Ned Kelly Award Shortlists Announced

The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The annual honors have been handed out annually since 1996 for excellence in crime fiction by Australian authors and are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious recognition. Congratulations to all this year's nominees!

 

Best debut crime fiction

• Sweet Jimmy (Bryan Brown, A&U)
• Shadow Over Edmund Street (Suzanne Frankham, Journey to Words Publishing)
• Cutters End (Margaret Hickey, Penguin)
• Banjawarn (Josh Kemp, UWA Publishing)

Best true crime

• The Mother Wound (Amani Haydar, Macmillan)
• Larrimah (Caroline Graham & Kylie Stevenson, A&U)
• Banquet: The untold story of Adelaide’s family murders (Debi Marshall, Vintage)
• A Witness of Fact (Drew Rooke, Scribe)

Best international crime fiction

• Case Study (Graeme Macrae Burnet, Text)
• The Heron’s Cry (Ann Cleeves, Macmillan)
• The Maid (Nita Prose, HarperCollins)
• Cry Wolf (Hans Rosenfeldt, HarperCollins)

Best crime fiction

• The Enemy Within (Tim Ayliffe, S&S)
• The Others (Mark Brandi, Hachette)
• You Had it Coming (B M Carroll, Profile Books)
• The Chase (Candice Fox, Bantam)
• Kill Your Brother (Jack Heath, A&U)
• The Family Doctor (Debra Oswald, A&U)
• The Deep (Kyle Perry, Michael Joseph).