The CWA Dagger Awards 2001

In 2001 the CWA's Daggers were as follows:

The Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction:

Henning Mankell for Sidetracked

The Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction:

Giles Blunt for Forty Words for Sorrow

The Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction:

Phillip Etienne and Martin Maynard with Tony Thompson for The Infiltrators

The John Creasey Memorial Daggger for first-time novelists:

Susanna Jones for The Earthquake Bird

The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger:

Andrew Taylor for The Office of the Dead

The CWA Debut Dagger:

Edward Wright for Clea's Moon

Russell James, The Chairman of the CWA, said: “For crime writers, The Macallan Daggers are like The Booker and Whitbread Prizes rolled into one: We all take it seriously; we all want to win.”

Since 1824, The Macallan single malt has flowed from the site close to an ancient crossing on the majestic River Spey, Scotland's premier salmon river. The only distillery that has remained true to the tradition of maturing all of its whisky in Spanish sherry oak casks, The Macallan is a consistent international award winner. It has deservedly won the reputation as "the single malt against which all others must be judged".

The Macallan Daggers are the UK's leading literary awards for crime writing. Previous winners of the awards have included Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Janet Evanovich, and Lady Antonia Fraser. Between 1995 and 2002, the awards were sponsored by The Macallan Single Malt Scotch Whisky, and are managed by the Crime Writers' Association, originators of The Daggers.

This year, The Macallan Daggers Award ceremony took place at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London EC1 on Friday 16 November. Bestselling author and BBC Radio 4 presenter, Louise Doughty, was the Guest Speaker.