Episode 1 of the CWA DAGGERS Specials on Crime Time FM -
The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
Victoria Selman chats to Eva Glass, Linwood Barclay & John Brownlow about being shortlisted for the Steel Dagger & writing a thrilling thriller.
The other shortlisted authors are MW Craven, Robert Galbraith & Alan Parks.
Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller, ‘one simply has to turn the pages’.
Eligible books in this category are thrillers set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction, psychological thrillers and action/adventure stories.
The 2022 shortlist:
Linwood Barclay Take Your Breath Away Harper Collins
John Brownlow Agent Seventeen Hodder&Stoughton
MW Craven The Botanist Little Brown
Robert Galbraith Ink Black Heart Sphere
Eva Glass The Chase Penguin
Alan Parks May God Forgive Canongate
VICTORIA SELMAN is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Truly Darkly Deeply
Links:
The CWA
The Daggers
The Daggers Award Winners are announced on 6th July in London.
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