CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

Winners and shortlists

2010s

• Stephen Purvis, Close but no Cigar, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

• Paul French, Midnight in Peking, Penguin

• Douglas Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds

• Ruth Dudley Edwards, Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing & the Families’ Pursuit of Justice

  2000s

• Kester Aspden, Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale
• *Francisco Goldman, The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi
• *David Rose, Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South
• *Duncan Staff, The Lost Boy
• *Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
• *Peter Zimonjic, Into the Darkness: 7/7

• Linda Rhodes, Lee Shelden, and Kathryn Abnett, The Dagenham Murder: The Brutal Killing of PC George Clark, 1846
• *Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont
• *Nuala O'Faolain, The Story of Chicago May
• *Sister Helen Prejean, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
• *William Queen, Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
• *Sue Williams, And Then the Darkness: The Fascinating Story of the Disappearance of Peter Falconio and the Trials of Joanne Lees

• Gregg and Gina Hill, On The Run: a Mafia childhood
• *Bella Bathurst, The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks.
• *Eric Jager, The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
• *Sadakat Kadri, The Trial: a history from Socrates to O. J. Simpson.
• *James Owen, A Serpent in Eden: The Greatest Murder Mystery of All Time

• John Dickie, Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
• Sarah Wise, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London
• *Rebecca Gowers, The Swamp of Death: A True Tale of Victorian Lies and Murder
• *Steve Holland, The Trials of Hank Janson
• *Mende Nazer and Damian Lewis, Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and her Fight for Survival

• Samantha Weinberg, Pointing from the Grave: a True Story of Murder and DNA
• *Michael Bilton, Wicked Beyond Belief: the Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
• *Erik Larson, Devil In The White City:Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
• *Chandak Sengoopta, Imprint of the Raj: the Colonial Origin of Fingerprinting and Its Voyage to Britain
• *Donald Thomas, An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War
• *Peter Walsh, Gang War: the Inside Story of the Manchester Gangs

• Lillian Pizzichini, Dead Man's Wages: the secrets of a London conman and his family
• *Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt, His Lives
• *Don Hale, Town Without Pity: the Fight to Clear Stephen Downing of the Bakewell Murder
• *Special mention: Julian Earwaker & Kathleen Becker, Scene of the Crime: a Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction^{Judged to be outside the scope of the award but worthy of commendation}

• Philip Etienne and Martin Maynard, The Infiltrators: the First Inside Account of Life Deep Undercover with Scotland Yard's Most Secret Unit
• *Zacaria Erzinçlioglu, Maggots, Murder and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist
• *Adrian Weale, Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason

• 'Edward Bunker, ''Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade

  1990s

• Brian Cathcart, The Case of Stephen Lawrence

• Gitta Sereny, Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill - The Story of Mary Bell

• Paul Britton, The Jigsaw Man

• Antonia Fraser, The Gunpowder Plot

• Martin Beales, Dead Not Buried

• David Canter,

• Alexandra Artley, Murder in the Heart

• Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning

• John Bossy, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair

• Jonathan Goodman, The Passing of Starr Faithfull

  1980s

• Robert Lindsey, A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit

• Bernard Wasserstein, The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln

• Bernard Taylor/Stephen Knight, Perfect Murder

• John Bryson, Evil Angels

• Brian Masters, Killing for Company

• David Yallop, In God's Name

• Peter Watson, Double Dealer: How Five Art Dealers, Four Policemen, Three Picture Restorers, Two Auction Houses and a Journalist Plotted to Recover Some of the World's Most Beautiful Stolen Paintings

• John Cornwell, Earth to Earth

• Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

• Anthony Summers, Conspiracy

  1970s

• Shirley Green, Rachman

• Audrey Williamson, The Mystery of the Princes