Friday, July 22, 2011

Poll Results on International Dagger - 2011

The polls have now closed for voting on who you want to and think will win this year's CWA International Dagger. The Dagger winner will be announced this evening at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.

There were 147 votes in the "want to win" and 68 votes in the "will win". In both cases the winner was An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas followed by Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri in the "want to win" and Three Seconds by Roslund-Hellstrom in the "will win".

The other titles, Needle in a Haystack by Mallo, The Saint-Florentin Murders by Parot, River of Shadows by Varesi and Death on a Galician Shore by Villar, all received votes in both polls.

I will remove the polls in the next couple of days. Many thanks to all those who took part and read the shortlist.



The results in full:

1.Which book do you want to win the international Dagger?
147 votes

Camilleri-Wings of the Sphinx
30 (20%)
Mallo-Needle in a Haystack
20 (13%)
Parot-The Saint-Florentin Murders
9 (6%)
Roslund-Hellstrom-Three Seconds
27 (18%)
Varesi-River of Shadows
7 (4%)
Vargas-An Uncertain Place
45 (30%)
Villar-Death on a Galician Shore
9 (6%)

2. Which book will win the International Dagger?
68 votes

Camilleri-Wings of the Sphinx
13 (19%)
Mallo-Needle in a Haystack
5 (7%)
Parot-The Saint-Florentin Murders
2 (2%)
Roslund-Hellstrom-Three Seconds
19 (27%)
Varesi-River of Shadows
3 (4%)
Vargas-An Uncertain Place
24 (35%)
Villar-Death on a Galician Shore
2 (2%)

1 comment:

Maxine Clarke said...

Vargas is enduringly popular, it seems, unless she has a Tolkein-like internet savvy army of fans ;-)