The Best CWA Dagger Award Winners

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Live Flesh
1.  Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell
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  "this won the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year in 1986, it was Rendell's fourth. This, of course, is an excellent novel."
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The Athenian Murders
2.  The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
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  "Won the Gold in 2002, and was possibly the most deserving winner in the award's history. A shocking historic literary thriller"
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Service of All the Dead (Pan crime)
3.  Service of All the Dead (Pan crime) by Colin Dexter
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  "Won the Silver Dagger in 1979 - this is probably my favourite of Dexter's wonderful Morse novels"
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The Mermaids Singing
4.  The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
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  "Won the Gold in 1995, and was McDermid's first. An excellent serial killer novel"
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God is a Bullet
5.  God is a Bullet by Boston Teran
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  "Won the John Creasy Award for best First novel in 2000. An incredible, but brutal, novel. The eccentric prose was like a drug - couldn't get enough of it!"
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A Demon In My View
6.  A Demon In My View by Ruth Rendell
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  "Won the Gold, Rendell's first, of many, in 1976. A short, sharp, shocking novel."
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Cruel And Unusual
7.  Cruel And Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
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  "Won the Gold in 1993. This is an excellent Scarpetta novel but not, in my opinion, the best."
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Friends In High Places
8.  Friends In High Places by Donna Leon
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  "Won the Silver in 2000. Another wondeful Brunetti novel from Leon."
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The Black Tower (Penguin Paperback)
9.  The Black Tower (Penguin Paperback) by P. D. James
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  "Won the Silver in 1975. Surprisingly, James has never actually won the Gold. This is an excellent Dalgleish novel."
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King Solomon's Carpet
10.  King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
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  "Won the Gold for Rendell/Vine in 1991. Thus far, she has not won it since. An excellent novel where the London Underground is as much a character in the book as any human being."
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Sidetracked (Kurt Wallender Mystery)
11.  Sidetracked (Kurt Wallender Mystery) by Henning Mankell
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  "Won the Gold in 1991. Winning this started Mankell's stratospheric rise to the top table of crime fiction."
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Fingersmith
12.  Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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  "Winning the Historical Dagger Award in 2002, this novel was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize."
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The Ice House
13.  The Ice House by Minette Walters
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  "Won the John Creasy Award in 1992. One of Minette's early masterpieces. It's a shame that since the brillance that was The Shape of Snakes, she has been slipping"
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The Way Through the Woods
14.  The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter
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  "Won the Gold, Dexter's second, in 1992. Another excellent, supremely literate mystery"
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The Earthquake Bird
15.  The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
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  "Won the John Creasy Award in 2001. A wondeful, delicate mystery set in Japan."
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The Tree of Hands
16.  The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
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  "Won the Silver in 1984. It was also shortlisted for the American Edgar Award. I love this one; I think it should have won Gold!"
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Bones and Silence (Dalziel and Pascoe)
17.  Bones and Silence (Dalziel and Pascoe) by Reginald Hill
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  "Won the Gold in 1990. Aside from a Best Short Story award, this is Hill's only dagger. One of the best Dalziel and Pascoe novels."
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Blood Junction
18.  Blood Junction by CJ Carver
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  "Won the Debut Dagger for previously unpublished novelists in 1999."
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A Fatal Inversion
19.  A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
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  "ANOTHER Gold for Rendell, this time in 1987. Incredibly, this was the second year-running that she won it, after Live Flesh took it in 1986. An atmospheric and compelling thriller."
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Postmortem (A Scarpetta Novel)
20.  Postmortem (A Scarpetta Novel) by Patricia Cornwell
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  "Won the John Creasy Award in 1990. Began Cornwell's incredibly sucessful career. It is a pioneering debut."
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Silence Of The Grave
21.  Silence Of The Grave by Arnaldur Indridason
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  "Gold, 2005"
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A Taste for Death
22.  A Taste for Death by P. D. James
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  "Won the Silver in 1986."
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Forty Words for Sorrow
23.  Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt
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  "Won Silver in 2001. Even better is his second chilling novel, The Delicate Storm"
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Two For The Lions
24.  Two For The Lions by Lindsey Davis
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  "Won the Historical Dagger in 1999. Another beguiling Falco adventure."
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Monk's Hood (Cadfael Chronicles)
25.  Monk's Hood (Cadfael Chronicles) by Ellis Peters
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  "Won the Silver in 1980."
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