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Temple and Sansom vie for Dagger

06.06.07 Anna Richardson

Quercus' Peter Temple and Macmillan's C J Sansom are among the authors vying for this year's Crime Writers' Association main Dagger prize. The shortlist for the £20,000 Duncan Lawrie Dagger includes Temple's The Broken Shore, C J Sansom's Sovereign, as well as Giles Blunt's Field of Grief (HarperCollins), James Lee Burke's Pegasus Descending (Orion), Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects (Weidenfeld) and Craig Russell's Brother Grimm (Hutchinson).

Other categories include the £5,000 Duncan Lawrie Intenational Dagger, which also awards £1,000 to the translator. Karin Alvtegan's Shame (Canongate), Christian Jungersen's The Exception (Weidenfeld), Yasmina Khadra's The Attack (Heinemann), Åsa Larsson's The Savage Altar (Viking), Jo Nesbø's The Redbreast (Harvill Secker) and Fred Vargas's Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand (Harvill Secker) are on the shortlist.

The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger shortlist features Alex Berenson's The Faithful Spy (Random House), Harlan Coben's The Woods (Orion), R J Ellory's City of Lies (Orion), Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects (Weidenfeld), Michael Marshall's The Intruders (HarperCollins), Michael Robotham's The Night Ferry (Little, Brown) and Karin Slaughter's Triptych (Random House).

The CWA New Blood Dagger shortlist, for a first book by a previously unpublished writer, includes C J Emerson's Objects of Desire (Allison & Busby), Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects (Weidenfeld), Declan Hughes's The Wrong Kind of Blood (John Murray), Brian McGilloway's Borderlands
(Macmillan), Andrew Pepper's Last Days of Newgate (Weidenfeld) and Camilla Way's Dead of Summer (HarperCollins).

Nominated for the CWA Dagger In The Library, which awards £1,500 for a body of work, are Kate Atkinson, Susan Hill, Stuart MacBride, Barbara Nadel, Courttia Newland and C.J. Sansom.

Finally, the £500 CWA Debut Dagger for unpublished novels by unpublished authors features, Martin Brackstone's Malestki's Motive, Alan Bradley's The Sweetness At The Bottom of the Pie, Nesta Brzozowski's With A View To Death, Fay Cunningham's Cry Baby, Gordon W Dale's Rome Was Never Like This, C J Harper's The Shadow of the Dead, David Jackson's Pariah, D J McIntosh's The Witch of Babylon, Gerard O©ˆDonovan's White Lion, James Oswald's Natural Causes, Peter James Peacock's Towers of London and Martie de Villiers' Solitaire.

The winners will be announced at the Four Seasons Hotel in London on 5th July, with the Ellis Peters Award and the CWA Short Story Award will be announced and presented later in the year.

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