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Historical Dagger

2020-2029

Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee

Death in the East (Sam Wyndham #4) by Mukherjee, Abir
Call Number: FIC MUKHE ABI W4 (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781643134680
Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-Not Banerjee, are back for another exotic adventure set in 1920s India.

WINNER

Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan

SHORTLIST

Snow by John Banville
The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd
The City Under Siege by Michael Russell
Skelton's Guide to Domestic Poisons by David Stafford
The Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidua Yu

Snow by John Banville
Call Number: FIC BANVI JOH SN (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781335230003
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
Snow [E-Book] by John Banville
Call Number: FIC BANVI JOH SN Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781335230003
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate when a parish priest is found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist, and Strafford-- a Protestant-- faces obstruction at every turn. There is a culture of silence in this tight-knit community, and Strafford learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. When his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community's secrets, like the snowfall itself, threatens to obliterate everything.

The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie #6) by S. W. Kane
Call Number: FIC RUSSE MIC G6 (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781472130389
Publication Date: 2020-07-01
1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn London. When Ireland's greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder of a gay man, Stefan extricates him from an embarrassing situation. But suddenly he is looking at a series of murders, stretching across Britain and Ireland. The deaths were never investigated deeply as they were not considered a priority. And there are reasons to look away now. It's not only that the killer may be a British soldier, Scotland Yard is also hiding the truth about the victim. But an identical murder in Malta makes investigation essential. Malta, at the heart of the Mediterranean war, is under siege by German and Italian bombers. Rumours that a British soldier murdered a Maltese teenager can't go unchallenged without damaging loyalty to Britain. Now Britain will cooperate with Ireland to find the killer and Stefan is sent to Malta. The British believe the killer is an Irishman; that's the result they want. And they'd like Stefan to give it to them. But in the dark streets of Valletta there are threats deadlier than German bombs.

Skelton's Guide to Domestic Poisons (Skelton's guides #1) by David Stafford
Call Number: FIC STAFF DAV S1 (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780749026738
Publication Date: 2020-09-17
January 1929. When Arthur Skelton won the legal case of the century, he went from being an unremarkable barrister to front-page sensation. Now he faces a new challenge. Mary Dutton is accused of poisoning her husband and the police are convinced she is guilty. Even her supporters think she did it. Skelton agrees to take on what many consider an unwinnable case, a decision wholly unconcerned with the defendant’s resemblance to a beautiful actress. With an army of women set to vote for the first time in history, the fate of Mary Dutton will have a significant impact on Britain’s political future. Skelton faces mounting pressure to find the truth, but will that be enough to save a young woman’s life?

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The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Crown Colony #4) by Ovidia Yu
Call Number: FIC YU OVI C4 (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781472132024
Publication Date: 2020-09-08

WINNER

Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin

FINALISTS:

April in Spain by John Banville
Crow Court by Andy Charman
Not One of Us by Alis Hawkins
Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison
A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry

WINNER

The Darkest Sin by D. V. Bishop

FINALISTS

The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Hagendra
Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass
The Homes by J. B. Mylet
Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith
The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola

2010-2019

Revenger by Rory Clements

Revenger by Rory Clements
Call Number: FIC CLEME ROR RE
ISBN: 9780062356239
Publication Date: 2014-10-14
There will be a terrible reckoning ... England is at war with Spain, and Queen Elizabeth's court is torn apart by brutal rivalries among ambitious young courtiers. The inimitable investigator John Shakespeare is dragged from retirement to work for the Earl of Essex, the queen's favorite. His mission is to unravel the mystery behind the doomed Roanoke colony in North America, but instead, he uncovers a plot to kill the aging queen. With a plague devastating the country, Catholics being tortured, and John's wife keeping secrets from him, Shakespeare has his own survival to secure. Filled with colorful historical detail, Revenger is a stunning novel of savage betrayals and salacious intrigue.

The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin

Icelight by Aly Monroe

The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor

The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor
Call Number: FIC TAYLO AND SC (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780007213511
Publication Date: 2013-02-28
Manhattan, 1778. A city of profiteers, loyalists and double agents. New York is home to a tide of refugees seeking justice from the British crown. Edward Savill is sent from London to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists. No sooner does he land than he becomes embroiled in a murder.

The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

The Seeker by S. G. MacLean

Stasi Child by David Young

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

A Rising Man by Mukherjee, Abir
Call Number: FIC MUKHE ABI RI (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781643582559
Publication Date: 2019-07-01
Calcutta, 1919. In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official--in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else.

Nucleus by Rory Clements

Destroying Angel by S. G. MacLean

2000-2009

Absent Friends by Gillian Linscott

The Office of the Dead by Andrew Taylor

Fingersmith by Sara Waters

Fingersmith by Waters, Sarah
Call Number: FIC WATER SAR FI (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781573229722
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lilly.

The American Boy by Andrew Taylor

The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
Call Number: FIC TAYLO AND AM (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780008321376
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is a tutor to a young American boy and the child's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes entwined in their family's affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London's seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. What secrets is the young Edgar Allan Poe hiding?

The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly

The Damascened Blade (Joel Gustafsson #3) by Barbara Cleverly
Call Number: FIC CLEVE BAR J3 (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780385339506
Publication Date: 2005-08-30
A young American girl provides unlikely assistance to Detective Sandilands as he sets out to identify those responsible for the death of a Pathan prince. The murder takes place during an uneasy truce between the British and the Afghans and the outcome of the investigation could jeopardize the fragile peace.

Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom

Red Sky Lament by Edward Wright

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Call Number: FIC FRANK ARI MI (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780399154140
Publication Date: 2007-02-06
Sent to medieval Cambridge in order to exonerate a group of Jewish prisoners with financial ties to King Henry I, University of Salerno medical examiner Adelia and a group of companions struggle to avoid being accused of witchcraft and discover that the killer may be a former crusader.

Stratton's War by Laura Wilson

If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr

If the Dead Rise Not : a Bernie Gunther novel by Philip Kerr
Call Number: FIC KERR PHI G6 (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780399156151
Publication Date: 2010-03-18
Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad...
Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba’s exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life. But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days...

Dagger Awards

Title Box

2020-2029

Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee

WINNER

Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan

SHORTLIST

Snow by John Banville

The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd

The City Under Siege by Michael Russell

Skelton's Guide to Domestic Poisons by David Stafford

The Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidua Yu

WINNER

Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin

FINALISTS:

April in Spain by John Banville

Crow Court by Andy Charman

Not One of Us by Alis Hawkins

Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison

A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry

WINNER

The Darkest Sin by D. V. Bishop

FINALISTS

The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Hagendra

Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass

The Homes by J. B. Mylet

Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith

The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola

2010-2019

Revenger by Rory Clements

The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin

Icelight by Aly Monroe

The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor

The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

The Seeker by S. G. MacLean

Stasi Child by David Young

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

Nucleus by Rory Clements

Destroying Angel by S. G. MacLean

2000-2009

Absent Friends by Gillian Linscott

The Office of the Dead by Andrew Taylor

Fingersmith by Sara Waters

The American Boy by Andrew Taylor

The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly

Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom

Red Sky Lament by Edward Wright

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

Stratton's War by Laura Wilson

If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr

1999

Two for the Lions by Lindsey Davis