Triple Dagger Play

Two months after the British Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announced the winners of its first five Dagger Awards for 2014, it has now broadcast its shortlists of nominees for three more commendations. They are as follows:

CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year:
• The First Rule of Survival, by Paul Mendelson (Constable)
• How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny (Sphere/Little Brown)
• Keep Your Friends Close, by Paula Daly (Bantam/Transworld)
• This Dark Road to Mercy, by Wiley Cash (Doubleday/Transworld)

Also longlisted for this award: Stone Bruises, by Simon Beckett (Bantam/Transworld); What She Saw, by Mark Roberts (Corvus/Atlantic); The Verdict, by Nick Stone (Sphere/Little, Brown); and The Corporal’s Wife, by Gerald Seymour (Hodder & Stoughton)

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger:
• The Axeman’s Jazz, by Ray Celestin (Mantle)
• The Devil in the Marshalsea, by Antonia Hodgson
(Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Silent Wife, by A.S.A Harrison (Headline)
• The Strangler Vine, by M.J. Carter (Penguin Fig Tree)

Also longlisted for this award: Night Heron, by Adam Brookes (Sphere); I Am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes (Bantam); Shovel Ready, by Adam Sternbergh (Headline); and Black Chalk, by Christopher J. Yates (Harvill Secker)

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
• Apple Tree Yard, by Louise Doughty (Faber and Faber)
• An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris (Random House)
• I Am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes (Transworld)
• Natchez Burning, by Greg Iles (Harper Collins)

Also longlisted for this award: Never Go Back, by Lee Child (Transworld); 419, by Will Ferguson (Head of Zeus); The Abduction, by Jonathan Holt (Head of Zeus); and The Corporal’s Wife, by Gerald Seymour (Hodder & Stoughton)

Winners of these prizes will be declared on Friday, October 24, during the annual Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards ceremony.