'Tis the season for award announcements it would seem! On September 7th, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announced the shortlists for their 2009 Awards. The CWA Dagger Awards are the longest established literary awards in the UK and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence and achievement. I'm a voracious mystery reader and I always find that these shortlists make a great a shopping list to take along to the bookstore when I'm on the lookout for a new author. It's particularly nice to see a Canadian on the list for the New Blood Dagger- Robert Rotenberg (Old City Hall). NB- I've noted the Canadian publishers below if they differ from the UK publisher.
The shortlist for this year’s CWA Gold Dagger, for the top crime novel of the year are as follows:
- Kate Atkinson: When Will There Be Good News? (Anchor Canada)
- Mark Billingham: In the Dark (McArthur & Company)
- Lawrence Block: Hit and Run (Harper Collins)
- William Brodrick: A Whispered Name (Little, Brown)
- MR Hall: The Coroner (Pan Macmillan)
- Gene Kerrigan: Dark Times In The City (Harvill Secker)
I'm so happy to see The Coroner by M.R. Hall on the list! This was one of my Dewey Diva picks from the Spring list (a must read if you are a Lynda LaPlante fan). The sequel The Disappeared is coming on our Winter 2010 list.
The shortlist for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for first books by previously unpublished writers is:
- David Fuller Sweetsmoke (Hyperion)
- James Green Bad Catholics (Luath Press)
- Rod Madocks No Way To Say Goodbye (Five Leaves)
- Robert Rotenberg Old City Hall (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster)
- Johan Theorin Echoes from The Dead (Doubleday UK)
- Dan Waddell The Blood Detective (Penguin)
The shortlisted titles for this year’s CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (thriller novel) are:
- Michael Connelly: The Brass Verdict (Little Brown)
- Gillian Flynn: Dark Places (Shaye Areheart Books)
- John Hart: The Last Child (St. Martin's Press)
- Charlie Newton: Calumet City (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster)
- Daniel Silva: Moscow Rules (Signet)
- Olen Steinhauer: The Tourist (St. Martin's Press)* One of my picks from Winter 2009, hurrah!
- Andrew Williams: The Interrogator (John Murray)
The awards above will presented on Wednesday, 21st October, 2009. Already presented (in July) were the following awards:
- 2009 Debut Dagger for best unpublished work (Catherine O’Keefe, The Pathologist)
- 2009 International Dagger for best mystery in translation (won for the THIRD time in four years by a favourite of Maylin's- Fred Vargas and translator Sîan Reynolds for The Chalk Circle Man)
- 2009 CWA Dagger in the Library to "the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users"- awarded to Colin Cotterill Quercus
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