Danger Awards 2025
Now in their eighth year, the Danger Awards continue to honour books featuring Australia as a setting for stories about crime and justice.
At BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival in September 2025, four awards will be presented: for Best Crime Fiction, for Best Crime Fiction Debut, for Best Crime Non-Fiction and thanks to the generous sponsorship of OverDrive Australia, for the third time a People’s Choice award will be presented, selected from the shortlist in all three categories.
Shortlist – Debut Crime Fiction:
- What I Would Do To You by Georgia Harper (Penguin Random House)
- Gus and the Missing Boy by Troy Hunter (Wakefield Press) *
- A Town Called Treachery by Mitch Jennings (Harper Collins)
- All You Took From Me by Lisa Kenway (Transit Lounge)
- The Crag by Claire Sutherland (Affirm Press)
Shortlist – Crime Fiction
- Shadow City by Natalie Conyer (Echo Publishing) *
- Sanctuary by Garry Disher (Text Publishing)
- Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti (Affirm)
- High Wire by Candice Fox (Penguin Random House)
- Joy Moody is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne (Penguin Random House)
- Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane (Allen & Unwin) *
- Pheasant’s Nest by Louise Milligan (Allen & Unwin)
- The Dream by Iain Ryan (Ultimo Press)
- Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor (Pan Macmillan)
- Cutler by David Whish Wilson (Fremantle Press)
The winner will be announced on 13 September 2025. For more information, go to Danger Award 2025 – BAD SYDNEY.
Books marked * have been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read our reviews.