Gold Dagger:
• Blacktop Wasteland, by S.A. Cosby (Headline)
• City of Ghosts, by Ben Creed (Welbeck)
• House of Correction, by Nicci French (Simon & Schuster)
• Troubled Blood, by Robert Galbraith (Sphere)
• The Postscript Murders, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
• Midnight Atlanta, by Thomas Mullen (Little, Brown)• We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker (Zaffre)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
• Troubled Blood, by Robert Galbraith (Sphere)
• When She Was Good, by Michael Robotham (Sphere)
• The Nothing Man, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Atlantic)
• The Devil and the Dark Water, by Stuart Turton (Raven)
• One by One, by Ruth Ware (Harvill Secker)
• We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker (Zaffre)
John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger:
• The Creak on the Stairs, by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (Orenda)
• City of Ghosts, by Ben Creed (Welbeck)
• The One That Got Away, by Egan Hughes (Sphere)
• The Bone Jar, by S.W. Kane (Thomas & Mercer)
• Fortune Favours the Dead, by Stephen Spotswood (Wildfire)
• Three Fifths, by John Vercher (Pushkin Press)
Sapere Books Historical Dagger:
• Snow, by John Banville (Faber and Faber)
• Midnight at Malabar House, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Unwanted Dead, by Chris Lloyd (Orion Fiction)
• The City Under Siege, by Michael Russell (Constable)
• Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons, by David S. Stafford
(Allison & Busby)
• The Mimosa Tree Mystery, by Ovidia Yu (Constable)
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction:
• Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind,
by Sue Black (Doubleday)
• We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence, by Becky Cooper (Heinemann)
• These Are Not Gentle People, by Andrew Harding (MacLehose Press)
• Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime,
by Debora Harding (Profile)
• The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us,
by Nick Hayes (Bloomsbury Circus)
• Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy, by Ben MacIntyre (Viking)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger:
• Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman, translated by Neil Smith (Michael Joseph)
• The Coral Bride, by Roxanne Bouchard, translated by David
Warriner (Orenda)
• The Disaster Tourist, by Yun Ko-eun, translated by Lizzie
Buehler (Serpent’s Tail)
• Three, by D.A. Mishani, translated by Jessica Cohen (Riverrun)
• To Cook a Bear, by Mikael Niemi, translated by Deborah
Bragan-Turner (MacLehose Press)
• The Seven Doors, by Agnes Ravatn, translated by Rosie
Hedger (Orenda)
Short Story Dagger:
• “A Dog Is for Life, Not Just for Christmas,” by Robert Scragg (from Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Robert Scragg;
Robert Scragg)
• “Deathbed,” by Elle Croft (from Afraid of the Light, edited by
Robert Scragg; Robert Scragg)
• “Daddy Dearest,” by Dominic Nolan (from Afraid of the Light)
• “Hunted,” by Victoria Selman (from Afraid of the Christmas Lights)
• “Monsters,” by Clare Mackintosh (from First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books, edited by David Headley and Daniel
Gedeon; The Dome Press)
• “Planting Nan,” by James Delargy (from Afraid of the Light)
Publishers’ Dagger (“awarded annually to the Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year”):
• Faber and Faber
• Head of Zeus
• Michael Joseph
• No Exit Press
• Raven
• Viper
CWA Debut Dagger (for as-yet-unpublished novels):
• The Looking Glass Spy, by Ashley Harrison
• Underwater, by Fiona McPhillips
• Rough Justice, by Biba Pearce
• Deception, by Hannah Redding
• Lightfoot, by Edward Regenye
• Mandatory Reporting, by Jennifer Wilson O’Raghallaigh
Dagger in the Library (“for a body of work by an established crime writer that has long been popular with borrowers from libraries”):
• C.L. Taylor
• Peter May
• Lisa Jewell
• James Oswald
• Denise Mina
• L.J. Ross
The longlists of nominees for most of these prizes can be found here. To see the full rundown of Debut Dagger rivals, click here.
Martina Cole was already declared as the recipient of the 2021 Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement.
“The Dagger shortlists again highlight the wealth of great books and diversity within the crime genre,” says Maxim Jakubowski, the CWA’s newly appointed chair. “With terrific new titles from authors both familiar and new, including some books impressively nominated in more than a single category, the presence on the Publisher Dagger shortlist of long-standing traditional publishing houses and smaller independents and even, on the Dagger in the Library (voted on by librarians throughout the country), a first, with a self-published writer rubbing shoulders with established veterans. The Daggers are assuredly the best and most prestigious reflection of what’s happening on the crime and mystery writing front.”
Congratulations to all of these contenders!
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