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.
2026
King of Ashes S.A. Cosby
2025
Dark Ride Lou Berney
2024
Everybody knows Jordan Harper
2023
Agent Seventeen John Brownlow
2022
Dead ground M. W. Craven
2021
When she was good Michael Robotham
2020
November Road Lou Berney
2019
To the lions Holly Watt
2018
Bluebird, bluebird Attica Locke
2017
Spook Street Mick Herron
2016
The cartel Don Winslow
2015
Cop town Karin Slaughter
2014
An officer and a spy Robert Harris
2013
Ghostman Roger Hobbs
2012
A foreign country Charles Cumming
2011
The lock artist Steve Hamilton
2010
A loyal spy Simon Conway
2009
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
Garden of beasts Jeffrey Deaver
2003
The small boat of great sorrows Dan Fesperman
2002
The Sirius crossing John Creed