CWA Daggers Shortlist 2022 | Newcastle Libraries

1) Before you knew my name

Author

Bublitz, Jacqueline

2) Sunset swing

Author

Celestin, Ray

3) Razorblade tears

Author

Cosby, S.A

4) The unwilling

Author

Hart, John

5) The shadows of men

Author

Mukherjee, Abir

6) The trawlerman

Author

Shaw, William

7) Find you first

Author

Barclay, Linwood

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Tech billionaire Miles has more money than he can ever spend, and everything he could dream of - except time. Now facing a terminal illness, Miles knows he must seize every minute to put his life in order. And that means taking a long hard look at his past. Somewhere out there, Miles has children. And they might be about to inherit both the good and bad from him - possibly his fortune, or possibly something more deadly. So Miles decides to track down...

8) The pact

Author

Bolton, S. J

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A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed. 18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison. Twenty years later Megan is free. Let the games begin.

9) Dead ground

Author

Craven, M. W

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Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused - he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp - but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows. As Poe and the socially awkward...