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The CWA International Dagger (formerly known as the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger) and beginning in 2019 as the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger is an award given by the Crime Writers' Association for best translated crime novel of the year.
- Gold Dagger
A partire dal 2006, con la nuova sponsorizzazione della...
- Gold Dagger
In 2006, because of new sponsorship from the Duncan Lawrie Bank, the award was officially renamed as the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, and gained a prize fund of £20,000. It was the biggest crime-fiction award in the world in monetary terms.
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Raven Black is set in Shetland, an archipelago off the coast of Scotland. The novel opens with the death of a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl named Catherine Ross, whose body was discovered in a field on New Year's Day by Fran Hunter, an English artist staying in Shetland. Local police inspector, Jimmy Perez, leads the investigation into the death. Per...
Inspector Jimmy Perez: A detective with the Shetland police based in the main town of Lerwick, but originally from Fair Isle. Perez's family is believed to have descended from a Spanish sailor stra...Sergeant Sandy Wilson: A local police officer from Whalsay, who works with Perez.Fran Hunter: A former photographer turned artist, who moved with her young daughter Cassie to Shetland so that Cassie could spend time with Fran's ex-husband, a local businessman.Duncan Hunter: A local businessman from Shetland, who attended school with Jimmy Perez and used to be his close friend. His ex-wife Fran Hunter and daughter Cassie also live in Shetland.Raven Black deals with themes of isolation and relationships, as they occur within a small, confined society. In a review in The Independent,critic Jane Jakeman wrote that Cleeves "...creates a convincing world of hostility against outsiders, of genuine ancient feuds but pseudo-history for the tourists, of small snobberies and major jealousies."
Cleeves has stated in an interview with The Scotsmanthat she conceived of the book while bird-watching in Lerwick, and consulted closely with local residents, including a Shetland police officer named Robert Gunn about the challenges of policing in the small, isolated community.
Raven Black was first published in the United Kingdom by Pan Macmillan, in 2006. It was published in the United States by St. Martin's Press.In 2018, it was published as an audiobook, narrated by Kenny Blyth.
The book received was received largely positively, with The Independent describing the book as one that "...breaks the conventional mould of British crime-writing, while retaining the traditional virtues of strong narrative and careful plotting." Publishers Weekly described as a "...taut, atmospheric thriller, the first in a new series, will keep r...
An Icelandic translation of Raven Black, by Snjólaug Bragadóttir, won an award for Icelandic translation in 2017. It has also been translated into Swedish and was shortlisted for the Martin Beck Awardfor crime fiction in translation for this translation. Raven Black was adapted for radio in 2010, by Iain Finlay MacLeod, directed by Kirsteen Cameron...
Gold Dagger: assegnato al miglior romanzo giallo dell'anno in lingua inglese, dal 1955 al 1959 chiamato Crossed Red Herring Award, poi denominato Gold Dagger, dal 2006 al 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger e dal 2009 nuovamente Gold Dagger.
The CWA Diamond Dagger, awarded to an author whose crime-writing career has been marked by sustained excellence, is announced in early spring each year and in 2023 it was awarded to Walter Mosley. One of the most versatile and admired writers in America, Mosley is the author of more than 60 critically acclaimed books, that cover a wide range of ...
External links. The Broken Shore (2005) is a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple. [1] Synopsis. The novel's central character is Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective.
