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KAA GOLD DAGGER

D V Bishop: A Divine Fury (Macmillan)

R J Ellory: The Bell Tower (Orion)

Tana French: The Hunter (Penguin Books Ltd)

Attica Locke: Guide Me Home (Profile Books Ltd)

Anna Mazzola: Book of Secrets (Orion)

Bonnie Burke-Patel: I Died at Fallow Hall (Bedford Square Publishers)

IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

Lou Berney: Dark Ride (Hemlock Press/ HarperCollins)

M W Craven: Nobody’s Hero (Constable/Little Brown, Hachette)

Garry Disher: Sanctuary (Viper/Profile Books)

Abir Mukherjee: Hunted (Harvill & Secker/ Penguin Random House)

Stuart Neville: Blood Like Mine (Simon & Schuster)

Don Winslow: City in Ruins (Hemlock Press/HarperCollins)

ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER

Jessica Bull: Miss Austen Investigates (Penguin Random House/ Michael Joseph)

Justine Champine: Knife River (Bonnier Books UK/ Manilla Press)

Anders Lustgarten: Three Burials (Penguin Random House/ Hamish Hamilton)

Gay Marris: A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder (Bedford Square Publishers)

Katy Massey: All Us Sinners (Little, Brown /Sphere)

Marie Tierney: Deadly Animals (Bonnier Books UK/ Zaffre)

HISTORICAL DAGGER

D.V. Bishop: A Divine Fury (Macmillan)

Chris Lloyd: Banquet of Beggars (Orion Fiction/Orion Publishing)

Anna Mazzola: The Book of Secrets (Orion Fiction/Orion Publishing)

A.J. West, The Betrayal of Thomas True (Orenda Books)

Clare Whitfield: Poor Girls (Aries / Head of Zeus)

CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER

Hervé Le Corre: Dogs and Wolves (Europa Editions UK) tr. Howard Curtis

Pierre Lemaitre: Going to the Dogs (Maclehose Press) tr. Frank Wynne

Akira Otani: The Night of Baby Yaga (Faber & Faber) tr. Sam Bett

Satu Rämö: The Clues in the Fjord (Zaffre) tr.  Kristian London

Asako Yuzuki: Butter (4th Estate) tr. Polly Barton

Alia Trabucco Zerán: Clean (4th Estate) tr. Sophie Hughes

ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

Jonathan Coffey & Judith Moritz: Unmasking Lucy Letby (Seven Dials)

Jeremy Craddock: The Lady in the Lake (Mirror Books)

John Grisham & Jim McCloskey: Framed (Hodder & Stoughton)

Duncan Harding: The Criminal Mind (PRH/Michael Joseph)

Henry Hemming: Four Shots in the Night (Quercus)

Kate Summerscale: The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (Bloomsbury Circus)

SHORT STORY DAGGER

S.J Bennett: ‘The Glorious Twelfth’ in Midsummer Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (lame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)

J.C Bernthal: ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’ in Midsummer Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)

Janice Hallett: ‘Why Harrogate?’ in Murder in Harrogate edited by Vaseem Khan (Orion Publishing Group/Orion Fiction)

William Burton McCormick: ‘City Without Shadows’ in Midsummer Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)

Meeti Shroff-Shah: ‘A Ruby Sun’ in Beyond and Within: Midsummer Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)

Ruth Ware: ‘Murder at the Turkish Baths’ in Murder in Harrogate edited by Vaseem Khan, (Orion Publishing Group/ Orion Fiction)

WHODUNNIT DAGGER

SJ Bennett, A Death in Diamonds Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre

Andreina Cordani, Murder at the Christmas Emporium Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre

Lisa Hall, The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl Hera Hera

Laura Marshall,  A GOOD PLACE TO HIDE A BODY, Hodder & Stoughton

Meeti Shroff-Shah, A Matrimonial Murder, Joffe Books

Jamie West, Murder at the Matinee, Brabinger Publishing

TWISTED DAGGER

Andrew Hughes: Emma, Disappeared (Hachette Books Ireland)

Amanda Jennings: Beautiful People (HarperCollins/ HQ FICTION)

John Marrs: The Stranger In Her House (Amazon Publishing/ Thomas & Mercer)

CS Robertson: The Trials Of Marjorie Crowe (Hodder & Stoughton)

Tracy Sierra: Nightwatching (PRH/ Viking)

Catherine Steadman: Look In The Mirror (Quercus)

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

Kate Atkinson

Robert Galbraith

Janice Hallett

Lisa Jewell

Edward Marston

Richard Osman

PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER

Bitter Lemon Press

Faber & Faber

Orenda Books

Pan Macmillan

Simon & Schuster

EMERGING AUTHOR DAGGER

Loftus Brown, Bahadur Is My Name

Shannon Chamberlain, Funeral Games

Hywel Davies, Soho Love, Soho Blood

Joe Eurell, Ashland

Shannon Falkson, The Fifth

Catherine Lovering, Murder Under Wraps

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