Finalists Uncloaked In Three Book Categories Of The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010

Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3, in partnership with the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), today revealed the finalists in the three book categories of the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards on ITV3, celebrating the very best of British and International crime thriller fiction in the UK and beyond.

The finalists of the CWA Gold Dagger for the Best Crime Novel of the Year; the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the Best Thriller of the Year; and the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for the Best First Novel, awarded in memory of CWA founder John Creasey are as follows: 

CWA GOLD DAGGER 2010

Blacklands/Belinda Bauer/Corgi/Transworld

Blood Harvest/S J Bolton/Bantam Press/Transworld

Shadowplay/Karen Campbell/Hodder & Stoughton

The Way Home/George Pelecanos/Orion


CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2010, SPONSORED BY IAN FLEMING PUBLICATIONS

A Loyal Spy/Simon Conway/Hodder & Stoughton

Innocent/Scott Turow/Mantle

The Dying Light/Henry Porter/Orion

The Gentlemen's Hour/Don Winslow/Heinemann/Random House

CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2010

Acts of Violence/Ryan David Jahn/Macmillan New Writing

Rupture/Simon Lelic/Picador

The Holy Thief/William Ryan/Mantle

The Pull of the Moon/Diane Janes/Constable & Robinson

Accent on youth as Gold Dagger nominees are revealed
The field for the annual £2,500 crime writing award includes two novels in which 12-year-old investigators take centre stage
Alison Flood writing in The Guardian.