The 2023 CWA Daggers Longlists Have Been Announced

Over the weekend the Crime Writer’s Association (CWA) revealed the longlists for 2023’s Dagger awards, which honour the best of the crime-writing genre.

Started in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century.

We at Ian Fleming Publications Ltd are proud to sponsor the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, which highlights the best thrillers of the year.

The full longlist for the 2023 Steel Dagger is as follows:

Opera, Julie Anderson (Claret Press)
A Kiss After Dying, Ashok Banker (Penguin Random House UK; Michael Joseph)
Take Your Breath Away, Linwood Barclay (HarperCollins; HQ)
Seventeen, John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Match, Harlan Coben (Penguin Random House UK; Century)
The Botanist, MW Craven (Little, Brown; Constable)
Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney (PanMacMillan)
The Ink Black Heart, Robert Galbraith (Sphere)
Alias Emma, Ava Glass (Penguin Random House UK; Century)
A Loyal Traitor, Tim Glister (One World; Point Blank Books)
Notes on an Execution, Danya Kukafka (Orion Publishing Group; Phoenix)
May God Forgive, Alan Parks (Canongate)

The 2023 Daggers shortlist will be announced on 12 May, and the winners on 6 July. Find out more about past winners of the Steel Dagger on the CWA site here, and learn more about the rest of the Daggers and longlists here.