Roger Cornwell said...Well I got 2 correct...More information on the titles and reasons for choice - on the CWA website.
Here's the shortlist:
Andrea Camilleri (The Patience of the Spider)
Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Dominique Manotti (Lorraine Connection)
Martin Suter (A Deal with the Devil)
Fred Vargas (This Night's Foul Work)
More information on the this page on the CWA website. And feel free to comment in the Daggers Forum.
I'm sorry, I don't know what books were submitted, but it's a possible reason for not shortlisting that the book wasn't entered in the first place. If you're not in, you can't win!
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
International Dagger - Shortlist
From a comment on the previous post:
I find it a bit disappointing... the predicted ones are so... obvious.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Camilleri is, I would have imagined, quite, quite obviously his weakest effort.
You can't have an International Dagger list without a Camilleri ;o). Even if it is not his strongest work.
ReplyDeleteI cannot see how The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason was omitted but then perhaps the storyline involving the regime in East Germany might not be popular in some quarters.
I must get round to reading the Stieg Larsson which has been sitting on my TBR shelf for months.