The longlists for each of the three categories in the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards were announced on Friday 22 July. These are the CWA Gold Dagger; the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
Why not get your group reading the longlisted titles?
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CWA Gold Dagger Award 2011 longlist
* Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (Pan)
* Hanging Hill by Mo Hayder (Bantam Press)
* Snowdrops by A.D Miller (Atlantic Books)
* The Cypress House by Michael Koryta (Hodder & Stoughton)
* The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina (Orion)
* The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Orion)
* The Villa Triste by Lucretia Grindle (Pan)
* White Heat by M.J McGrath (Mantle)
CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2011 Award longlist**
* An Agent of Deceit by Chris Morgan Jones (Mantle)
* Before I Go To Sleep by S.J Watson (Doubleday)
* Cold Rain by Craig Smith (Myrmidon)
* Savages by Don Winslow (Heinemann)
* The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth (Corgi)
* The Good Son by Michael Gruber (Corvus)
* The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Orion)
* The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming (HarperCollins)
**CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2011 Award longlist
* Before I Go To Sleep by S.J Watson (Doubleday)
* Into The Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes (Myriad)
* Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller (Robinson)
* Or The Bull Kills You by Jason Webster (Chatto & Windus)
* Sister by Rosamund Lupton (Piatkus)
* The Dead Woman of Juárez by Sam Hawken (Serpent’s Tail)
* The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury)
* The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly (Hodder)
The shortlists will be announced on the 19 August. You can also see the full list with ISBNs and read the press release.
The 2011 season documentary series, THE A to Z OF CRIME, will start on Thursday 1 September at 9pm on ITV3.
In the lead-up to the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2011, the public will get the chance to vote for the ITV3 People’s Bestseller Dagger online at www.itv.com/crimethrillerawards. The winner will be presented with their award at the awards ceremony on 7 October.
The nominated authors for the ITV3 PEOPLE’S BESTSELLER DAGGER 2011 are:
* David Baldacci – The Sixth Man (Macmillan)
* Lee Child – Worth Dying For (Bantam)
* Mark Billingham – Good As Dead (Little, Brown)
* Peter James – Dead Man’s Grip (Macmillan)
* Peter Robinson – Before the Poison (Hodder)
