THE CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER The CWA Dagger Shortlists are kindly sponsored for the best historical crime novel by Hazchem Network Ltd, the UK’s only palletised Sponsored by Endeavour Press distribution network for Dangerous Goods, and by CrimeFest, the international crime writing convention, The Devil’s Feast (Fig Tree) by M. J. Carter The Ashes of Berlin (No Exit Press) by Luke McCallin SHORTLISTS 2017 which will be held 17-20 May in Bristol in 2018. The Long Drop (Harvill Secker) by Denise Mina A Rising Man (Harvill Secker) by Abir Mukherjee By Gaslight (Point Blank) by Steven Price The City in Darkness (Constable) by Michael Russell

THE CWA DIAMOND DAGGER 2017 THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER for crime fiction translated into English and published in the UK ANN CLEEVES A Cold Death (4th Estate) A Fine Line (Bitter Lemon Press) by Antonio Manzini, Tr Antony Shugaar by Gianrico Carofiglio, Tr Howard Curtis THE CWA GOLD DAGGER Blood Wedding (MacLehose Press) Climate of Fear (Harvill Secker) for the best crime novel of the year by Pierre Lemaître, Tr Frank Wynne by Fred Vargas, Tr Siân Reynolds (Bantam Press) by Belinda Bauer (Mantle) by Ray Celestin The Beautiful Dead Dead Man’s Blues The Legacy of the Bones (HarperCollins) The Dying Detective (Doubleday) by Delores Redondo, Tr Nick Casiter The Dry (Little, Brown) by Jane Harper Spook Street (John Murray) by Mick Herron by Leif G W Persson, Tr Neil Smith & Lorenza Garcia A Rising Man (Harvill Secker) by Abir Mukherjee The Girl in Green (Faber & Faber) by Derek B. Miller

THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER for a short crime story published in the UK for the best crime thriller of the year - Sponsored by Ian Fleming Publications The Assassination by Leye Adenle Murder and its Motives by Martin Edwards You Will Know Me (Picador) by Megan Abbott The Killing Game () by J S Carol in Sunshine Noir (White Sun Books) in Motives for Murder (Sphere) We Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire Redemption Road (Hodder & Stoughton) Edited by AnnaMaria Alfieri & Michael Stanley Edited by Martin Edwards (Myriad Editions) by Jules Grant by John Hart The Super Recogniser of Vik by Michael Ridpath What You Were Fighting For by James Sallis Spook Street (John Murray) by Mick Herron The Constant Soldier (Mantle) by William Ryan in Motives for Murder (Sphere) in The Highway Kind () Edited by Martin Edwards Edited by Patrick Millikin THE CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER The Trials of Margaret by LC Tyler Snakeskin by Ovidia Yu in Motives for Murder (Sphere) in Sunshine Noir (White Sun Books) for the best debut crime novel Edited by Martin Edwards Edited by AnnaMaria Alfieri & Michael Stanley The Pictures (Point Blank) by Guy Bolton Ragdoll (Trapeze) by Daniel Cole Distress Signals (Corvus) by Catherine Ryan Howard Sirens (Doubleday) by Joseph Knox THE CWA DEBUT DAGGER Good Me, Bad Me (Michael Joseph) by Ali Land Tall Oaks (Twenty 7) by Chris Whitaker Sponsored by Strange Fire by Sherry Rankin The Reincarnation of Himmat Gupte by Neeraj Shah THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION Lost Boys by Spike Dawkins Red Haven by Mette McLeod for non-fiction crime Broken by Victoria Slotover A Dangerous Place Close But No Cigar: (The History Press) A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba by Simon Farquhar (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) by Stephen Purvis THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY author of the most enjoyed collection of work in libraries The Scholl Case: The Wicked Boy: The Deadly End of a Marriage The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer WINNER 2017: Mari Hannah (Text Publishing) by Anja Reich-Osang (Bloomsbury Publishing) by Kate Summerscale You are invited to the Dagger Awards Dinner A Passing Fury: Another Day in the Death of America on 26 October in London Searching for Justice at the End of World War II (Guardian Faber Publishing) (Jonathan Cape) by A. T. Williams by Gary Younge www.thecwa.co.uk | [email protected]