CWA Dagger Longlists

The CWA Gold Dagger

The Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer (Bantam Press)

Dead Man’s Blues by Ray Celestin (Mantle)

The Girl Before by J P Delaney (Quercus)

Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith (No Exit Press)

Little Deaths by Emma Flint (Picador)

The Dry by Jane Harper (Little Brown)

Spook Street by Mick Herron (John Murray Publishers)

Sirens by Joseph Knox (Doubleday)

Ashes of Berlin by Luke McCallin) No Exit Press

The Girl in Green by Derek B Miller (Faber & Faber)

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (Harvil Secker)

Darktown by Thomas Mullen (Little Brown)

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott (Picador)

Kill The Next One by Frederico Axat (Text Publishing)

The Twenty Three by Linwood Barclay (Orion Fiction)

The Killing Game by J S Carol (Bookouture)

The Heat by Garry Disher (Text Publishing)

A Hero in France by Alan Furst (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

We Go Around in the Night Consumed by Fire by Jules Grant (Myriad Editions)

Moskva by Jack Grimwood (Michael Joseph)

The One Man by Andrew Gross (Macmillan)

Redemption Road by John Hart (Hodder & Stoughton)

Spook Street by Mick Herron (John Murray Publishers)

Dark Asset by Adrian Magson (Severn House)

Police at the Station and the don’t look Friendly by Adrian McKinty (Serpent’s Tail)

The Constant Soldier by William Ryan (Mantle)

The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong (Text Publishing)

Jericho’s War by Gerald Seymour (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter (Century)

Broken Heart by Tim Weaver (Penguin)

CWA International Dagger

A Cold Death by Antonio Manzini (Tr Anthony Shugaar) (4^th Estate)

A Fine Line by Gianrico Carofiglio (Tr by Howard Curtis) (Bitter Lemon Press)

A Voice in the Dark by Andrea Camilleri (Tr Stephen Sartarelli) (Mantle)

Blackout by Marc Elsberg (Tr Marshall Yarborough) (Black Swan)

Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre (Tr Frank Wynne) (Maclehose Press)

Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas (Tr Sian Reynolds) (Harvill Secker)

Death in the Tuscan Hills by Marco Vichi (Tr Stephen Sartarelli) (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Bastards of Pizzofalcone by Maurizio De Giovanni (Tr Anthony Shugaar) (Europa Editions)

The Dying Detective by Leif G W Persson (Tr Neil Smith) (Doubleday)

The Legacy of The Bones by Dolores Redondo (Tr Nick Caister & Lorenza Garcia) (Harper Fiction)

When It Grows Dark by Jorn Lier Horst (Tr Anne Bruce) (Sandstone Press)

Non-Fiction Dagger

A Dangerous Place by Simon Farquhar (The History Press Ltd)

Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba by Stephen Purvis (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage by Anja Reich-Osang (Text Publishing)

Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims (Bloomsbury Publishing)

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Publishing)

A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II by A. T. Williams (Jonathan Cape)

The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal-Meth Addiction by Luke Williams (Scribe Publications)

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge (Guardian Faber Publishing)

Short Story Dagger

The Assassination by Leye Adenle in Sunshine Noir Edited by Anna Maria Alfieri & Michael Stanley (White Sun Books)

Murder and its Motives by Martin Edwards in Motives for Murder Edited by Martin Edwards (Sphere)

Alive or Dead by Michael Jecks in Motives for Murder Edited by Martin Edwards (Sphere)

The Super Recogniser of Vik by Michael Ridpath in Motives for Murder Edited by Martin Edwards (Sphere)

What You Were Fighting For by James Sallis in The Highway Kind Edited by Patrick Millikin (Mulholland Books)

The Trials of Margaret by LC Tyler in Motives for Murder Edited by Martin Edwards (Sphere)

Snakeskin by Ovidia Yu in Sunshine Noir Edited by AnnaMaria Alfieri & Michael Stanley (White Sun Books)

Debut Dagger

Camera Obscura by Richard McDowell

Strange Fire by Sherry Larkin

The Reincarnation of Himmat Gupte by Neeraj Shah

The Swankeeper’s Wife by Augusta Dwyer

Hardways by Catherine Hendricks

Lost Boys by Spike Dawkins

Victorianoir by Kat Clay

Red Haven by Mette McLeod

In the Shadow of the Tower by Clive Edwards

Broken by Victoria Slotover

Endeavour Historical Dagger

The Devil’s Feast by M J Carter (Fig Tree)

The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes (Doubleday Ireland)

The Black Friar By S G MacLean (Quercus)

The Ashes of Berlin by Luke McCallin (No Exit Press)

The Long Drop by Denise Mina (Harvil Secker)

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (Harvil Secker)

Darktown by Thomas Mullen (Little Brown)

By Gaslight by Steven Price (Point Blank)

The City in Darkness by Michael Russell (Constable)

Dark Asylum by E S Thomson (Constable)

John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger

The Watcher by Ross Armstrong (Mira)

The Pictures by Guy Bolton (Point Blank)

What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Chaney (Mantle)

Ragdoll by Daniel Cole (Trapeze)

Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg (Faber & Faber)

Epiphany Jones by Michael Grothaus (Orenda Books)

Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard (Corvus)

Himself by Jess Kidd (Canongate)

Sirens by Joseph Knox (Doubleday)

Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land (Michael Joseph)

The Possession by Sara Flannery Murphy (Scribe)

Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker (Twenty 7)

Dagger in the Library (Shortlist)

Kate Ellis

Tana French

Mari Hannah

James Oswald

C J Sansom

Andrew Taylor

2016 CWA Dagger Short Lists

The Goldsboro Gold Dagger
Dodgers by Bill Beverly (No Exit Press)
Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre (Little, Brown)
Real Tigers by Mick Herron (John Murray)
Blood, Salt, Water by Denise Mina (Orion)

 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Make Me by Lee Child (Bantam Press)
Real Tigers by Mick Herron (John Murray)
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty (Serpent’s Tale)
The English Spy by Daniel Silva (Harper Collins)
The Cartel by John Winslow (William Heinemann)

John Creasey (New Blood)

Fever City by Tim Baker (Faber & Faber)
Dodgers by Bill Beverly (No Exit Press)
Freedom’s Child by Jax Miller (Harper Collins)
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle (Viking)
Eileen by Ottesa Moshfegh

CWA International Dagger

The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango, tr Imogen Taylor (Simon & Schuster)
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaître, tr Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press)
Icarus Deon Meyer, tr K L Seegers( Hodder & Stoughton)
The Murderer in Ruins by Cay Rademacher, tr Peter Millar (Arcadia)
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, tr Jonathon Lloyd-Jones (Quercus)

 CWA Non-Fiction Dagger

The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (Harper Colins)
SexyBeasts: The Hatton Garden Mob by Wensley Glarkson  (Quercus)
You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life (you are Raoul Moat) by Andrew Hankinson (Scribe)
A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding (Faber & Faber)
Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant (John Murray)
John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman (Bloomsbury)

CWA Dagger in the Library
Tony Black
Alison Bruce
Elly Griffiths
Quintin Jardine

Short Story Dagger

As Alice Did by Andrea Camilleri (Pan Macmillan)

On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier By John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)

Holmes on the Range: A Tale of the Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository By John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)

Bryant and May and the Nameless Women by Christopher Fowler (Bantam)

Stray Bullets by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (MacLehose Press)

Rosenlaui by Conrad Wilson (Constable and Robinson)

Debut Dagger

A Reconstructed Man by Graham Brack

Wimmera by Mark Brandi

A State of Grace by Rita Catching

Dark Valley by John Kennedy

The Devil’s Dice by Roz Watkins

CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger

The House at Baker Street by Michelle Birkby (Pan Books)

The Otherside of Silence by Philip Kerr (Quercus)

A Book of Scars by William Shaw (Riverrun)

The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith (Lion Fiction)

Striking Murder by A J Wright (Allison &Busby)
Stasi Child by David Young (Twenty7Books)

New Titles from Ostara Crime

The first three titles in the Ostara Crime imprint for 2013 all feature award-winning author Janet Neel (Baroness Cohen of Pimlico) and her series characters: police detective John McLeish and high-flying civil servant Francesca Wilson originally published between 1988 and 1993: Death’s Bright Angel, Death of A Partner and Death Among the Dons

Janet Neel’s crime novels were the first to place the traditional English detective story in the contemporary world of business, boardroom politics and Whitehall influence. She introduced the investigative duo of a thoughtful, unassuming London CID inspector and a confident – sometimes over-confident – well-connected civil servant in the Department of Trade and Industry. Not only did Neel give them both fascinating back stories, but from their first appearance in Death’s Bright Angel there was a clear chemistry in their relationship which was to develop into romance as the series continued.

This combination of strong characters, unusual but totally credible settings and the subordinate on-going themes of romance, infidelity, the claims of family, the role of women in business (and academia) and her obvious love of choral music, all combined to win Janet Neel a faithful readership on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her debut, Death’s Bright Angel, won the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel of 1988 and both Death of A Partner (1991) and Death Among the Dons (1993) were shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger. Death Among the Dons was described by the critic T. J. Binyon as “probably the best crime novel set in a women’s college since Dorothy L. Sayers’ Gaudy Night.”

Janet Neel, the maiden name of Baroness Cohen of Pimlico, read law at Newnham College Cambridge, qualifying as a solicitor in 1965. She worked in the USA designing war games for the Department of Defense and in Britain as a civil servant in the Department of Trade and Industry before moving in to a career in merchant banking. She established two successful restaurants in London and remains a non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange as well as chairman of the Cambridge Arts Theatre. In 2000 she was appointed to the House of Lords to sit as a Labour peer with particular interest in trade matters, industry, taxation and communications.

Mike Ripley, the series editor of Ostara Crime, has known Janet Neel for over 25 years. For the story of how they started as rival crime writers but ended up “Partners in Crime”, follow the Ostara Crime links on the www.ostarapublishing.co.uk  to any Janet Neel title and click for further information and the feature A TALE OF TWO ANGELS. Or go direct to:   http://www.ostarapublishing.co.uk/article-129.html