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CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association for best thriller of the year. The award is sponsored by the estate of Ian Fleming.

It is given to a title that fits the broadest definition of the thriller novel; these can be set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction and/or action/ adventure stories. Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller – that “one simply has to turn the pages”; this is one of the main characteristics that the judges will be looking for.

Winners

2020s

2020
  • Winner: Lou Berney, November Road[1]
    • Tom Chatfield, This is Gomorrah[2]
    • A. A. Dhand, One Way Out
    • Eva Dolan, Between Two Evils
    • David Koepp, Cold Storage
    • Alex North, The Whisper Man

2010s

2019
  • Winner: Holly Watt, To The Lions
    • Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand
    • Dan Fesperman, Safe Houses
    • Luke Jennings, Killing Eve: No Tomorrow
    • Stephen Mack Jones, Lives Laid Away
    • Tim Willocks, Memo From Turner
2018
  • Winner: Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird
    • Mick Herron, London Rules
    • Emily Koch, If I Die Before I Wake
    • Colette McBeth, An Act of Silence
    • C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man
    • Don Winslow, The Force
2017
  • Winner: Mick Herron, Spook Street
    • William Ryan, The Constant Soldier
    • John Hart, Redemption Road
    • J S Carol, The Killing Game
    • Jules Grant, We Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire
    • Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me
2016
  • Winner: Don Winslow, The Cartel
    • Lee Child, Make Me
    • Adrian McKinty, Rain Dogs
    • Mick Herron, Real Tigers
    • Daniel Silva, The English Spy
2015
  • Winner: Karin Slaughter, Cop Town
    • Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
    • Malcolm Mackay, The Night the Rich Men Burned
    • Patrick Hoffman, The White Van
    • Mick Herron, Nobody Walks
    • Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
    • Sam Hawken, Missing
2014
2013
  • Winner: Roger Hobbs, Ghostman
    • Stuart Neville, Ratlines
    • Mark Oldfield, The Sentinel
    • Robert Wilson, Capital Punishment
2012
2011
2010
  • Winner: Simon Conway, A Loyal Spy
    • Scott Turow, Innocent
    • Henry Porter, The Dying Light
    • Don Winslow, The Gentlemen’s Hour
    • Lee Child, 61 Hours
    • Mo Hayder, Gone
    • Mick Herron, Slow Horses

2000s

2009
2008
  • Winner: Tom Rob Smith, Child 44
    • Mo Hayder, Ritual
    • Gregg Hurwitz, I See You
    • Michael Robotham, Shatter
    • David Stone, The Echelon Vendetta
2007
2006
2005
  • Winner: Henry Porter, Brandenburg
    • G. M. Ford, A Blind Eye
    • Simon Kernick, A Good Day to Die
    • Adrian Matthews, The Apothecary's House
    • Kate Mosse, Labyrinth
    • Joel Ross, Double Cross Blind
    • Daniel Silva, A Death in Vienna
2004
2003
2002

References

  1. ^ "Michael Robotham wins the 2020 Gold Dagger". The Booktopian. 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  2. ^ "The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
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