Fifteen years after the establishment of New Zealand’s Ngaio Marsh Awards, organizers of those annual commendations for crime, mystery, and thriller fiction today released a 2025 longlist of Best Novel nominees that is—what else?—15 books long.
• Return to Blood, by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster)
• The Hitchhiker, by Gabriel Bergmoser (HarperCollins)
• A Divine Fury, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
• Leave the Girls Behind, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Allen & Unwin)
• Woman, Missing, by Sherryl Clark (HQ Fiction)
• Hell’s Bells, by Jill Johnson (Black & White)
• The Mires, by Tina Makereti (Ultimo Press)
• A Fly Under the Radar, by William McCartney (Self-published)
• Home Truths, by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin)
• 17 Years Later, by J.P. Pomare (Hachette)
• Ōkiwi Brown, by Cristina Sanders (Cuba Press)
• A House Built on Sand, by Tina Shaw (Text)
• The Call, by Gavin Strawhan (Allen & Unwin)
• Prey, by Vanda Symon (Orenda)
• The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone, by Gareth and
Louise Ward (Penguin)
Craig Sisterson, who launched these prizes in 2010, applauds the “diverse array of characters and stories” represented by these latest nominees. As he notes, they include “a Māori sleuth trying to leave policing behind, a New York bartender with an entourage of dead girls, a colonial Wellington tale entwined with infamous Edinburgh body-snatchers, a gay investigator in Renaissance Florence, a probation officer whose beloved husband is sucked into the pit of internet disinformation, and a couple of bookselling former British coppers.”
The finalists for Best Novel, as well as for this year’s Best First Novel and Best Non-fiction awards, are to be announced in mid-August. Winners of the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards will be revealed on Thursday, September 25, during the WORD Christchurch literary festival.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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