Press Release
6 Hachette titles on CWA Daggers longlists25/07/2011
6 Hachette titles feature on the longlists for the Gold Dagger, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, as announced by the Crime Writers Association on 22nd July during the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, in Harrogate.
Each of the longlists will now be narrowed down to a shortlist of four, which will be announced on August 22nd. The shortlisted books will then be featured during the six-week Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards season on ITV3, and the winners announced at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Park Lane on October 7th.
The longlists are:
The CWA Gold Dagger 2011
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin
(Macmillan)
The Villa Triste, Lucretia Grindle (Mantle)
The Lock Artist, Steve Hamilton (Orion)
Hanging Hill, Mo Hayder (Bantam Press)
The Cypress House, Michael Koryta (Hodder & Stoughton)
White Heat, M. J. McGrath (Mantle)
Snowdrops, A.D. Miller (Atlantic Books)
The End of the Wasp Season, Denise Mina (Orion)
The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2011
The Trinity Six, Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)
The Cobra, Frederick Forsyth (Bantam Press)
The Good Son, Michael Gruber
(Atlantic Books)
The Lock Artist, Steve Hamilton (Orion)
An Agent of Deceit, Chris Morgan Jones (Mantle)
Cold Rain, Craig Smith
(Myrmidon)
Before I Go To Sleep, SJ Watson (Doubleday)
Savages, Don Winslow (William Heinemann)
The CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2011
The Dogs of Rome, Conor Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury)
The Dead Women of Juarez, Sam Hawken
(Serpent’s Tail)
Into the Darkest Corner, Elizabeth Haynes
(Myriad)
The Poison Tree, Erin Kelly (Hodder & Stoughton)
Sister, Rosamund Lupton (Piatkus)
Kiss Me Quick, Danny Miller (Robinson)
Before I Go To Sleep, SJ Watson
(Doubleday)
Or the Bull Kills You, Jason Webster
(Chatto & Windus)