Shortlists for the Fall 2012 CWA Dagger Awards Announced

The shortlists for the final three CWA Dagger Awards — Gold, Ian Fleming Steel, and John Creasey New Blood — have been announced by the Crime Writers' Association.

The winners will be revealed at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, taking place in a ceremony at Grosvenor House, London, on October 18th, 2012, and televised on ITV3 on the October 23rd.

The Dagger Award nominees are …

Gold …
• Vengeance in Mind by N. J. Cooper (Simon & Schuster)
• The Flight by M. R. Hall (Mantle)
• The Rage by Gene Kerrigan (Harvill Secker)
• Bereft by Chris Womersley (Quercus)

Ian Fleming Steel …
• Dare Me by Megan Abbott (Picador)
• A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)
• The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Hutchinson)
• Reamde by Neal Stephenson (Atlantic Books)

John Creasey New Blood …
• Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne (Headline)
• Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash (Bantam)
• Good People by Ewart Hutton (Blue Door)
• What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright (Canongate)