We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2012 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards:
GOLD Dagger Shortlist for Best Crime Novel
Bereft by Chris Womersley
The Rage by Gene Kerrigan
The Flight by MR Hall
Vengeance in Mind by NJ Cooper
John Creasy (New Blood) Shortlist for Best New Author
Good People by Ewart Hutton
Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright
A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Shortlist for Best Thriller
A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Reamde by Neal Stephenson
The Fear Index by Robert Harris
Bestseller Dagger/Hall of Fame Shortlist
The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves
House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The Bat by Jo Nesbo
Flash & Bones by Kathy Reichs
Birthdays for the Dead by Stuart Macbride
Peter James, CWA chair, said: “I am very proud that this year’s Crime Thrillers Award shortlists show a truly broad range of high quality work, by great authors, in the most popular of all fiction genres.”
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Thursday 18 October at the Grosvenor House Hotel which will be televised on ITV3 on the 23 October.
