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Excited that CrimeBookJunkie (me 👋🏻) gets to be one of many people to share the 2024 longlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards , which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre. Here’s a snippet of history about these awards before I delve right in to sharing the list with you! Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century. A huge #crimebookjunkie congratulations to all 👏🏻 GOLD DAGGER Maz Evans Over My Dead Body , Headline Chris Hammer Dead Man’s Creek , Wildfire Books Alis Hawkins A Bitter Remedy , Canelo Julia Haeberlin Night Will Find You , Penguin (Michael Joseph) Mick Herron The Secret Hours , Baskerville (John Murray) J G Kelly The White Lie , Hodder & Stoughton Vaseem Khan Death of a Lesser God, Hodder & Stoughton 🤞🏻 Dennis Lehane Small Mercies, Abacus (Little Brown) Una Mannion Tell me What I Am , Faber & Faber Kate Morton Homecoming , Mantle (Pan Macmillan) Nilanjana Roy Black River , Pushkin (Vertigo) Jesse Sutanto Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers , HQ (Harper Collins) IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER David Baldacci Simply Lies , Macmillan (Pan Macmillan) Linwood Barclay The Lie Maker, HQ (HC) 🤞🏻 S A Cosby All the Sinners Bleed , Headline (Hachette) 🤞🏻 Eli Cranor Ozark Dogs , Headline (Hachette) C M Ewan The House Hunt , Macmillan (Pan Macmillan) 🤞🏻 Jordan Harper Everybody Knows , Faber & Faber Kotaro Isaka The Mantis , Harvill Secker (PRH) Femi Kayode Gaslight , Raven Books (Bloomsbury) D L Marshall 77 North, Canelo T J Newman Drowning, Simon & Schuster Karin Slaughter After that Night, HarperCollins 🤞🏻 James Wolff The Man in the Corduroy Suit , Bitter Lemon Press ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER Kathryn Black A Most Unusual Demise, Bloodhound Books Jo Callaghan In The Blink of An Eye , Simon & Schuster UK 🤞🏻 Amy Chua The Golden Gate, Corvus (Atlantic Books) Margot Douaihy Scorched Grace , Pushkin Vertigo Helen Erichsen Murder By Natural Causes, Muswell Press Kate Foster The Maiden , Mantle (Pan Macmillan) Jessa Maxwell The Golden Spoon , Penguin Dann McDorman West Heart Kill , Raven Books Liza North Obsessed , Constable Michelle Teahan Go Seek , Headline Publishing Group Charlotte Vassell The Other Half , Faber & Faber Bridget Walsh The Tumbling Girl, Gallic Books HISTORICAL DAGGER Lucy Ashe Clara & Olivia , Magpie (Oneworld Publications) John Banville The Lock-Up , Faber & Faber James Lee Burke Flags on the Bayou , Orion Fiction (Hachette) Anita Davison Murder in the Bookshop, Boldwood Books Louise Hare Harlem After Midnight , HQ (HarperCollins) Alis Hawkins A Bitter Remedy, Canelo 🤞🏻 Jake Lamar Viper’s Dream , No Exit Press S.G. MacLean The Winter List , Quercus Fiction (Quercus) Tom Mead The Murder Wheel , Aries (Head of Zeus) Leonora Nattrass Scarlet Town , Viper (Profile Books) Ambrose Parry Voices of the Dead , Canongate Books 🤞🏻 Isabelle Schuler Lady MacBethad , Raven Books (Bloomsbury) CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER Javier Castillo The Snow Girl , translated by Isabelle Kaufeler, Penguin Books Juan Gómez-Jurado Red Queen , translated by Nick Caistor, Macmillan Arnaldur Indridason The Girl By The Bridge , translated by Philip Roughton, Vintage Kotaro Isaka The Mantis , translated by Sam Malissa, Vintage Âsa Larsson The Sins Of Our Fathers , translated by Frank Perry, Maclehose Press Jenny Lund Madsen Thirty Days Of Darkness, translated by Megan E.Turney, Orenda Books Cloé Mehdi Nothing Is Lost , translated by Howard Curtis, Europa Editions UK Schneider Hansjörg He Murder Of Anton Livius , translated by Astrid Freuler, Bitter Lemon Press Im Seong-sun The Consultant, translated by An Seong Jae, Raven Books Mikhail Shevelev Not Russian translated by Brian James Baer & Ellen Vayner, Europa Editions UK Yrsa Sigurdardottir The Prey , translated by Victoria Cribb, Hodder & Stoughton 🤞🏻 Maud Ventura My Husband, translated by Emma Ramadan, Hutchinson Heinemann ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION Michael Finkel The Art Thief , Simon & Schuster Beverly Gage G-Man, Simon & Schuster Lara Love Hardin The Many Lives of Mama Love , Endeavour Matt Johnson with John Murray No Ordinary Day , Ad Lib Publishers Miles Johnson Chasing Shadows , The Bridge Street Press Patrick Radden Keefe The Snakehead, Picador Jennifer McAdam with Douglas Thompson Devil’s Coin, Ad Lib Publishers Ltd Jess McDonald No Comment , Raven Books 🤞🏻 Alex Mar Seventy Times Seven , Bedford Square Publishers Jennifer Robinson & Keina Yoshida How Many More Women? Endeavour Nicholas Shakespeare Ian Fleming: The Complete Man , Vintage David Wilson Murder at Home , Sphere SHORT STORY DAGGER Rachel Amphlett Three Ways to Die from No W.W.M. – Thrill Ride #3, edited by M. L. “Matt” Buchman, Buchman Bookworks, Inc 🤞🏻 Lee Child Safe Enough from An Unnecessary Assassin , edited by Lorraine Stevens, Rivertree Mia Dalia The Last Best Thing from Bang!:An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction , edited by Andrew Hook, Head Shot Press Andrew Humphrey Slap Happy from Bang!:An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction edited by Andrew Hook, Head Shot Press Benedict J Jones The Also-Rans from Bang!:An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction edited by Andrew Hook, Head Shot Press Sanjida Kay The Divide from The Book of Bristol edited by Joe Melia and Heather Marks, Comma Press Ambrose Parry The Spendthrift and the Swallow , Canongate Books DG Penny Drive from An Unnecessary Assassin edited by Lorraine Stevens, Rivertree FD Quinn Best Served Cold from An Unnecessary Assassin edited by Lorraine Stevens, Rivertree 🙌🏻🤞🏻👏🏻 Robert Scragg Revenge is Best Served Hot from An Unnecessary Assassin edited by Lorraine Stevens, Rivertree 🤞🏻 DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY Louise Candlish MW Craven 🤞🏻 Lucy Foley Cara Hunter Anthony Horowitz Vaseem Khan Angela Marsons 🤞🏻🤞🏻 Kate Rhodes LJ Ross 🤞🏻 Diane Saxon PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER Bitter Lemon Press Canelo 🤞🏻 Harper Fiction (HarperCollins) 🤞🏻 Harvill Secker (PenguinRandomHouse) Headline (Hachette) 🤞🏻 Joffe Books Michael Joseph (PenguinRandomHouse) Pushkin Press Raven (Bloomsbury) Simon & Schuster DEBUT DAGGER Katherine Ahlert , Burnt Ranch Caroline Arnoul, Unnatural Predators 🤞🏻 Matt Coot , Vilomah Judy Hock , Good Criminals 🤞🏻 JR Holland , Vigilante Love Song Alan Jackson , Bluebirds Richard Jerram , Makoto Murders Lynn McCall , Long Way Home Karabi Mitra , Not a Good Mother Jeremy Tinker , The Last Days of Forever James Tobin , A Politician’s Guide to Murder Megan Toogood , The Blond So there it is! 👏🏻 Who are you hoping wins? I’ve marked mine with a 🤞🏻(and yes, I’ve picked a few in some categories 😂)
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