Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.
The Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award was introduced in 2002 and is sponsored by Ian Fleming (Glidrose) Publications Ltd to celebrate the best of contemporary thriller writing. The judges (agents, authors, booksellers and reviewers), choose the winner.
See other CWA category winners and all the other literary prize winners we list.
2023
- Agent Seventeen John Brownlow
2022
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Dead ground M. W. Craven
2021
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When she was good Michael Robotham
2020
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November Road Lou Berney
2019
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To the lions Holly Watt
2018
- Attica Locke
Bluebird, bluebird2017
- Spook Street Mick Herron
2016
- The cartel Don Winslow
2015
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Cop town Karin Slaughter
2014
- An officer and a spy Robert Harris
2013
- Ghostman Roger Hobbs
2012
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A foreign country Charles Cumming
2011
- The lock artist Steve Hamilton
2010
- A loyal spy Simon Conway
2009
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The last child John Hart
2008
- Child 44 Tom Rob Smith
2007
- Sharp objects Gillian Flynn
2006
- Mr Clarinet Nick Stone
2005
- Brandenburg Henry Porter
2004
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Garden of beasts Jeffrey Deaver
2003
- The small boat of great sorrows Dan Fesperman
2002
- The Sirius crossing John Creed
