Nominees for the 2015 Mid-Year Dagger Awards Announced by the CWA

The nominees for the 2015 Mid-Year CWA Dagger Awards were announced last night during CrimeFest by the Crime Writers' Association. The winners will be presented on June 30th to mark the end of Crime Reading Month at a gala dinner in central London.

And the nominees are …

International Dagger:

• Falling Freely, As If In A Dream by Leif G. W. Persson (Transworld)
• Camille by Pierre Lemaitre (Quercus)
• Cobra by Deon Meyer (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Arab Jazz by Karim Miské (MacLehose Press)
• The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo (HarperCollins)
• Into a Raging Blaze by Andreas Norman (Quercus)

Historical Dagger:

• Havana Sleeping by Martin Davies (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Lamentation by C. J. Sansom (Mantle)
• The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin (No Exit Press)
• The Seeker by S. G. MacLean (Quercus)
• The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor (Harper Collins)
• The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse (Orion)

Debut Dagger:

• Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
• Last Of The Soho Legends by Greg Keen
• The Ice Coffin by Jill Sawyer
• The Pure Drop by Nigel Robbins
• Lock Me In by Kate Simants

Non-Fiction Dagger:

• In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies (Quercus)
• A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer (Penguin)
• Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic by Jill Leovy (Bodley Head)
• Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of the Gun by Iain Overton (Canongate)
• One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad (Virago)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (Scribe)

Short Story Dagger:

• "Apocrypha" by Richard Lange (Sweet Nothing — Mulholland Press)
• "Red Eye" by Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane (Face Off — Sphere)
• "The Hunter" by Dashiell Hammett (The Hunter & Other Stories — No Exit Press)
• "Sweet Nothing" by Richard Lange (Sweet Nothing — Mulholland Press)
• "Juror 8" by Stuart Neville (OxCrimes — Profile Books)
• "The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us" by George Pelecanos (OxCrimes — Profile Books)