The Crime Writers' Association announced their shortlist picks for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller 2014 (click here to see the official announcement.) Criteria for this award are very broad - novels can be set in any time period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction, action and/or adventure stories. This year's picks are:
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty:
Sitting in a courtroom after being charged with murder, a geneticist and happily married mother of two reflects on her affair with a secret lover who claimed a connection to the British government and who seduced her with an irresistible combination of sexual power, justice and revenge.
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris:
A tale inspired by the infamous Dreyfus Affair finds Georges Picquart, the recently promoted head of Paris' late-nineteenth-century counterespionage agency, leading the effort to convict Dreyfus only to succumb to gradual doubts that a high-level spy remains at large in the military.
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes:
A debut thriller that traces a collision between two geniuses, including a tortured hero and a determined terrorist, in the aftermath of a murder that a world-class secret agent discovers has been conducted according to his own forensic techniques to hide the victim's identity.
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles:
When his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of their Natchez, Mississippi community, is accused of murdering a nurse, Penn Cage, to save his father who refuses to speak up in his own defense, makes a shocking discovery that forces him to decide just how far he will go to protect those he loves.
The winner of this award will be named on October 24th.
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