NED KELLY AWARDS 2023

The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards.

Established in 1995, the Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest, most prestigious awards honouring crime fiction and true crime writing. 

The shortlists in each category are shown below:

• Wake - Shelley Burr
• The House of Now and Then - Jo Dixon
• How to Kill a Client - Joanna Jenkins
• Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder - Kerryn Mayne
• Denizen - James McKenzie Watson
• Dirt Town - Hayley Scrivenor
• Black River - Matthew Spencer
• No Country for Girls - Emma Styles

• Rattled - Ellis Gunn
• Betrayed - Sandi Logan
• Out of the Ashes - Megan Norris
• Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! - Officer A
• Death Row at Truro - Geoff Plunkett

• Paper Cage - Tom Baragwanath
• The Lemon Man - Keith Bruton
• The Favour - Nicci French
• The Hitchhiker - Gewin van der Werf

• When We Fall - Aoife Clifford
• The Tilt - Chris Hammer
• Exiles - Jane Harper
• Soulmate - Sally Hepworth
• Seven Sisters - Katherine Kovacic
• Lying Beside You - Michael Robotham
• Those Who Perish - Emma Viskick
• The Carnival Is Over - Greg Woodland