NED KELLY AWARDS SHORTLIST

The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2020 Ned Kelly Awards Shortlists aka the Neddies.

BEST CRIME FICTION:

Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd (Australian Scholarly Publishing)

The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale (Simon & Schuster Australia)

The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan (Harlequin Enterprises Australia)

The Wife and the Widow by Christian White (Affirm Press)

Rivers of Salt by Dave Warner (Fremantle Press)

True West by David Whish-Wilson (Fremantle Press)

BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION:

Present Tense by Natalie Conyer (Clan Destine Press)

Eight Lives by Susan Hurley (Affirm Press)

Where the Truth Lies by Karina Kilmore (Simon & Schuster Australia)

The Nancys by RWR McDonald (Allen & Unwin)

Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern (Allen & Unwin)

Lapse by Sarah Thornton (Text Publishing)

BEST TRUE CRIME:

Bowraville by Dan Box (Penguin Random House Australia)

Dead Man Walking: The murky world of Michael McGurk and Ron Medich by Kate McClymont (Penguin Random House Australia)

Shark Arm by Phillip Rooper and Kevin Meagher (Allen & Unwin)

Snakes and Ladders by Angela Williams (Affirm Press)

BEST INTERNATIONAL CRIME FICTION:

Cruel Acts by Jane Casey (Harper Collins Australia)

The Night Fire by Michael Connelly (Allen & Unwin)

The Chain by Adrian McKinty (Hachette Australia)

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter (Harper Collins Australia)

 

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