THE 2021 LONGLISTS

GOLD DAGGERAMER ANWAR Stone Cold Trouble (Dialogue Books, Little, Brown Book Group)S A COSBY Blacktop Wasteland (Headline, Headline Publishing Group)M W CRAVEN The Curator (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)BEN CREED City of Ghosts (Welbeck Fiction, Welbeck Publishing Group)GARRY DISHER Peace (Viper, Profile Books)MICK FINLAY Arrowood and the Thames Corpses (HQ, HarperCollins)NICCI FRENCH  House of Correction (Simon & Schuster)ROBERT GALBRAITH Troubled Blood (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)ELLY GRIFFITHS The Postscript Murders (Quercus)ANTONIA HODGSON  The Silver Collar (Hodder & Stoughton)S G MACLEAN  The House of Lamentations (Quercus Fiction, Quercus)C D MAJOR  The Other Girl (Thomas & Mercer)THOMAS MULLEN Midnight Atlanta (Little, Brown, Little, Brown Book Group)S J PARRIS  Execution (Harper Fiction, HarperCollins)TADE THOMPSON  Making Wolf (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)NICOLA UPSON  The Dead of Winter (Faber)CHRIS WHITAKER We Begin at the End (Zaffre, Bonnier)REBECCA WHITNEY  The Hidden Girls (Mantle, Pan Macmillan)

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STEEL DAGGERCHARLES CUMMING Box 88 (HarperFiction, HarperCollins)ROBERT GALBRAITH Troubled Blood (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)RYAN GATTIS The System (Picador, Pan Macmillan)IAN RANKIN Song for the Dark Times (Orion Fiction, The Orion Publishing Group)ROD REYNOLDS Blood Red City (Orenda Books)CRAIG ROBERTSON Watch Him Die (Simon & Schuster)MICHAEL ROBOTHAM When She Was Good (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD The Nothing Man (Atlantic Books)

STUART TURTON The Devil and the Dark Water (Raven Books, Bloomsbury Publishing)RUTH WARE One by One (Harvill Secker, Vintage)HOLLY WATT The Dead Line (Raven Books, Bloomsbury Publishing)CHRIS WHITAKER We Begin at the End (Zaffre, Bonnier)

 

JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGEREVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÓTTIR The Creak on the Stairs (Orenda)SUSAN ALLOTT The Silence (Borough, HarperCollins)EMMA CHRISTIE The Silent Daughter (Welbeck Publishing)CATHERINE COOPER The Chalet (HarperFiction, HarperCollins)BEN CREED City of Ghosts (Welbeck Publishing)JUDI DAYKIN Under Violent Skies (Joffe Books)EGAN HUGHES The One That Got Away (Little Brown, Sphere)S W KANE The Bone Jar (Thomas & Mercer)ROB MCINROY Cuddies Strip (Ringwood Press)STEPHANIE SCOTT What's Left of Me Is Yours (Orion, Weidenfeld)STEPHEN SPOTSWOOD Fortune Favours the Dead (Headline, Wildfire)JOHN VERCHER Three-Fifths (Pushkin Press)S R WHITE Hermit (Headline)

SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGERJ M ALVEY Justice for Athena (Canelo Digital Publishing Limited)JOHN BANVILLE Snow (Faber)VASEEM KHAN Midnight at Malabar House (Hodder & Stoughton)LAURIE R. KING Riviera Gold (Allison & Busby)CHRIS LLOYD The Unwanted Dead (Orion Fiction, The Orion Publishing Group)S J PARRIS Execution(HarperFiction, HarperCollins)BEN PASTOR The Night of Shooting Stars (Bitter Lemon Press)MICHAEL RUSSELL The City Under Siege (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)DAVID S. STAFFORD Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons (Allison & Busby)A D SWANSTON Chaos (Bantam Press, Transworld)NICOLA UPSON The Dead of Winter (Faber)OVIDIA YU The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)

CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGERFREDRIK BACKMAN Anxious People, translated by Neil Smith (Michael Joseph, Penguin)ROXANNE BOUCHARD The Coral Bride, translated by David Warriner (Orenda Books)MARC ELSBERG Greed, translated by Simon Pare (Black Swan, Penguin)YUN KO-EUN The Disaster Tourist, translated by Lizzie Buehler (Serpent's Tail)VOLKER KUTSCHER The March Fallen, translated by Niall Sellar (Sandstone Press)D A MISHANI Three, translated by Jessica Cohen (Riverrun, Hachette Book Group)JO NESBO The Kingdom, translated by Robert Ferguson (Harvill Secker, Penguin)HÅKAN NESSER The Secret Life of Mr. Roos, translated by Sarah Death (Mantle, Pan Macmillan)MIKAEL NIEMI To Cook a Bear, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner (MacLehose Press, Quercus)AGNES RAVATN   The Seven Doors, translated by Rosie Hedger (Orenda Books)MAIKE WETZEL Elly, translated by Lyn Marven (Scribe UK)

SHORT STORY DAGGERROBERT SCRAGG ‘A Dog is for Life, Not Just for Christmas’ in Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds Group)ELLE CROFT ‘Deathbed’ in Afraid of the Light, edited by Robert Scragg & Various (Criminal Minds Group)DOMINIC NOLAN ‘Daddy Dearest’ in Afraid of the Light, edited by Robert Scragg & Various (Criminal Minds Group)ADAM SOUTHWARD ‘Especially at Christmas’ in Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds Group)CHRISTOPHER FOWLER ‘Head Count’ in First Edition Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome Press)VICTORIA SELMAN ‘Hunted’ in Afraid of the Christmas Lights, edited by Miranda Jewess (Criminal Minds Group)CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘Monsters’ in First Edition Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome Press)STUART TURTON ‘Murder Most Vial’ in First Edition Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (The Dome Press)LIVIA LLEWELYN ‘One of These Nights’ in Cutting Edge Noir Stories by Women, edited by Joyce Carol Oates (Pushkin Press, Pushkin Vertigo)JAMES DELARGY ‘Planting Nan’ in Afraid of the Light, edited by Robert Scragg & Various (Criminal Minds Group)SIMPSON GREARS ‘The Foot of the Walk Murders’ in The Foot of the Walk Murders, edited by Simpson Grears (Rymour Books)

ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONSUE BLACK Written in Bone (Doubleday, Penguin)AMANDA BROWN The Prison Doctor; Women Inside (HQ, HarperCollins)BECKY COOPER  We Keep the Dead Close (William Heinemann, Penguin)MARTIN EDWARDS  Howdunit (Collins Crime Club, HarperCollins)ANDREW HARDING These Are Not Gentle People (MacLehose, Quercus)DEBORA HARDING Dancing with the Octopus (Profile Books Limited)NICK HAYES  The Book of Trespass (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)BEN MACINTYRE Agent Sonya (Viking, Penguin)JAX MILLER Hell in the Heartland (HarperCollins)DANIEL SMITH The Peer and the Gangster (The History Press)RAVI SOMAIYA Operation Morthor (Viking, Penguin)KATE SUMMERSCALE  The Haunting of Alma Fielding (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)MARK TOWNSEND  No Return (Guardian, Faber & Faber)

DEBUTDAGGERPETER BOLAND Savage GamesZACK DANIEL The Tonganoxie SplitKERRY EATON Long EggASHLEY HARRISON The Looking Glass SpyFIONA MCPHILLIPS UnderwaterKAREN MILNER Sister KillerJULIE NUGENT The Lying DaysBIBA PEARCE Rough Justice HANNAH REDDING DeceptionEDWARD REGENYE LightfootELIZABETH TODMAN The Tunnel RunnersJENNIFER WILSON O’RAGHALLAIGHMandatory Reporting

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARYLIN ANDERSONNICCI FRENCHLISA JEWELLERIN KELLYPETER MAY

DENISE MINAMARGARET MURPHYJAMES OSWALDL J ROSSC L TAYLOR

               

PUBLISHERS’ DAGGERBITTER LEMON PRESS

FABER & FABER

HARPER FICTION

HEAD OF ZEUS

MICHAEL JOSEPH

NO EXIT PRESS

ORENDA BOOKS

PUSHKIN VERTIGO

RAVEN

SPHERE

VIPER

MARGERY ALLINGHAM LONGLIST

SALLY BOTHROYD Lingering

SUSAN BREEN One Woman Watch

ANTONY M BROWN For Laura Hope

EILEEN CASTLEDINE You Never Can Tell

CHRIS CURRAN All the Little Boxes

ADAM LEEDER Trailer

STACY LUCAS The Bones Don’t Lie

CAMILLA MACPHERSON Heartbridge Homicides

CHRISTINE POULSON The Shape of Australia

ALISON RILEY To the Moon and Back

NATALIE VELLA In a Small Town

HAZEL WARD As Dead as Dodo

J J WHITE Back to Alcatraz