2025 CWA DAGGER AWARD WINNERS
The Crime Writers' Association of Britain (CWA) announced the shortlists for the 2025 Dagger Awards as follows:
GOLD DAGGER:(6)
A Divine Fury by D V Bishop (Macmillan)
The Bell Tower by R J Ellory (Orion)
The Hunter by Tana French (Penguin Books Ltd)
Guide Me Home by Attica Locke (Profile Books Ltd)
WINNER Book of Secrets, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
I Died at Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel (Bedford Square Publishers)
IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER:(6)
WINNER Dark Ride, by Lou Berney (Hemlock Press/ HarperCollins)
Nobody's Hero by M W Craven (Constable/Little Brown, Hachette)
Sanctuary by Garry Disher (Viper/Profile Books)
Hunted by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill & Secker/ Penguin Random House)
Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville (Simon & Schuster)
City in Ruins by Don Winslow (Hemlock Press/HarperCollins)
JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL (formerly NEW BLOOD) DAGGER: (6)
Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull (Penguin Random House/ Michael Joseph)
Knife River by Justine Champine (Bonnier Books UK/ Manilla Press)
Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten (Penguin Random House/ Hamish Hamilton)
A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder by Gay Marris (Bedford Square Publishers)
WINNER All Us Sinners by Katy Massey (Little, Brown /Sphere)
Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney (Bonnier Books UK/ Zaffre)
HISTORICAL DAGGER:(5)
A Divine Fury by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
Banquet of Beggars by Chris Lloyd (Orion Fiction/Orion Publishing)
The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola (Orion Fiction/Orion Publishing)
WINNER The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J. West (Orenda Books)
Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield (Aries / Head of Zeus)
CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER: (6)
Dogs and Wolves by Herve Le Corre (Europa Editions UK) tr. Howard Curtis
Going to the Dogs by Pierre Lemaitre (Maclehose Press) tr. Frank Wynne
WINNER The Night of Baby Yaga, by Akira Otani(Faber & Faber) tr. Sam Bett
The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Ramo (Zaffre) tr. Kristian London
Butter by Asako Yuzuki (4th Estate) tr. Polly Barton
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran (4th Estate) tr. Sophie Hughes
GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: (6)
Unmasking Lucy Letby by Jonathan Coffey & Judith Moritz (Seven Dials)
The Lady in the Lake by Jeremy Craddock (Mirror Books)
Framed by John Grisham & Jim McCloskey (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Criminal Mind by Duncan Harding (PRH/Michael Joseph)
Four Shots in the Night by Henry Hemming (Quercus)
WINNER The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Circus)
SHORT STORY DAGGER: (6)
"The Glorious Twelfth," by S.J Bennett: in Midsummer Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)
WINNER "A Date on Yarmouth Pier," by J.C Bernthal (in Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards; Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)
"Why Harrogate?" by Janice Hallett in Murder in Harrogate edited by Vaseem Khan (Orion Publishing Group/Orion Fiction)
"City Without Shadows," by William Burton McCormick in Midsummer Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)
"A Ruby Sun," by Meeti Shroff-Shah in Midsummer Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)
"Murder at the Turkish Baths," by Ruth Ware in Murder in Harrogate edited by Vaseem Khan, (Orion Publishing Group/ Orion Fiction)
WHODUNNIT DAGGER: (6)
A Death in Diamonds by SJ Bennett, (Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre)
Murder at the Christmas Emporium by Andreina Cordani,(Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre)
WINNER The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl, by Lisa Hall (Hera Hera)
A Good Place to Hide a Body by Laura Marshall, (Hodder & Stoughton )
A Matrimonial Murder by Meeti Shroff-Shah, (Joffe Books)
Murder at the Matinee, by Jamie West, (Brabinger Publishing)
TWISTED DAGGER: (6)
Emma, Disappeared by Andrew Hughes (Hachette Books Ireland)
Beautiful People by Amanda Jennings (HarperCollins/ HQ FICTION)
The Stranger In Her House by John Marrs (Amazon Publishing/ Thomas & Mercer)
The Trials Of Marjorie Crowe by CS Robertson (Hodder & Stoughton)
WINNER Nightwatching, by Tracy Sierra: (PRH/ Viking)
Look In The Mirror by Catherine Steadman (Quercus)
DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY:(6)
Kate Atkinson
Robert Galbraith
Janice Hallett
Lisa Jewell
Edward Marston
WINNER Richard Osman
PUBLISHERS' DAGGER: (5)
Bitter Lemon Press
Faber & Faber
WINNER Orenda Books
Pan Macmillan
Simon & Schuster
EMERGING AUTHOR (formerly DEBUT) DAGGER: (6)
Bahadur Is My Name by Loftus Brown
Funeral Games by Shannon Chamberlain
Soho Love, Soho Blood by Hywel Davies
WINNER Ashland, by Joe Eurell
The Fifth by Shannon Falkson
Murder Under Wraps by Catherine Lovering
2025 DIAMOND DAGGER RECIPIENT:
Mick Herron
2025 RED HERRING AWARD RECIPIENT:
Janet Laurence, for her service to the Crime Writers' Association and its activities
The winners were announced at the award ceremony at the CWA gala dinner on July 03 in London.
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