The longlist for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel has been revealed. The Ngaio Marsh Awards, established in 2010, promote and celebrate excellence in New Zealand crime writing. Following the announcement of these twelve titles vying for Best Novel, finalists for all the 2026 categories - Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Kids/YA - will be announced later in the Australian Spring (a/k/a the Northern Hemisphere's Autumn).
- Lucky Thing by Tom Baragwanath
- Carved In Blood by Michael Bennett
- Softly Calls the Devil by Christopher Blake
- The Birds Began to Sing by Jeffrey Buchanan
- Black Silk and Buried Secrets by Deborah Challinor
- The Deadly Dispute by Amanda Hampson
- Bella Donna by Jill Johnson
- The Good Father by Liam McIlvanney
- When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole by Geoff Parkes
- The Vanishing Place by Zoe Rankin
- Hooked Up by Fiona Sussman
- A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan
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