The Crime Writers’ Association

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2018

Shortlisted


Emily Koch

If I Die Before I Wake

Published by: Harvill Secker

Extremely slick and excruciatingly tense debut. A brilliant Hitchcockian premise – a possible murder victim who can’t speak or move – provides an original and unforgettable narrator. The writing has perfect control of what the protagonist and reader know and when they discover it.

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