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The Crime Writers’ Association has announced the shortlists for this year’s Daggers - the prestigious annual awards that celebrate the best in crime and thriller writing.
This year sees the birth of the Duncan Lawrie Dagger - formerly the CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction - with a prize of £20,000, now the largest award for crime fiction in the world. Duncan Lawrie Private Bank is also sponsoring the newly-formed Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English, with £5,000 going to the author and £1,000 to the translator.
The Duncan Lawrie Dagger is the world's premier award for new crime fiction. Last year there were over two hundred entries for its predecessor, the Gold Dagger. Retiring CWA Chair, Carla Banks, said: “Because the prize is now substantial and rivals the non-genre prizes for general fiction, the temperature is certainly higher this year.”
Peter Ostacchini, Deputy Managing Director, Duncan Lawrie Private Bank, added: “I look forward to reading these books – the judges certainly appear to have chosen a list which reflects the excellent standard of crime writing at the moment.”
The shortlist for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger is as follows:
Simon Beckett: The Chemistry of Death (Bantam)
Ann Cleeves: Raven Black (Macmillan)
Thomas H. Cook: Red Leaves (Quercus)
Frances Fyfield: Safer Than Houses (Little, Brown)
Bill James: Wolves of Memory (Constable)
Laura Wilson: A Thousand Lies (Orion)
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