ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-FictionThis 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 and crime-fiction literature.
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Sue Black | All That Remains | Transworld – Doubleday |
| Mikita Brottman | An Unexplained Death | Canongate |
| Rachael Brown | Trace | Scribe UK |
| Claire Harman | Murder by the Book | Viking |
| Kirk Johnson | The Feather Thief | Hutchinson |
| Helena Kennedy | Eve Was Shamed | Chatto & Windus |
| Sarah Langford | In Your Defence | Transworld – Doubleday |
| Ben Macintyre | The Spy and the Traitor | Viking |
| Hallie Rubenhold | The Five | Transworld – Doubleday |
| David Wilson | My Life with Murderers | Little, Brown – Sphere |
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 SimenonJasmine 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.
Carol Anne DavisCarol Anne Davis is the author of seven true crime books, the latest of which is Parents Who Kill. She has also authored seven novels, the latest being the kindle-only Near Death Experience. She regularly contributes in-depth features to Serial Killer Quarterly and is a judge for the CWA’s non-fiction dagger. Her website can be found at www.carolannedavis.co.uk
Kate GodsmarkAfter 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.
Gripping account of the recent and baffling murder of a Hampstead eccentric, and of the subsequent trial in which parts of the evidence were suppressed by government order.
