Gold Dagger
Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans (Headline)
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron (Baskerville)
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane (Abacus)
Tell me What I Am by Una Mannion (Faber & Faber)
Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin)
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto (HQ)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
All the Sinners Bleed by S A Cosby (Headline)
Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor (Headline)
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper (Faber & Faber)
The Mantis by Kōtarō Isaka (Harvill Secker)
Gaslight by Femi Kayode (Raven Books)
Drowning by T J Newman (Simon & Schuster)
ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
In The Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua (Corvus)
The Maiden by Kate Foster (Mantle)
West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman (Raven Books)
Go Seek by Michelle Teahan (Headline Publishing Group)
The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh (Gallic Books)
Historical Dagger
Clara & Olivia by Lucy Ashe (Magpie)
Harlem After Midnight by Louise Hare (HQ)
A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins (Canelo)
Viper’s Dream by Jake Lamar (No Exit Press)
Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattrass (Viper)
Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry (Canongate Books)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado, translated by Nick Caistor (Macmillan)
The Sins of Our Fathers by Âsa Larsson, translated by Frank Perry (Maclehose Press)
Nothing Is Lost by Cloé Mehdi, translated by Howard Curtis (Europa Editions UK)
The Consultant by Im Seong-sun, translated by An Seong Jae (Raven Books)
The Prey by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, translated by Victoria Cribb (Hodder & Stoughton)
My Husband by Maud Ventura, translated by Emma Ramadan (Hutchinson Heinemann)
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel, Simon & Schuster
No Ordinary Day by Matt Johnson, with John Murray (Ad Lib Publishers)
Devil’s Coin by Jennifer McAdam with Douglas Thompson (Ad Lib Publishers)
Seventy Times Seven by Alex Mar (Bedford Square Publishers)
How Many More Women? by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida (Endeavour)
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare (Vintage)
Short Story Dagger
‘Safe Enough’ by Lee Child, from An Unnecessary Assassin, edited by Lorraine Stevens (Rivertree)
‘The Last Best Thing’ by Mia Dalia, from Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction, edited by Andrew Hook (Head Shot Press)
‘The Also-Rans’ by Benedict J Jones, from Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction, edited by Andrew Hook (Head Shot Press)
‘The Divide’ by Sanjida Kay, from The Book of Bristol, edited by Joe Melia and Heather Marks (Comma Press)
The Spendthrift and the Swallow by Ambrose Parry (Canongate Books)
‘Best Served Cold’ by F D Quinn, from An Unnecessary Assassin, edited by Lorraine Stevens (Rivertree)
Dagger in the Library
Louise Candlish
M W Craven
Cara Hunter
Anthony Horowitz
L J Ross
Publishers’ Dagger
Canelo
Headline (Hachette)
Joffe Books
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
Pushkin Press
Simon & Schuster
Diamond Dagger
Lynda La Plante
James Lee Burke