Annal:1997 Dagger Award for Crime Novel
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Results of the Dagger Award in the year 1997. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel
- 1997 Gold Dagger
- 1998 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.47
Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake’s glory. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. “Bible John” terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom—and he was never caught. Now a copycat is at work. Nicknamed “Bible Johnny” by the media, he is a new menace with violent ambitions.
The Bible Johnny case would be perfect for Inspector John Rebus, but after a run-in with a crooked senior…
Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel
- 1997 Silver Dagger
- Score: 8.47
Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick, is back, and she’s having a bad hair day—for the whole month of January. She’s been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier Trenton’s most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance.
And to make matters worse, she’s got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk—now a wannabe bounty hunter—at her side, sticking like glue. Lula’s big and blonde and black, and itching to get the chance to lock up a crook in the trunk of her car.
Morelli, the New…
