All dressed up for the #CWADaggers this evening

(There’s no good full length mirror in the room, so you’ll have to make do with blurry accessories 😂 Yayoi Kusama pocket square, Incomparable pin, ankh watch chain, red rose cufflinks)

Wishing a happy publication day to Alan Parks! MAY GOD FORGIVE is out today

🗡️ Winner of the #McIlvanneyPrize
🗡️ Longlisted #TheakstonsCrime #TheakstonAward
🗡️ Longlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger #CWADaggers

Detective #HarryMcCoy's Glasgow in mourning. An arson attack has left five dead. When three youths are charged, the city goes wild. The mob demands justice, and when the youths are abducted, McCoy knows it'll mean trouble.

'Remarkable' The Times

You can get your copy at your favourite local bookshop, or online! https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/may-god-forgive-alan-parks/6698277

And as if that wasn’t enough… huge congratulations to the amazing @CJ_Daugherty for her shortlisting (as Ava Glass.) The stunning Alias Emma deserves all the accolades that come its way. 👏👏👏
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🗡 THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER (2/2)
@TheIanFleming
#CWADaggers

Alice Feeney: Daisy Darker
Robert Galbraith: The Ink Black Heart
Ava Glass: Alias Emma
Tim Glister: A Loyal Traitor
Danya Kukafka: Notes on an Execution
Alan Parks: May Go…
https://twitter.com/The_CWA/status/1649832066584813572

Utterly delighted that The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys has been longlisted for the Historical Dagger. Thank you so much to the CWA and good luck everyone else on the list! 🎉
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🗡 THE HISTORICAL DAGGER (1/2)
#CWADaggers

DV Bishop: The Darkest Sin
Martin Edwards: Blackstone Fell
Philip Gray: Two Storm Wood
Jack Jewers: The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys
SG MacLean: The Bookseller of Inverness
Anna Mazzola: The Clockwork Girl
https://twitter.com/The_CWA/status/1649831543433490432