Historical Dagger

This award is for the best historical crime novel, first published in the UK in English during the judging period, set in any period up to 50 years prior to the year in which the award will be made. For novels that involve passages set later than this time period, at least three quarters of the book should be set in an earlier period.

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2022 shortlist

April in Spain

John Banville
Historical Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Faber

Sunset Swing

Ray Celestin
Historical Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Pan Macmillan, Mantle

Crow Court

Andy Charman
Historical Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Unbound

Not One of Us

Alis Hawkins
Historical Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Canelo

Edge of the Grave

Robbie Morrison
Historical Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Macmillan

A Corruption of Blood

Ambrose Parry
Historical Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Canongate

2022 longlist

TITLE	AUTHOR	PUBLISHER	IMPRINT
April in Spain	John Banville	Faber
City of Vengeance	DV Bishop	Pan Macmillan	Macmillan
Sunset Swing	Ray Celestin	Pan Macmillan	Mantle
Crow Court	Andy Charman	Unbound
Not One Of Us	Alis Hawkins	Canelo
The Drowned City	KJ Maitland	Headline
Where God Does Not Walk	Luke McCallin	No Exit Press
Edge of the Grave	Robbie Morrison	Pan Macmillan	Macmillan
A Corruption of Blood	Ambrose Parry	Canongate Books
Blackout	Simon Scarrow	Headline
The Royal Secret	Andrew Taylor	HarperCollins	Harper Fiction
The Cannonball Tree Mystery	Ovidia Yu	Little, Brown Book Group	Constable

Historical Dagger 2021 Winner

Vaseem Khan

Midnight at Malabar House

Hodder & Stoughton

Inspector Persis Wadia, India’s first female police inspector, finally lands a big case: investigating the murder of a prominent English diplomat in the midst of hosting his own New Year’s Eve Ball, in Bombay 1949. His murderer hopes … More

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The Judges

Professor Edward James (Chair)
Edward James is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College Dublin. He has published numerous papers on the archaeology, art and history of early medieval Europe. He is also an enthusiastic reader of science fiction and fantasy. In 2017 the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts presented him with their Distinguished Scholarship Award.

Janet Laurence
Janet Laurence has written four cookery books and has contributed articles to a number of publications, including a series on historical cooking for Country Life. Under a pseudonym she also writes contemporary women’s fiction and was recently chair of judges for the CWA Dagger in Translation.

Angela Rippon
Angela May Rippon CBE is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Angela presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One’s Nine O’Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975.