ShelfEvidentGold Dagger Award — Complete Winners List
71 years of winners · Crime Writers' Association (CWA) · Since 1955 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Anna Mazzola | Headline | |
| 2024 | Una Mannion | Mantle | |
| 2023 | George Dawes Green | St. Martin's Press | |
| 2022 | Ray Celestin | Mantle | |
| 2021 | Chris Whitaker | Faber & Faber | |
| 2020 | Michael Robotham | Sphere | |
| 2019 | M. W. Craven | Constable | |
| 2018 | Steve Cavanagh | Orion | |
| 2017 | Jane Harper | Flatiron Books | |
| 2016 | Bill Beverly | Crown Publishers | |
| 2015 | Michael Robotham | Little, Brown | |
| 2014 | Wiley Cash | William Morrow | |
| 2013 | Mick Herron | Soho Crime | |
| 2012 | Gene Kerrigan | Vintage | |
| 2011 | Tom Franklin | Pan Macmillan | |
| 2010 | Belinda Bauer | Black Swan | |
| 2009 | William Brodrick | — | |
| 2008 | Frances Fyfield | — | |
| 2007 | Peter Temple | — | |
| 2006 | Ann Cleeves | — | |
| 2005 | Arnaldur Indriðason | — | |
| 2004 | Sara Paretsky | — | |
| 2003 | Minette Walters | — | |
| 2002 | José Carlos Somoza | — | |
| 2001 | Henning Mankell | — | |
| 2000 | Jonathan Lethem | — | |
| 1999 | Robert Wilson | — | |
| 1998 | James Lee Burke | — | |
| 1997 | Ian Rankin | — | |
| 1996 | Ben Elton | — | |
| 1995 | Val McDermid | — | |
| 1994 | Minette Walters | — | |
| 1993 | Patricia Cornwell | — | |
| 1992 | Colin Dexter | — | |
| 1991 | Barbara Vine | — | |
| 1990 | Reginald Hill | — | |
| 1989 | Colin Dexter | — | |
| 1988 | Michael Dibdin | — | |
| 1987 | Barbara Vine | — | |
| 1986 | Ruth Rendell | — | |
| 1985 | Paula Gosling | — | |
| 1984 | B. M. Gill | — | |
| 1983 | John Hutton | — | |
| 1982 | Peter Lovesey | — | |
| 1981 | Martin Cruz Smith | — | |
| 1980 | H. R. F. Keating | — | |
| 1979 | Dick Francis | — | |
| 1978 | Lionel Davidson | — | |
| 1977 | John le Carré | — | |
| 1976 | Ruth Rendell | — | |
| 1975 | Nicholas Meyer | — | |
| 1974 | Anthony Price | — | |
| 1973 | Robert Littell | — | |
| 1972 | Eric Ambler | — | |
| 1971 | James H. McClure | — | |
| 1970 | Joan Fleming | — | |
| 1969 | Peter Dickinson | — | |
| 1968 | Peter Dickinson | — | |
| 1967 | Emma Lathen | — | |
| 1966 | Lionel Davidson | — | |
| 1965 | Ross Macdonald | — | |
| 1964 | H. R. F. Keating | — | |
| 1963 | John le Carré | — | |
| 1962 | Joan Fleming | — | |
| 1961 | Mary Kelly | — | |
| 1960 | Lionel Davidson | — | |
| 1959 | Eric Ambler | — | |
| 1958 | Margot Bennett | — | |
| 1957 | Julian Symons | — | |
| 1956 | Edward Grierson | — | |
| 1955 | Winston Graham | — |
