CWA Dagger Awards 2023 - Winners

The winners of the CWA Dagger Awards were announced last night. The winner of the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger is Even the Darkest Night, Javier Cercas translated by Anne McLean.

 Here is the official press release:

2023 CWA Dagger Awards Announced

 

The winners of the 2023 CWA Daggers, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced.

The prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century.

Vaseem Khan, Chair of the CWA, said: "This year's CWA Daggers, in the CWA’s 70^th jubilee year, continued the tradition of recognising both the broad appeal of the genre, and the wide spectrum of writers now operating within it, showcasing the full creative range of modern crime writing."

George Dawes Green receives the CWA Gold Dagger for The Kingdoms of Savannah.

Judges praised the ‘intricately constructed’ novel as a ‘timeless fable.’ A masterpiece of Southern Gothic noir, George Dawes Green’s sprawling mystery explores class and power structures after a brutal murder. He is best known for his runaway bestseller The Juror, the basis for the movie starring Demi Moore.

William Shaw, co-Vice Chair of the CWA, said: “After a fourteen-year hiatus, George Dawes Green’s triumphant return with The Kingdoms of Savannah is a bravura demonstration of the extraordinary power of crime fiction. Peopled with vividly-drawn characters from every Southern walk of life, this compelling mystery achieves something remarkable in peeling back the skin of Georgia’s troubled history to expose a society whose opulence was always built on something very dark.”

Past winners of the CWA Gold Dagger, which recognises the best crime novel of the year, include John le Carré, Reginald Hill, and Ruth Rendell.

The winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger is John Brownlow for Agent Seventeen. Awarded for best thriller, the Dagger is sponsored by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, the Fleming family-owned company that looks after the James Bond literary brand.

Agent Seventeen, a debut thriller from the British-Canadian screenwriter, centres on an elite hitman who must remain one step ahead of his many rivals if he wants to stay alive. It was praised by the judges as a ‘deceptively layered’ blockbuster thriller and ‘roller-coaster’ tale. Brownlow is best known as a screenwriter of Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the TV series, Fleming.

The anticipated ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger highlights the best debut crime novel. This year, the accolade goes to Hayley Scrivenor for Dirt Town, praised by the CWA judges as a ‘haunting mystery.’ Dirt Town, which follows the case of a missing girl in small-town Australia, was described by The Guardian as “outback noir that lives up to the hype.”

The CWA Historical Dagger goes to DV Bishop for The Darkest Sin.  Set in Renaissance Florence, The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric historical thriller that judges praised as ‘well-researched’ and ‘gripping to the end.’

The ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction goes to Wendy Joseph for Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey. The revealing, humane and gripping stories from Wendy Joseph, a retired Old Bailey judge, were praised as a ‘rare glimpse beneath the wig, with significant observations on the justice system.’

The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger, sponsored by former CWA Chair, Maxim Jakubowski in honour of his wife Dolores Jakubowski, goes to Javier Cercas for Even the Darkest Night, translated by Anne McLean. The leading Spanish literary author was commended for his ‘complex characters’ and ‘striking sense of place.’

The CWA Daggers are one of the few high-profile awards that honour the short story. Hazell Ward scoops the award for Cast a Long Shadow, an emotional tale of murder that leads to a man condemned by suspicion by a whole village. Ward delivers a, ‘truly emotional ride with a twist.’

The Dagger in the Library is voted on exclusively by librarians, chosen for the author’s body of work and support of libraries. This year it goes to Sophie Hannah.

The Sunday Times bestselling writer is published in 49 languages and 51 territories. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Hannah is the author of the new Poirot mysteries with the blessing of Agatha Christie’s family and estate.

One of the anticipated highlights of the annual Daggers is the Debut Dagger competition, sponsored by ProWritingAid. The international competition is open to uncontracted writers. This year, the award goes to Jeff Marsick for Sideways, about a 26-year-old army veteran, Gage, suffering from PTSD.

The Dagger for the Best Crime and Mystery Publisher, which celebrates publishers and imprints demonstrating excellence and diversity in crime writing, goes to Viper (Profile Books).

Viper’s books include Sunday Times bestsellers The Appeal by Janice Hallett and The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward, and Reese Witherspoon Book Club sensation, The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave.

A CWA Red Herring, for services to crime writing and the CWA, were awarded to Gary Stratmann and Corinne Turner.

Maxim Jakubowski, former Chair of CWA, said: “As the husband of crime writer Linda Stratmann, a past CWA Chair, Gary Stratmann has accidentally found himself at the heart of our community and has taken it to it like a fish to water; ever supportive, convivial, he has become the de facto CWA photographer, social gadfly, and visual historian.”

On Corinne Turner, Maxim said: “As the head of Ian Fleming Publications, Corinne Turner has not only been a stalwart CWA sponsor, but has also lent her knowledge, business advice, sensible management experience and invaluable financial know how to our board. She has been a major factor into making us a more professional body, and has always been available with a smile on her face."

The CWA Diamond Dagger, awarded to an author whose crime-writing career has been marked by sustained excellence, is announced in early spring each year and in 2023 it was awarded to Walter Mosley.

One of the most versatile and admired writers in America, Mosley is the author of more than 60 critically acclaimed books, that cover a wide range of genres. His work has been translated into 25 languages.

The winners were announced at a Gala Dinner at the Leonardo City Hotel in London on Thursday 6 July. The ceremony was compered by bestselling authors Victoria Selman and Imran Mahmood. Charlie Higson, the Fast Show actor, comedian, and author of the recent James Bond novel On His Majesty's Secret Service and many Young Bond volumes, was the after-dinner speaker.

One of the UK’s most prominent societies, the CWA was founded in 1953 by John Creasey; the awards started in 1955 with its first award going to Winston Graham, best known for Poldark.

Dagger Winners 2023

CWA GOLD DAGGER

The Kingdoms of Savannah, George Dawes Green (Headline Fiction, Headline Publishing Group)

CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

Agent Seventeen, John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)

ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER

Dirt Town, Hayley Scrivenor (Pan Macmillan, Macmillan)

CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER

The Darkest Sin, DV Bishop (Pan Macmillan, Macmillan)

CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey, Wendy Joseph (Transworld)

CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER sponsored in honour of Dolores Jakubowski

Even the Darkest Night, Javier Cercas translated by Anne McLean (Quercus, MacLehose Press)

CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER

‘Cast a Long Shadow’ by Hazell Ward, in Cast a Long Shadow edited by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline Oakley (Honno Press)

CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

Sophie Hannah

CWA PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER

Viper (Profile Books)

CWA DEBUT DAGGER sponsored by ProWritingAid

‘Sideways’ Jeff Marsick

THE CWA RED HERRING for services to crime writing and the CWA

Gary Stratmann

Corinne Turner

DIAMOND DAGGER

Walter Mosley

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The winners announcements are available on the CWA website, as well as via its Facebook, Twitter #CWADaggers and YouTube channel.

The 2023 Shortlists in Full:

GOLD DAGGER

The Kingdoms of Savannah, George Dawes Green (Headline Publishing Group)

The Lost Man of Bombay, Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)

A Killing in November, Simon Mason (Quercus)

The Clockwork Girl, Anna Mazzola (Orion)

The Winter Guest, WC Ryan (Bonnier Books UK)

The Silent Brother, Simon Van der Velde (Northodox Press)

IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

Take Your Breath Away, Linwood Barclay (HarperCollins, HQ)

Agent Seventeen, John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)   

The Botanist, MW Craven (Little, Brown Constable)

The Ink Black Heart, Robert Galbraith (Sphere)       

The Chase, Ava Glass (Penguin Random House UK, Century)

May God Forgive, Alan Parks (Canongate)   

ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER

Breaking, Amanda Cassidy (Canelo) 

The Local, Joey Hartstone (Pushkin Press, Pushkin Vertigo)

London in Black, Jack Lutz (Pushkin Press, Pushkin Vertigo)

Dirt Town, Hayley Scrivenor (Pan Macmillan, Macmillan)

No Country for Girls, Emma Styles (Sphere)  

Outback, Patricia Wolf (Bonnier Books UK, Embla)

HISTORICAL DAGGER

The Darkest Sin, DV Bishop (Pan Macmillan, Macmillan)

The Clockwork Girl, Anna Mazzola (Orion)   

The Homes, JB Mylet (Profile Books, Viper)

The Bangalore Detectives Club Harini Nagendra (Little, Brown, Constable)

Blue Water Leonora Nattrass (Profile Books, Viper)

Hear No Evil, Sarah Smith (John Murray Press, Two Roads)

CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER

Good Reasons to Die, Morgan Audic translated by Sam Taylor (Welbeck Publishing Group, Mountain Leopard Press)

The Red Notebook, Michel Bussi translated by Vineet Lal (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Even the Darkest Night, Javier Cercas translated by Anne McLean (Quercus, MacLehose Press)

Bad Kids, Zijin Chen translated by Michelle Deeter (Pushkin Press, Pushkin Vertigo)

The Bleeding, Johana Gustawsson translated by David Warriner (Orenda Books)  

The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier translated by Adriana Hunter (Penguin Random House UK, Michael Joseph)

SHORT STORY DAGGER

Leigh Bardugo ‘The Disappearance’ in Marple (HarperCollins)

Victoria Dowd & Delilah Dowd, ‘The Tears of Venus’ in Unlocked (The D20 Authors)

Sanjida Kay ‘The Beautiful Game’ in The Perfect Crime edited by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski (HarperCollins)

Abir Mukherjee ‘Paradise Lost’ in The Perfect Crime edited by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski (HarperCollins)

CJ Tudor ‘Runaway Blues’ in A Sliver of Darkness (Penguin Random House)

Hazell Ward ‘Cast a Long Shadow’ in Cast a Long Shadow edited by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline Oakley (Honno Press)

ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

The Poisonous Solicitor, Stephen Bates (Icon Books)

The Life of Crime, Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey, Wendy Joseph (Transworld)

Tremors In The Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector, Amit Katwala (Harper Collins)

To Hunt a Killer, Julie Mackay and Robert Murphy (HarperCollins)

About A Son, David Whitehouse (Orion Publishing Group)

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

Ben Aaronovitch    

Sophie Hannah

Mick Herron 

PUBLISHERS’ DAGGER

Harper Fiction (HarperCollins)

Mantle (PanMacmillan)

Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)

Pushkin Vertigo (Pushkin Press)

Quercus (Hachette)

Viper (Profile Books)

DEBUT DAGGER Sponsored by ProWritingAid

Bulldog Murphy, Chris Corbett

Male, Unknown, Chris Griffiths

Sideways, Jeff Marsick

Heist, James Pierson

The Line of Least Resistance, Jeff Richards

Cradle of Storms, Margaret Winslow

CWA Dagger Judging Panels

The judges, who have been deliberating on the submissions from publishers include leading authors, bloggers, newspaper reviewers, academics, and media professionals.

You can view the judging panel for each category on the CWA website: The Daggers — The Crime Writers' Association (thecwa.co.uk)

About the CWA

The CWA was founded in 1953 by John Creasey. Its aim is to support, promote and celebrate this most durable, adaptable and successful of genres and the authors who write within it. It runs the prestigious CWA Dagger Awards, which celebrate the best in crime writing.

A thriving, growing community with a membership encompassing authors of all ages and at all stages of their careers, the CWA is UK-based, yet attracts many members from overseas.

It supports author members (plus literary agents, publishers, bloggers and editors) with a monthly magazine; a digital monthly newsletter from sister company the Crime Readers’ Association showcasing CWA authors and their books and events that goes to around 12,000 subscribers; and Case Files, a bimonthly ezine highlighting new books by CWA members. www.thecra.co.uk

The CWA also supports the Debuts; as yet unpublished writers, many of whom enter the Debut Dagger competition and the Margery Allingham Short Mystery competition.

The CWA run an annual conference and hold chapter meetings throughout the UK so members can access face-to-face networking and socialising.

It supports libraries and booksellers, with three Library Champions and a Booksellers Champion. It has links with various festivals and many other writers’ organisations such as the Society of Authors.

thecwa.co.uk

The CWA runs National Crime Reading Month in June: www.crimereading.com.

Dagger Sponsors

ALCS – Sponsors of the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a not-for-profit organisation started by writers for the benefit of all types of writers. Owned by its members, ALCS collects money due for secondary uses of writers’ work. It is designed to support authors and their creativity; ensure they receive fair payment and see their rights are respected. It promotes and teaches the principles of copyright and campaigns for a fair deal. It represents over 100,000 members, and since 1977 has paid around £500 million to writers.

Ian Fleming Publications Ltd – Sponsors of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Ian Fleming Publications Ltd is the Fleming family-owned company that looks after the James Bond literary brand, by promoting and making available all of Ian Fleming’s 007 books across the world.  They also keep the brand alive through the publication of new stories by authors such as Anthony Horowitz, William Boyd, Jeffery Deaver, Sebastian Faulks, Raymond Benson, John Gardner, Kingsley Amis, Samantha Weinberg, Steve Cole and Charlie Higson.  Alongside James Bond publishing, the company also manages the rights for Fleming’s two non-fiction books and his only children’s book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

International Literary Properties (ILP) – Sponsors of the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger

International Literary Properties works with authors, playwrights, managers of literary estates, and individual heirs to help realize the value from book and play-based intellectual property. ILP acquire all or partial rights to literary intellectual property, including books, plays and books of musicals. ILP own, nurture and champion a substantial number of properties, many authored by household names, in genres as diverse as mystery, crime, classic literature, non-fiction, and children’s. Its experienced team works closely with award-winning TV, film, and stage producers across the world.

ProWritingAid – Sponsors of the Debut Dagger

ProWritingAid was created by writers, for writers. Our primary goal is to help new writers get their stories and ideas across in the clearest and most effective way possible. We are passionate about language and believe good stories are intrinsically entwined with the words and phrases used to express them. ProWritingAid will never replace a human editor (our software can’t spot your plot holes!) Rather, our software helps you self-edit to a deeper level so that when you send your manuscript off to a human editor, they can focus on the content of your writing and not spend their time fixing basic writing issues like passive voice or emotion tells.

We are thrilled to sponsor the Debut Dagger competition. ProWritingAid’s primary goal is to help more writers get their stories out into the world, and the Debut Dagger is such an amazing opportunity for new crime writers to get their work in front of people that matter. 

Maxim Jakubowski – Sponsor of the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger

The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger is sponsored by former CWA Chair, Maxim Jakubowski, in honour of his wife Dolores Jakubowski, who was a translator and university lecturer but now suffers from Alzheimer’s.

Maxim said: “Dolores is well-known to the crime writing community as she’s been at my side for decades at book launches, parties, Dagger Award dinners and festivals worldwide, where she was always popular and a good friend to many involved in the genre.”

Maxim will sponsor the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger in her honour in perpetuity, beginning this year and continuing after his tenure in the Chair.

To view past winners, or find out more, please visit https://thecwa.co.uk/the-daggers

June 2023 Releases - Other

When I research the list of UK/Translated titles coming out I often stumble across titles of interest which are from other English speaking countries. Here are some that piqued my interest from June. Do let me know if you've read any of them and what you thought.

[Blurbs & Covers from Amazon]

Agatha Christie in Space?

The Launch Party by Lauren Forry (US)

THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. YOU'D DIE TO BE THERE.

Ten lucky people have won a place at the most exclusive launch event of the century: the grand opening of the Hotel Artemis, the first hotel on the moon. It's an invitation to die for. As their transport departs for its return to Earth and the doors seal shut behind them, the guests take the next leap for mankind.

However, they soon discover that all is not as it seems. The champagne may be flowing, but there is no one to pour it. Room service is available, but there is no one to deliver it. Besides the ten of them, they are completely alone.

When one of the guests is found murdered, fear spreads through the group. But that death is only the beginning. Being three days' journey from home and with no way to contact the outside, can any of the guests survive their stay?

We're seeing lots of Australian writers doing well in the UK. I've added this one to my wishlist.

Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor (Aus)

Twelve year-old Esther Bianchi disappears on her way home from school in the small town of Durton – and the truth will not come easily. Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor is an atmospheric crime novel set in rural Australia.

Dirt town. Dirt and hurt – that’s what others would remember about our town . . .

THE DETECTIVE

As the community is thrown into a state of grief and suspicion, Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels begins her investigation into the disappearance of Esther Bianchi. She questions those who knew the girl, attempting to unpick the secrets which bind them together.

THE MOTHER

The girl’s mother, Constance, believes that her daughter going missing is the worst thing that can happen to her. But as the search for Esther develops, she learns that things can always get worse.

THE FRIENDS

Ronnie is Esther’s best friend and is determined to bring her home. So when her classmate Lewis tells her that he saw Esther with a strange man at the creek the afternoon she went missing, Ronnie feels she is one step closer to finding her. But why is Lewis refusing to speak to the police?

And who else is keeping quiet about what happened to Esther?

This one comes recommended by Alexander McCall Smith.

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao (Fijian Indian Australian)

1914, Fiji: Sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere than this tropical paradise - or, as he calls it, 'this godforsaken island'. After a promising start to his police career in Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to the far-flung colony of Fiji as punishment for a humiliating professional mistake. Lonely and embarrassed, he dreams of solving a big case, thereby redeeming himself and gaining permission to leave. Otherwise, he fears he will be stuck in Fiji for ever.

When an indentured Indian woman goes missing from a sugarcane plantation and Fiji's newspapers scream 'kidnapping', the inspector-general reluctantly assigns Akal the case, giving him strict instructions to view this investigation as nothing more than cursory. But as soon as Akal arrives on the plantation, he identifies several troubling inconsistencies in the plantation owners' stories, and it seems there is more to this disappearance than meets the eye . . .

In Translation (2023)

When I update the new releases pages, I also update the new releases by category pages which includes  the in translation page. This will tell you what's published in translation in 2023 in the UK and will form the basis of what's likely to be considered for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger and our very own Petrona Award (for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel in Translation).

[NB. No sooner have I updated it then I find more to add - this time Anne Bruce has let me know about her translation of Snow Fall by Jørn Lier Horst which is out in November.]

New Releases - June 2023

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in June 2023 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). 94 titles this month. June and future months (and sometimes years) can be found on the Future Releases page. 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.

• Ailes, Kat - The Expectant Detectives
• Aird, Catherine - Constable Country #25 DI C D Sloan, Calleshire
• Ashdown, Isabel - Homecoming
• Askew, Claire - The Dead Don't Speak #5 DI Helen Birch
• Atkinson, Heather - Evil at Alardyce House (apa The Ancestral Tides) #4 The Alardyce Series
• Barnes, Kerry - Malice (ebook only)
• Belsham, Alison - The Girls on Chalk Hill #1 Detective Lexi Bennett
• Bettany, Jane - Murder in Merrywell #1 Violet Brewster
• Bishop, D V - Ritual of Fire #3 Cesare Aldo, Florence, 1536
• Boland, Shalini - The Silent Bride
• Bugler, Sheila - Black Valley Farm
• Calkins, Susanna - Death Among the Ruins #7 Lucy Campion, Chambermaid, 17thC
• Childs, Jill - The Mother at Number 5
• Clark, Cassandra - The Night of the Wolf #3 Brother Chandler, 1399
• Clarke, Wendy - The Night Out
• Coles, Richard - A Death in the Parish #2 Canon Daniel Clement
• Comley, M A - Where Did She Go? #9 DI Sally Parker
• Cooper, Helen - The Couple in the Photo
• Corry, Jane - Coming to Find You
• Diamond, Katerina - The Silence
• Edvardsson, M T - The Woman Inside tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles
• Ellis, Emmy - Best Served Cold #4 DI Carol Wren
• Ellis, Emmy - The Space Between
• Evans, Kate - No Justice #3 DCI Donna Morris, Scarborough
• Farrar, M K - The Time Keeper #11 DI Erica Swift
• Faulkner, Katherine - The Other Mothers
• Finch, Emily L - Ghosts in the Abbey #2 Samantha and Wyatt Mysteries, 1860s
• Fitzek, Sebastian - The Inmate tr. Jamie Bulloch
• Fraine, A L - Of All Flesh #4 Detective Loxley, Nottinghamshire
• Frances, Michelle - The Playground
• Freeman, Dianne - A Newlywed's Guide to Fortune and Murder #6 Countess of Harleigh, Victorian England
• Gatland, Jack - Hunt the Prey #3 Ellie Reckless
• Grayson, C J - The Denes Park Killings #2 Detectives Orion Tanzy and Max Byrd, Darlington
• Hannah, Mari - Black Fell #4 Stone and Oliver
• Hanson, Liam - Devil's Bread #5 Murder Squad, Cardiff
• Heald, Ruth - The Party on Laurel Street
• High, Kate - Murder and the Moggies of Magpie Row #4 Clarice Beech, Lincolnshire
• Holliday, Susi - The Street
• Hood, D K - Their Wicked Games #19 Detectives Kane and Alton
• Huber, Anna Lee - A Fatal Illusion #11 Lady Darby, Scotland, 1830s
• Hurst, Daniel - My Daughter's Boyfriend
• Jordan, Adele - The Traitor Queen #5 Kit Scarlett, Tudor Era
• Jordan, Jack - Conviction
• Kane, Alex - Janey
• Kasasian, M R C - The Horror of Haglin House #1 Violet Thorn
• Khavari, Kate - A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality #2 Saffron Everleigh, 1920s, London
• Kidd, Michelle - The Trophy Killer #2 DI Nicki Hardcastle, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
• Kiernan, Olivia - The End of Us
• Koning, Christina - Murder at Hendon Aerodrome (also pub. Time of Flight under A. C. Koning) #3 The Blind Detective, 1920s
• Kvensler, Ulf - The Couples Trip tr. ???
• Larkin, L A - Next Girl Missing #1 Sally Fairburn
• Larkin, L A - Her Deadly Truth #2 Sally Fairburn
• Latus, Dan - Playing Dirty #11 Frank Doy
• MacKenzie, A J - By Treason We Perish #1 Simon Merrivale
• Markin, Wes - Better the Devil #7 DCI Yorke
• McCulloch, Amy - Midnight
• McEvoy, Lesley - A Deadly Likeness #3 Dr Jo McCready
• McGowan, Claire - Let Me In
• McGowan, Claire - This Could Be Us
• Meyrick, Denzil - No Sweet Sorrow #11 DCI Daley
• Michallon, Clémence - The Quiet Tenant
• Mistry, Liz - End Game #6 DS Nikki Parekh
• Moore, Ian - Death at the Chateau #3 Follet Valley Mystery
• Morris, M S - Deep into that Darkness #4 DCI Tom Raven
• Nicholl, John - The Bride
• Organ, Emily - The Tower Bridge Murder #4 Augusta Peel, 1920s
• O'Sullivan, Darren - The Price
• Parry, Ambrose - Voices of the Dead #4 Will Raven & Sarah Fisher, 19C
• Phifer, Helen - Hold Your Breath (ebook only) #9 Detective Morgan Brookes
• Ramsay, Danielle - The Perfect Husband
• Ripley, Sam - The Rule of Three
• Robinson, Peter - Standing in the Shadows #28 Insp. Alan Banks, Yorkshire
• Rogers, Bill - The End Game #14 DCI Caton Manchester Murder Mystery
• Rogers, Gemma - The Flatmate
• Rowson, Pauline - Death in the Nets #3 Inspector Alun Ryga, Dorset
• Russell, Craig - The Devil's Playground
• Saxon, Diane - The Stepson
• Schneider, Hansjorg - The Murder of Anton Livius #3 Inspector Hunkeler tr. Mike Mitchell
• Seales, Julia - A Most Agreeable Murder
• Sherratt, Mel - Missing Girls #1 DI Marsha Clay, Staffordshire
• Smith, Alexander McCall - The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf #4 Detective Varg, Malmo
• Sutherland, John - The Fallen
• Todd, Marion - A Blind Eye #7 DI Clare Mackay
• Walker, Martin - A Chateau Under Siege #16 Bruno, Chief of Police, France
• Waller, Anita - The Couple Across the Street
• Walsh, Tríona - The Party
• Weaver, Tim - The Last Goodbye #13 David Raker, Missing Persons Investigator
• Westerson, Jeri - The Isolated Séance #1 An Irregular Detective, Victorian London
• Wilding, Rose - Speak of the Devil
• Wilkins, Susan - You Left Me #5 Detective Jo Boden
• Wilkinson, Diana - The Woman In My Home
• Wood, Michael - The Seventh Victim
• Woods, Karen - The Con
• Yokomizo, Seishi - The Devil's Flute Murders #8 Kosuke Kindaichi, PI tr. Jim Rion

Arctic & Antarctic

I'm working on the June releases and have seen that there's a new book out set in the Antarctic - Midnight by Amy McCulloch. You can also "visit" the Arctic in Freeze by Kate Simants which was released in March. Where are you sailing to?

[Blurbs from Amazon.]

ON THE TOUGHEST REALITY SHOW ON TELEVISION
A KILLER IS HIDING OUT OF SHOT

Frozen Out is set to be a TV sensation. On a small ship off the coast of Greenland, eight contestants will push themselves to breaking point for a £100,000 prize.

The show is Tori Matsuka's baby. After years working her way up the ladder, she's finally launching her own production company with Frozen Out, and the late nights, the debts, the strain on her relationship will all be worthwhile. Everything is riding on the next twelve days. For camerawoman Dee, it's a chance to start again after the tragedy that tanked her undercover journalism career. Not even Tori, her oldest friend, knows the full truth of why Dee left her previous job, and she plans to keep it that way.

But as errors and mishaps mount on set, tempers among the cast and crew start to fray. And when one of the contestants is found dead, only Dee realises the death wasn't natural - and from what she's seen from behind the camera, it won't be the last. As the Arctic ice closes in around them and all chance of escape is cut off, it becomes clear that although the world outside wants them dead, it's the secrets inside the ship that might cost them their lives.

With her life back in London falling apart, Olivia cannot believe her luck when she's invited on a once-in-a-lifetime Antarctic cruise with her boyfriend, Aaron.


Olivia has never been anywhere so spectacular: huge cliffs of ice loom high on the horizon, penguins dive through the sparkling sea, and above it all, the sun never sets in the eerie twilight sky.

Then Aaron disappears. And a body is discovered on board.

Surrounded by strangers, Olivia has no idea who she can trust.

If she can't figure it out soon, she might not make it back alive . . .

Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 - Shortlist

Please find below the official press release announcing the shortlist for the Harrogate Crime Novel of the Year 2023. 

 M.W. CRAVEN | FIONA CUMMINS | ELLY GRIFFITHS

DOUG JOHNSTONE | GILLIAN MCALLISTER | RUTH WARE

Harrogate, 15 June 2023: The shortlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023, produced by Harrogate International Festivals, has been announced today, with six bestselling authors competing to win the UK’s most wanted crime writing prize. The public is now invited to vote for the winner at www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com.

The prestigious award – now in its 19th year – celebrates crime fiction at its very best, with this year’s shortlist taking readers on spine-tingling journeys of murder, stalking, ghosts, mysterious disappearances and much more. Selected with help from a public vote from a longlist of twenty novels to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, the list features newcomers and previous prize contenders alike – but none of this year’s shortlisted novelists have ever taken home the coveted award before, making this year’s competition even more tense…

Challengers for the trophy include Elly Griffiths, former Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Programming Chair in 2017, who is in the running for an impressive sixth time for The Locked Room: the penultimate mystery in the series featuring Norfolk’s favourite forensic archaeologist, Dr Ruth Galloway.

Fellow award alumni on the shortlist are: Ruth Ware with her deliciously dark The It Girl, which unpicks the secrets of university friends in an unputdownable story of suspense and shock; Doug Johnstone’s latest instalment in the much-acclaimed ‘Skelfs’ series – which has been optioned for TV – also makes the list, with the heart-racing twists and turns of Black Hearts featuring an obsessive stalker, a faked death and a devastating spectre from the past; and best-selling author M.W. Craven is shortlisted for the latest DS Washington Poe thriller The Botanist, where the  disgraced detective is tasked with catching a poisoner sending the nation's most reviled people poems and pressed flowers.

Two novelists have made the shortlist for the first time: Gillian McAllister with her Sunday Times Thriller of the Year, Wrong Place Wrong Time, the jaw-dropping, plot twisting, mind bending Groundhog Day style murder mystery and Fiona Cummins – who was selected by Val McDermid for New Blood in 2017 – takes the final shortlist spot for her eerily unnerving thriller Into The Dark. The novel follows DS Saul Anguish as he aims to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of a whole family that takes the reader on a journey through revenge, greed, ambition, and the true cost of friendship.

The six novels shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 are:

    The Botanist by M.W. Craven (Little, Brown Book Group; Constable)

    Into The Dark by Fiona Cummins (Pan Macmillan; Macmillan/Pan)

    The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)

    Black Hearts by Doug Johnstone (Orenda Books)

    Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (Penguin Random House; Michael Joseph)

    The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Simon & Schuster)

Sharon Canavar, Chief Executive of Harrogate International Festivals, commented: “We are delighted to announce this year’s Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year shortlist, featuring six gripping reads that celebrate the best of the crime genre. With an array of subgenres spanning gripping thrillers to murder mysteries, the public have a tricky task ahead choosing only one from this talented bunch – we can’t wait to unmask the winner at the 20th anniversary of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival on 20th July!”

Simon Theakston, Executive Director of T&R Theakston Ltd, added: “What an exceptional line-up of crime writers in this year’s shortlist! We raise a glass of Theakston Old Peculier to all of the shortlistees and look forward to awarding the coveted beer cask trophy during the opening night ceremony!”

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year is run by Harrogate International Festivals and sponsored by T&R Theakston Ltd, in partnership with Waterstones and Daily Express, and is open to full-length crime novels published in paperback between 1 May 2022 to 30 April 2023 by UK and Irish authors.

The public is now invited to vote for a winner at www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com. Voting closes on Thursday 13 July, with the winner revealed on the opening night of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Thursday 20 July, receiving a prize of £3,000 and a handmade, engraved beer barrel provided by T&R Theakston Ltd. 

CrimeFest Awards 2023 - Winners

The winners of the CrimeFest Awards 2023 have been announced. You can find details of all the nominees here.

 

From the Press Release:

CRIMEFEST, one of Europe’s leading crime fiction conventions, has announced the winners of its annual awards.

 

Now in their 16th year, the awards honour the best crime books released in the UK last year.

 

The winner of the highly anticipated Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, and £1,000 prize monies, is Stacy Willingham for A Flicker in the Dark published by HarperCollins.

 

A psychological serial killer thriller with a shocking twist, A Flicker in the Dark was an instant New York Times bestseller and Sunday Times Thriller of the Year and is set to be adapted into a major TV series.

 

Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of Specsavers who sponsors the award, said: “We’re thrilled to support the debut author prize. As one of the judges, I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the shortlisted titles. Stacy Willingham’s debut, however, was a book I simply couldn’t put down until I had finished it.”

 

The eDunnit Award for the best e-book goes to Sara Gran for The Book of the Most Precious Substance, published by Faber & Faber. The absorbing occult thriller combining intrigue, magic and antiquarian bookselling was praised as “deeply atmospheric” by The Guardian.

 

Winner of the H.R.F Keating Award for best biographical or critical book on crime fiction is The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators by Martin Edwards, published by Collins Crime Club. Edward’s opus on the genre, described by the New York Times as a “impressive feat,” recently won a 2023 Edgar Award.

 

The Last Laugh Award goes posthumously to Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May's Peculiar London published by Doubleday. The author died aged 69 in March this year, having being diagnosed with cancer three years ago. His curious world of the nation’s oldest serving detectives, has been described as “deliriously eccentric” in the Financial Times, and “devilishly clever” by Val McDermid.

 

Best Crime Novel for Children, aged 8-12, goes to Sharna Jackson for The Good Turn published by Puffin. With themes of social activism, the spooky mystery from the former Waterstones Children's Book Prize Category Winner revolves around an internet-loving girl determined to start her own scout troop.

 

Best Crime Novel for Young Adults, aged 12-16, is awarded to Holly Jackson for Five Survive published by Electric Monkey. A gripping cat-and-mouse thriller, it was The Guardian Best Children’s Book of 2022. 

 

The Thalia Proctor Memorial Award for Best Adapted TV Crime Drama goes to Slow Horses (seasons 1 & 2), based on the books by Mick Herron. Produced by See-Saw, shown on Apple TV+, the drama, which follows a dysfunctional and disgraced team of MI5 agents, stars Gary Oldman.

 

The award is named in honour of Thalia, a CrimeFest team member and a much-loved figure in the world of crime fiction, and is decided by public vote.

 

Adrian Muller, Co-host of CRIMEFEST, said: “We are proud to be one of the few genre awards that celebrate e-books, humour, children, and Young Adult novels. Our inclusive awards reflect the values of our convention as accessible and open to all. These awards are a true celebration of the crime genre, which continues to entertain and enlighten so many readers of all ages. We would like to thank Specsavers for their on-going support in celebrating new talent.”

 

Hosted in Bristol, CrimeFest is one of the biggest crime fiction events in Europe, and one of the most popular dates in the international crime fiction calendar, with circa 60 panel events and 150 authors over four days. Featured Guests at the convention this May are Mark Billingham and Elly Griffiths.

 

Leading British crime fiction reviewers and reviewers of fiction for children and young adults, alongside the members of the School Library Association (SLA) form the CrimeFest judging panels.

 

CrimeFest was created following the hugely successful one-off visit to Bristol in 2006 of the American Left Coast Crime convention. It was established in 2008. It follows the egalitarian format of most US conventions, making it open to fans, readers, and commercially published authors.

 

All category winners will receive a Bristol Blue Glass commemorative award.

 

2023 CrimeFest Award Winners

 

SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD

- Stacy Willingham for A Flicker in the Dark (HarperCollins)

 

eDUNNIT AWARD

- Sara Gran for The Book of the Most Precious Substance (Faber & Faber)

 

H.R.F. KEATING AWARD

- Martin Edwards for The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators (Collins Crime Club)

 

LAST LAUGH AWARD

- Christopher Fowler for Bryant & May's Peculiar London (Doubleday)

 

BEST CRIME FICTION NOVEL FOR CHILDREN

- Sharna Jackson for The Good Turn (Puffin)

 

BEST CRIME FICTION NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS

- Holly Jackson for Five Survive (Electric Monkey)

 

THALIA PROCTOR MEMORIAL AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED TV CRIME DRAMA

- Slow Horses (seasons 1 & 2), based on the books by Mick Herron. Produced by See-Saw. Shown on Apple TV+.

 

CWA Dagger Awards 2023 - Shortlist for the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger

The CWA Dagger Shortlists were announced on Friday at CrimeFest. As mentioned before, the most important one to me is the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger, formerly the International Dagger for which I was a judge over ten years ago now. 

The shortlist is below and you can check out the longlist, and also my extensive but not exhaustive list of eligible titles here.

Winners will be announced on 6 July at the CWA Awards Dinner.

Shortlist:

Morgan Audic - Good Reasons to Die Sam Taylor (France, M, Mountain Leopard Press)

Michel Bussi - The Red Notebook tr. Vineet Lal (France, M, W&N)

Javier Cercas - Even the Darkest Night tr. Anne McLean (Spain, M, MacLehose Press)

Zijin Chen - Bad Kids tr. Michelle Deeter (China, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

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

Hervé le Tellier - The Anomaly tr. Adriana Hunter (France, M, Michael Joseph)

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

Website Updates: May 2023

I've recently updated the main files on the Euro Crime website. "Euro Crime" includes both British and other European crime fiction writers (that have been published in English); non-British/European born crime writers who are strongly associated with British/European crime fiction (eg. Donna Leon), and crime writers in translation from outside of Europe.

My usual reminders regarding the New Releases page: 

1. The main by month/by author pages refer to when a book is published (in English) anywhere in the world however the 'by category ie historical, translated etc' is specific to when it's published in the UK.

2. When a book is released "early" in ebook I am taking the publication date as to be when the print edition comes out (this is the rule we use for determining Petrona Award eligibility).

As always, if you spot something wrong or missing, please do let me know.

Here's a summary of the usual updates:

The Author Websites page lists 1090 sites.

In Bibliographies there are bibliographies for 3026 authors (16298 titles of which 3108 are reviewed**).
**Some reviews will be provided by the Crime Review website. 

I've added new bibliographies for: Shimon Adaf, Leye Adenle, E C Bateman, Katie Bishop, Stella Blómkvist, Frankie Boyle, Colleen Cambridge, Simone Campos, Amanda Cassidy, Zijin Chen, Mahi Cheshire, Richard Coles, Elle Connel, Lucy Connelly, Catherine Cooper, Amy Cronin, Judi Daykin, Concita De Gregorio, Florian Dennisson, Anna Downes, M H Eccleston, Sven Elvestad, Sarah Engell, Pascal Engman, Helen Erichsen, Natalia García Freire, C P Giuliani, Lucy Goacher, Robert Gold, Andrew Goldspink, Anne Mette Hancock, Izzie Harper, Jane Heafield, Hannah Hendy, Kate High, Sam Holland, Victor Jestin, Alan Johnson, Anthony Johnston, Carole Johnstone, Anna Karolina, Scott Kershaw, Kate Khavari, Camilla Lackberg & Henrik Fexeus, Sergei Lebedev, Jo Leevers, John Lincoln, Robert J Lloyd, Natalie Marlow, Laurent Mauvignier, Fernanda Melchor, Robbie Morrison, T Orr Munro, Christie J Newport, L C North, Oriana Ramunno, Petra Rautianen, Antoine Renand, Paula Rodríguez, Joachim B Schmidt, Im Seong-Sun, Alice Slater, Sofia Slater, Cailean Steed, Alison Stockham, Jacqueline Sutherland, Gerwin van der Werf, Kate Webb, M J White, Patrick Worrall, Glenda Young and Zhang Yueran.

 

I've updated the bibliographies (ie added new titles) for: Cathy Ace, Jane Adams, R G Adams, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Maria Adolfsson, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Tasha Alexander, Tove Alsterdal, Lin Anderson, M J Arlidge, Jennifer Ashley, Claire Askew, Stephanie Austin, Yukito Ayatsuji, Elizabeth Bailey, Tina Baker, Jackie Baldwin, Lisa Ballantyne, Jean-Luc Bannalec, John Banville, Fiona Barton, M C Beaton, David Belbin, Alison Belsham, Tom Benn, S J Bennett, Jane Bettany, Billy Billingham, Mark Billingham, D V Bishop, Cara Black, Jenny Blackhurst, Sara Blaedel,Robin Blake, Sam Blake, Rachael Blok, R P Bolton, Sharon Bolton, Sarah Bonner, Roxanne Bouchard, Rhys Bowen, Tom Bradby, Rebecca Bradley, Simon Brett, Neil Broadfoot, Steph Broadribb, Frances Brody, Christopher Brookmyre, Alison Bruce, Camilla Bruce, Marion Brunet, Simone Buchholz, James Buckler, Fiona Buckley, Sheila Bugler, Steve Burrows, Michel Bussi, Dorothy Cannell, Donato Carrisi, Chris Carter, Will Carver, Jane Casey, Steve Cavanagh, Javier Cercas, Julia Chapman, Karen Charlton, Clare Chase, A A Chaudhuri, Lee Child, Ajay Chowdhury, Alys Clare, Cassandra Clark, Ann Cleeves, Rory Clements, John Connolly, Simon Conway, Caroline Corcoran, Colin Cotterill, Helen Cox, James Craig, M W Craven, Deborah Crombie, A J Cross, Julia Crouch, Fiona Cummins, Judith Cutler, Lisa Cutts, Alex Dahl, Kjell Ola Dahl, Lindsey Davis, N R Daws, Maurizio De Giovanni, Oscar de Muriel, Jason Dean, John Dean, Will Dean, J P Delaney, Joël Dicker, P C/Paul Doherty, Claire Douglas, Victoria Dowd, Charlotte Duckworth, Sabine Durrant, Philippa East, M T Edvardsson, Martin Edwards, Jim Eldridge, Jessica Ellicott, Bella Ellis, Joy Ellis, Kate Ellis, Mark Ellis, R J Ellory, Katrine Engberg, Caroline England, Fiona Erskine, Kate Evans, Chris/C M Ewan, John Fairfax, Eric Faye, Lyndsay Faye, Alice Feeney, Jessica Fellowes, David Fennell, T P Fielden, Helen Fields, Paul Finch, Caz Finlay, Trish Finnegan, Sebastian Fitzek, Helene Flood, Christopher Fowler, Dick Francis, Nicci French, John Fullerton, Robert Galbraith, Robert Goddard, Juan Gomez-Jurado, J G Goodhind, Claire Gradidge, Ann Granger, Alex Gray, Lisa Gray, Susanna Gregory, Elly Griffiths, Rebecca Griffiths, Johana Gustawsson, Janice Hallett, G R Halliday, Adam Hamdy, Kate Hamer, Penny Hancock, Mari Hannah, Sophie Hannah, C S Harris, Robert Harris, Cora Harrison, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Alis Hawkins, Paula Hawkins, Sarah Hawkswood, Sam Hayes, Ruth Heald, Veronica Heley, Mick Herron, Keigo Higashino, G D Higgins, M K Hill, Reginald Hill, Matt Hilton, Tom Hindle, SJI/Susi Holliday, Noelle Holten, Anthony Horowitz, Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger, Catherine Ryan Howard, Debbie Howells, Anna Lee Huber, James Humphreys, Arlene Hunt, Graham Hurley, Arnaldur Indridason, Katja Ivar, David Jackson, Jo Jakeman, Christina James, Peter James, Michael Jecks, Diane Jeffrey, Lisa Jewell, Doug Johnstone, Ragnar Jonasson, Philip Gwynne Jones, Will Jordan, Alan Judd, Jessie Keane, Erin Kelly, Christobel Kent, Lars Kepler, Vaseem Khan, Olivia Kiernan, T E Kinsey, Erin Kinsley, Bill Kitson, Emily Koch, Giles Kristian, Lynda La Plante, Camilla Lackberg, David Lagercrantz, Deryn Lake, Asa Larsson, Liz Lawler, John Lawton, Herve Le Corre, Stephen Leather, Jung-myung/J M Lee, Georgina Lees, Simon Lelic, Donna Leon, Ruth Lillegraven, Douglas Lindsay, Sarah Linley, Howard Linskey, Catherine Lloyd, Chris Lloyd, Gytha Lodge, TM Logan, M L Longworth, Peter Lovesey, Rachel Lynch, Bonnie MacBird, Stuart MacBride Lorraine Mace, Niki Mackay, Clare Mackintosh, Shona/S G MacLean, Torquil MacLeod, Gilly Macmillan, Molly MacRae, Karen Maitland, G M Malliet, Marco Malvaldi, Louise Mangos, Tom Marcus, Scott Mariani, David Mark, Patricia Marques, Laura Marshall, Edward Marston, Faith Martin, Alex Marwood, Deborah Masson, Priscilla Masters, S R Masters, Nadine Matheson, Alyssa Maxwell, Peter May, Val McDermid, Andy McDermott, Lynne McEwan, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Andy McNab, Fergus McNeill, Catriona McPherson, Dervla McTiernan, Stephanie Merritt, Ant Middleton, Mark Mills, Denise Mina, D A Mishani, Dreda Say Mitchell, J S Monroe, Allison Montclair, Ian Moore, Peter Morfoot, Mandy Morton, Frank/T F Muir, Margaret Murphy, Amy Myers, Barbara Nadel, Fuminori Nakamura, Jo Nesbo, Hakan Nesser, Chris Nickson, Olivier Norek, Lauren North, Alex North, Liz Nugent, Carlene O'Connor, Nick Oldham, Sergio Olguin, Riku Onda, Judith O'Reilly, Richard Osman, Sólveig Pálsdóttir, B A Paris, Kate Parker, Alan Parks, Tony Parsons, Vikki Patis, Nell Pattison, Chris Pavone, Andrea Penrose, Anne Perry, S W Perry, Christoffer Petersen, Louise Phillips, Sarah Pinborough, Alex Pine, Caro Ramsay, Danielle Ramsay, Ian Rankin, Deanna Raybourn, Sarah Rayne, Alex Reeve, Linda Regan, Rebecca Reid, Allie Reynolds, Amanda Reynolds, Kate Rhodes, Rachel Rhys, Matthew Richardson, Marnie Riches, Michael Ridpath, Stella Rimington, Mike Ripley, Peter Robinson, Michael Robotham, Gemma Rogers, Mercedes Rosende, Anders Roslund, Rosemary Rowe Laura Joh Rowland, Pauline Rowson, Michael Russell, Leigh Russell, Sadie Ryan, Kate Saunders, Vanessa Savage, Louisa Scarr, Alex Scarrow Simon Scarrow, Katharine Schellman, Claire Seeber, Max Seeck, Victoria Selman, Gerald Seymour, Louise Sharland, William Shaw, Paige Shelton, Mel Sherratt, Will Shindler, Lilja Sigurdardottir, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Gustaf Skördeman, Joanna Campbell Slan, Alex Smith, Alexander McCall Smith, Anna Smith, Martin Cruz Smith, Jo Spain, Ruby Speechley, Sally Spencer, Lyndon Stacey, David Stafford, Mel/Melvin R Starr, Catherine Steadman, Jane Steen, Peter Steiner, Viveca Sten, Linda Stratmann, Emma Tallon, C L Taylor, Andrew Taylor, Aline Templeton, Russ Thomas, Sherry Thomas, Will Thomas, Lesley Thomson, Robert Thorogood, Peter Tickler, Marion Todd, Rebecca Tope, Peter Tremayne, S K Tremayne, Camilla Trinchieri, M J Trow, C J Tudor, Antti Tuomainen, A K Turner, L C Tyler, P D Viner, Ferdinand von Schirach, Alexandra Walsh, B P Walter, Alex Walters, Rachel/RM Ward, Sarah Ward, Ruth Ware, Julie Wassmer, Holly Watt, Kerry Watts, Tim Weaver, Ashley Weaver, Jeri Westerson, S R White, Claire Whitfield Susan Wilkins, Kerry Wilkinson, Andrew Williams, Jacqueline Winspear, Olga Wojtas, James Wolff, Michael Wood, Tom Wood, Trevor Wood, A Yi and Seishi Yokomizo.

New Releases - May 2023

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in May 2023 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). May and future months (and sometimes years) can be found on the Future Releases page. 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.

• Allingham, Merryn - Murder at Abbeymead Farm #6 Flora Steele, Sussex, 1955
• Atkinson, Heather - Savage Sisters (ebook only)
• Baldwin, Jackie - Murder by the Seaside #1 Detective Grace McKenna, Edinburgh
• Bell, Alice - Grave Expectations
• Billingham, Mark - The Last Dance #1 Detective Declan Miller, Blackpool
• Bishop, Katie - The Girls of Summer
• Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the Conquistadors' Gold #11 Brother and sister sleuths, Blotto and Twinks
• Buckley, Fiona - The Net of Steel #22 Ursula Blanchard, an Elizabethan lady
• Chase, Clare - Mystery at Farfield Castle #10 Eve Mallow, Saxford St Peter
• Clare, Alys - The Cargo From Neira #5 Gabriel Taverner, Former ship's surgeon, C17 Devon
• Comley, M A - To Endanger Lives (ebook only) #9 DI Sam Cobbs
• Dean, Will - The Last Passenger (apa The Last One)
• Denzil, Sarah A with SL Harker - The Nice Guy (ebook only)
• Edwards, Mark - Keep Her Secret
• Edwards, Martin - Sepulchre Street #4 Rachel Savernake & Jacob Flint, 1930s
• Ellicott, Jessica - Murder on the Home Front #2 WPC Billie Harkness, Hull, 1940
• Erichsen, Helen - Murder by Natural Causes #1 Cilla, Contract Killer
• Gatland, Jack - Covert Action (ebook only) #3 Tom Marlowe
• Gatward, D J - Silent Ruin (ebook only) #14 DCI Harry Grimm
• Glister, Tim - A Game of Deceit #3 Richard Knox, MI5 Agent, London, 1966
• Goldis, Jaclyn - The Chateau
• Grant, Tracy - The Seven Dials Affair (ebook only) #27 Rannoch Fraser
• Hawkswood, Sarah - Too Good to Hang #11 Bradecote and Catchpoll, Worcestershire, C12 Bradecote and Catchpoll, Worcestershire, C12
• Higson, Charlie - On His Majesty's Secret Service - James Bond
• Hilton, Matt - Cold Fire #10 Grey and Villere, Louisiana
• Holland, Sam - The Twenty #2 Major Crimes
• Hunter, Alice - The Serial Killer's Sister #3 Serial Killer
• Hunter, E V - A Contest To Kill For #2 Hopgood Hall Murder Mysteries
• Hunter, M A - Adrift
• Hurst, Daniel - The Bride to Be
• Isaac, Jane - In the Shadows #5 DCI Helen Lavery
• James, Alison - The Woman in Carriage 3
• James, Ed - Where the Bodies Lie #2 DI Rob Marshall
• Jenkins, Victoria Happily - Married
• Johnston, Anthony - The Dog Sitter Detective #1 Gwinny Tuffel, Dog sitter
• Kabler, Jackie - The Vanishing of Class 3B
• Kaya, Kerry - Revenge #2 The Tempests
• Kelleher, Casey - The Babysitter's Secret (ebook only)
• Kepler, Lars - The Spider tr. Alice Menzies #9 DI Joona Linna, Stockholm
• Kirk, JD - The One That Got Away (ebook only) #1 DI Heather Filson
• Lackberg, Camilla & Fexeus, Henrik - Cult tr. Ian Giles #2 Detective Mina Dabiri & Mentalist Vincent Walter
• Lassa, Antonia - Skin Deep tr. Jacky Collins
• Lawton, John - Moscow Exile #4 Joe Wilderness
• Leather, Stephen - Triggers
• Leevers, Jo - Tell Me How This Ends
• Lynes, S E - The Summer Holiday
• McEwan, Lynne - The Girls in the Glen #3 DI Shona Oliver, Dumfries
• McLean, Rachel - Death and Poetry (ebook only) #2 McBride & Tanner
• Macmillan, Gilly - The Fall
• Madsen, Jenny Lund - Thirty Days of Darkness tr. Megan E Turney #1 Hannah
• Mara, Andrea - No One Saw a Thing
• Marcus, Tom - Target and Destroy #3 Matt Logan, MI5 Agent
• Mariani, Scott - The White Knight #27 Ben Hope, Ex-SAS
• Marsons, Angela - Deadly Fate #18 DI Kim Stone
• Maslen, Andy - Seven Seconds (ebook only) #14 Gabriel Wolfe
• Monaghan, S D - Toxic People
• Morton, Mandy - The Windmill Murders #11 The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency
• Munro, T Orr - Slaughterhouse Farm #2 CSI Ally Dymond, Devon
• Nadel, Barbara - Double Illusion #25 Cetin Ikmen, Policeman, Istanbul
• Nesbo, Jo - Killing Moon tr. Seán Kinsella #13 Detective Harry Hole, Oslo, Norway
• North, Lauren - My Word Against His (ebook only)
• Parks, Alan - To Die In June #6 Harry McCoy, Police Officer, Glasgow, 1973
• Pearce, Biba - Fever Pitch (ebook only) #6 Kenzie Gilmore
• Priest, Christopher - Airside
• Richardson, Matthew - The Scarlet Papers
• Ryan, Chris - Cold Red
• Salter, Michelle - The Body at Carnival Bridge #3 Iris Woodmore, 1920s
• Skelton, Douglas - A Thief's Justice #2 Jonas Flynt, C18
• Slater, K L - The Bedroom Window (ebook only)
• Smith, Martin Cruz - Independence Square #10 Chief Investigator Arkady Renko, Moscow
• Spain, Jo - Don't Look Back
• Stacey, Lyndon - Bad Blood #5 Daniel Whelan, ex-police dog handler, Dartmoor
• Swallow, James - Dark Horizon
• Watson, Sue - The Wedding Day
• Watt, Holly - The End of the Game #4 Casey Benedict, Investigative Journalist
• Whitelaw, Jonathan - The Village Hall Vendetta
• Wilkinson, Kerry - The Ones Who Are Hidden #4 A Whitecliff Bay Mystery
• Wolff, James - The Man in the Corduroy Suit