CWA Mystery Thriller Book Club Silver Dagger for Fiction

Initially titled the Crossed Red Herrings Award, this was first presented in 1955. The award was renamed the Gold Dagger in 1960. The Silver Dagger goes to the runner up and came into being in 1969. Between 1995 and 2002, the awards were sponsored by The Macallan. In 2006, the gold and silver daggers were replaced by the The Duncan Lawrie Dagger.

• 2005 Deadly Web Barbara Nadel
• 2004 Flesh and Blood John Harvey
• 2003 Half-broken things Morag Joss
• 2002 The Final Country James Crumley
• 2001 Forty words for sorrow Giles Blunt
• 2000 Friends in high places Donna Leon
• 1999 Vienna blood Adrian Mathews
• 1998 Manchester slingback Nicholas Blincoe
• 1997 Three to get deadly Janet Evanovitch
• 1996 Bloodhounds Peter Lovesey
• 1995 The Summons Peter Lovesey
• 1994 Miss Smilla’s feeling for snow Peter Hoeg
• 1993 Fatlands Sarah Dunant
• 1992 Bucket nut Liza Cody
• 1991 Deep sleep Frances Fyfield
• 1990 The Late candidate Mike Phillips
• 1989 The Shadow run Desmond Lowden
• 1988 Toxic shock Sara Paretsky
• 1987 Presumed innocent Scott Turow
• 1986 A Taste for death P D James
• 1985 Last seen alive Dorothy Simpson
• 1984 The Tree of hands Ruth Rendell
• 1983 The Papers of Tony Veitch William McIlvanney
• 1982 Ritual murder S T Harmon
• 1981 The Dead of Jericho Colin Dexter
• 1980 Monk’s-hood Ellis Peters