The winners of the 2018 CWA Daggers were announced at a dazzling Dagger Awards Gala Dinner, held at the Grange City Hotel, London on 26th October.Ann Cleeves was awarded the Diamond Dagger, and Mari Hannah was presented with the Dagger in the Library award. The after-dinner speaker was Robert Thorogood, writer and creator of Death in Paradise, and master of ceremonies was noted crime fiction buff, Barry Forshaw.
CWA Gold Dagger
The Dry (Little, Brown) by Jane Harper
Also shortlisted:
The Beautiful Dead (Bantam Press) by Belinda Bauer
Dead Man’s Blues (Mantle) by Ray Celestin
Spook Street (John Murray) by Mick Herron
A Rising Man (Harvill Secker) by Abir Mukherjee
The Girl in Green (Faber & Faber) by Derek B. Miller
The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Spook Street (John Murray) by Mick Herron
Also shortlisted:
You Will Know Me (Picador) by Megan Abbott
The Killing Game (Bookouture) by J S Carol
We Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire (Myriad Editions) by Jules Grant
Redemption Road (Hodder & Stoughton) by John Hart
The Constant Soldier (Mantle) by William Ryan
The John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Tall Oaks (Twenty 7) by Chris Whitaker
Also shortlisted:
The Pictures (Point Blank) by Guy Bolton
Ragdoll (Trapeze) by Daniel Cole
Distress Signals (Corvus) by Catherine Ryan Howard
Sirens (Doubleday) by Joseph Knox
Good Me, Bad Me (Michael Joseph) by Ali Land
The Gold Dagger For Non-Fiction
CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) by Stephen Purvis
Also shortlisted:
A Dangerous Place (The History Press) by Simon Farquhar
The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage (Text Publishing) by Anja Reich-Osang
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (Bloomsbury Publishing) by Kate Summerscale
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II (Jonathan Cape) by A. T. Williams
Another Day in the Death of America (Guardian Faber Publishing) by Gary Younge
The CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger
A Rising Man (Harvill Secker) by Abir Mukherjee
Also shortlisted:
The Devil’s Feast (Fig Tree) by M J Carter
The Ashes of Berlin (No Exit Press) by Luke McCallin
The Long Drop (Harvill Secker) by Denise Mina
By Gaslight (Point Blank) by Steven Price
The City in Darkness (Constable) by Michael Russell
The CWA International Dagger
The Dying Detective (Doubleday) by Leif G W Persson, Tr Neil Smith
Also shortlisted:
A Cold Death (4th Estate) by Antonio Manzini, Tr Antony Shugaar
A Fine Line (Bitter Lemon Press) by Gianrico Carofiglio, Tr Howard Curtis
Blood Wedding (MacLehose Press) by Pierre Lemaître, Tr Frank Wynne
Climate of Fear (Harvill Secker) by Fred Vargas, Tr Siân Reynolds
The Legacy of the Bones (HarperCollins) by Delores Redondo, Tr Nick Casiter & Lorenza Garcia
The CWA Short Story Dagger
‘The Trials of Margaret’ by LC Tyler in Motives for Murder (Sphere) Edited by Martin Edwards
Also shortlisted:
‘The Assassination’ by Leye Adenle in Sunshine Noir (White Sun Books) Edited by AnnaMaria Alfieri & Michael Stanley
‘Murder and its Motives’ by Martin Edwards in Motives for Murder (Sphere) Edited by Martin Edwards
‘The Super Recogniser of Vik’ by Michael Ridpath in Motives for Murder (Sphere) Edited by Martin Edwards
‘What You Were Fighting For’ by James Sallis in The Highway Kind (Mulholland Books) Edited by Patrick Millikin
‘Snakeskin’ by Ovidia Yu in Sunshine Noir (White Sun Books) Edited by AnnaMaria Alfieri & Michael Stanley
CWA Debut Dagger
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Strange Fire by Sherry Rankin
Also shortlisted:
The Reincarnation of Himmat Gupte by Neeraj Shah
Lost Boys by Spike Dawkins
Red Haven by Mette McLeod
Broken by Victoria Slotover