The Neddies Are Coming

The Australian Crime Writers Association today announced its shortlist of contenders for the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards (aka “Neddies”).

Best True Crime:
• Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!, by Officer A
• Death Row at Truro, by Geoff Plunkett
• Rattled, by Ellis Gunn
• Betrayed, by Sandi Logan
• Out of the Ashes, by Megan Norris

Best International Crime Fiction (published in Australia):
• The Lemon Man, by Keith Bruton
• Paper Cage, by Tom Baragwanath
• The Favour, by Nicci French
• The Hitchhiker, by Gerwin van der Werf

Best Debut Crime Fiction:
• Wake, by Shelley Burr
• No Country for Girls, by Emma Styles
• Dirt Town, by Hayley Scrivenor
• Black River, by Matthew Spencer
• How to Kill a Client, by Joanna Jenkins
• The House of Now and Then, by Jo Dixon
• Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder, by Kerryn Mayne
• Denizen, by James McKenzie Watson

Best Crime Fiction:
• Soulmate, by Sally Hepworth
• When the Carnival Is Over, by Greg Woodland
• Exiles, by Jane Harper
• When We Fall, by Aoife Clifford
• The Tilt, by Chris Hammer
• Those Who Perish, by Emma Viskic
• Seven Sisters, by Katherine Kovacic
• Lying Beside You, by Michael Robotham

Publishers of individual works were not mentioned on the press release, and there are simply too many titles for me to look them all up in a timely fashion. Also not given were any particulars as to when a longlist of nominees might be released, or when winners will be declared. We’ll just have to wait and see how things go.

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare.)