Abir Mukherjee was also nominated twice for his novel A Necessary Evil<\/a>\u00a0– <\/em>click here to read Bronwyn Eley’s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Crime Writers Association was established in 1953 by crime writer John Creasey. Each year, the Daggers are awarded across\u00a010 categories. With the exception of the Diamond Dagger, the Debut Dagger and the Dagger in the Library, all the books are nominated by publishers.<\/p>\n The Diamond Dagger is awarded to an author who has made an outstanding contribution to crime fiction. The Diamond Dagger is nominated by the CWA members. Bestselling author Michael Connelly was announced\u00a0as the 2018 winner earlier this year.\u00a0The rest of the winners will be announced at an award dinner in London on 25 October.<\/p>\n Scroll down to see all the nominations …<\/p>\n THE CWA GOLD DAGGER<\/strong><\/p>\n Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside \u2013 watching, picking up tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can\u2019t do it alone.<\/p>\n Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the murder victim texted to Caleb. But Scott is always one step ahead.<\/p>\n This gripping, original and fast-paced crime thriller is set between a big city and a small coastal town, Resurrection Bay, where Caleb is forced to confront painful memories.<\/p>\n Caleb is a memorable protagonist who refuses to let his deafness limit his opportunities, or his participation in the investigation. But does his persistence border on stubbornness? And at what cost? As he delves deeper into the investigation Caleb uncovers unwelcome truths about his murdered friend \u2013 and himself.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to read Emma Viskic answer Ten Terrifying Questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n London Rules by Mick Herron<\/a><\/p>\n Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane<\/a><\/p>\n Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke<\/a><\/p>\n A Necessary Evil\u00a0 by Abir Mukherjee<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER<\/strong><\/p>\n All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the leader of ‘Da Force’.<\/p>\n Malone and his crew are an elite special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs and guns. Every day and every night for eighteen years, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He’s done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean-including Malone himself.<\/p>\n What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty.<\/p>\n Now he’s caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds, and he must walk the thin line between betraying his brothers and partners, the Job, his family, and the woman he loves, trying to survive, body and soul, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.<\/p>\n Based on years of research inside the NYPD, The Force is a searing portrait of a city on the edge and of a courageous, heroic, and deeply flawed man who stands at the edge of its abyss.<\/p>\n Click here<\/em><\/a> to read my review of The Force<\/em> by Don Winslow<\/strong><\/p>\n If I Die before I Wake by Emily Kock<\/a><\/p>\n Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke<\/a><\/p>\n An Act of Silence by Colette McBeth<\/a><\/p>\n The Chalk Man C J Tudor<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER<\/strong><\/p>\n Gravesend by William Boyle<\/a><\/p>\n I.Q. by Joe Ide<\/a><\/p>\n Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka<\/a><\/p>\n Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love<\/a><\/p>\n East of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman<\/a><\/p>\n Resurrection Bay Emma Viskic<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION Black Dahlia Red Rose by Piu Eatwell<\/a><\/p>\n Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann<\/a><\/p>\n Blood on the Page by Thomas Harding<\/a><\/p>\n The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich<\/a><\/p>\n A False Report by Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong<\/a><\/p>\n Rex V by Edith Thompson Laura Thompson<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee<\/a><\/p>\n Fire by L. C. Tyler<\/a><\/p>\n Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen<\/a><\/p>\n Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy<\/a><\/p>\n Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson<\/a><\/p>\n Nucleus by Rory Clements<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER<\/strong><\/p>\n Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini, tr Jamie Bulloch<\/a><\/p>\n Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lema\u00eetre tr Frank Wynne<\/a><\/p>\n After the Fire by Henning Mankell, tr Marlaine Delargy<\/a><\/p>\n The Frozen Woman by Jon Michelet, tr Don Bartlett<\/a><\/p>\n Offering to the Storm by Dolores Redondo, tr Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garz\u00eda<\/a><\/p>\n
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