KAA Gold Dagger: The Book of Secrets, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
Also nominated: A Divine Fury, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan); The Bell Tower, by R.J. Ellory (Orion);

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: Dark Ride, by Lou Berney (Hemlock Press)
Also nominated: Nobody’s Hero, by M.W. Craven (Constable); Sanctuary, by Garry Disher (Viper); Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill & Secker); Blood Like Mine, by Stuart Neville (Simon & Schuster); and City in Ruins, by Don Winslow (Hemlock Press)
ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: All Us Sinners, by Katy
Massey (Sphere)
Also nominated: 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); and Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney (Zaffre)
Twisted Dagger (for “psychological and suspense thrillers”): Nightwatching, by Tracy Sierra (Viking)
Also nominated: Emma, Disappeared, by Andrew Hughes (Hachette Ireland); Beautiful People, by Amanda Jennings (HQ); The Stranger in Her House, by John Marrs (Thomas & Mercer); The Trials of Marjorie Crowe, by C.S. Robertson (Hodder & Stoughton); and Look in the Mirror, by Catherine Steadman (Quercus)
Whodunnit Dagger (for “cosy crime, traditional mysteries, and Golden Age crime” stories): The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl, by Lisa Hall (Hera)
Also nominated: A Death in Diamonds, by S.J. Bennett (Zaffre); Murder at the Christmas Emporium, by Andreina Cordani (Zaffre); A Good Place to Hide a Body, by Laura Marshall (Hodder & Stoughton); A Matrimonial Murder, by Meeti Shroff-Shah (Joffe); and Murder at the Matinee, by Jamie West (Brabinger)
Historical Dagger: The Betrayal of Thomas True, by A.J. West (Orenda)
Also nominated: A Divine Fury, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan); Banquet of Beggars, by Chris Lloyd (Orion); The Book of Secrets, by Anna Mazzola (Orion); and Poor Girls, by Clare Whitfield (Head of Zeus/Aries)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger: The Night of Baby Yaga, by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett (Faber & Faber)
Also nominated: 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 Clues in the Fjord, by Satu Rämö, translated by Kristian London (Zaffre); Butter, by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton (4th Estate);

ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction: The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Circus)
Also nominated: Unmasking Lucy Letby: The Untold Story of the Killer Nurse, by Jonathan Coffey and Judith Moritz (Seven Dials); The Lady in the Lake: A Reporter’s Memoir of a Murder, by Jeremy Craddock (Mirror); Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions, by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Hodder & Stoughton); The Criminal Mind, by Duncan Harding (Michael Joseph); and Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland, by Henry Hemming (Quercus)
Short Story Dagger: “A Date on Yarmouth Pier,” by J.C. Bernthal (from Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards; Flame Tree)
Also nominated: “The Glorious Twelfth,” by S.J. Bennett (from Midsummer Mysteries); “Why Harrogate?” by Janice Hallett (from Murder in Harrogate, edited by Vaseem Khan; Orion); “City Without Shadows,” by William Burton McCormick (from Midsummer Mysteries); “A Ruby Sun,” by Meeti Shroff-Shah (from Midsummer Mysteries); and “Murder at the Turkish Baths,” by Ruth Ware (from Murder in Harrogate)
Dagger in the Library (“for a body of work by an established crime writer that has long been popular with borrowers from libraries”): Richard Osman
Also nominated: Kate Atkinson, Robert Galbraith, Janice Hallett, Lisa Jewell; and Edward Marston
Publishers’ Dagger (“awarded annually to the Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year”): Orenda Books
Also nominated: Bitter Lemon Press, Faber & Faber, Pan Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster
Emerging Author Dagger (“for the opening of a crime novel by an unpublished writer,” formerly called the Debut Dagger): Joe Eurell, Ashland
Also nominated: Loftus Brown, Bahadur Is My Name; Shannon Chamberlain, Funeral Games; Hywel Davies, Soho Love, Soho Blood; Shannon Falkson, The Fifth; and Catherine Lovering, Murder Under Wraps
Finally, Mick Herron, author of the Slough House series, had previously been declared this year’s recipient of the CWA Diamond Dagger.
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