Danger Awards 2025 Shortlists
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Danger Awards.
Shortlisted titles in two of the four categories are:
Debut crime fiction
- What I Would Do to You (Georgia Harper, Vintage)
- Gus and the Missing Boy (Troy Hunter, Wakefield) *
- A Town Called Treachery (Mitch Jennings, HarperCollins)
- All You Took from Me (Lisa Kenway, Transit Lounge) *
- The Crag (Claire Sutherland, Affirm)
Crime fiction
- Shadow City (Natalie Conyer, Echo) *
- Sanctuary (Garry Disher, Text)
- Bone Lands (Pip Fioretti, Affirm)
- High Wire (Candice Fox, Penguin)
- Joy Moody Is Out of Time (Kerryn Mayne, Bantam)
- Highway 13 (Fiona McFarlane, A&U) *
- Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U)
- The Dream (Iain Ryan, Ultimo)
- Girl Falling (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan)
- Cutler (David Whish-Wilson, Fremantle)
A people’s choice award winner will also be selected from the shortlists, with all four winners to be announced on 13 September.
More information about the awards is available on the festival website.
Books marked * have been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read our review.