The 2019 Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger awards were handed out tonight at a ceremony at the Grange City Hotel in London. (For all the finalists, head on over here.) Congratulations to this years winners, including:

• CWA DIAMOND DAGGER (For a career of sustained excellence and a significant contribution to the genre): Robert Goddard
  
  
• CWA GOLD DAGGER:  W. Craven: The Puppet Show (Constable / Little Brown)
  
  
• CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD): Chris Hammer: Scrublands (Wildfire)
  
  
• CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: Ben Macintyre: The Spy and the Traitor (Viking)
  
  
• CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER: Holly Watt: To The Lions (Raven Books)
  
  
• CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER: Dov Alfon: A Long Night in Paris, translated by Daniella Zamir (MacLehose Press)
  
  
• CWA SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER: S.G. MacLean: Destroying Angel (Quercus Fiction)
  
  
• CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER: Danuta Kot writing as Danuta Reah: "The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing" (in The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and other Fantastic Female Fables, Fantastic Books); also highly commended: Teresa Solana: "I Detest Mozart" (in The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories by Teresa Solana, Bitter Lemon Press)
  
  
• CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY: Kate Ellis
  
  
• CWA DEBUT DAGGER: Shelley Burr: Wake; also highly commended, Catherine Hendricks: Hardways
  
  
• BEST CRIME AND MYSTERY PUBLISHER:  No Exit Press