by Andreina Cordani (Zaffre)
• The Spy Coast, by Tess Gerritsen (Bantam)
• The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl, by Lisa Hall (Canelo Hera)
• The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby, by Ellery Lloyd (Macmillan)
• A Good Place to Hide a Body, by Laura Marshall (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Mystery Guest, by Nita Prose (HarperFiction)
• A Matrimonial Murder, by Meeti Shroff-Shah (Joffe)
• A Case of Mice and Murder, by Sally Smith (Raven)
• The Mystery of the Crooked Man, by Tom Spencer (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect, by Benjamin Stevenson
(Michael Joseph)
• Murder at the Matinee, by Jamie West (Brabinger)
Dagger in the Library (“for a body of work by an established crime writer that has long been popular with borrowers from libraries”):
• Rchard Osman
• Janice Hallett
• Kate Atkinson
• Barbara Nadel
• C.J.Tudor
• Edward Marston
• Julia Chapman
• Lisa Jewell
• Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)
• Tim Sullivan
Publishers’ Dagger (“awarded annually to the Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year”):
• Allison & Busby
• Bitter Lemon Press
• Canelo
• Faber & Faber
• Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
• Hemlock Press (HarperCollins)
• Orenda
• Orion Books
• Pan Macmillan
• Quercus
• Simon & Schuster
• Sphere (Little, Brown)
Lists of finalists will be released on May 29, with the announcement of this year’s Dagger winners to follow on July 3.
Mick Herron, author of the popular Slough House series as well as other mystery and thriller novels, was previously named as the Crime Writers’ Association’s Diamond Dagger winner for 2025.
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