Sunday, August 6, 2023

Ned Kelly Award Shortlists

The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious recognition honoring published crime fiction and true crime writing in the categories of Best Crime Fiction, Best Debut Crime Fiction, Best True Crime, and Best International Crime Fiction. Entries are accepted for books published in the 12 months prior to 1 March each year. Best of luck to all the 2023 finalists!

Best Crime Fiction
 
Soulmate by Sally Hepworth 
When The Carnival is Over by Greg Woodland 
Exiles by Jane Harper 
When We Fall by Aoife Clifford 
The Tilt by Chris Hammer 
Those Who Perish Emma Viskic 
Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic
Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham

Best International Crime Fiction

The Lemon Man by Keith Bruton 
Paper Cage by Tom Baragwanath 
The Favour by Nicci French 
The Hitchhiker by Gerwin van der Werf 

Best Debut Crime Fiction

Wake by Shelley Burr 
No Country for Girls by Emma Styles 
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor 
Black River by Matthew Spencer 
How to Kill a Client by Joanna Jenkins 
The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon 
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne 
Denizen by James McKenzie Watson 

Best True Crime

Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! by Officer A
A Death Row at Truro by Geoff Plunkett 
Rattled by Ellis Gunn 
Betrayed by Sandi Logan 
Out of the Ashes by Megan Norris 
 

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