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Frances Fyfield wins the 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger

JULY 10 2008:
Frances Fyfield has won the £20,000 Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Blood from Stone published by Sphere (Little, Brown). She was presented with her dagger and cheque by Peter Ostacchini, Deputy Managing Director of sponsor Duncan Lawrie Private Bank, at a black tie dinner at the elegant Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane in London.

The International Duncan Lawrie Dagger has gone to Dominique Manotti with Lorraine Connection translated from the French by Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz, and published by the EuroCrime imprint of Arcadia Books. She receives the dagger and a cheque for £5000. The two translators split their prize of £1000. Unfortunately Ms Manotti was unable to be present as she has still not recovered from a serious fall from her horse earlier this year, which resulted in multiple fractures. The prize was collected on her behalf by Ros Schwartz.

In all there are eight awards in contention, the other winners being:
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: Tom Rob Smith for Child 44
Non-Fiction Dagger: Kester Aspden for Nationality: Wog: The Hounding of David Oluwale
John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: Matt Rees for The Bethlehem Murders (Omar Yussef Mystery Series)
Dagger in the Library: Craig Russell
Short Story Award: Martin Edwards for The Bookbinder's Apprentice from The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries
Debut Dagger: Amer Anwar for Western Fringes

CWA 2008 SHORTLISTS

The Duncan Lawrie Dagger Shortlist 2008

James Lee Burke	The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)	Orion
Colin Cotterill	The Coroner's Lunch	Quercus
Frances Fyfield	Blood from Stone- WINNER	Sphere (Little, Brown)
Steve Hamilton	Night Work	Orion
Laura Lippman	What the Dead Know	Orion
RN Morris	A Vengeful Longing: A Novel	Faber & Faber

The Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Shortlist 2008

Andrea Camilleri (Italy)	The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)(Picador, Macmillan)	Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Stieg Larsson (Sweden)	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (MacLehose Press, Quercus)	Translated by Reg Keeland
Dominique Manotti (France)	Lorraine Connection (EuroCrime, Arcadia Books)- WINNNER	Translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz
	A Deal with the Devil ( EuroCrime, Arcadia Books)	Translated by Peter Millar
Fred Vargas (France)	This Night's Foul Work (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries) (Harvill Secker, Random House)	Translated by Sîan Reynolds

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Mo Hayder (Ritual: A Novel), Gregg Hurwitz (I See You), Michael Robotham (Shatter), Tom Rob Smith (Child 44) and David Stone (The Echelon Vendetta) >> Go to official CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for detailed information on titles and authors>>Go

Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
Kester Aspden- WINNER (Nationality: Wog: The Hounding of David Oluwale), Francisco Goldman (The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?), David Rose (Violation), Duncan Staff (The Lost Boy), Kate Summerscale (The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective) and Peter Zimonjic (Into the Darkness: The Story of 7/7)>>Go to official CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction for detailed information on titles>>Go

John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Zoë Ferraris ( Finding Nouf: A Novel published in UK as The Night of the the Mi’raj), Elena Forbes (Die with Me), Caro Ramsey (Absolution: a novel of suspense), Matt Rees - WINNER-(The Bethlehem Murders (Omar Yussef Mystery Series)) and Tom Rob Smith (Child 44) >> Go to official CWA John Creasey (New Blood)for detailed information on titles>>Go

2008 Dagger in the Library Shortlist
Elizabeth Corley, Andrew Martin, Denise Mina, Craig Russell, CJ Sansom and Chris Simms. >>Go to official CWA Dagger in the Library Award page for more information>>Go

2008 Short Story Dagger Shortlist
Robert Barnard, Michael Connelly, Martin Edwards, Laura Lippman and Danuta Reah

Robert Barnard - PROVENANCE
From The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries edited by Maxim Jakubowkski, Constable Robinson Publishing
Judges’ comments: ‘A stylish and intelligent tale of murder in the art world.’

Michael Connelly - ONE DOLLAR JACKPOT
From Dead Man's Hand edited by Otto Penzler, Quercus
Judges’ comments: ‘Harry Bosch plays his own high-stakes game of poker in order to catch a brutal killer - exciting and pacy.’

Martin Edwards - THE BOOKBINDER’S APPRENTICE- WINNER
FromThe Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries edited by Maxim Jakubowski, Constable Robinson Publishing
Judges’ comments: ‘A subtle, insidious, and disturbingly creepy tale of how an Englishman in Venice finds himself offered the job of apprentice to a bookbinder with unusual methods.’

Laura Lippman - ONE TRUE LOVE
From Best American Mystery Stories 2007 edited by Otto Penzler and Carl Hiaasen, Quercus
Judges’ comments: ‘A subtle attempt at blackmail in suburbia gets turned on its head in this clever story.’

Danuta Reah - GLAZED
From Getting Even: Revenge Stories edited by Mitzi Szereto, Serpent's Tail
Judges’ comments: ‘A well-executed tale of comeuppance and revenge in unusual circumstances.’

2008 Short lists Debut Dagger- Ten authors are in contention for this prize.
Amer Anwar (UK) - Western Fringes
Belinda Bauer (UK) - Blacklands
Russell Colman (Canada) - Desert Storm
Peter Dewar (UK) - The Eclipse of Lilith
Bill Harrison (Canada) - Nite Lite
Alison Marlow (UK) - The Stench of Lilies
James Oswald (UK) - The Book of Souls
Susan Schaab (USA) - Wearing the Spider
Ian Simpson (UK) - Devils and Disciples
PJ Watson (USA) - All the Wrong People

SUE GRAFTON WINS DIAMOND DAGGER

The twenty-third Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in the genre of crime writing, has been awarded to the best-selling American novelist, Sue Grafton (right). Her Kinsey Millhone alphabet series of PI mystery novels have won numerous awards in her native America. The latest number one best-seller, T is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries), was published in the US in December 2007 and will be out in Macmillan hardback in the UK in April 2008.

On hearing of the award, Ms Grafton said: “News of my being named the 2008 recipient of the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger so astonished me that I thought at first it was a practical joke. I'm thrilled with the news and honoured at the prospect.”

SUE GRAFTON was born in Kentucky in 1940, the daughter of mystery writer CW Grafton. After receiving a bachelors degree in English Literature from the University of Louisville, she worked as a TV scriptwriter before her Kinsey Millhone alphabet series of PI mystery novels found success. The first in the series, ‘A is for Alibi’ was famously inspired by her own divorce. “For months I lay in bed and plotted to kill my ex-husband, but I knew I’d bungle it and get caught so I wrote it in a book instead.”

Three of Ms Grafton’s novels have won the Anthony Award at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention; she has won three Shamus Awards, and in 2004 received the Ross Macdonald Literary Award given to a California writer whose work raises the standard of literary excellence..”

2007 Crime Writer Association Winners Dagger Awards

Australian Peter Temple Wins 2007 Duncan Laurie Dagger

Peter Temple (right) has won the 2007 Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the biggest crime writing prize in the world, for his book The Broken Shore: A Novel, published by Quercus. On learning of his success he said: “It's a huge thrill to win the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for The Broken Shore. You're up against some of the world's best crime writers in English. I was proud enough just to be the first Aussie to make the shortlist, let alone win.”in 2008

The prize for the best crime novel of the year was announced by Peter Ostacchini, Deputy Managing Director of sponsor Duncan Lawrie Private Bank, and the dagger and a cheque for £20,000 was presented by Ann Cleeves, who last year won the first Duncan Lawrie Dagger.

Peter Temple is Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction five times and has a legion of fans around the world. He is the author of An Iron Rose, Shooting Star and In the Evil Day, and of four novels featuring lawyer, gambler and private eye, Jack Irish: Bad Debts, Black Tide (Jack Irish), Dead Point and White Dog.The Broken Shore: A Novel,has won the Colin Roderick Award, the Ned Kelly, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year 2006, and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Peter Temple lives in Ballarat, Australia, with his family.

2007 Duncan Lawrie Winner & Shortlists

Winner: Peter Temple: The Broken Shore

Giles Blunt: The Fields of Grief (HarperCollins)
James Lee Burke: Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Orion)
Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects: A Novel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Craig Russell: Brother Grimm(Hutchinson)
CJ Sansom: Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries) (Matthew Shardlake 3) (Macmillan)2008

2007 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger

Fo fred_vargas r the best crime novel translated into English, with £5000 going to the author and £1000 to the translator.

Fred Vargas (left- yes Fred is a woman)- Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand (Harvill Secker), translated by Siân Reynolds

“A stylish return to the shortlist for last year’s inventive winner with another unconventional police procedural.”

More details plus historic winners for Duncan Lawrie International Dagger

The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

The dagger and £2000 prize money are awarded for the best adventure/thriller novel in the vein of James Bond. Sponsored by by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.

Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
“A very good debut, atmospheric and creepy, with a complex and convincingly drawn female protagonist. The claustrophobiaof small-town America in the south is portrayed exceptionally well in this dark psychological thriller.”

Awarded in memory of CWA founder John Creasey, this dagger for first books by previously unpublished writers is sponsored by BBC Audiobooks and carries a prize of £1000.

Gillian Flynn (right)-Sharp Objects (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
“This was a novel characterized by its vivid and poetic writing. A superb sense of character with an imaginative treatment of the reasons for and the problems of self-harm.”

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2007 CWA Dagger in the Library

This Dagger, sponsored by Random House and worth £1500, is awarded to "the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to readers"; authors are nominated by UK libraries and Readers' Groups and judged by a panel of librarians.

Stuart MacBride
“His books tell of life in all its grim reality, but this only adds to the appeal of this truly impressive new author...the grimmest of subjects, but leavened (thankfully) with dashes of humour. He’s bad news for the Aberdeen tourist industry, but great news for crime readers.”

C.J. Sansom was very highly commended in this category.

The Debut Dagger, sponsored by Orion, is open to anyone who has not yet had a novel published commercially. The winner receives a £500 cash prize.

Alan Bradley – from British Columbia in Canada – is this year's winner with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.

'“Flavia is barely eleven, but her passion for poisons would make Lucrezia Borgia cringe”

David Jackson, from the Wirral on Merseyside was Highly Commended with Pariah: “Where do you turn when your very presence is the kiss of death to those around you? Detective Cal Doyle is about to discover just how low he is prepared to sink.”

2007 Diamond Dagger

The Cartier Diamond Dagger is awarded by the CWA committee, chosen from those writers nominated by the CWA's membership. This year's winner, announced earlier this year, was John Harvey.

2007 Ellis Peters Award

Ariana Franklin’s The Mistress of the Art of Death, published by Bantam Press, has been announced as the winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Historical Award for 2007. In announcing Ms Franklin’s success, Chair of judges, Janet Laurence praised the exceptional high standard of this year’s entry. The shortlist contained a wide-ranging selection, from Henry II’s England to post-war Munich and Tuscany, via the Victorian railways, and nineteenth century Istanbul and Canada.

2007 Short Story Award

The £1500 Short Story Award - formerly the Short Story Dagger - has been won by Peter Lovesey for his story, 'Needle Match' in the The Best British Mysteries edited by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Allison & Busby.

The Non-Fiction Dagger ann_cleeves

The non-fiction dagger is now awarded every other year and will next be in contention in 2008. To qualify for entry books must have been published between 1 June 2006 and 31 May 2008.

2007 John Creasey Award

Peter N Walker has been given the John Creasey Award for his outstanding contribution to the Crime Writers' Association. He was presented with the award – a red herring mounted on a plinth – by CWA Chairman Philip Gooden at the September 2007 meeting of the Northern Chapter of the CWA.)

Past Winners of Gold and Silver Daggers 1955-2007

2007

Winner: Peter Temple: The Broken Shore

2006 (award re-named)

* Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Ann Cleeves (left), Raven Black
o Simon Beckett, The Chemistry of Death
o Thomas H. Cook, Red Leaves
o Frances Fyfield, Safer Than Houses
o Bill James, Wolves of Memory: A Harper and Iles Mystery (Harpur & Iles Mysteries)
o Laura Wilson, A Thousand Lies

2005

* Gold Dagger: Arnaldur Indridason, Silence of the Grave
* Silver Dagger: Barbara Nadel, Deadly Web
o Karin Fossum, Calling Out for You
o Friedrich Glauser, In Matto's Realm (Sergeant Studer Mystery)
o Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
o Fred Vargas, Seeking Whom He May Devour

2004

* Gold Dagger: Sara Paretsky, Blacklist
* Silver Dagger: John Harvey, Flesh and Blood
o Mo Hayder, Tokyo
o Val McDermid, The Torment of Others
o James W. Nichol, Midnight Cab: A Novel
o Laura Wilson, The Lover

2003

* Gold Dagger: Minette Walters, Fox Evil
* Silver Dagger: Morag Joss, Half-Broken Things
o Boris Akunin, The Winter Queen
o Robert Littell, The Company
o Carlo Lucarelli, Almost Blue
o Robert Wilson, The Blind Man of Seville

2002

* Gold Dagger: Jose Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
* Silver Dagger: James Crumley, The Final Country
o Mark Billingham, Scaredy Cat
o James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce
o Michael Connelly, City of Bones
o Minette Walters, Acid Row

2001

* Gold Dagger: Henning Mankell, Sidetracked (Kurt Wallender Mystery)
* Silver Dagger: Giles Blunt, Forty Words for Sorrow
o Stephen Booth, Dancing with the Virgins
o Denise Danks, Baby Love
o George Pelecanos, Right as Rain
o Scott Phillips, The Ice Harvest

2000

* Gold Dagger: Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
* Silver Dagger: Donna Leon, Friends In High Places
o James Lee Burke, Purple Cane Road
o Elliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra
o Lucy Wadham, Lost
o Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay

1990s2008

1990s

1999

* Gold Dagger: Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
* Silver Dagger: Adrian Mathews, Vienna Blood
o Val McDermid, A Place of Execution
o Ian Rankin, Dead Souls
o Michael Connelly, Angels Flight
o Denise Danks, Phreak
o Frances Fyfield, Staring at the Light

1998

* Gold Dagger: James Lee Burke, Sunset Limited
* Silver Dagger: Nicholas Blincoe, Manchester Slingback
o Michael Dibdin, A Long Finish
o Geoffrey Archer, Fire Hawk
o Reginald Hill, On Beulah Height
o George Pelecanos, King Suckerman

1997

* Gold Dagger: Ian Rankin, Black and Blue
* Silver Dagger: Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly
o Frank Lean, The Reluctant Investigator

1996

* Gold Dagger: Ben Elton, Popcorn
* Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, Bloodhounds
o Jessica Mann, A Private Enquiry

1995

* Gold Dagger: Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing
* Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, The Summons
o Elizabeth Ironside, A Very Private Enterprise
o Minette Walters, The Dark Room

1994

* Gold Dagger: Minette Walters, The Scold's Bridle
* Silver Dagger: Peter Høeg, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
o Val McDermid, Crack Down
o Sara Paretsky, Tunnel Vision

1993

* Gold Dagger: Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual
* Silver Dagger: Sarah Dunant, Fatlands
o Robert Richards, The Hand of Strange Children
o Janet Neel, Death Among the Dons

1992

* Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Way Through the Woods
* Silver Dagger: Liza Cody, Bucket Nut

1991

* Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine, King Solomon's Carpet
* Silver Dagger: Frances Fyfield, Deep Sleep
o Janet Neel, Death of a Partner
o Michael Dibdin, Dirty Tricks

1990

* Gold Dagger: Reginald Hill, Bones and Silence
* Silver Dagger: Mike Philips, The Late Candidate
o John Harvey, Rough Treatment

1980s

1989

* Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Wench is Dead
* Silver Dagger: Desmond Lowden, The Shadow Run

1988

* Gold Dagger: Michael Dibdin, Ratking
* Silver Dagger: Sara Paretsky, Toxic Shock

1987

* Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine, A Fatal Inversion
* Silver Dagger: Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent
o Liza Cody, Under Contract

1986

* Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell, Live Flesh
* Silver Dagger: P. D. James, A Taste for Death

1985

* Gold Dagger: Paula Gosling, Monkey Puzzle
* Silver Dagger: Dorothy Simpson, Last Seen Alive
o Andrew Taylor, Our Father's Lies
o Jill Paton Walsh, A Piece of Justice

1984

* Gold Dagger: B. M. Gill, The Twelfth Juror
* Silver Dagger: Ruth Rendell, The Tree of Hands

1983

* Gold Dagger: John Hutton, Accidental Crimes
* Silver Dagger: William McInnery, The Papers of Tony Vietch

1982

* Gold Dagger: Peter Lovesey, The False Inspector Dew
* Silver Dagger: S.T. Haymon, Ritual Murder

1981

* Gold Dagger: Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park
* Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho

1980

* Gold Dagger: H.R.F. Keating, The Murder of the Maharaja
* Silver Dagger: Ellis Peters, Monk's Hood

1970s

1979

* Gold Dagger: Dick Francis, Whip Hand
* Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter, Service of All the Dead

1978

* Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, The Chelsea Murders
* Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, Waxwork

1977

* Gold Dagger: John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
* Silver Dagger: William McIlvanney, Laidlaw

1976

* Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View
* Silver Dagger: James H. McClure, Rogue Eagle

1975

* Gold Dagger: Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
* Silver Dagger: P. D. James, The Black Tower

1974

* Gold Dagger: Anthony Price, Other Paths to Glory
* Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford, The Grosvenor Square Goodbye

1973

* Gold Dagger: Robert Littell, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
* Silver Dagger: Gwendoline Butler, A Coffin for Pandora

1972

* Gold Dagger: Eric Ambler, The Levanter
* Silver Dagger: Victor Canning, The Rainbird Pattern

1971

* Gold Dagger: James H. McClure, The Steam Pig
* Silver Dagger: P.D. James, Shroud for a Nightingale

1970

* Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming, Young Man I Think You're Dying
* Silver Dagger: Anthony Price, The Labyrinth Makers

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1969

* Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson, A Pride of Heroes
* Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford, Another Way of Dying

1968

* Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson, Skin Deep

1967

* Gold Dagger: Emma Lathen, Murder Against the Grain

1966

* Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, A Long Way to Shiloh

1965

* Gold Dagger: Ross Macdonald, The Far Side of the Dollar

1964

* Gold Dagger: H.R.F. Keating, The Perfect Murder

1963

* Gold Dagger: John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
o Nicholas Freeling, Gun Before Butter
o William Haggard, The High Wire

1962

* Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming, When I Grow Rich
o Eric Ambler, The Light of the Day
o Colin Watson, Hopjoy Was Here

1961

* Gold Dagger: Mary Kelly, The Spoilt Kill
o John le Carré, Call for the Dead
o Allan Prior, One Way

1960

* Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, The Night of Wenceslas
o Mary Stewart, My Brother Michael
o Julian Symons, Progress of a Crime

1950s

1959

* Crossed Red Herring Award: Eric Ambler, Passage of Arms
o James Mitchell, A Way Back
o Menna Gallie, Strike for a Kingdom

1958

* Crossed Red Herring Award: Margot Bennett, Someone from the Past
o Margery Allingham, Hide My Eyes
o James Byrom, Or Be He Dead
o John Sherwood, Undiplomatic Exit

1957

* Crossed Red Herring Award: Julian Symons, The Colour of Murder
o Ngaio Marsh, Off With His Head
o George Milner, Your Money or Your Life
o Douglas Rutherford, The Long Echo

1956

* Crossed Red Herring Award: Edward Grierson, The Second Man
o Sarah Gainham, Time Right Deadly
o Arthur Upfield, Man of Two Tribes
o J. J. Marric, Gideon's Week

1955

* Crossed Red Herring Award: Winston Graham, The Little Walls
o Leigh Howard, Blind Date
o Ngaio Marsh, Scales of Justice
o Margot Bennett, The Man Who Didn't Fly