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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