Slaughter on a Snowy Morn shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2011

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Colin Evans’ gripping account of the case of Charles Stielow, a farm labourer wrongly accused of a double murder in New York state in 1916, has been shortlisted for a major crime writers award.

As the CWA say:

‘The shortlist for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction was announced on 20 May at a reception held at Crimefest, the International Crime Fiction Convention held in Bristol. This is a competition for any non-fiction work on a real-life crime theme or a closely-related subject by an author of any nationality, as long as the book was first published in the UK in English between between 1st June, 2010 and 31st May, 2011. The six books in contention for the Dagger this year are:

The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders (HarperCollins)
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn by Colin Evans (Icon Books)
The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr (Simon & Schuster)
In the Place of Justice by Wilbert Rideau (Profile)
The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo (Michael Joseph)
Mr Briggs’ Hat by Kate Colquhoun (Little, Brown)’

The winner will be announced at the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate on Friday, 22 July

Read more about the award here, and more about Slaughter on a Snowy Morn here.