Getting Neddy

The Crime Writers’ Association of Australia has announced its longlist of nominees for the 17th annual Ned Kelly Awards as follows:

Best First Fiction:
• Ludo, by Boyd Anderson
• An Absence of Discretion, by Allan Barbeler
• Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat, by Andrez Bergen
• When We Have Wings, by Claire Corbett
• The Precipice, by Virginia Duigan
• The Brotherhood, by Y.A. Erskine
• Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerrilla Knitter’s Institute,
by Maggie Groff
• Watch Out for Me, by Sylvia Johnson
• Berlin Syndrome, by Melanie Joosten
• Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice, by Stuart Littlemore
• Murder and Redemption, by Noel Mealey
• The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley
• Prohibited Zone, by Alastair Sarre
• The Cartographer, by Peter Twohig
• The Courier’s New Bicycle, by Kim Westwood
• Casino Kurnell, by Gas Wylde

Best Fiction:
• De Luxe, by Lenny Bartulin
• Hindsight, A.A. Bell
• After the Darkness, by Honey Brown
• Pig Boy, by J.C. Burke
• Comeback, by Peter Corris
• Siren’s Sting, by Miranda Darling
• Whispering Death, by Garry Disher
• Scared Yet? by Jaye Ford
• Cooking the Books, by Kerry Greenwood
• The Race, by Brett Hoffmann
• Silent Fear, by Katherine Howell
• The Broken One, by Stephen M. Irwin
• The Life, by Malcolm Knox
• The Sixth Key, by Adriana Koulias
• Dangerously Placed, by Nansi Kunze
• The Map, by Tobsha Learner
• Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice, by Stuart Littlemore
• The Prodigal Son, by Colleen McCullough
• Chelsea Mansions, by Barry Maitland
• Rip Off, by Kel Robertson
• The Wreckage, by Michael Robotham
• Love, Honour & O’Brien, by Jennifer Rowe
• A Common Loss, by Kirsten Tranter
• The Cartographer, by Peter Twohig
• The Courier’s New Bicycle, by Kim Westwood
• A Dissection of Murder, by Felicity Young

Best True Crime:
• The Double Life of Herman Rockefeller, by Hilary Bonney
• Mad Dog, by Peter Corris
• Sins of the Father, by Eamonn Duff
• Call Me Cruel, by Michael Duffy
• Abandoned Women, by Lucy Frost
• A Tragedy in Two Acts, by Fiona Harari
• Partners and Crime, by Rochelle Jackson
• Nice Girl, by Rachael Jane Chin
• Detective Piggot’s Casebook, by Kevin Morgan
• Gun Alley, by Kevin Morgan
• Gangland Melbourne, by James Morton and Susanna Lobez
• Gangland Sydney, by James Morton and Susanna Lobez
• The Cruel City, by Stephen Orr
• Cold Case File, by Liz Porter
• Road to Nowhere, by Mark “Chopper” Read
• Perfect Stranger, by Kay Schubert
• Outlaws, by Adam Shand
• The Prez, by David Spiteri

Congratulations to all of the nominees so far. Contenders for the 2012 S.D. Harvey Short Story Award have yet to be declared.

I don’t see any info on the CWAA Web site about when a list of finalists for this year’s Neddies will be released, but if precedent holds, that should come around the beginning of August, with the winners in each category to be named at the end of August.

(Hat tip to AustCrime.)