The Crime Writers’ Association has unveiled the
shortlisted authors for five categories in the 2015 Dagger awards during an
official reception at this year’s CRIMEFEST in Bristol.
Authors, publishers and delegates assembled to hear
the Dagger chair judges announce the finalists on Friday 15th May.
Diamond Dagger recipient Catherine Aird was also in attendance as she was the
chair judge for the CWA’s Margery Allingham Short Story Competition. Catherine
presented the prize of £1,000 and 2016 CRIMEFEST passes to the winning author
Lesley Mace for her story ‘Game Over’.
Over 882 entries were submitted by publishers and
individuals to compete for the 2015 Dagger Awards. The shortlists announced at
CRIMEFEST 2015 were the CWA Short Story Dagger, International Dagger, Non
Fiction Dagger, Endeavour Historical Dagger and Debut Dagger. The shortlist for
the Dagger In The Library award was announced on Monday 11th May by
its sponsor Dead Good (www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk).
“The CWA Daggers are amongst the most prestigious crime
writing awards in the world. The list of past winners reads like a Who’s Who of
the genre,” enthuses CWA Chair Len Tyler. “This year the judges have been able
to shortlist another fantastic collection of books in each of the categories.
My congratulations to all of the nominated authors.”
The CWA Dagger Awards will be presented on 30th
June, to mark the end of Crime Reading Month (www.crimereadingmonth.co.uk), at
a gala dinner in central London.
The CWA Daggers Shortlist:
The CWA International Dagger
· Falling
Freely, As If In A Dream by Leif GW Persson (tr Paul Norlen) - published by
Transworld.
· Camille
by Pierre Lemaitre (tr Frank Wynne) - published by Quercus.
· Cobra
by Deon Meyer (tr K.L Seegers) - published by Hodder & Stoughton.
· Arab
Jazz by Karim Miské (tr Sam Gordon) - published by
MacLehose Press.
· The
Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo (tr Isabelle Kaufeler) - published
by HarperCollins.
· Into
a Raging Blaze by Andreas Norman (tr Ian Giles) - published by
Quercus.
The CWA Short Story Dagger
· Apocrypha
by Richard Lange - Sweet Nothing - published by
Mulholland Press
· Red
Eye by Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane - Face Off
- published by Sphere
· The
Hunter by Dashiell Hammett - The Hunter & Other
Stories - published by No Exit Press
· Sweet
Nothing by Richard Lange - Sweet Nothing - published
by Mulholland Press
· Juror
8 by Stuart Neville - OxCrimes - published by
Profile Books
· The
Dead Their Eyes Implore Us by George Pelecanos - OxCrimes - published by
Profile Books
The CWA Non Fiction Dagger
· In
Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan
Davies - published by Quercus
· A
Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer - published by Penguin
· Ghettoside:
Investigating a Homicide Epidemic by Jill Leovy - published by Bodley Head
· Gun
Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of the Gun by
Iain Overton - published by Canongate
· One
of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by
Ǻsne Seierstad - published by Virago
· Just
Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan
Stevenson - published by Scribe
The Endeavour Historical Dagger - sponsored by
Endeavour Press Ltd
· Havana
Sleeping by Martin Davies - published by Hodder &
Stoughton
· Lamentation
by C. J. Sansom - published by Mantle
· The
Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin - published by No Exit Press
· The
Seeker by S. G. MacLean - published by Quercus
· The
Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor - published by Harper Collins
· The
Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse - published by Orion
The Debut Dagger – sponsored by Orion
· Dark
Chapter by Winnie M Li
· Last
Of The Soho Legends by Greg Keen
· The
Ice Coffin by Jill Sawyer
· The
Pure Drop by Nigel Robbins
· Lock
Me In by Kate Simants
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