📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Emily Organ with The Clockmaker's Murder! #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #EmilyOrgan #TheClockmakersMurder

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to TL Mogford with The Saffron Thief! buff.ly/qvmT2j8 #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #TLMogford #TheSaffronThief

St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend 4-6th September in Oxford and online Tickets are available for the whole weekend, or Friday Night only. All details, including the full programme and booking options, can be found here: buff.ly/oljgaff

Missed our Reading and Writing Crime in Difficult Times webinar? Catch it on demand via buff.ly/Nym4XBe 🕵🏾🫆 With thanks to Emma Christie, Victoria Dowd, Penny Batchelor, Heather Critchlow, Professor Jim Fraser and Linda Mather for a brilliant discussion 💬 #WritingCommunity

Did you miss this year's Daggers? Catch up with Crime Time FM, @crimetimeuk the CWA's official podcast partner, on Podfollow, Apple, and Spotify! #CWADaggers #Daggers #CrimetimeFM

Did you catch our National Crime Reading Month panel at #CapitalCrime2026? We talked all things crime fiction with authors Erin Young, Luca Veste, Katy Massey and Heather J Fitt, and here are a few photos (credit: Seb Higgins Photography) #WritingCommunity #TheCWA #CrimeWriters #WritersCommunity

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Ajay Chowdhury with Eden Falls! buff.ly/Eo7rUIX #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #AjayChowdhury #EdenFalls

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Louise Mangos (@louisemangos.bsky.social) with Confessions of a Crime Writer! #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #LouiseMangos #ConfessionsOfACrimeWriter

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Yvonne Walus with Welcome to Perfectville! buff.ly/OEW1yH0 #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #YvonneWalus #WelcomeToPerfectville

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Paul Elgood (@sherlockpuzzle.bsky.social) with The Puzzling Cases of Sherlock Holmes Volume 2! #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #PaulElgood #ThePuzzlingCasesOfSherlockHolmes

Don't miss it! On Tuesday, 14 July at 8.00am BST, author Martine Bailey talks about 'The Follies' on the Myth and Fiction podcast! #FlameTreePress #MartineBailey buff.ly/uBtQ3bt

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Cathy Ace (@cathyace.bsky.social) with The Corpse with the Steely Gaze! #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #CathyAce #TheCorpseWithTheSteelyGaze

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to M. R. G Davies (@mrgdavies.bsky.social) with From Murder With Love! buff.ly/RUjPr5b #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #MRGDavies #FromMurderWithLove

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Bruce Rule (@brucerule.bsky.social) with The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Debutante Detective! buff.ly/iDBJWcW #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #BruceRule #TheDebutanteDetective

🏆 The #CWADaggers will begin soon! Stay tuned to this feed for live updates from this evening’s ceremony.

CONGRATULATIONS to all the winners! 🏆🍾 And our thanks to all the independent judges and panel chairs for the hard work they put into the Daggers throughout the year. Without them, none of this could happen. 🗡#CWADaggers

And the KAA Gold Dagger 2026 WINNER is… ABIGAIL DEAN, for ‘The Death of Us’ (Hemlock Press) 🗡#CWADaggers

Finally, we reach tonight’s ultimate award: the coveted KAA GOLD DAGGER, given to the best crime or thriller novel of the year. This Dagger is sponsored by Kevin Anderson & Associates @KAWriting. 🗡#CWADaggers

And the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2026 WINNER is… SA COSBY, for ‘Kind of Ashes’ (Headline) 🗡#CWADaggers

Time for the IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER. Fleming said a good thriller had one essential criterion: ‘One simply has to turn the pages’. This award is for thrillers set in any period, e.g. noir thriller, spy fiction, and action-adventure stories. 🗡#CWADaggers

And the ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger 2026 WINNER is… LAURA McCLUSKEY, for ‘The Wolf Tree’ (Hemlock Press) 🗡#CWADaggers

Next is the ILP JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER, named for the CWA’s founder and creator of the Daggers (and whose estate is managed by ILP). This is awarded to the best crime novel by a debut author. 🗡#CWADaggers

And the Twisted Dagger 2026 WINNER is… SARAH PINBOROUGH, for ‘We Live Here Now’ (Orion) 🗡#CWADaggers

Now it’s the turn of the CWA TWISTED DAGGER, for the best psychological thriller, suspense thriller, or domestic noir novel. This award celebrates dark and twisted stories, often with a sting in the tail. 🗡#CWADaggers

And the Whodunnit Dagger 2026 WINNER is… MEL PENNANT, for ‘A Murder for Miss Hortense’ (Baskerville) 🗡#CWADaggers

Now it’s time for the CWA WHODUNNIT DAGGER, for the best cosy crime, classic, or Golden Age-inspired mystery. This Dagger celebrates books which focus on the puzzle at the heart of the mystery. 🗡#CWADaggers

And the Historical Dagger 2026 WINNER is… NINA ALLEN, for ‘A Granite Silence’ (Riverrun) 🗡#CWADaggers

We return to books with the HISTORICAL DAGGER, SPONSORED IN HONOUR OF DR MARILYN LIVINGSTONE. This is for the best historical crime novel, set up to 50 years prior to present day (For mixed timelines, at least 3/4 must be set in the past). 🗡#CWADaggers

This year, the Diamond Dagger goes to fan-favourite MARK BILLINGHAM, author of the long-running Tom Thorne novels as well as his new Declan Miller series, and a previous winner of the Dagger in the Library. Congratulations, Mark! 🗡#CWADaggers

And the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026 WINNER is… SUSANNAH STAPLETON, for ‘That Dark Spring’ (Picador) 🗡#CWADaggers