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The Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award

The Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award is given to the best crime novel of the year by an author of any nationality but originally written in English and published in the UK.

2010 Shortlist:

Author 

Title 

Belinda Bauer

Blacklands

S. J. Bolton

Blood Harvest

George Pelecanos

The Way Home

Karen Campbell

Shadow Play

Past Winners:

Year 

Author 

Title 

1981

Martin Cruz Smith

Gorky Park

1982

Peter Lovesey

The False Inspector Dew

1983

John Hutton

Accidental Crimes

1984

B. M. Gill

The Twelfth Juror

1985

Paula Gosling

Monkey Puzzle

1986

Ruth Rendell

Live Flesh

1987

Barbara Vine

Fatal Inversion

1988

Michael Dibdin

Ratking: An Aurelio Zen Mystery

1989

Colin Dexter

The Wench Is Dead

1990

Reginald Hill

Bones and Silence

1991

Barbara Vine

King Solomon's Carpet

1992

Colin Dexter

The Way Through The Woods

1993

Patricia Cornwell

Cruel and Unusual

1994

Minette Walters

Scold's Bridle

1995

Val McDermid

The Mermaids Singing

1996

Ben Elton

Popcorn

1997

Ian Rankin

Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery

1998

James Lee Burke

Sunset Limited

1999

Robert Wilson

A Small Death in Lisbon

2000

Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn

2001

Henning Mankell

Sidetracked

2002

Jose Carlos Somoza

The Athenian Murders

2003

Minette Walters

Fox Evil

2004

Sara Paretsky

Blacklist

2005

Arnaldur Indridason

Silence of the Grave

2006

Ann Cleeves

Raven Black

2007

Peter Temple

The Broken Shore

2008

Frances Fyfield

Blood from Stone

2009 

William Brodrick 

A Whispered Name 

Thursday, May 17, 2012


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