Thursday, September 25, 2025

Prime Crime from Down Under, Part 2

The Australian Crime Writers Association announced the winners of the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards celebrating Aussie authors in four categories:

Best Crime Fiction: The Creeper, by Margaret Hickey

Other finalists:  

  • Shadow City, by Natalie Conyer
  • Sanctuary, by Garry Disher
  • Unbury the Dead, by Fiona Hardy
  • Cold Truth, by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
  • Highway 13, by Fiona McFarlane
  • 17 Years Later, by J.P. Pomare
  • Storm Child, by Michael Robotham

Best Debut Crime Fiction Award:  All You Took From Me by Lisa Kenway

Other finalists:  

  • Down the Rabbit Hole by Shaeden Berry
  • A Town Called Treachery by Mitch Jennings
  • The Chilling by Riley James
  • Everywhere We Look by Martine Kropkowski
  • Those Opulent Days by Jacquie Pham

Best True Crime: A Thousand Miles from Care, by Steve Johnson 

Other finalists:

  • They’ll Never Hold Me, by Michael Adams
  • The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop, by Neil Mercer
  • Meadow’s Law, by Quentin McDermott
  • The Lasting Harm, by Lucia Osborne-Crowley (HarperCollins)


Best International Crime Fiction: A Case of Matricide, by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Other finalists:

  • Return to Blood, by Michael Bennett
  • Leave the Girls Behind, by Jacqueline Bublitz
  • The Waiting, by Michael Connelly
  • Moscow X, by David McCloskey
  • Home Truths, by Charity Norman

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