Appreciating Fact and Fiction

Earlier this week we brought you the shortlisted candidates for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Debut Crime Fiction division. Now we have the nominees for Best True Crime. There are five of them:

• Crossing the Line, by Nick McKenzie (Hachette Australia)
• Killing for Country, by David Marr
(Black Inc)
• The Murder Squad, by Michael Adams (Affirm Press)
• Reckless, by Marele Day (Ultimo Press)
• The Teacher’s Pet, by Hedley Thomas (Macmillan Australia)

The Ned Kelly Awards—or “Neddies,” for short—were established in 1996 by the Australian Crime Writers Association to recognize “excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia.” Previous recipients are recorded here.

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Meanwhile, In Reference to Murder reports that “Joe Lansdale received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 3rd annual Texas Author Con, an honor that will be named after him. Lansdale writes in a variety of genres, including Westerns, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He received the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2001 for The Bottoms, and has also garnered the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, and eleven Bram Stoker Awards.”