The winners of the 2019
Ngaio Marsh Awards for the best New Zealand crime novel were
announced in Christchurch on September 14.
Best Novel
THIS MORTAL BOY
by Fiona Kidman (Penguin)
“Despite the historical nature of the novel, the spirit still resonates in our time with regards to bigotry and discrimination,” said the judges. “The quality of the writing is extraordinary: a richly textured sense of 1950s New Zealand and an elegant structure and flow creating a harrowing tale full of humanity.”
Best First Novel
CALL ME EVIE by
JP Pomare (Hachette)
“An interesting take on unreliable narrators,” said the judges. “Evocative and elegant writing. An intricate story packed with suspense and a fascinating exploration of the concept of false memory.”
Best Non-Fiction
THE SHORT LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF JANE
FURLONG by Kelly Dennett (Awa Press)
“A tragic story approached with sincerity and compassion,” said the judges. “There was a sense of understated rage at the injustice of it all. Dennett has, with compassion and respect, shown us the young woman who was so much more than a ‘teen prostitute’ who went missing from K Road.”
The prize, established in 2011, is given
annually to a book-length work of fiction that “best illuminates the role of
lawyers in society and their power to effect change.”
2018 Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing
The winner of the 2018
Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing has been announced by
North American Branch of the
International Association of Crime Writers. The trophy goes to “the book of the
year that best represents the conception of literary excellence in crime
writing.”
WINNING NOVEL Lou Berney, November Road (William Morrow)
The award will be presented November 1 at Bouchercon.
CWA Dagger Awards Shortlist
British Crime Writers’ Association (CWA)announced the 2019 CWA
Dagger Awards Shortlist. The winners will be
announced in London, England, on October 24.
Congratulations to Lavie Tidhar’s whose “Bag Man”, in The Outcast Hours anthology, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, has made the shortlist in the CWA Short Story Dagger Award category.
CWA Gold Dagger:
All the Hidden Truths, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Puppet Show, by M.W. Craven: (Constable)
What We Did, by Christobel Kent (Sphere)
Unto Us a Son Is Given, by Donna Leon (Heinemann)
American by Day, by Derek B Miller (Doubleday)
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better, by Benjamin Wood (Scribner)
CWA John Creasey (New Blood):
All the Hidden Truths, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Boy at the Door, by Alex Dahl (Head of Zeus)
Scrublands, by Chris Hammer (Wildfire)
Turn a Blind Eye, by Vicky Newham (HQ)
Blood & Sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle)
Overkill, by Vanda Symon (Orenda)
CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction:
All That Remains: A Life in Death, by Sue Black (Doubleday)
An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere, by Mikita Brottman (Canongate)
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime, by Claire Harman (Viking)
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson (Hutchinson)
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre (Viking)
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold (Doubleday)
CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
Give Me Your Hand, by Megan Abbott (Picador)
Safe Houses, by Dan Fesperman (Head of Zeus)
Killing Eve: No Tomorrow, by Luke Jennings (John Murray)
Lives Laid Away, by Stephen Mack Jones (Soho Crime)
To the Lions, by Holly Watt (Bloomsbury)
Memo from Turner, by Tim Willocks (Jonathan Cape)
CWA Sapere Books Historical Dagger:
The Quaker, by Liam McIlvanney (Harper Fiction)
Destroying Angel, by S.G. MacLean: (Quercus)
Smoke and Ashes, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
The House on Half Moon Street, by Alex Reeve (Raven)
Tombland, by C.J. Sansom: (Mantle)
Blood & Sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle)
CWA International Dagger:
A Long Night in Paris, by Dov Alfon; translated by Daniella Zamir (Maclehose Press)
Weeping Waters, by Karin Brynard; translated by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon (World Noir)
The Cold Summer, by Gianrico Carofiglio; translated by Howard Curtis (Bitter Lemon Press)
Newcomer, by Keigo Higashino; translated by Giles Murray (Little, Brown)
The Root of Evil, by Håkan Nesser; translated by Sarah Death (Mantle)
The Forger, by Cay Rademacher; translated by Peter Millar (Arcadia)
CWA Short Story Dagger:
“Strangers in a Pub,” by Martin Edwards (from Ten Year Stretch, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller; No Exit Press)
“Death Becomes Her,” by Syd Moore (from The Strange Casebook, by Syd Moore; Point Blank Books)
“The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing,” by Danuta Reah (from The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and Other Fantastic Female Fables, by Danuta Reah [aka Danuta Kot]; Fantastic)
“I Detest Mozart,” by Teresa Solana (from The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories, by Teresa Solana; Bitter Lemon Press)
“Bag Man,” by Lavie Tidhar (from The Outcast Hours, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin; Solaris)
Dagger in the Library:
M.C. Beaton
Mark Billingham
John Connolly
Kate Ellis
C.J. Sansom
Cath Staincliffe
Debut Dagger (for the opening of a crime novel by an uncontracted writer):
Wake, by Shelley Burr
The Mourning Light, by Jerry Krause
Hardways, by Catherine Hendricks
The Firefly, by David Smith
A Thin Sharp Blade, by Fran Smith
Diamond Dagger Recipient
Robert Goddard
2019 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award
The award, which honors the memory
of pioneering African-American crime fiction author Eleanor Taylor Bland with a
$2,000 grant to an emerging writer of color, was created in 2014 to support
SinC’s vision statement that the organization should serve as the voice for
excellence and diversity in crime writing.
2019 Ned Kelly Award Longlists
The Australian
Crime Writers Association
announced the longlists for the 2019
Ned Kelly Awards. The complete lists are at the link.