The Crime Writing Association Daggers 2022 Winners
The premier prizes for crime writing and thrillers, the coveted Crime Writing Association Daggers Awards celebrate the very best talent in the field.
This year’s winners represent a breadth of talent, taking in a generous range of the very finest fiction and non-fiction; from former Waterstones Thriller of the Month The Appeal - which scoops the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for debut novel - to the conclusion of a great American crime quartet and the real-life story of a sixteen-year-old New Zealand girl’s disappearance in 1910.
CJ Sansom has already been announced as the recipient of the highest honour in British crime writing, the Crime Writers Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger 2022.
The CWA Gold Dagger Winner
Celestin’s acclaimed City Blues Quartet concludes in 1960’s Los Angeles, where the paths of a young nurse, a retired investigator and a mob fixer converge in a pulsating and evocative noir mystery.
The CWA Gold Dagger Shortlist
The CWA Gold Dagger Longlist
The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Winner
Investigating a crime where nothing seems to make any sense, DS Washington Poe must join the dots between a squalid killing in a brothel and a curious bank heist three years previously in Craven’s latest pulse-quickening thriller.
The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Shortlist
The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Longlist
The CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Winner
A drama production and a fundraiser lead to murder in this fiendishly clever whodunit, presented as a series of documents – emails, messages and transcripts – that hold the keys to the mystery.
The CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Shortlist
The CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Longlist
A Mumbai Murder Mystery by Meeti Shroff-Shah is also nominated but unfortunately is currently unavailable from Waterstones.com and so is not listed below.
The CWA Historical Dagger Winner
Celestin’s acclaimed City Blues Quartet concludes in 1960’s Los Angeles, where the paths of a young nurse, a retired investigator and a mob fixer converge in a pulsating and evocative noir mystery.
The CWA Historical Dagger Shortlist
The CWA Historical Dagger Longlist
The CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Winner
Mining a hip brand of modern-day noir, Buchholz's blistering hostage thriller fizzes with unforgettable characters and heart-pounding set pieces as a dozen armed men burst into a Hamburg bar during a birthday party.
The CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Shortlist
The CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Longlist
The CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Winner
Brilliantly blending an utterly compelling true crime story with a fascinating critique of a rapidly changing world, Laite's pacey, meticulously researched account of a vanished sixteen-year-old and a global sex-trafficking panic in the 1910s is a multi-layered, unputdownable masterpiece.
The CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Shortlist
The CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Longlist
The CWA Dagger in the Library Winner
The Dagger in the Library award is voted for exclusively by librarians and chosen for the author’s entire body of work. This year's winner is Mark Billingham, creator of the Tom Thorne series as well as a number of standalone works.
Whilst hunting a brutal female serial killer, Thorne is thrown into a nightmare of his own making as past secrets explode into the open in this gripping instalment of Billingham's bestselling series.
The CWA Dagger in the Library Shortlist
The Dagger in the Library award is voted for exclusively by librarians and chosen for the author’s entire body of work.
The CWA Dagger in the Library Longlist
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