Saturday, 16 August 2025

Shortlists for further Ned Kelly Awards announced

 

The Australian Crime Writers Association announced the shortlists for the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards for the Best International Crime Fiction, Best True Crime but also Best Crime Fiction.

Best International Crime Fiction Nominees

Return to Blood, by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster UK)

Leave the Girls Behind, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Allen & Unwin)

The Waiting, by Michael Connelly (Allen & Unwin)

A Case of Matricide, by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Text)

Moscow X, by David McCloskey (Swift Press)

Home Truths, by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin)


Best True Crime Nominees

They’ll Never Hold Me, by Michael Adams (Affirm Press)

A Thousand Miles from Care, by Steve Johnson (William Collins)

The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop, by Neil Mercer (Allen & Unwin)\

Meadow’s Law, by Quentin McDermott (HarperCollins)

The Lasting Harm, by Lucia Osborne-Crowley (HarperCollins)


Best Crime Fiction Nominees

Shadow City, by Natalie Conner

Sanctuary, by Garry Disher

Unbury the Dead, by Fiona Hardy

The Creeper, by Margaret Hickey

Cold Truth, by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Highway 13, by Fiona McFarlane

17 Years Later, by J.P. Pomare

Storm Child, by Michael Robotham


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