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Gold Dagger Award - Best Novel

Logo for prize: Gold Dagger Award - Best Novel

The Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards acknowledge every year the very best in fiction and non-fiction, thriller and historical mystery, short story and librarians’ choice, first-time author and distinguished practitioner. The award for the year’s outstanding crime novel is, at £20,000, the largest crime-writing prize in the world.

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Winners

Year Title Author
2009 A Whispered Name William Brodrick Shortlist...
2008 Blood From Stone Frances Fyfield Shortlist...
2007 The Broken Shore Peter Temple Shortlist...
2006 Raven Black Ann Cleeves Shortlist...
2005 Silence of the Grave Arnaldur Indridason Shortlist...
2004 Blacklist Sara Paretsky Shortlist...
2003 Fox Evil Minette Walters Shortlist...
2002 The Athenian Murders Jose Carlos Samoza Shortlist...
2001 Sidetracked Henning Mankell Shortlist...
2000 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem Shortlist...