Annal:2001 John Creasey Memorial New Blood Dagger for a Debuting Author
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Results of the Dagger Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- John Creasey Memorial New Blood Dagger for a Debuting Author
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
- 2001 New Blood Dagger winner
- Score: 10.51
In Tokyo, a love triangle tragically unravels. One woman is presumed dead and the man has disappeared. Now, the third party, a young Englishwoman named Lucy Fly is in custody-and considered the chief suspect.
In Susanna Jones’ haunting debut novel The Earthquake Bird, readers are taken inside the mind of Lucy, who has fled a painful past in Yorkshire to work as a translator in Japan. It is there that she begins an intensely erotic affair with a brilliant and secretive photographer named Teiji. But it is when Lucy and Teiji befriend Lily Bridges that…
- 2001 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 Dagger shortlist
- 2001 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- 2000 Hammett nominee
- Score: 36.51
Loaded guns, ladies of the night, broken neon, broken dreams. Here is a world that is immediately recognizable—through a shot glass at three A.M. This is life with rough edges, in a novel that gives you the straight goods—point blank— one cold, snowbound Christmas Eve in Kansas. One single night, defined in shadings of black and white, when everything changes…
For most, the city is closing up. For a few outsiders, this night, Christmas Eve 1979, is just beginning. Charlie Arglist is a lawyer saying goodbye to Wichita by revisiting the landscape of his used up…
- 2001 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- Score: 6.51
Twelve-year-old Nunzio’s innocence is lost forever when he opens the boot of a wrecked Pontiac Bonneville in his father’s junkyard. But who will believe the tale of the horror that he found there when all evidence is lost to the Paradise Salvage crusher?
In a family of Italian-American eccentrics, Danny Boy alone is persuaded by his younger brother’s implausible claim. Enlisting the help of their father’s renegade cousin, Angelo—a quadriplegic ex-cop with a dark history of his own—they embark on a bizarre and dangerous trail through the underbelly of…
- 2002 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2002 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- Score: 18.52
Interweaving knife-edge tension, superb characterization, and an evocative milieu, this thrilling novel of dark suspense, set in rural Grant County, Georgia, introduces engaging pediatrician and coroner Dr. Sara Linton.
The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, the town’s pediatrician and coroner, finds Sibyl Adams, a young college professor, dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach. But it’s only once Sara starts to perform the…
Good Bad Woman: A Frankie Richmond Mystery
- 2001 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- Score: 6.51
Frankie Richmond knows trouble. A London barrister whose career is teetering on the brink of ruin and whose search for the right woman is about as successful as the quest for a perfect pair of jeans, “Trouble” could be Frankie’s middle name. But when she agrees to a routine appearance at a magistrate’s court as a favor for a friend and former lover, she never expects the kind of trouble that finds her accused of murder. Solving the case herself is a challenge Frankie is willing to tackle head-on, especially since the police are only too happy to pin the crime on…
