2020 CWA Daggers winners

Writer Barry Forshaw, MC for the Dagger Awards evening, which took place online on 22 October, said: 'The CWA Dagger Awards are the most prestigious prizes in crime fiction, and this year has furnished a particularly strong set of books and authors. Nothing dampens the excitement of the Daggers – not even pandemics!'

The winners are:

• GOLD DAGGER: Michael Robotham: Good Girl, Bad Girl (Sphere); Lou Berney: November Road (Harper Fiction) – Highly Commended

• IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER: Lou Berney: November Road (Harper Fiction)

• JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER: Trevor Wood: The Man on the Street (Quercus Fiction)

• SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER: Abir Mukherjee: Death in the East (Harvill Secker)

CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER: Hannelore Cayre: The Godmother, translated by Stephanie Smee (Old Street Publishing)

SHORT STORY DAGGER: Lauren Henderson: #Me Too in Invisible Blood, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Titan Books)

• ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: Casey Cep: Furious Hours (William Heinemann)

• DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY: Christopher Brookmyre

• DEBUT DAGGER: Josephine Moulds: Revolution Never Lies; Anna Caig: The Spae-Wife - Highly Commended

• PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER: Orenda Books

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