2025 CWA DAGGER AWARD LONGLISTS
The Crime Writers' Association of Britain (CWA) has announced the longlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards as follows:
GOLD DAGGER:(12)
A Divine Fury, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
I Died at Fallow Hall, by Bonnie Burke-Patel (Bedford Square)
Man of Bones, by Ben Creed (Mountain Leopard Press)
The Bell Tower, by R.J. Ellory (Orion)
The Hunter, by Tana French (Penguin)
Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke (Profile)
Book of Secrets, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
How to Solve Your Own Murder, by Kristen Perrin (Quercus)
Nightwatching, by Tracy Sierra (Penguin)
Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney (Zaffre)
D Is for Death, by Harriet F. Townson (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Innocents, by Bridget Walsh (Pushkin Press)
IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER:(12)
Dark Ride, by Lou Berney (Hemlock Press)
The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I.S. Berry (No Exit Press)
The Cracked Mirror, by Chris Brookmyre (Abacus)
NobodyÕs Hero, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
Run, by Blake Crouch (Macmillan)
Sanctuary, by Garry Disher (Viper)
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan (HarperCollins)
The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore (Borough Press)
Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill & Secker)
Blood Like Mine, by Stuart Neville (Simon & Schuster)
All the Colours of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker (Orion)
City in Ruins, by Don Winslow (Hemlock Press)
JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER (formerly NEW BLOOD DAGGER): (11)
The Grief Doctor, by Jack Anderson (Raven)
My Name Was Eden, by Eleanor Barker-White (HarperNorth)
Miss Austen Investigates, by Jessica Bull (Michael Joseph)
Knife River, by Justine Champine (Manilla Press)
Three Burials, by Anders Lustgarten (Hamish Hamilton)
A Curtain TwitcherÕs Book of Murder, by Gay Marris (Bedford Square)
All Us Sinners, by Katy Massey (Sphere)
The Glass Woman, by Alice McIlroy (Datura)
An Honest Living, by Dwyer Murphy (No Exit Press)
Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney (Zaffre)
Five by Five, by Claire Wilson (Michael Joseph)
HISTORICAL DAGGER:(12)
A Divine Fury, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
Munich Wolf, by Rory Clements (Zaffre)
The Undoing of Violet Claybourne, by Emily Critchley (Manilla Press)
Dr. Spilsbury and the Cursed Bride, by D.L. Douglas (Orion)
Blood Roses, by Douglas Jackson (Canelo)
Banquet of Beggars, by Chris Lloyd (Orion)
Book of Secrets, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
Maude HortonÕs Glorious Revenge, by Lizzie Pook (Picador)
A Case of Mice and Murder, by Sally Smith (Raven)
The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey, by L.C. Tyler (Constable)
The Betrayal of Thomas True, by A.J. West (Orenda)
Poor Girls, by Clare Whitfield (Head of Zeus/Aries)
DAGGER CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION: (12)
Artifice, by Claire Berest, translated by Sophie Lewis (Mountain Leopard)
The Lover of No Fixed Abode, by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, translated by Gregory Dowling (Bitter Lemon Press)
Ruthless, by Anne Mette Hancock, translated by Tara Chase (Swift Press)
Hotel Lucky Seven, by Kotaro Isaka, translated by Brian Bergstrom (Harvill Secker)
The Silver Bone, by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (MacLehose Press)
Dogs and Wolves, by Herve Le Corre, translated by Howard Curtis (Europa Editions UK)
Going to the Dogs, by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press)
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman, by Patricia Melo, translated by Sophie Lewis (Indigo Press)
The Night of Baby Yaga, by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett (Faber & Faber)
The Clues in the Fjord, by Satu Ramo, translated by Kristian London (Zaffre)
Butter, by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton (Fourth Estate)
Clean, by Alia Trabucco Zeran, translated by Sophie Hughes (Fourth Estate)
GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: (12)
Secrets From the Agatha Christie Archive, by Jared Cade (Pen & Sword)
The Autistic Sleuth, by Chris Chan with Patricia Meyer Chan, Ph.D. (MX)
Unmasking Lucy Letby, by Jonathan Coffey and Judith Moritz (Seven Dials)
The Lady in the Lake, by Jeremy Craddock (Mirror)
Framed, by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Criminal Mind, by Duncan Harding (Michael Joseph)
Four Shots in the Night, by Henry Hemming (Quercus)
The Book Forger, by Joseph Hone (Chatto & Windus)
The Serial Killer Next Door, by Emma Kenny (Sphere)
Getting Away with Murder, by Lynda LaPlante (Zaffre)
Drawn Testimony, by Jane Rosenberg (Manilla Press)
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Circus)
SHORT STORY DAGGER: (10)
"The Glorious Twelfth", by S.J. Bennett (from Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards; Flame Tree Collections)
"A Date on Yarmouth Pier,"by J.C. Berthal (from Midsummer Mysteries)
"Parkrun," by Ann Cleeves (from Murder in Harrogate, edited by Vaseem Khan; Orion)
"The Valley of the Queens," by Elly Griffiths (from The Man in Black and Other Stories, by Elly Griffiths; Quercus)
"Why Harrogate?," by Janice Hallett (from Murder in Harrogate)
"Murder in Masham," by Vaseem Khan (from Murder in Harrogate)
"The Perfect Smile," by Clare Mackintosh (from Murder in Harrogate)
"City Without Shadows," by William Burton McCormick (from Midsummer Mysteries)
"A Ruby Sun," by Meeti Shroff-Shah (from Midsummer Mysteries)
"Murder at the Turkish Baths," by Ruth Ware (from Murder in Harrogate)
TWISTED DAGGER: (12)
The NeighbourÕs Secret, by Sharon Bolton (Orion)
The Perfect Couple, by N.J. Cracknell (Bloodhound)
The Playdate, by Clara Dillon (Penguin Sandycove)
Five Bad Deeds, by Caz Frear (Simon & Schuster UK)
Missing White Woman, by Kellye Garrett (Simon & Schuster UK)
Emma, Disappeared, by Andrew Hughes (Hachette Ireland)
Beautiful People, by Amanda Jennings (HQ)
The Stranger in Her House, by John Marrs (Thomas & Mercer)
The Search Party, by Hannah Richell (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Trials of Marjorie Crowe, by C.S. Robertson (Hodder & Stoughton)
Nightwatching, by Tracy Sierra (Penguin)
Look in the Mirror, by Catherine Steadman (Quercus)
WHODUNNIT DAGGER: (12)
A Death in Diamonds, by S.J. Bennett (Zaffre)
Murder at the Christmas Emporium, by Andreina Cordani (Zaffre)
The Spy Coast, by Tess Gerritsen (Bantam)
The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl, by Lisa Hall (Canelo Hera)
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby, by Ellery Lloyd (Macmillan)
A Good Place to Hide a Body, by Laura Marshall (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Mystery Guest, by Nita Prose (HarperFiction)
A Matrimonial Murder, by Meeti Shroff-Shah (Joffe)
A Case of Mice and Murder, by Sally Smith (Raven)
The Mystery of the Crooked Man, by Tom Spencer (Pushkin Vertigo)
Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect, by Benjamin Stevenson (Michael Joseph)
Murder at the Matinee, by Jamie West (Brabinger)
DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY:(10)
Rchard Osman
Janice Hallett
Kate Atkinson
Barbara Nadel
C.J.Tudor
Edward Marston
Julia Chapman
Lisa Jewell
Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)
Tim Sullivan
PUBLISHERS' DAGGER: (12)
Allison & Busby
Bitter Lemon Press
Canelo
Faber & Faber
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
Hemlock Press (HarperCollins)
Orenda
Orion Books
Pan Macmillan
Quercus
Simon & Schuster
Sphere (Little, Brown)
EMERGING AUTHOR DAGGER (formerly DEBUT DAGGER): (12)
The Nonymums: A Bloody Merry Murder, by Emilie Castera and Eve Goodfellow
Funeral Games, by Shannon Chamberlain
Soho Love, Soho Blood, by Hywel Davies
Bahadur Is My Name, by James Devall
Ashland, by Joe Eurell
The Fifth, Shannon Falkson
Cleaning Up, by Tineke Fancourt
Magdalen Park, by Helen Gray
Oriole, by Mary Keenan
Murder Under Wraps, by Catherine Lovering
Cyclepath, by Hugh Stewart
How to Make a Billion Dollars in 24 Hours, by James Wight
DIAMOND DAGGER Resipient:
Mick Herron
The shortlists will be announced on Thursday, May 29. The winners will be announced at the Dagger Awards Dinner, on Thursday, July 03 in London. (April 17, 2025
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