Walter Mosley

Gold Dagger

• Oxblood, by Tom Benn (Bloomsbury)
• Shoot the Moonlight Out, by William Boyle (No Exit Press)
• The Ink Black Heart, by Robert Galbraith (Sphere)
• The Kingdoms of Savannah, by George Dawes Green (Headline)
• The Lost Man of Bombay, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Bookseller of Inverness, by S.G. MacLean (Quercus)
• A Killing in November, by Simon Mason (Riverrun)
• The Clockwork Girl, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
• The Winter Guest, by W.C. Ryan (Zaffre)
• A Killing Rain, by Faye Snowden (Flame Tree Press)
• The Bone Road, by N.E. Solomons (Polygon)
• The Silent Brother, by Simon Van der Velde (Northodox Press)

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

• Opera, by Julie Anderson (Claret Press)
• A Kiss After Dying, by Ashok Banker (Michael Joseph)
• Take Your Breath Away, by Linwood Barclay (HQ)
• Seventeen, by John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Match, by Harlan Coben (Century)
• The Botanist, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
• Daisy Darker, by Alice Feeney (PanMacMillan)
• The Ink Black Heart, by Robert Galbraith (Sphere)
• Alias Emma, by Ava Glass (Century)
• A Loyal Traitor, by Tim Glister (Point Blank)
• Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka (Phoenix)
• May God Forgive, by Alan Parks (Canongate)

John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger

• A Good Day to Die, by Amen Alonge (Quercus)
• Better the Blood, by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Breaking, by Amanda Cassidy (Canelo)
• Don’t Know Tough, by Eli Cranor (Headline)
• The Local, by Joey Hartstone (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Truth Will Out, by Rosemary Hennigan (Orion)
• London in Black, by Jack Lutz (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Dirt Town, by Hayley Scrivenor (Macmillan)
• No Country for Girls, by Emma Styles (Sphere)
• Nobody But Us, by Laure Van Rensburg (Michael Joseph)
• Outback, by Patricia Wolf (Embla)
• The Partisan, by Patrick Worrall (Bantam Press)

Historical Dagger

• The Darkest Sin, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
• Blackstone Fell, by Martin Edwards (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Two Storm Wood, by Philip Gray (Harvill Secker)
• The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, by Jack Jewers (Moonflower)
• The Bookseller of Inverness, by S.G. MacLean (Quercus)
• The Clockwork Girl, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
• Death at the Dolphin, by Gretta Mulrooney (Joffe)
• The Homes, by J.B. Mylet (Viper)
• The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra (Constable)
• Blue Water, by Leonora Nattrass (Viper)
• Hear No Evil, by Sarah Smith (Two Roads)
• The Mushroom Tree Mystery, by Ovidia Yu (Constable)

ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

• The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery, by Stephen Bates (Icon)
• Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry, by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel (Atlantic)
• What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry, by Ben Cave (Seven Dials)
• Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History, by Simon Danczuk and Daniel Smith (The History Press)
• The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
• Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey, by Wendy Joseph (Doubleday)
• Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector, by Amit Katwala (Mudlark)
• To Hunt a Killer: How I Brought Melanie Road’s Murderer to Justice, by Julie Mackay and Robert Murphy (Harper Element)
• The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and U.S. Secret Services Work Together, by Michael Smith (Simon & Schuster)
• The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free, by Andy West (Picador)
• About A Son: A Murder and A Father’s Search for Truth, by David Whitehouse (Phoenix)
• Stitched Up: Stories of Life and Death from a Prison Doctor, by Shahed Yousaf (Bantam Press)

Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger

• Good Reasons to Die, by Morgan Audic, translated by Sam Taylor (Mountain Leopard Press)
• The Red Notebook, by Michel Bussi, translated by Vineet Lal (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Even the Darkest Night, by Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean (MacLehose Press)
• Bad Kids, by Zijin Chen, translated by Michelle Deeter (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Impossible, by Erri De Luca, translated by N.S. Thompson (Mountain Leopard Press)
• Femicide, by Pascal Engman, translated by Michael Gallagher (Legend Press)
• The Bleeding, by Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner (Orenda)
• The Corpse Flower, by Anne Mette Hancock, translated by Tara Chace (Swift Press)
• The Anomaly, by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
• The Dark Flood, by Deon Meyer, translated K.L. Seggers (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Tattoo Murder, by Akimitsu Takagi,translated by Deborah Boehm (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura, translated by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida (Baskerville)

Short Story Dagger

• “The Disappearance,” by Leigh Bardugo (from Marple; HarperCollins)
• “The Tears of Venus,” by Victoria Dowd and Delilah Dowd (from Unlocked; The D20 Authors)
• “Strawberry Moon,” by John Grisham (from Sparring Partners, by John Grisham; Hodder & Stoughton)
• “Clout Chaser,” by Rachel Howzell Hall (from The Perfect Crime, edited by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski; HarperCollins)
• “The Beautiful Game,” by Sanjida Kay (from The Perfect Crime)
• “Death in Darjeeling,” by Vaseem Khan (from The Perfect Crime)
• “Just One More,” by Laura Lippman (from Seasonal Work and Other Killer Stories, by Laura Lippman; Faber and Faber)
• “Paradise Lost,” by Abir Mukherjee (from The Perfect Crime)
• “Auld Bride,” by Judith O’Reilly (from Gone, edited by Stephen J. Golds; Red Dog Press)
• “Runaway Blues,” by C.J. Tudor (from A Sliver of Darkness, by C.J. Tudor; Michael Joseph)
• “The Lake House,” by Ferdinand von Schirach (from Punishment, by Ferdinand von Schirach, translated by Katharina Hall; Baskerville)
• “Cast a Long Shadow,” by Hazell Ward Cast (from Cast a Long Shadow, edited by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline; Honno Welsh Women’s Press)