Annal:2004 John Creasey Memorial New Blood Dagger for a Debuting Author
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Results of the Dagger Award in the year 2004. 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.
- 2004 New Blood Dagger winner
- Score: 10.54
In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island’s windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But for Conrad Labarde, a second-generation Basque immigrant recently returned from the Second World War, and his fellow fisherman Rollo Kemp, this stability is shattered when a beautiful New York socialite turns up dead in their nets.
On the face of it, her death was…
The Jasmine Trade: A Novel of Suspense Introducing Eve Diamond
- 2004 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- 2002 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2002 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- 2002 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 24.54
Everything was set. Seventeen-year-old Marina Lu had even ordered custom-made gowns for the ten bridesmaids who, in several months’ time, would have preceded her down the aisle at her storybook wedding.
There isn’t going to be a wedding. Marina lies dead, alone in her shiny status car in a suburban shopping center parking lot, her two-carat diamond engagement ring refracting another abruptly shattered Los Angeles dream. Was her death merely a carjacking gone bad? Or is there more to the story?
Marina’s murder chillingly introduces Los Angeles Times…
- 2004 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- Score: 6.54
Cambridge, 1888. Miss Vanessa Duncan is a young schoolmistress recently arrived from the countryside. She loves teaching and finds the world of academia fascinating; everything is going so well. But everything changes when a Fellow of Mathematics, Mr. Akers, is found dead in his room from a violent blow to the head.
Invited to dinner by the family of one of her charges, Vanessa meets many of the victim’s colleagues, including Mr. Arthur Weatherburn, who had dined with Mr. Akers the evening of his death and happens to be Vanessa’s upstairs neighbor. Discussing…
- 2004 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- Score: 6.54
When the body of a tramp, Jake Colby, is found in a secluded Amsterdam park, Dutch police detective Ronald Van Hijn believes that this is the ninth victim of the serial killer stalking the city. Yet, all previous victims were young, female and beautiful. What could have made the killer change his MO?
On the corpse Van Hijn finds contact details for Jon Reed, an Englishman who befriended Jake in London shortly before the murder. Van Hijn summons Jon to Amsterdam to identify the body and so sets him on his own journey of discovery.
Was Jake really a tramp?…
