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Daggers Drawn is an edgy, twisted, and disturbing anthology, presenting the first Crime Writers’ Association Daggers Award retrospective. It features 19 visceral and thrilling stories from bestselling authors such as Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Denise Mina, John Harvey, and more. Nineteen CWA Dagger Award-winning...
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Edgy, twisted and disturbing, the first Crime Writers’ Association Daggers Award retrospective anthology featuring 19 visceral and thrilling stories. Featuring bestselling authors Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Denise Mina, John Harvey and more.
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Daggers Drawn is an edgy, twisted, and disturbing anthology, presenting the first Crime Writers’ Association Daggers Award retrospective. It features 19 visceral and thrilling stories from bestselling authors such as Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Denise Mina, John Harvey, and more.
Nineteen CWA Dagger Award-winning short stories come together in this collection, showcasing the best of the best in crime fiction. This first retrospective of the CWA’s Dagger Award winners unites some of the greatest names in crime fiction to deliver a cutthroat collection filled with serial killers, grizzled detectives, drug dealers, and master forgers.
Witness a Senior Curator at the Tate Gallery crafting the perfect crime in Ian Rankin’s "Herbert in Motion". Experience an unlikely romance turning into a deadly obsession in Stella Duffy’s "Martha Grace". Confront parents who make a chilling discovery about their child in Denise Mina’s "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit". And endure the tension of an intense hostage situation reaching an unpredictable climax in Jeffery Deaver’s "The Weekender".
Keep your secrets close, and your daggers drawn.
Contributing authors include: Peter O' Donnell (writing as Madeleine Brent), Julian Rathbone, Larry Beinhart, Ian Rankin, Jerry Sykes, Stella Duffy, Jeffery Deaver, Peter Lovesey, Cath Staincliffe, Margaret Murphy, John Harvey, Richard Lange, L. C. Tyler, Denise Mina, Danutah Reah, and Lauren Henderson.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781789099409
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Titan Books Ltd
Contributors:
- Edited by Maxim Jakubowski
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 369g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Maxim Jakubowski is a noted anthology editor based in London, just a mile or so away from where he was born. With over 70 volumes to his credit, including Invisible Blood, the 13 annual volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries, and titles on Professor Moriarty, Jack the Ripper, Future Crime and Vintage whodunits. A publisher for over 20 years, he was also the co-owner of London's Murder One bookstore and the crime columnist for Time Out and then The Guardian for 22 years. Stories from his anthologies have won most of the awards in the field on numerous occasions. He is currently the Chair of the Crime Writers' Association and a Sunday Times bestselling novelist in another genre. Ian Rankin is the CWA Gold Dagger and Edgar Award-winning writer of the Inspector Rebus mysteries, as well as a critic, non-fiction author and former punk musician. His Rebus novels have both topped the Sunday Times bestseller list and been televised on BBC1. Dark Entries is his first comics work.
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