Tuesday, April 17, 2012

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Speculation (2012)

My fellow crime blogger, crimeficreader, at It's a Crime!, is one of the judges for the CWA John Creasey Dagger so I thought I would try and provide a similar, though not as comprehensive sadly as my International Dagger eligibles, list of eligibles for this dagger.

The criteria for eligibility is (from the CWA's website):

This award is for the best crime novel by a first-time author of any nationality first published in the UK in English during the Judging Period. ‘Best crime novel by a first time author’ means that the author must not have had a novel of any sort published before under any name whatsoever. In the case of novels with more than one author, all the authors must meet this requirement.
(The Judging Period runs from June 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012 inclusive. )


"Euro"

Geraint Anderson - Just Business (6/11)
George Arion - Attack in the Library (11/11)
M K Bates - The Little Girl of the Favela (7/11)
Anouar Benmalek - Abduction, tr. Simon Pare (9/11)
Tom Benn - The Doll Princess (1/12)
Nancy Bilyeau - The Crown (1/12)
Laurent Binet - HHrH (5/12)
Horst Bosetzky - Cold Angel: Murder in Berlin, 1949 (2/12)
Conor Brady - A June Of Ordinary Murders (2/12)
Constance Briscoe - The Accused (8/11)
Peter James Cottrell - England's Janissary (2/12)
James Craig - London Calling (6/11)
Howard Cunnell - The Sea on Fire (apa Marine Boy) (3/12)
Kate Darby - The Whores' Asylum (2/12)
Jason Dean - The Wrong Man (5/12)
Maurizio De Giovanni - I Will Have Vengeance tr. Anne Milano Appel (2/12)
Hannah Dennison - A Vicky Hill Exclusive (5/12)
Zoran Drvenkar - Sorry tr. Shaun Whiteside (3/12)
Matthew Dunn - Spartan (apa Spycatcher) (8/11)
Elanor Dymott - Every Contact Leaves A Trace (4/12)
Thomas Enger - Burned tr. Charlotte Barslund (7/11)
Kjell Eriksson - The Hand That Trembles tr. Ebba Segerberg (10/11)
Kjell Eriksson- The Princess of Burundi tr. Ebba Segerberg (10/11)
Sergios Gakas - Ashes tr. Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife (7/11)
Sissel-Jo Gazan - The Dinosaur Feather tr. Charlotte Barslund (6/11 moved from May 2011)
Andrea Gillies - The White Lie (2/12)
Penny Hancock - Tideline (apa Kept in the Dark) (1/12)
Mari Hannah - The Murder Wall (4/12)
Tessa Harris - The Anatomist's Apprentice (12/11)
Annie Hauxwell - In Her Blood (5/12)
Keigo Higashino - The Devotion of Suspect X tr. Alexander O Smith & Elye J Alexander (7/11)
Antonio Hill - The Summer of Dead Toys (5/12)
Jørn Lier Horst - Dregs tr. Anne Bruce (8/11)
Bogdan Hrib - Kill the General (9/11)
Fabrice Humbert - The Origin of Violence, tr. Frank Wynne (12/11)
Ewart Hutton - Good People (2/12)
Bernhard Jaumann - The Hour of the Jackal tr. John Brownjohn (8/11)
Eva Joly & Judith Perrignon - The Eyes of Lira Kazan (4/12)
Mons Kallentoft - Midwinter Sacrifice tr. Neil Smith (10/11)
A J Kazinski - The Last Good Man tr. Tiina Nunnally (3/12)
Graeme Kent - Devil-Devil (6/11)
Clea Koff - Freezing (8/11)
Hans Koppel - She's Never Coming Back tr. Kari Dickson (1/12)
Jens Lapidus - Easy Money tr. Astri von Arbin Ahlander (11/11)
Charlotte Link - The Other Child tr. Stefan Tobler (3/12)
Anya Lipska - Where the Devil Can't Go (11/11) (not eligible?)
Claire McGowan - The Fall (2/12)
Matt McGuire - Dark Dawn (4/12)
Susan Elia MacNeal - Mr Churchill's Secretary (4/12)
David Mark - The Dark Winter (3/12)
Louise Millar - The Playdate (4/12)
Harri Nykanen - Nights of Awe tr. Kristian London (2/12)
Laurence O'Bryan - The Istanbul Puzzle (1/12)
Kristina Ohlsson - Unwanted tr. Sarah Death (9/11)
Chris Pavone - The Expats (3/12)
Mark Peterson - Flesh and Blood (4/12)
Joanna Price - A Means of Escape (11/11)
Anna Raverat - Signs of Life (4/12)
Jacqui Rose - Taken (3/12)
Lloyd Shepherd - The English Monster (3/12)
Dag Solstad - Professor Andersen's Night tr. Agnes Scott Langeland (11/11)
Oana Stoica-Mujea - Anatomical Clues (12/11)
Stefan Tegenfalk - Anger Mode (8/11)
Marco Vichi - Death in August tr. Stephen Sartarelli (6/11)
Evonne Wareham - Never Coming Home (3/12)
Jan Merete Weiss - These Dark Things (7/11)
VM Whitworth - The Bone Thief (2/12)
Robert Wilton - The Emperor's Gold (6/11)
Non-Euro
(These are ones I've spotted but I'm sure there are loads more!)

Alice LaPlante - Turn of Mind (July 11)
Todd Ritter - Death Notice (Dec 11)
Paul McEuen - Spiral (Dec 11)
Cara Hoffman - So Much Pretty (Feb 12)
Mark Allen Smith - The Inquisitor (Feb 12)
Wiley Cash - A land more kind than home (Mar 12)
Sean Hemingway - The Tomb of Alexander (Mar 12)
Robert Pobi - Bloodman (Mar 12)
M L Stedman - The Light Between Oceans (Apr 12)
Terry Hayes - I am Pilgrim (May 12)
Lisa Brackman - Year of the Tiger (May 12)
Tom Wright - What Dies in Summer (May 12)

1 comment:

Maxine Clarke said...

If Turn of Mind by LaPlante is eligible it is hard to think of a book that could better it, though there are many I haven't read on this longlist. Of the European ones that I have read, mostly translated, there are some very good candidates, I think. I've read a few of the English language ones and have not been too impressed - apart from Anya Lipska's which may not be eligible as it is self-published in the UK.

Anyway, it's a great list, Karen, thank you. I'll definitely be mining it!