CWA Dagger Awards 2024 - Longlist for the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger

The CWA Dagger Longlists were announced over the weekend. The most important one to me is the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger, formerly the International Dagger for which I was a judge many years ago. 

The longlist is below and you can check out my list of eligible titles here.

Shortlists will be announced at CrimeFest on 10 May.

Longlist:

Javier Castillo - The Snow Girl tr. Isabelle Scott (Spain, M, Penguin)

Juan Gomez-Jurado - Red Queen tr. Nick Caistor (Spain, M, Macmillan)

Arnaldur Indridason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, M, Harvill Secker)

Kotaro Isaka - The Mantis tr. Sam Malissa (Japan, M, Harvill Secker)

Asa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, F, MacLehose Press)

Jenny Lund Madsen - Thirty Days of Darkness tr. Megan E Turney (Denmark, F, Orenda Books)

Cloé Mehdi - Nothing is Lost tr. Howard Curtis (France, F, Europa Editions)

Hansjorg Schneider - The Murder of Anton Livius tr. Mike Mitchell (Switzerland, M, Bitter Lemon Press)

Im Seong-Sun - The Consultant tr. An Seon Jae (Korea, M, Raven Books)

Mikhail Shevelev - Not Russian tr. Brian James Baer & Ellen Vayner (Russia, M, Europa Editions)

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Maud Ventura - My Husband tr. Emma Ramadan (France, F, Hutchinson Heinemann)

Other longlists can be viewed on the CWA Website by clicking on the individual categories.

Crime Fiction in Translation (International) Dagger Speculation (2024)

The CWA Dagger longlists were announced this weekend so I thought I'd better, rather belatedly, put together the list of eligibles for the Crime Fiction in Translation (formerly the International) Dagger 2024. I'll post the Longlist separately.

So here are 70 translated crime novels published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023, that I know about. Please let me know if I've missed any.

In the list below I've also included the country of birth and gender of the author(s) plus the translator's name and the publisher.

Stats: The breakdown by gender is 34 Male and 33 Female and 3 sets of Female and Male authors writing together. Authors are from 19 countries. The most represented country is Sweden (11) followed by France and Japan (8 each) and Iceland (7). Over 56 translators (including pairs of translators) brought you these titles, with at least 9 individuals having translated more than one. 

Maria Adolfsson - Cruel Tides tr. Agnes Broomé (Sweden, F, Zaffre)

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir - You Can't See Me tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Tove Alsterdal  - You Will Never Be Found tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, F, Faber & Faber)

Yukito Ayatsuji - The Mill House Murders tr. Ho-Ling Wong (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Samuel Bjork - The Wolf tr. Charlotte Barslund (Norway, M, Bantam)

Stella Blómkvist - Murder at the Residence tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Corylus Books)

Oliver Bottini - The Invisible Web tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, M, MacLehose Press)

Simone Buchholz - The Acapulco tr. Rachel Ward (Germany, F, Orenda Books)

Simone Campos - Nothing Can Hurt You Now tr. Rahul Bery (Brazil, F, Pushkin Press)

Javier Castillo - The Snow Girl tr. Isabelle Scott (Spain, M, Penguin)

Javier Cercas - Prey For The Shadow tr. Anne McLean (Spain, M, MacLehose Press)

Maria Rosa Cutrufelli - Tina, Mafia Soldier tr. Robin Pickering-Iazzi (Italy, F, Soho Press)

Kjell Ola Dahl - The Lazarus Solution tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, M, Orenda Books)

Maurizio De Giovanni - Winter Swallows tr. Antony Shugaar (Italy, M, World Noir)

Delphine de Vigan - Kids Run the Show tr. Alison Anderson (France, F, Europa Editions)

M T Edvardsson - The Woman Inside tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, M, Macmillan)

Anki Edvinsson - The Snow Angel tr. Paul Norlen (Sweden, F, Thomas & Mercer)

Katrine Engberg - The Island tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba - Feral tr. David Homel (Canada, F, Mountain Leopard Press)

Sebastian Fitzek - The Inmate tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, M, Head of Zeus)

Carin Gerhardsen - Black Ice tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, F, Head of Zeus)

Juan Gomez-Jurado - Red Queen tr. Nick Caistor (Spain, M, Macmillan)

Johana Gustawsson - Yule Island tr. David Warriner (France, F, Orenda Books)

Anne Mette Hancock - The Collector tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Swift Press)

Romy Hausmann - Anatomy of a Killer  tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, F, Quercus)

Keigo Higashino - The Final Curtain tr. Giles Murray (Japan, M, Abacus)

Jorn Lier Horst - Snow Fall tr . Anne Bruce (Norway, M, Michael Joseph)

Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger - Stigma tr. Megan E Turney (Norway, M & M, Orenda Books)

Arnaldur Indridason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, M, Harvill Secker)

Kotaro Isaka - The Mantis tr. Sam Malissa (Japan, M, Harvill Secker)

Jógvan Isaksen - Dead Men Dancing tr. Marita Thomsen (Denmark, M, Norvik Press)

Ragnar Jonasson & Katrín Jakobsdottír - Reykjavík tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, M & F, Michael Joseph)

Katrín Júlíusdóttir  - Dead Sweet tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Hisashi Kashiwai - The Kamogawa Food Detectives tr. Jesse Kirkwood (Japan, M, Mantle)

Lars Kepler - The Spider tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, M & F,  Zaffre)

Seraina Kobler - Deep Dark Blue tr. Alex Roesch (Switzerland, F, Pushkin Press)

Camilla Lackberg & Henrik Fexeus - Cult tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M & F, HarperCollins)

Asa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, F, MacLehose Press)

Antonia Lassa - Skin Deep tr. Jacky Collins (France, F, Corylus Books)

Verónica E Llaca - Blood Ties tr. Mark Fried (Mexico, F, Mountain Leopard Press)

Jenny Lund Madsen - Thirty Days of Darkness tr. Megan E Turney (Denmark, F, Orenda Books)

Marco Malvaldi - The Art of Killing Well tr. Howard Curtis  (Italy, M, MacLehose Press)

Javier Marias - Tomás Nevinson tr. Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, M, Hamish Hamilton)

Laurent Mauvignier - The Birthday Party tr. Daniel Levin Becker (France, M, Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Cloé Mehdi - Nothing is Lost tr. Howard Curtis (France, F, Europa Editions)

Tony Mott - Deadly Autumn Harvest tr. Marina Sofia (Romania, F, Corylus Books)

Guillaume Musso - The Stranger in the Seine tr. Rosie Eyre (France, M, W&N)

Niklas Natt och Dag - 1795: The Order of the Furies tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M, Baskerville)

Jo Nesbo - Killing Moon tr. Seán Kinsella (Norway, M, Harvill Secker)

Claudia Pineiro - A Little Luck tr. Frances Riddle (Argentina, F, Charco Press)

Antoine Renand - Empathy tr. Frank Wynne (France, M, Welbeck)

Mercedes Rosende - The Hand That Feeds You tr. Tim Gutteridge (Uruguay, F, Bitter Lemon Press)

Hansjorg Schneider - The Murder of Anton Livius tr. Mike Mitchell (Switzerland, M, Bitter Lemon Press)

Max Seeck - The Last Grudge tr. Kristian London  (Finland, M, Welbeck)

Im Seong-Sun - The Consultant tr. An Seon Jae (Korea, M, Raven Books)

Mikhail Shevelev - Not Russian tr. Brian James Baer & Ellen Vayner (Russia, M, Europa Editions)

Lilja Sigurdardottir - White as Snow tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Karin Smirnoff - The Girl in the Eagle's Talons tr. Sarah Death (Sweden, F, MacLehose Press)

Gunnar Staalesen - Mirror Image tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, M, Orenda Books)

Viveca Sten - Hidden in Shadows tr. Marlaine Delargy (Sweden, F,  AmazonCrossing)

Leonie Swann - The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp tr. Amy Bojang (Germany, F,  Allison & Busby)

Kaoru Takamura - Lady Joker, Volume 2 tr. Allison Markin Powell & Marie  Iida (Japan, F, Baskerville) 

Antti Tuomainen - The Beaver Theory tr. David Hackston (Finland, M, Orenda Books)

Maud Ventura - My Husband tr. Emma Ramadan (France, F, Hutchinson Heinemann)

Ferdinand von Schirach - Coffee and Cigarettes: Scenes from a Crime Writer's Life tr. Katharina Hall (Germany, M, Baskerville)

Yulia Yakovleva - Death of the Red Rider tr. Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Russia, F, Pushkin Vertigo)

Futaro Yamada - The Meiji Guillotine Murders tr. Bryan Karetnyk (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Seishi Yokomizo - The Devil's Flute Murders tr. Jim Rion (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Hideo Yokoyama - The North Light tr. Louise Heal Kawai (Japan, M, riverrun)

New Releases - February 2024

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in February 2024 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). 70 titles this month. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment. 

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Allen, Hania - The Maze #6 DS Dania Gorska
Allingham, Merryn - The Library Murders #8 Flora Steele, Sussex, 1955
Alsterdal, Tove - Deep Harbour tr. Alice Menzies #3 Detective Eira Sjödin
Baker, J A - The Perfect Parents
Barnes, Kerry - Needs Must
Beaton, M C - Death of a Spy #37 PC Hamish Macbeth, Lochdubh, Scotland
Bennett, S J - A Death in Diamonds #4 The Queen
Bickford, David - The Informer #2 Katya
Black, Katherine - A Most Unusual Demise #1 The Most Unusual Mysteries
Blake, Matthew - Anna O
Brent, Katy - The Murder After the Night Before
Burrowes, Grace - A Gentleman in Pursuit of Truth #4 The Lord Julian Mysteries
Coles, Catherine - Death at Lovers' Leap #3 Martha Miller
Costello, Iris - The Story Collector
Craig, James - The Lesson #18 Inspector John Carlyle
Davison, Anita - Murder in the Library #2 Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet, 1915, London
Dixon, Helena - Murder at the Island Hotel #15 Miss Underhay
Donovan, Rose - Murder in a Mask #3 Partners in Spying, 1930s
Dounaeva, Lorna - The Wife's Mistake
Ellis, Joy - The Colour of Mystery #2 Ellie McEwan
English, Rachael - Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?
Ford, P F - Death by Plane #2 Slater and Norman
Ford, P F - Death by Night #3 Slater and Norman
French, Nicci - Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
Gatland, Jack - Stealth Strike #5 Tom Marlowe
Giles, Stewart - Evil on the Island #12 DI Liam O'Reilly
Gillespie, Mark - The Lost Girl
Godfrey, Jennie - The List of Suspicious Things
Greene, Morgan - The Hiss of the Snake #3 DI Jamie Johansson Files
Gudmundsson, Oskar - The Dancer tr. Quentin Bates
Hood, D K - Dark Hearts #3 Detective Beth Katz
Hussey, William - Jericho's Dead #2 Killing Jericho
Jones, Dylan H - Hear Her Scream
Kent, Tony - The Shadow Network #5 Dempsey and Devlin
Koomson, Dorothy - Every Smile You Fake
Lees, Georgina - True Crime
Logan, TM - The Dream Home
Lowe, Ali - The School Run
Marsh, Beezy - Queen of Diamonds #3 Alice Diamond, the Queen of the Forty Thieves, London, 1946
Martin, Allan - The Dead of Oban #4 Inspector Angus Blue
Matsumoto, Seicho - Point Zero tr. Louise Heal Kawai
McDonough, Patrice - Murder by Lamplight #1 Dr Julia Lewis, Victorian Era
McLean, Rachel with Millie Ravensworth - Death on the Thames #4 Diana Bakewell
Miller, C L - The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder #1 Antique Hunters
Murrin, Orlando - Knife Skills for Beginners
Nicholl, John - The Holiday
Noel, Sarah F - An Audacious Woman #5 Tabitha & Wolf
North, Lauren - The Teacher's Secret
O'Connor, Carlene - Murder at an Irish Chipper #10 Siobhan O'Sullivan, Kilbane, County Cork
Oswald, James - For Our Sins #13 Detective Inspector McLean, Edinburgh
Paris, B A - The Guest
Phifer, Helen - Her Lost Soul #2 Detective Maria Miller
Ridpath, Michael - Whale Fjord #7 Magnus Jonson, homicide detective, Iceland
Rigby, Sally - Death's Shadow #13 DCI Whitney Walker & Dr Georgina Cavendish
Robotham, Mandy - The Hidden Storyteller
Ryan, OMJ - Deadly Inferno #11 DCI Jane Phillips, Cheshire
Salisbury, Emma - One Good Reason (ebook only) #1 DS Chris Ashcroft, Manchester
Shapiro, Irina - The Highgate Cemetery Murder #1 Tate and Bell
Sivers, Dave - Price to Pay #7 Archer and Baines
Smithson, L D - The Escape Room
Tallon, Emma - Her Feud #7 Scarlet Drew
Tickler, Peter - The Tickler's Jam Murders
Tierney, Marie - Deadly Animals
Tope, Rebecca - The Borrowdale Body #13 Persimmon Brown, Florist, Lake District
Trow, M J - Moon Rising #12 Christopher Marlowe
Wignall, Kevin - The First Death of Winter
Winters, Mary - Murder in Masquerade #2 Amelia Amesbury, Agony Aunt, Victorian era
Wolf, Rachel - Five Nights
Woods, Karen - The Truth
Yuzuki, Asako - Butter tr. Polly Barton