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 20, 2025
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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...
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...
Return to Blood: A Hana Westerman Thriller
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: A Ballard and Bosch Novel
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...

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