Shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards.
The shortlisted titles in two of the categories are:
Best debut crime fiction
- Sweet Jimmy (Bryan Brown, A&U) *
- Shadow Over Edmund Street (Suzanne Frankham, Journey to Words Publishing)
- Cutters End (Margaret Hickey, Penguin)
- Banjawarn (Josh Kemp, UWA Publishing) *
Best crime fiction
- The Enemy Within (Tim Ayliffe, S&S)
- The Others (Mark Brandi, Hachette) *
- You Had it Coming (B M Carroll, Profile Books)
- The Chase (Candice Fox, Bantam)
- Kill Your Brother (Jack Heath, A&U) *
- The Family Doctor (Debra Oswald, A&U)
- The Deep (Kyle Perry, Michael Joseph).
Established in 1995, the Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest, most prestigious awards honouring crime fiction and true crime writing. ACWA reported that in 2022 ‘it was particularly pleasing to see authors breaking away from some of the more common crime tropes, with a large variety of characters, settings and social diversity in this year’s entries’.
The books marked * have been reviewed in these pages. Kill Your Brother was QRC’s book of the month for January 2022. To read our interview with the author, click here.