CWA 2019 Longlist

Author Title (Publisher – Imprint)

Claire Askew All the Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton)

Belinda Bauer Snap (Transworld – Bantam Press)

Ray Celestin The Mobster's Lament (Pan Macmillan – Mantle)

M W Craven The Puppet Show (Little, Brown – Constable)

John Harvey Body and Soul (Cornerstone – William Heinemann)

Christobel Kent What We Did (Little, Brown – Sphere)

Donna Leon Unto Us a Son Is Given (William Heinemann)

John Lincoln Fade to Grey (No Exit Press)

David Mark Cold Bones (Hodder & Stoughton – Mulholland Books)

Derek B. Miller American By Day (Transworld – Doubleday)

Abir Mukherjee Smoke and Ashes (Harvill Secker)

William Shaw Salt Lane (Riverrun)

Peter Swanson Before She Knew Him (Faber & Faber)

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Andrew Taylor The Fire Court (Harper Collins – Harper Fiction)

Benjamin Wood A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better (Simon & Schuster UK – Scribner)

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CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2019 Longlist

Author Title Publisher & Imprint

Megan Abbott Give Me Your Hand Pan Macmillan – Picador

Steve Cavanagh Thirteen Orion – Orion Fiction

Dan Fesperman Safe Houses Head of Zeus

Elly Griffiths The Stranger Diaries Fiction

Luke Jennings No Tomorrow John Murray

Stephen Mack Jones Lives Laid Away Soho Press – Soho Crime

Niklas Natt och Dag The Wolf and the Watchman John Murray

Khurrum Rahman Homegrown Hero Harper Collins – HQ

Holly Watt To The Lions Bloomsbury – Raven Books

Tim Willocks Memo From Turner Jonathan Cape

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CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2019 Longlist

G D Abson – Motherland (Mirror Books)

Claire Askew – All the Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton)

Alex Dahl – The Boy at the Door (Head of Zeus)

Mark Griffin – When Darkness Calls (Little, Brown – Piatkus)

Chris Hammer – Scrublands (Headline – Wildfire)

Vicky Newham – Turn A Blind Eye (HQ)

Laura Shepherd-Robinson – Blood And Sugar (Pan Macmillan – Mantle)

Catherine Steadman – Something In The Water (Simon & Schuster)

Søren Sveistrup – The Chestnut Man (Penguin – Michael Joseph)

Vanda Symon – Overkill (Orenda)

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CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction 2019 Longlist

Author Title Publisher & Imprint

Sue Black All That Remains (Transworld – Doubleday)

Mikita Brottman An Unexplained Death (Canongate)

Rachael Brown Trace (Scribe UK)

Claire Harman Murder by the Book (Viking)

Kirk Johnson The Feather Thief (Hutchinson)

Helena Kennedy Eve Was Shamed (Chatto & Windus)

Sarah Langford In Your Defence (Transworld - Doubleday)

Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor (Viking)

Hallie Rubenhold The Five (Transworld – Doubleday)

David Wilson My Life with Murderers (Little, Brown – Sphere)

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CWA International Dagger 2019 Longlist

Dov Alfon: A Long Night in Paris, translator Daniella Zamir – Maclehose Press

Karin Brynard: Weeping Waters, translators Maya Fowler & Isobel Dixon – Europa – World Noir

Gianrico Carofiglio: The Cold Summer, translator Howard Curtis – Bitter Lemon Press

Keigo Higashino: Newcomer, translator Giles Murray – Little, Brown

Håkan Nesser: The Root of Evil, translator Sarah Death – Pan Macmillan – Mantle

Cay Rademacher: The Forger, translator Peter Millar – Arcadia Books

Andrea Camilleri: The Overnight Kidnapper, translator Stephen Sartarelli – Pan Macmillan – Mantle

Kjell Ola Dahl: The Courier, translator Don Bartlett – Orenda Books

Martin Holmén: Slugger, translator A A Prime – Pushkin Vertigo

Jørn Lier Horst: The Katherina Code, translator Anne Bruce – Penguin – Michael Joseph

6/10

CWA Sapere Historical Dagger 2019 Longlist

Title Publisher Author

Laura Shepherd-Robinson Blood & Sugar Pan Macmillan – Mantle

S G Maclean Destroying Angel Quercus Fiction

Martin Edwards Gallows Court Head of Zeus

Abir Mukherjee Smoke and Ashes Harvill Secker

C J Sansom Tombland Pan Macmillan – Mantle

S W Perry The Angel’s Mark Corvus

Alex Reeve The House on Half Moon Street Raven Books

Jim Kelly The Mathematical Bridge Allison & Busby

Ray Celestin The Mobster’s Lament Pan Macmillan – Mantle

Liam McIlvanney The Quaker Harper Fiction

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The CWA Short Story Dagger 2019 Longlist

Room Number Two by Andrea Camilleri in ‘Death at Sea’ by Andrea Camilleri, published by Mantle

Strangers in a Pub by Martin Edwards in ‘Ten Year Stretch’, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller, published by No Exit Press

How Many Cats Have You Killed? by Mick Herron in ‘Ten Year Stretch’, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller, published by No Exit Press

Death Becomes Her by Syd Moore in ‘The Strange Casebook’ by Syd Moore, published by Point Blank Books

The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing by Danuta Reah in ‘The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and other Fantastic Female Fables’, published by Fantastic Books

I Detest Mozart by Teresa Solana in ‘The First Historic Serial Killers’ by Teresa Solana, published by Bitter Lemon Press

Paradise Gained by Teresa Solana in ‘The First Historic Serial Killers’ by Teresa Solana, published by Bitter Lemon Press

Bag Man by Lavie Tidhar in ‘The Outcast Hours’, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, published by Solaris

8/10

CWA Dagger In The Library 2019 Longlist

Selected by nominations from libraries.

M C Beaton

Simon Beckett

Mark Billingham

Christopher Brookmyre

John Connolly

Kate Ellis

Sophie Hannah

Graham Masterton

Denise Mina

C J Sansom

Cath Staincliffe

Jacqueline Winspear

9/10

CWA Debut Dagger 2019 Longlist

For the opening of a crime novel from a writer without a traditional publishing contract.

Name Novel Title

Shelley Burr Wake

Mairi Campbell-Jack Self-Help for Serial Killers: Let Your Creativity Bloom

Jerry Crause The Mourning Light

Michael Fleming The Fruits of Rashness

Carol Glaser Down the Well

Catherine Hendricks Hardways

Anna Maloney The Right Man

David Smith The Firefly

Fran Smith A Thin Sharp Blade

Matthew Smith A Wolf’s Clothing

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Shortlists for the Daggers will be announced in the summer and the winners will be announced at the

Dagger Awards dinner in London on 24 October, for which tickets will shortly be available. Visit www.thecwa.co.uk for more information or email [email protected] .

Winner of the 2019 Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement, Robert Goddard, will also be presented with his award at the October ceremony.

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