The CWA Gold Dagger
This award is for the year's best crime novel written in English. The prize consists of an ornamental dagger and £2,500.
- 2009 A Whispered name William Brodrick
- 2008 Blood from stone Frances Fyfield
- 2007 The Broken Shore Peter Temple
- 2006 Raven Black Ann Cleves
- 2005 Silence of the Grave Arnaldur Indridason (Translator: Bernard Scudder)
- 2004 Blacklist Sara Paretsky
- 2003 Fox Evil Minette Walters
- 2002 The Athenian Murders Jose Carlos Somoza
- 2001 Sidetracked Henning Mankel
- 2000 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
- 1999 A Small Death in Lisbon Robert Wilson
- 1998 Sunset Limited James Lee Burke
- 1997 Black & Blue Ian Rankin
- 1996 Popcorn Ben Elton
- 1995 The Mermaids singing Val McDermid
- 1994 The Scold’s Bridle Minette Walters
- 1993 Cruel and unusual Patricia Cornwell
- 1992 The Way through the woods Colin Dexter
- 1991 King Solomon’s carpet Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
- 1990 Bones and silence Reginald Hill
- 1989 The Wench is dead Colin Dexter
- 1988 Ratking Michael Dibdin
- 1987 A Fatal inversion Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
- 1986 Live flesh Ruth Rendell
- 1985 Monkey puzzle Paula Gosling
- 1984 The Twelfth juror B M Gill
- 1983 Accidental crimes John Hutton
- 1982 The False Inspector Dew Peter Lovesey
- 1981 Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith
- 1980 The Murder of the Maharajah H R F Keating




