STUART TURTON The Devil and the Dark Water (Raven Books, Bloomsbury Publishing) RUTH WARE One by One (Harvill Secker, Vintage) HOLLY WATT The Dead Line (Raven Books, Bloomsbury Publishing) CHRIS WHITAKER We Begin at the End (Zaffre, Bonnier) THE 2021 LONGLISTS JOHN CREASEY GOLD DAGGER (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER AMER ANWAR Stone Cold Trouble (Dialogue Books, Little, Brown Book Group) EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÓTTIR The Creak on the Stairs S A COSBY Blacktop Wasteland (Orenda) (Headline, Headline Publishing Group) SUSAN ALLOTT The Silence (Borough, HarperCollins) M W CRAVEN The Curator EMMA CHRISTIE The Silent Daughter (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group) (Welbeck Publishing) BEN CREED City of Ghosts CATHERINE COOPER The Chalet (Welbeck Fiction, Welbeck Publishing Group) (HarperFiction, HarperCollins) GARRY DISHER Peace (Viper, Profile Books) BEN CREED City of Ghosts (Welbeck Publishing) MICK FINLAY Arrowood and the Thames Corpses JUDI DAYKIN Under Violent Skies (Joffe Books) (HQ, HarperCollins) EGAN HUGHES The One That Got Away NICCI FRENCH House of Correction (Simon & Schuster) (Little Brown, Sphere) ROBERT GALBRAITH Troubled Blood S W KANE The Bone Jar (Thomas & Mercer) (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group) ROB MCINROY Cuddies Strip (Ringwood Press) ELLY GRIFFITHS The Postscript Murders (Quercus) STEPHANIE SCOTT What's Left of Me Is Yours ANTONIA HODGSON The Silver Collar (Orion, Weidenfeld) (Hodder & Stoughton) STEPHEN SPOTSWOOD Fortune Favours the Dead S G MACLEAN The House of Lamentations (Headline, Wildfire) (Quercus Fiction, Quercus) JOHN VERCHER Three-Fifths (Pushkin Press) C D MAJOR The Other Girl (Thomas & Mercer) S R WHITE Hermit (Headline) THOMAS MULLEN Midnight Atlanta (Little, Brown, Little, Brown Book Group) S J PARRIS Execution (Harper Fiction, HarperCollins) SAPERE BOOKS TADE THOMPSON Making Wolf (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group) HISTORICAL NICOLA UPSON The Dead of Winter (Faber) CHRIS WHITAKER We Begin at the End (Zaffre, Bonnier) DAGGER REBECCA WHITNEY The Hidden Girls (Mantle, Pan Macmillan) J M ALVEY Justice for Athena (Canelo Digital Publishing Limited) JOHN BANVILLE Snow (Faber) IAN FLEMING VASEEM KHAN Midnight at Malabar House (Hodder & Stoughton) STEEL DAGGER LAURIE R. KING Riviera Gold (Allison & Busby) CHRIS LLOYD The Unwanted Dead CHARLES CUMMING Box 88 (Orion Fiction, The Orion Publishing Group) (HarperFiction, HarperCollins) S J PARRIS Execution ROBERT GALBRAITH Troubled Blood (HarperFiction, HarperCollins) (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group) BEN PASTOR The Night of Shooting Stars RYAN GATTIS The System (Picador, Pan Macmillan) (Bitter Lemon Press) IAN RANKIN Song for the Dark Times MICHAEL RUSSELL The City Under Siege (Orion Fiction, The Orion Publishing Group) (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group) ROD REYNOLDS Blood Red City (Orenda Books) DAVID S. STAFFORD Skelton’s Guide to Domestic CRAIG ROBERTSON Watch Him Die (Simon & Schuster) Poisons (Allison & Busby) MICHAEL ROBOTHAM When She Was Good A D SWANSTON Chaos (Bantam Press, Transworld) (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group) NICOLA UPSON The Dead of Winter (Faber) CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD The Nothing Man OVIDIA YU The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Atlantic Books) (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group) CRIME FICTION IN ALCS GOLD DAGGER TRANSLATION DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

FREDRIK BACKMAN Anxious People, translated by Neil SUE BLACK Written in Bone (Doubleday, Penguin) Smith (Michael Joseph, Penguin) AMANDA BROWN The Prison Doctor; Women Inside ROXANNE BOUCHARD The Coral Bride, translated by (HQ, HarperCollins) David Warriner (Orenda Books) BECKY COOPER We Keep the Dead Close MARC ELSBERG Greed, (William Heinemann, Penguin) translated by Simon Pare (Black Swan, Penguin) MARTIN EDWARDS Howdunit YUN KO-EUN The Disaster Tourist, (Collins Crime Club, HarperCollins) translated by Lizzie Buehler (Serpent's Tail) ANDREW HARDING These Are Not Gentle People VOLKER KUTSCHER The March Fallen, (MacLehose, Quercus) translated by Niall Sellar (Sandstone Press) DEBORA HARDING Dancing with the Octopus D A MISHANI Three, translated by Jessica Cohen (Profile Books Limited) (Riverrun, Hachette Book Group) NICK HAYES The Book of Trespass JO NESBO The Kingdom, translated by Robert Ferguson (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing) (Harvill Secker, Penguin) BEN MACINTYRE Agent Sonya (Viking, Penguin) HÅKAN NESSER The Secret Life of Mr. Roos, JAX MILLER Hell in the Heartland (HarperCollins) translated by Sarah Death (Mantle, Pan Macmillan) DANIEL SMITH The Peer and the Gangster MIKAEL NIEMI To Cook a Bear, translated by (The History Press) Deborah Bragan-Turner (MacLehose Press, Quercus) RAVI SOMAIYA Operation Morthor (Viking, Penguin) AGNES RAVATN The Seven Doors, translated by KATE SUMMERSCALE The Haunting of Alma Fielding Rosie Hedger (Orenda Books) (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing) MAIKE WETZEL Elly, translated by Lyn Marven MARK TOWNSEND No Return (Guardian, Faber & Faber) (Scribe UK) SHORT STORY DAGGER DEBUT

ROBERT SCRAGG ‘A Dog is for Life, Not Just for DAGGER Christmas’ in Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds Group) PETER BOLAND Savage Games ELLE CROFT ‘Deathbed’ in Afraid of the Light, edited by ZACK DANIEL The Tonganoxie Split Robert Scragg & Various (Criminal Minds Group) KERRY EATON Long Egg DOMINIC NOLAN ‘Daddy Dearest’ in Afraid of the ASHLEY HARRISON The Looking Glass Spy Light, edited by Robert Scragg & Various (Criminal Minds FIONA MCPHILLIPS Underwater Group) KAREN MILNER Sister Killer ADAM SOUTHWARD ‘Especially at Christmas’ in Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Miranda Jewess JULIE NUGENT The Lying Days (Criminal Minds Group) BIBA PEARCE Rough Justice CHRISTOPHER FOWLER ‘Head Count’ in First Edition HANNAH REDDING Deception Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome EDWARD REGENYE Lightfoot Press) ELIZABETH TODMAN The Tunnel Runners VICTORIA SELMAN ‘Hunted’ in Afraid of the Christmas JENNIFER WILSON O’RAGHALLAIGH , edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds Group) Lights Mandatory Reporting CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘Monsters’ in First Edition Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome Press) STUART TURTON ‘Murder Most Vial’ in First Edition DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome Press) LIN ANDERSON DENISE MINA LIVIA LLEWELYN ‘One of These Nights’ in Cutting Edge NICCI FRENCH MARGARET MURPHY Noir Stories by Women, edited by Joyce Carol Oates LISA JEWELL JAMES OSWALD (Pushkin Press, Pushkin Vertigo) ERIN KELLY L J ROSS JAMES DELARGY ‘Planting Nan’ in Afraid of the Light, edited by Robert Scragg & Various (Criminal Minds Group) PETER MAY C L TAYLOR SIMPSON GREARS ‘The Foot of the Walk Murders’ in The Foot of the Walk Murders, edited by Simpson Grears (Rymour Books) PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER

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SALLY BOTHROYD Lingering SUSAN BREEN One Woman Watch ANTONY M BROWN For Laura Hope EILEEN CASTLEDINE You Never Can Tell CHRIS CURRAN All the Little Boxes ADAM LEEDER Trailer STACY LUCAS The Bones Don’t Lie CAMILLA MACPHERSON Heartbridge Homicides CHRISTINE POULSON The Shape of Australia ALISON RILEY To the Moon and Back NATALIE VELLA In a Small Town HAZEL WARD As Dead as Dodo J J WHITE Back to Alcatraz