2024 CWA DAGGER WINNERS
The Crime Writers' Association of Britain (CWA) announced the winners for the 2024 Dagger Awards as follows:
GOLD DAGGER:(6)
Over My Dead Body, by Maz Evans (Headline)
The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron (Baskerville/John Murray)
Small Mercies, by Dennis Lehane (Abacus/Little Brown)
WINNER Tell me What I Am, by Una Mannion (Faber & Faber)
Black River, by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Vertigo)
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Sutanto (HQ/Harper Collins)
IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER:(6)
All the Sinners Bleed, by S A Cosby (Headline/Hachette)
Ozark Dogs, by Eli Cranor (Headline/Hachette)
WINNER Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Faber & Faber)
The Mantis, by Kotaro Isaka (Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House)
Gaslight, by Femi Kayode (Raven Books/Bloomsbury)
Drowning, by T J Newman (Simon & Schuster)
JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER: (6)
WINNER In The Blink of An Eye, by Jo Callaghan (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Golden Gate, by Amy Chua (Corvus/Atlantic Books)
The Maiden, by Kate Foster (Mantle/Pan Macmillan)
West Heart Kill, by Dann McDorman (Raven Books)
Go Seek, by Michelle Teahan (Headline)
The Tumbling Girl, by Bridget Walsh (Gallic Books)
HISTORICAL DAGGER:(6)
Clara & Olivia, by Lucy Ashe (Magpie/Oneworld Publications)
Harlem After Midnight, by Louise Hare (HQ/HarperCollins)
A Bitter Remedy, by Alis Hawkins (Canelo)
WINNER Viper's Dream, by Jake Lamar (No Exit Press)
Scarlet Town, by Leonora Nattrass (Viper/Profile Books)
Voices of the Dead, by Ambrose Parry (Canongate Books)
CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER: (6)
Red Queen, by Juan Gomez-Jurado; translated by Nick Caistor (Macmillan)
The Sins Of Our Fathers, by Asa Larsson; translated by Frank Perry (Maclehose Press)
Nothing Is Lost, by Cloe Mehdi; translated by Howard Curtis (Europa Editions UK)
The Consultant, by Im Seong-sun; translated by Brian James Baer & Ellen Vayner (Europa Editions UK)
The Prey, by Yrsa Sigurdardottir; translated by Victoria Cribb (Hodder & Stoughton)
WINNER My Husband, by Maud Ventura; translated by Emma Ramadan (Hutchinson/Heinemann)
GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: (6)
The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel (Simon & Schuster)
No Ordinary Day, by Matt Johnson with John Murray (Ad Lib Publishers)
Seventy Times Seven, by Alex Mar (Bedford Square Publishers)
Devil's Coin by Jennifer McAdam with Douglas Thompson (Ad Lib Publishers)
How Many More Women?, by Jennifer Robinson & Keina Yoshida (Endeavour)
WINNER Ian Fleming: The Complete Man, by Nicholas Shakespeare (Vintage)
SHORT STORY DAGGER: (6)
"Safe Enough," by Lee Child (from An Unnecessary Assassin, edited by Lorraine Stevens; Rivertree)
"The Last Best Thing," by Mia Dalia (from Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction, edited by Andrew Hook; Head Shot Press)
"The Also-Rans," by Benedict J Jones (from Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction, edited by Andrew Hook; Head Shot Press)
WINNER "The Divide," by Sanjida Kay (from The Book of Bristol, edited by Joe Melia and Heather Marks; Comma Press)
"The Spendthrift and the Swallow," by Ambrose Parry (Canongate Books)
"Best Served Cold," by FD Quinn (from An Unnecessary Assassin, edited by Lorraine Stevens; Rivertree)
DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY:(5)
Louise Candlish
MW Craven
WINNER Anthony Horowitz
Cara Hunter
LJ Ross
PUBLISHERS' DAGGER: (6)
Canelo Crime
Headline (Hachette)
Joffe Books
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
WINNER Pushkin Vertigo
Simon & Schuster
DEBUT DAGGER: (7)
Burnt Ranch, by Katherine Ahlert
Unnatural Predators, by Caroline Arnoul
WINNER Not a Good Mother, by Karabi Mitra
Long Way Home, by Lynn Tavernier
The Last Days of Forever, by Jeremy Tinker
The Blond, by Megan Toogood
RED HERRING AWARD RECIPIENTS:
(for their service to the CWA)
Jean Briggs and
Dea Parkin BR>
DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD RECIPIENTS:
Lynda La Plante and
James Lee Burke
Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition Winner:
"Olga Popova," by Susan Breen
The winners were announced at the Dagger Awards Dinner, on Thursday, July 04 in London. (July 05, 2024)
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