Corrupt Bodies
Peter Everett
Icon Books
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
This award is for any non-fiction work on a crime related theme by an author of any nationality as long as the book was first published in the UK in English during the Judging Period. This award encompasses, though is not limited to, non-fiction works relating to true crime, historical crime, crime-related biography, crime-fiction literature and critical studies.
Shortlist
Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod
Caroline Goode
Oneworld Publications
The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury
Sean O’Connor
Simon & Schuster
The Professor & The Parson
Adam Sisman
Profile Books
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
Susannah Stapleton
Picador
The judges
Philip Gooden (Chair)
Philip writes both fiction and non-fiction. His historical novels include the Nick Revill series, set in Elizabethan London, and a Victorian sequence, the most recent title for which is The Durham Deception. Philip Gooden also writes books on language, including Who’s Whose? and Faux Pas?, which won the English Speaking Union award for the best English Language book of 2006. He was Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association in 2007-8
Jasmine Simeone
Jasmine as been first, Bulletin Editor, and then also Secretary of the Dorothy L Sayers Society, starting in 1995. I also answer as many as possible of the questions which come in to the info@sayers.org.uk address, which has taught me a pretty good knowledge of Sayers and her works. I am also a member of the Margery Allingham Society, and a devotee of Golden Age detective fiction, but with fairly wide-ranging literary tastes.
Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell was the crime correspondent of the Guardian and the chairman of the Crime Reporters’ Association. He previously worked for LBC Radio, Time Out and City Limits. His books include The Underworld, We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds, a history of crime reporting; That Was Business, This Is Personal; and two novels, If It Bleeds and The Paradise Trail.
Kate Godsmark
After a false start in academic publishing, Kate moved to Piatkus, initially as a Subsidiary and International Rights Manager; she was then fortunate enough to enable to indulge her lifelong passion for crime writing on a daily basis when she became Commissioning Editor for crime. In recent years she has worked as a freelance editor.
2020 Shortlist
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| Furious Hours | Casey Cep | William Heinemann |
| Corrupt Bodies | Peter Everett | Icon Books |
| Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod | Caroline Goode | Oneworld Publications |
| The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury | Sean O’Connor | Simon & Schuster |
| The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking | Adam Sisman | Profile Books |
| The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective |
Susannah Stapleton | Picador |
2020 Longlist
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| Furious Hours | Casey Cep | William Heinemann |
| Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists | Julia Ebner | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Corrupt Bodies | Peter Everett | Icon Books |
| Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod | Caroline Goode | Oneworld Publications |
| Red River Girl | Joanna Jolly | Virago |
| She Said | Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey | Bloomsbury Circus |
| The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury | Sean O’Connor | Simon & Schuster |
| The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking | Adam Sisman | Profile Books |
| The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective |
Susannah Stapleton | Picador |
| Dead Fashion Girl: A Situationist Detective Story | Fred Vermorel | Strange Attractor Press |
Last Year's Winner
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
Viking
The highly dramatic and readable account of the defection of Oleg Gordievsky, a spy for the British and a traitor to the Soviets. This sometimes alarming story has the ring of absolute authenticity as it reveals a very significant operation in Cold War history.
