The 2023 CWA Daggers Shortlists Have Been Announced

Over the weekend the Crime Writer’s Association (CWA) revealed the shortlists 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 shortlist for the 2023 Steel Dagger is as follows:

Take Your Breath Away, Linwood Barclay (HarperCollins; HQ)
Seventeen, John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Botanist, MW Craven (Little, Brown; Constable)
The Ink Black Heart, Robert Galbraith (Sphere)
Alias Emma, Ava Glass (Penguin Random House UK; Century)
May God Forgive, Alan Parks (Canongate)

The 2023 Daggers winners will be announced 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 shortlists here.