Ruthless by Anne Mette Hancock has been longlisted in the 2025 Crime Writers Association Daggers Awards in The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger category. Ruthless is the third novel in the Kaldan and Schäfer series, following The Corpse Flower and The Collector, praised by Harlan Coben as ‘Gripping, endearing, dark, and funny … Highly recommended’.
The 2025 CWA Daggers Awards Dinner will be held on Thursday 3rd July.
The Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation is sponsored in honour of Dolores Jakubowski and is for crime novels (defined by the broadest definition to include thrillers, suspense novels and spy fiction) as long as the book was not originally written in English and has been translated into English for UK publication during the judging period.