Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

2017
Winner
Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba by Stephen Purvis

Shortlist
A Dangerous Place by Simon Farquhar
The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage by Anja Reich-Osang

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II by AT Williams

Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge

Longlist
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal-Meth Addiction by Luke Williams

2016
Winner
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson

Shortlist
Sexy Beasts: The Hatton Garden Mob by Wensley Clarkson
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant
A Very Expensive Poison by Luke` Harding
John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman

2015
Winner
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies

Shortlist
A Kim John Il Production by Paul Fischer
Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic by Jill Leovy
Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of the Gun by Iain Overton
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Ǻsne Seierstad
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson

2014
Winner
The Siege by Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark
 
Shortlist
Did She Kill Him? by Kate Colquhoun
Life after Death by Damien Echols
Undercover by Rob Evans & Paul Lewis
The Girl by Samantha Geimer
Manson by Jeff Guinn

2013
Winner
Midnight in Peking by Paul French

Shortlist
The Boy in the River by Richard Hoskins
Against a Tide of Evil by Mukesh Kapila & Damien Lewis
A Find Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami
Injustice by Clive Stafford Smith

2012
Winner
The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Shortlist
To Live Outside the Law by Leaf Fielding
Dark Market by Misha Glenny
Hood Rat by Gavin Knight
The Negotiator by Ben Lopez
Witness by David Smith & Carol Ann Lee

2011
Winner
The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr

Shortlist
The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo
Mr Briggs’ Hat by Kate Colquhoun
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn by Colin Evans
The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

2010
Winner
Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice by Ruth Dudley Evans

Shortlist
Major Farran’s Hat by David Cesarani
Killing Time by David R Dow
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde by Jeff Guinn
Defending the Guilty by Alex McBride
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi

2008
Winner
Nationality: Wog – The Hounding of David Oluwale by Kester Aspden

Shortlist
The Art of Political MurdeR: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi by Francisco Goldman
Violation by David Rose
The Lost Boy by Duncan Staff
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Into The Darkness by Peter Zimonjic

2006
Winner
The Dagenham Murder by Linda Rhodes & Lee Shelden

Shortlist
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O’Faolain
The Death of Innocents by Sister Helen Prejean
Under and Alone by William Queen
And Then the Darkness by Sue Williams

2005
Winner
On The Run by Gregg Hill & Gina Hill

Shortlist
The Wreckers by Bella Bathurst
The Last Duel by Eric Jager
The Trial by Sadakat Kadri
A Serpent in Eden by James Owen

2004
Winner
Cosa Nostra by John Dickie

Shortlist
The Swamp of Death by Rebecca Gowers
The Trials of Hank Janson by Steve Holland
Slave by Mende Nazer & Damien Lewis
The Italian Boy by Sarah Wise

2003
Winner
Pointing from the Grave by Samantha Weinberg

Shortlist
Wicked Beyond Belief by Michael Bilton
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Gang War by Peter Walsh

2002
Winner
Dead Man’s Wages by Lillian Pizzichini

Shortlist
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
Scene of the Crime by Julian Earwaker & Kathleen Becker
Town Without Pity by Don Hale

2001
Winner
The Infiltrators by Philip Etienne & Martin Maynard

Shortlist
Maggots, Murder and Men by Dr Zacaria Erzinclioglu
Patriot Traitors by Adrian Weale

2000
Winner
Mr Blue by Edward Bunker

1999
Winner
The Case of Stephen Lawrence by Brian Cathcart

1998
Winner
Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny

1997
Winner
The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton

1996
Winner
The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser

1995
Winner
Dead Not Buried by Martin Beales

1994
Winner
Criminal Shadows by David Canter

1993
Winner
Murder in the Heart by Alexandra Artley

1992
Winner
The Reckoning by Charles Nicholl

1991
Winner
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy

1990
Winner
The Passing of Starr Faithful by Jonathan Goodman

1989
Winner
A Gathering of Saints by Robert Lindsay

1988
Winner
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln by Bernard Wasserstein

1987
Winner
Perfect Murder by Bernard Taylor & Stephen Knight

1986
Winner
Evil Angels by John Bryson

1985
Winner
Killing for Company by Brian Masters

1984
Winner
In God’s Name by David Yallop

1983
Winner
Double Dealer by Peter Watson

1982
Winner
Earth to Earth by John Cornwell

1981
Winner
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without A Number by Jacobo Timerman

1980
Winner
Conspiracy by Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

1979
Winner
Rachman by Shirley Green

1978
Winner
The Mystery of the Princes by Audrey Williamson