Am Freitag wurden auf dem Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate die ersten Daggers der British Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) verliehen:
CWA International Dagger Award
The Darkest Room, von Johan Theorin (Doubleday)
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CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction
Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice, von Ruth Dudley Edwards (Harvill Secker)
Besondere Erwähnung
The Monster of Florence, von Douglas Preston, with Mario Spezi (Virgin/Random House).
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CWA Short Story Dagger
Can You Help Me Out There, von Robert Ferrigno (aus „Thriller 2“, herausgegeben von Clive Cussler; Mira)
Besondere Erwähnung
The Weapon, von by Jeffery Deaver (aus „Thriller 2“)
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CWA Dagger in the Library (“awarded to an author for a body of work, not one single title”)
Ariana Franklin (Random House)
Besondere Erwähnung
Simon Beckett (Bantam)
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CWA Debut Dagger (“a new-writing competition open to anyone writing in the English language who has not yet had a novel published commercially”)
A Place of Dying, von Patrick Eden (UK)
Besondere Erwähnung
Case No. 1, von Sandra Graham (Australia)
Die Nominierungslisten finden Sie hier.
(via The Rap Sheet)
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