Irish author and journalist Gene Kerrigan has won the CWA
Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year for his novel The Rage. Kerrigan joins an impressive list of previous Gold Dagger
winners including Belinda Bauer, Minette Walters and Ian Rankin. The Rage
is about a professional thief, just out of jail, already preparing his next
robbery. A retired nun reports suspicious behaviour in the Dublin
backstreet where she lives to Detective Sergeant Bob Tidey, who is investigating
the murder of a banker. The report unleashes a storm of violence and forces
Tidey to make a deadly choice. The
Judges described his novel as “… a complex noir thriller
that’s multi-layered and solidly written, with great style and pace. The
depiction of post-crash Dublin has
a real sense of menace and threat throughout.”
Kerrigan, a columnist with the Sunday Independent, has
written many non-fiction works about Irish politics and crime. His first crime
novel, Little Criminals, was set in
the boom-time Ireland
of 2005. Kerrigan’s portrayal of life on the edge of Irish society continued in
his second work of fiction, The Midnight Choir. Dark Times in the City, which
was shortlisted for the 2009 Gold Dagger, was set in a Dublin
awash in a sea of cocaine and drug warfare.
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