The shortlists
are out for the CWA Dagger awards. There are 11 categories of awards including new
talent, short stories and historical crime.
In this post we
will look at the Gold Dagger Award which is awarded for the best crime novel of
the year. Here are the 6 shortlisted titles:
Steve Cavanagh
– The Liar
When wealthy businessman
Leonard Howell's daughter is kidnapped, the police jump on it straight away.
But Howell knows this won't be straightforward - he needs someone willing to
break the rules. Once a con artist, now a hotshot lawyer, Eddie Flynn, knowing
what it's like to lose a daughter will stop at nothing to save Howell's.
Mick Herron –
London Rules (Also shortlisted for the Ian
Fleming Steel Dagger Award)
'London Rules' might not be
written down, but everyone knows rule one, cover your arse. Regent Park's First
Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a
beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself and
especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who is alert to Claude's
every stumble.
Dennis Lehane – Since We Fell
Rachel Childs, a former
journalist, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual recluse.
In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband.
Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray.
Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness,
Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and
mind-altering truths.
Attica Locke –
Bluebird, Bluebird (Also
Shortlisted for the
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award)
In the small Texas town of
Lark two dead bodies are washed up in the bayou. First a black lawyer from
Chicago and then, three days later, a local white woman, and it's stirred up a
hornet's nest of resentment. Texas Ranger Darren Matthews, must solve the
crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial
fault lines erupt.
Abir Mukherjee
– A Necessary Evil (Also
shortlisted for the
Historical Award)
India, 1920. Captain Wyndham
and Sergeant Banerjee of the Calcutta Police Force investigate the dramatic
assassination of a Maharajah's son. As
Wyndham and Banerjee desperately try to unravel the mystery behind the
assassination, they become entangled in a dangerous world where those in power
live by their own rules and those who cross their paths pay with their lives.
Emma Viskic –
Resurrection Bay (Also
shortlisted for the
John Creasy New Blood Award)
Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf
since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up tell-tale
signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is
murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends
Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can't do it alone. Caleb and his
troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue, Scott the last word
the murder victim texted to Caleb. But Scott is always one step ahead.
The winners will be
announced 25 October 2018.
Gwobrau Dagger Cymdeithas Awduron Troseddau 2018
Mae'r rhestr fer gwobrau Dagger CWA bellach ar agor. Mae
yna 11 categori o wobrau, gan gynnwys talent newydd, straeon byrion a
throseddau hanesyddol.
Yn y neges hon, byddwn yn edrych ar Wobr Aur Dagger a
ddyfernir i nofel troseddau gorau'r flwyddyn. Dyma'r 6 teitl ar y rhestr fer:
Steve Cavanagh – The Liar
Pan fydd merch Leonard Howell, gŵr busnes cyfoethog yn
cael ei herwgipio, mae'r heddlu'n camu i mewn ar unwaith. Ond mae Howell yn
gwybod na fydd hyn yn dasg syml - mae angen rhywun arno sy'n barod i dorri'r
rheolau. Yn dwyllwr heb ei ail ar un adeg ond bellach yn gyfreithiwr blaenllaw,
mae Eddie Flynn, sy'n gwybod sut deimlad yw colli merch, yn oedi dim i achub
merch Howell.
Mick Herron - London Rules (Hefyd ar restr fer Gwobr
Steel Dagger Ian Fleming)
Efallai nad yw 'Rheolau Llundain' wedi ei
nodi ar bapur, ond mae pawb yn gwybod rheol un, gofalu am eich hun, fel y mae
Claude Whelan gŵr blaenllaw Parc Regent, yn ei ddysgu, y ffordd anodd. Gyda'r
dasg o ddiogelu prif weinidog sydd yng nghanol peryglon, mae'n wynebu ymosodiad
o bob cyfeiriad ei hun, yn enwedig gan ei ddirprwy ei hun, Lady Di Taverner,
sy'n gwybod bob tro y mae Claude yn baglu.
Dennis Lehane – Since We Fell
Mae Rachel Childs, cyn-newyddiadurwr,
bellach yn byw fel meudwyes mewn gwirionedd ers y chwalodd ei nerfau yn fyw yn
ystod darllediad. Ym mhob ffordd arall, fodd bynnag, mae hi'n mwynhau bywyd
delfrydol gyda gŵr delfrydol. Hyd nes i gyfarfod ar hap ar brynhawn glawog beri
diflastod i'r bywyd delfrydol hwnnw. Wedi'i thynnu i mewn i gynllwyn yn llawn
twyll, trais, ac o bosibl, gwallgofrwydd, mae'n rhaid i Rachel ddod o hyd i'r
cryfder i goncro ofnau annymunol a gwirioneddau sy'n newid meddwl.
Attica Locke - Bluebird, Bluebird (Hefyd ar restr fer Gwobr
Steel Dagger Ian Fleming)
Yn nhref fechan Lark, Texas, mae dau gorff
yn cael eu golchi i fyny yn yr ystumllyn. Y cyntaf, cyfreithiwr du o Chicago ac
yna, tri diwrnod yn ddiweddarach, gwraig wen leol, ac mae'n ysgogi nyth cacwn o
chwerwder. Rhaid i Darren Matthews, marchfilwr, ddatrys y troseddau - ac achub
ei hun yn y broses - cyn i gynnwrf hiliol sy'n mudlosgi ers tro, ffrwydro.
Abir Mukherjee - A Necessary Evil (Hefyd ar restr fer y
Wobr Hanesyddol)
India, 1920. Mae Capten Wyndham a Sergeant
Banerjee o Heddlu Calcutta yn ymchwilio i farwolaeth ddramatig mab Maharajah.
Wrth i Wyndham a Banerjee geisio datrys y dirgelwch y tu ôl i'r llofruddiaeth,
maent yn mynd ynghlwm mewn byd peryglus lle mae'r rheini sydd mewn grym yn byw
yn ôl eu rheolau eu hunain a'r rhai sy'n eu croesi yn talu gyda'u bywydau.
Emma Viskic - Resurrection Bay (Hefyd
ar restr fer Gwobr
Gwaed Newydd John Creasy)
Mae Caleb Zelic, sy’n hollol fyddar ers ei
fod yn blentyn, wastad wedi byw ar y tu allan - gwylio, codi arwyddion
arwyddocaol y mae pobl yn eu cuddio mewn gwên, pesychiad neu gusan. Pan fydd
cyfaill o’i blentyndod yn cael ei lofruddio, mae euogrwydd a natur benderfynol
i brofi ei ddiniweidrwydd ei hun yn anfon Caleb i hela’r llofrudd. Ond ni all
wneud ar ei ben ei hun. Mae Caleb a’i gyfaill cythryblus Frankie, cyn-blismon,
yn dechrau gydag un cliw, Scott y gair olaf a anfonwyd gan y dioddefwr drwy
neges destun at Caleb. Ond mae Scott un
cam ymlaen bob tro.
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