American novelist Bill Beverly beats Christopher Brookmyre and Mick Herron to scoop two prizes for debut novel Dodgers at Crime Writers’ Association awards
First-time American novelist Bill Beverly has won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year.
Beverly’s Dodgers, about a man who works for an LA drugs organisation and who is sent to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin by his boss, beat Christopher Brookmyre’s award-winning novel Black Widow, as well as titles by Denise Mina and Mick Herron, to win the CWA’s top prize last night. Beverly, who teaches American literature and writing in Washington DC’s Trinity University, and who turned his research on criminal fugitives into the book On the Lam, is a first-time novelist, and also won the CWA’s John Creasey New Blood Dagger, for the best debut crime novel, last night.
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