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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Highway 13
McFarlane, Fiona
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction Short-listed for the the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Named a Best Fiction Book of the Year by...
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...
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...

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