Gold Dagger Award Winners by the Year
2007 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Broken Shore
by Peter Temple
Five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, Peter Temple is Australia’s most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He is the author of four Jack Irish novels: Bad Debts , Black Tide , Dead Point and White Dog . He has also wr… read more
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2006 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Raven Black
by Ann Cleeves
2005 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Silence Of the Grave
by Arnaldur Indridason
Silence of the Grave is a crime novel by Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indriðason. Set in Reykjavík, the novel forms part of the author's regionally popular Murder Mystery Series, which star Detective Erlendur. Originally published in Icelandic in … read more
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2004 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Blacklist
by Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky is the author of sixteen books, including her renowned V. I. Warshawski novels. Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association. She lives in Chicago. … read more
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2003 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Fox Evil
by Minette Walters
1999 Winner Gold Dagger Award
A Small Death In Lisbon
by Robert Wilson
A Small Death in Lisbon is a crime novel by Robert Wilson. The novel, set in Portugal, consists of two narratives: one is the contemporary investigation by Inspector José "Zé" Coelho into the death of a young girl, and the other begins in… read more
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1998 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Sunset Limited
by James Lee Burke
The Sunset Limited is a play by American writer Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy's second published play, it was first produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on May 18, 2006, and it traveled to New York City later that same year. The play was pu… read more
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1995 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Mermaids Singing
by Val McDermid
The Mermaids Singing is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid, the first featuring her recurring protagonist, Dr. Tony Hill. It was adapted into the pilot episode of ITV1's television series based on McDermid's work, Wire in the Blood… read more
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1993 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Cruel and Unusual
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Cruel and unusual is commonly used to describe punishment, for which see: Cruel and unusual punishment Other uses include: Cruel & Unusual (album), an album by Black Sun Empire Cruel and Unusual (comics), a 1999 comic book series Cruel and Un… read more
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1992 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Way Through the Woods
by Colin Dexter
1991 Winner Gold Dagger Award
King Solomon's Carpet
by Barbara Vine
Eccentric Jarvis lives in a cumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house: Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the b… read more
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1990 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Bones and Silence - Dalziel/Pascoe Mystery
by Reginald Hill
1988 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Ratking
by Michael Dibdin
Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy'… read more
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1986 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Live Flesh
by Ruth Rendell
Live Flesh, is a psychological thriller by British author Ruth Rendell, published in 1986. It won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, and has also been loosely adapted into a critically acclaimed film of t… read more
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1982 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The False Inspector Dew
by Peter Lovesey
1981 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith
Gorky Park is the first book by author Martin Cruz Smith and it introduces his homicide detective Arkady Renko. A triple murder in Moscow’s famous Gorky Park leads detective Renko into a battle with the powerful agencies of the KGB, FBI an… read more
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1979 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Whip Hand
by Dick Francis
1978 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Chelsea Murders
by Davidson Lionel
1977 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Honourable Schoolboy
by John Le Carre
The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), by John le Carré, is a spy novel wherein British SIS Chief George Smiley must reconstruct the mole-devasted London headquarters, and also launch a successful offensive espionage operation to save “The Circus” fro… read more
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1976 Winner Gold Dagger Award
A Demon In My View
by Ruth Rendell
A Demon in my View is a novel by British author Ruth Rendell. First published in 1976, it won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year, gaining Rendell the first of six Dagger awards she received during her career, more than any other wri… read more
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1975 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
by Nicholas Meyer
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was adapted for the cinema in 1976. The novel's full title is The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Repr… read more
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1972 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Levanter
by Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler was born in London in 1909. Before turning to writing full-time, he worked at an engineering firm, and wrote copy for an advertising agency. His first novel was published in 1936. During the course of his career, Ambler was awarded two Go… read more
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1971 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Steam Pig
by James McClure
1966 Winner Gold Dagger Award
A Long Way To Shiloh
by Davidson Lionel
1964 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Perfect Murder
by H R F Keating
Perfect murder may be: Perfect murder (fiction), the fiction sub-genre Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (film), 2000 film documenting the events behind and following the JonBenet Ramsey murder A Perfect Murder, 1998 remake of the 1954 film Dial M for Mur… read more
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1963 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
by John Le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a novel by British author John le Carré. Set during the political tensions of the Cold War, the revolutionary espionage novel portrays the intelligence services of both Eastern and Western nations as sacrificing … read more
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1960 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Night Of Wenceslas
by Davidson Lionel
The Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson. It describes the reluctant adventures of Nicolas Whistler, a dissolute young man of mixed English and Czech parentage who finds himself caught up against … read more
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1959 Winner Gold Dagger Award
Passage Of Arms
by Eric Ambler
Passage of Arms is a novel by Eric Ambler, written in 1959. It is a fast paced thriller about the discovery of a cache of arms abandoned by communist insurgents in the jungle of Malaya, and the transfer of the arms via Singapore to Indonesia. The boo… read more
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1955 Winner Gold Dagger Award
The Little Walls
by Winston Graham
The Little Walls is a crime novel by Winston Graham. It won the very first Gold Dagger, then called Crossed Red Herring Award, awarded by the Crime Writers' Association in 1955. The authorized abridgement was published in USA in 1955 as Bridge to… read more
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