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009/2009 CWA Dagger Award winners

The Crime Writers Association of Britain (CWA) announced the winners for the CWA Dagger Awards as follows:

CWA Gold Dagger, for the best crime novel of the year:
A Whispered Name, by William Brodrick (Little, Brown)

The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, for the year's best thriller:
The Last Child, by John Hart (John Murray)

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, for first books by previously unpublished writers:
Echoes from the Dead, by Johan Theorin (Doubleday)

Film Dagger, for the best big-screen crime thriller story:
Gran Torino (Warner Bros.)

TV Dagger, for the best small-screen crime thriller drama:
Red Riding (Channel 4 Films; Channel 4)

International TV Dagger, for the best TV crime thriller drama from around the world:
The Wire (HBO; BBC Two)

Best Actress Dagger, for the female star of a crime thriller drama:
Juliet Stevenson for Place of Execution (Coastal Productions; ITV1)

Best Actor Dagger, for the male star of a crime thriller drama:
Dominic West for The Wire (HBO; BBC Two)

Bestseller Dagger: Harlan Coben

Colin Dexter, Lynda La Plante, Ian Rankin, and Val McDermid were induced into the Hall of Fame, "which honors the achievements of the genre's greatest exponents, past and present."

The winners were announced on October 21 at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.