Saturday, August 25, 2012

Shortlists for Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards

Jo Nesbo (right), Stuart MacBride, and Kathy Reichs are among the authors fighting it out for the Specsavers Bestseller Dagger, as the Crime Writers Association reveals the shortlists for its 2012 Crime Thriller awards.

The CWA Gold Dagger – sponsored by Constable & Robinson
The Rage by Gene Kerrigan (Harvill Secker)
Bereft by Chris Womersley (Quercus)
Vengeance in Mind by N.J. Cooper (Simon and Schuster)
The Flight by M.R. Hall (Mantle)


The John Creasey New Blood Dagger – sponsored by Goldsboro Books
Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash (Bantam)
Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne (Headline)
What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright (Canongate)
Good People by Ewart Hutton (Blue Door)


The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger – sponsored by Ian Fleming Publications
Dare Me by Megan Abbott (Picador)
Reamde by Neal Stephenson (Atlantic Books)
A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)
The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Hutchinson)


The Specsavers Bestseller Dagger
Stuart MacBride
Jo Nesbo
Ann Cleeves
Kathy Reichs
Anthony Horowitz 

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