2011 CWA Dagger Awards Announced

From the Crime Writers' Association Web site, winners were announced earlier today:

• International Dagger: Three Seconds by Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström
• Non-Fiction Dagger: The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr
• Dagger in the Library: Mo Hayder
• Short Story dagger: Homework by Phil Lovesey
• Debut Dagger: Michele Rowe for What Hidden Lies.

In addition, long lists for the Gold Dagger, the John Creasey Dagger, and the Ian Flemming Dagger were also announced.

The 2011 Gold Dagger Long List:

• Tom Franklin Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Macmillan)
• Lucretia Grindle The Villa Triste (Mantle)
• Steve Hamilton The Lock Artist (Orion)
• Mo Hayder Hanging Hill (Bantam Press)
• Michael Koryta The Cypress House (Hodder & Stoughton)
• M. J. McGrath White Heat (Mantle)
• A.D. Miller Snowdrops(Atlantic Books)
• Denise Mina The End of the Wasp Season (Orion)

The 2011 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Long list:

• Conor Fitzgerald The Dogs of Rome (Bloomsbury)
• Sam Hawken The Dead Women of Juarez (Serpent’s Tail)
• Elizabeth Haynes Into the Darkest Corner (Myriad)
• Erin Kelly The Poison Tree (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Rosamund Lupton Sister (Piatkus)
• Danny Miller Kiss Me Quick (Robinson)
• SJ Watson Before I Go To Sleep (Doubleday)
• Jason Webster Or the Bull Kills You (Chatto & Windus)

The 2011 Ian Flemming Steel Dagger Long list:

• Charles Cumming The Trinity Six (HarperCollins)
• Frederick Forsyth The Cobra (Bantam Press)
• Michael Gruber The Good Son (Atlantic Books)
• Steve Hamilton The Lock Artist (Orion)
• Chris Morgan Jones An Agent of Deceit (Mantle)
• Craig Smith Cold Rain (Myrmidon)
• SJ Watson Before I Go To Sleep (Doubleday)
• Don Winslow Savages (William Heinemann)

Short lists will be announced August 22, 2011 & Winners will be announced Oct 7, 2011.