The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlist has been whittled down from 135 entries across the categories. The award winners will be announced in a ceremony in August.
The shortlisted books, authors and publishers are as follows:
Best Crime Fiction
- The Enemy Within by Tim Ayliffe (Simon & Schuster)
- The Others by Mark Brandi (Hachette)
- You Had it Coming by B M Carroll (Profile Books)
- The Chase by Candice Fox (Bantam)
- Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath (Allen & Unwin)
- The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald (Allen & Unwin)
- The Deep by Kyle Perry (Michael Joseph)
Best Debut Crime Fiction
- Sweet Jimmy by Bryan Brown (Allen & Unwin)
- Shadow Over Edmund Street by Suzanne Frankham (Journey to Words Publishing)
- Cutters End by Margaret Hickey (Penguin Australia)
- Banjawarn by Josh Kemp (UWA Publishing)
Best True Crime
- The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar (Macmillan)
- Larrimah by Caroline Graham & Kylie Stevenson (Allen & Unwin)
- Banquet: The untold story of Adelaide’s family murders by Debi Marshall (Vintage)
- A Witness of Fact by Drew Rooke (Scribe)
Best International Crime Fiction
- Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Text)
- The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves (Macmillan)
- The Maid by Nita Prose (HarperCollins)
- Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt (HarperCollins)
Good luck to all finalists...
Visit our Ned Kelly Awards page to browse through the entire list of winners along with the fellow shortlisted books.