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| Awarded annually by the Crime Writers Association of Australia, the Ned Kelly awards are presented for Australian Crime Writing in the following categories:
Best Novel/
Best First Novel/
Best True Crime/
Lifetime Achievement Award |
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2008 Best Fiction |
Shatter
Author: Michael Robotham
Category: Fiction - Action & Adventure General
A naked woman in red high-heeled shoes is perched on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge with her back pressed to the safety fence, weeping into a mobile phone. Clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin is only feet away ... |
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Best First Fiction |
The Low Road
Author: Chris Womersley
Category: Fiction - General
A young petty criminal, Lee, wakes in a seedy motel to find a bullet in his sode and a suitcase of stolen money next to him, with only the haziest memory of exactly how he got there. |
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Best Nonfiction |
Red Centre, Dark Heart
Author: Evan McHugh
Category: True Stories - Crime
Category: True Stories - Crime General
The Australian outback is a vast landscape of extraordinary magnificence. But it is also a notorious crime scene. Some of the most shocking and fascinating crimes in our history have been committed in its harsh surrounds ... |
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2007 Best Novel |
Chain of Evidence
Author: Garry Disher
THE FOURTH CHALLIS & DESTRY NOVEL He waited by the van's open door, a clipboard in his hand. Surely she'd be along soon, dreamily pumping the pedals of her bike, helmet crooked on her gleaming curls, backpack bumping ag ... |
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Best First Novel |
Diamond Dove
Author: Adrian Hyland
Take a nail-biting mystery, an epic setting and a heroine with a talent for stirring things up. Throw in an affectionate flogging of outback Australia's melanoma-encrusted hide - and Diamond Dove may be the wittiest and ... |
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Best True Crime |
Written on the Skin
Author: Liz Porter
Liz Porter's rivetingg case book shows how forensic investigators, including pathologists, chemists, and entomologists have used their expertise in dozens of fascinating crimes and mysteries. |
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Killing for Pleasure - The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders
Author: Debi Marshall
A disused bank vault holding eight dismembered bodies immersed in barrels of acid. Two bodies buried in a suburban backyard, a further two found in the bush. A tensely woven and microscopic examination of tawdry loves an ... |
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2006 Best First Novel |
Out of the Silence
Author: Wendy James
Category: Fiction - General
WINNER OF THE BEST FIRST AUSTRALIAN CRIME NOVEL, NED KELLY CRIME AWARDS 2006 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DOBBIE LITERARY AWARD 2006 FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL BY A FEMALE AUTHOR 'I call his name - only quietly, but he hears me as I kn ... |
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1-2 Days
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Best True Crime |
Packing Death
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7-10 Days
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Best Novel |
Crook as Rookwood
Author: Chris Nyst
Category: Fiction - General
When Gold Coast lawyer, Eddie Moran, comes to Sydney to look after Slick's interests after the death of her ex, he finds a simple drug overdose isn't so simple after all. |
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The Broken Shore
Author: Peter Temple
Category: Fiction - General
A wonderful novel about a place, about family, about black-white relations, about politics and power, and the need to live honourably and decently in a world where so much is rotten. |
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7-10 Days
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2005 Best First Novel |
A Private Man
Author: Malcolm Knox
Category: Fiction - General
It is two days since Dr John Brand's death and his eldest son, Davis, suspects a cover-up. 'Survived by two sons', the death notice said. 'Peacefully.' But someone has lied: there are three sons, and the circumstances of ... |
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Best True Crime |
Joe Cinque's Consolation
Author: Helen Garner
Category: True Stories - Crime
Category: True Stories - Crime General
In October 1997, a clever young student at the ANU murdered her boyfriend. She and her best friend were later charged with murder. Garner followed the trial in the ACT Supreme Court. This book is about how and why Joe Ci ... |
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Mr Big
Author: Tony Reeves
Category: True Stories - Crime
Category: True Stories - Crime General
When Nellie McPherson reached her eightieth year, her clan got together to give the sprightly grandmother a birthday bash. Her youngest son, Lennie, wasn't invited. He turned up nevertheless, with a small white rabbit. I ... |
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2004 Best First Novel |
Walker
Author: Jane R. Goodall
Category: Fiction - Crime & Mystery General
Detective Briony Williams is a rookie, appointed to an all-male team, investigating a bizarre murder at an anatomy college in Bloomsbury. Her superiors constantly make her feel left out. But a killer obsessed with follow ... |
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Junkie Pilgrim
Author: Wayne Grogan
Category: Fiction - Crime & Mystery General
A raw tale of addiction, corruption and murder that moves betweeen the dark underside of Sydney's waterfront and the alleyways of Kings Cross. A wharfie is in heroin withdrawal, while being stalked by a 'green light' cri ... |
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Best True Crime |
Killing Juanita
Author: Peter Rees
Category: True Stories - Crime
Category: True Stories - Crime General
On 14 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen, a wealthy heiress, Sydney newspaper publisher and anti-development campaigner left an appointment at a Kings Cross nightclub and simply disappeared. For a quarter of a century, the case ... |
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2003 Best First Novel |
Blood Redemption
Author: Alex Palmer
Category: Fiction - Crime & Mystery General
In this novel, Matthew Lui sees his parents gunned down on a lonely Sydney backstreet. A young woman, the killer, stares him in the face before fleeing the scene. When the police arrive, all they find is the discarded gu ... |
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7-10 Days
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Best Novel |
White Dog
Author: Peter Temple
Category: Fiction - Crime & Mystery General
Winner of the 2003 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. Mickey Frances was funny and clever, but there was always something dangerous about him. Now he's been shot five times and his old girlfriend charged with murder. ... |
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Best True Crime |
Blood Stain
Author: Peter Lalor
Category: True Stories - Crime
Category: True Stories - Crime Murder
Journalist Peter Lalor covered the trial and wanted to know what made Knight go way over the borderline. In this unflinching account he uncovers the layers of her dysfunction, opening the door of 84 St Andrews Street and ... |
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The Hanged Man
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2001 Best First Crime Novel |
Last Drinks
Author: Andrew McGahan
Category: Fiction - General
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel.It's a decade since the infamous Inquiry into corruption tore the state of Qu ... |
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Best Novel |
Dead Point
Author: Peter Temple
Category: Fiction - Crime & Mystery General
Jack is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colbourne. But Robbie turns up dead from a drug overdose. |
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The Second Coming
Author: Andrew Masterson
Category: Fiction - General
Joe Panther is a psychotic, alcoholic, violent, substance abusing heroin dealer. He is also, he believes, Joshua Ben Pantera, born two thousand years ago, the son of Mary and the Lord God Yaweh Himself, not dead yet, the ... |
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Best True Crime |
Broken Lives
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2000 Best Novel |
Shooting Star
Author: Peter Temple
Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, retired police negotiator, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson ... |
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Best First Novel |
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
Author: Marshall Browne
Category: Fiction - Crime & Mystery General
Meet the latest figure in the international crime scene: Inspector Anders, the Rome cop. In this first Anders book he is sent to a city in Southern Italy to investigate the killing of a respected judge. There he finds hi ... |
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Best True Crime |
Huckstepp
Author: John Dale
Category: True Stories - Crime
Category: True Stories - Crime General
In 1986, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp was strangled and drowned in Centennial Park, Australia. Five years earlier she had accused armed hold-up detectives of murdering her lover, Warren Lanfranchi, in cold blood. In this blend ... |
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Underbelly 3
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1997 Best First Novel |
Bad Debts
Author: Peter Temple
Category: Fiction - Crime & Mystery General
Danny McKillop's dead and no one cares much except his wife. And Jack Irish, because now that's twice that he's let McKillop down. But when he starts digging for information, he turns over some rocks that certain people ... |
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Best Novel |
The Brush-off
Author: Shane Maloney
Category: Fiction - Action & Adventure General
Murray Whelan, political advisor to the newly appointed minister of culture, is hanging onto his job by the toenails after a ministerial shakeup. On his first day, the disgruntled young artist Marcus Taylor is found dead ... |
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