Ned Kelly Awards 2025

The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious recognition honouring published crime fiction and true crime writing. Here are the shortlisted titles for the categories Best Crime Fiction, Best Debut Crime Fiction, Best True Crime and Best International Crime Fiction.

Updated August 26, 2025
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Ned Kelly Awards 2025

The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious recognition honouring published crime fiction and true crime writing. Here are the shortlisted titles for the categories Best Crime Fiction, Best Debut Crime Fiction, Best True Crime and Best International Crime Fiction.

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Highway 13
McFarlane, Fiona
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction | Nominated for the DUBLIN Literary Award | Short-listed for the the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, and the Ned...
Sanctuary
Disher, Garry.
Storm child
Robotham, Michael.
Paper Book
"No one does suspense better." --Stephen King Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in this "razor-sharp and emotionally charged" (Lisa Gardner) psychological thriller, which finally unlocks the secrets of Evie's past. The mystery of Evie Cormac's background has...
They'll never hold me : the life and crimes of Kevin John Simmonds, Australia's most daring fugitive
Adams, Michael
Ebook
Thousand miles from care : a hunt for a brother's killer - a thirty-year quest for justice
Johnson, Steve
Soon to be a MAJOR MOVIE. A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles from Care tells the 30-year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother's death. At the entrance of Sydney Harbor, the cliffs rise fourteen stories above the Pacific, like a...
A Case of Matricide
Burnet, Graeme Macrae.
Paper Book
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Leave the Girls Behind
Bublitz, Jacqueline.
Paper Book
The acclaimed author of the "tour de force" (The New York Times Book Review) Before You Knew My Name returns with a fresh suspense novel about a woman haunted by a serial killer and the ghosts he left behind. Ruth-Ann Baker is a college dropout, a bartender--and an...
Moscow X
McCloskey, David
Paper Book
CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's family business in Mexico--a CIA front since the 1960s--is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a...
Return to blood
Bennett, Michael
Paper Book
From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Maori detective Hana Westerman, in which the discovery of human bones in the dunes of New Zealand upends a long-ago murder conviction After the perils of a case that landed much too close to...
The Waiting
Connelly, Michael.
Paper Book
In this instant New York Times bestseller, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter. ​ Renée Ballard and the...
Those opulent days : a mystery
Pham, Jacquie
Paper Book
Jacquie Pham's transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920's French-colonial Vietnam that meshes the structural brilliance of Lucy Foley's The Guest List with the historical...
Home truths
Norman, Charity
Paper Book
How do you fight an invisible enemy? An unputdownable and timely new novel from the Ngaio Marsh-winning author of Remember Me.
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