Crime Writers' Association International Dagger Award

Johan Theorin's The Darkest Room has won the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger award for a crime novel that has been translated into English. Judges called the novel "impossible to reduce... to ghost story, a police procedural or a gothic tale." Theorin bested a shortlist that included Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, Tonino Benacquista's Badfellas, Andrea Camilleri's August Heat, Arnaldur Indridason's Hypothermia and Deon Meyer's Thirteen Hours.