The CWA (British Crime Writers Association) Awards that were presented recently. Thanks to The Rap Sheet for the list. Because most of the books are British, they might not aways be available through the Webstore. https://store.poisonedpen.com/. Please check!
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);
The Hunter, by Tana French (Penguin); Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke (Profile); and I Died at Fallow Hall, by Bonnie Burke-Patel (Bedford Square)
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);
and Clean, by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes (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.