Annal:2000 Dagger Award for Crime Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Dagger Award in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2000 Gold Dagger
- 1999 NBCC–Fiction winner
- Score: 20.5
“Tell your story walking.”
St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, Brooklyn, early 1970s. For Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. The Human Freakshow, a victim of Tourette’s syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects), Frank Minna is a savior. A local tough guy and fixer, Minna shows up to take Lionel and three of his fellow orphans on mysterious errands: they empty a store of stereos as the owner watches; destroy a small amusement park; visit old Italian men. The four grow up to be the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective…
- 2000 Silver Dagger
- Score: 8.5
Venetian detective, Commissario Brunetti, is drawn into an underworld of drugs and loan sharking in Donna Leon’s latest book. The death of two young drug addicts, the arrest and subsequent release of the son of the detective’s boss on suspicion of drug dealing reveal what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.
