A New Dawn, by Emeli Sione (Mila’s Books) The Devil You Know, by Dr. Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne (Faber) Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay, by Paul Diamond (Massey University Press) The Fix, by Scott Bainbridge (Bateman) Missing Persons, by Steve Braunias (HarperCollins)
BEST FIRST NOVEL
One Heart One Spade, by Alistair Luke (Your Books) Too Far from Antibes, by Bede Scott (Penguin SEA) Better the Blood, by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster) Surveillance, by Riley Chance (CopyPress) The Slow Roll, by Simon Lendrum (Upstart Press) Paper Cage, by Tom Baragwanath (Text)
BEST NOVEL
Exit .45, by Ben Sanders (Allen & Unwin) Blue Hotel, by Chad Taylor (Brio) Remember Me, by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin) The Doctor’s Wife, by Fiona Sussman (Bateman) Better the Blood, by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster) Blood Matters, by Renée (The Cuba Press) The Slow Roll, by Simon Lendrum (Upstart Press)
The award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.
Jussi Adler-Olsen — The Shadow Murders. Translated by William Frost (Denmark, Quercus)
Lina Areklew — Death in Summer. Translated by Tara F Chace (Sweden, Canelo Crime)
Kjell Ola Dahl — Little Drummer. Translated by Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books)
Pascal Engman – Femicide. Translated by Michael Gallagher (Sweden, Legend Press)
Anne Mette Hancock — The Corpse Flower. Translated by Tara F Chace (Denmark, Swift Press)
Here is the list with English translations of the titles, courtesy of Cora Buhlert:
Orkun Ertener – Was bisher geschah (What happened before) Marcel Huwyler – Frau Morgenstern und der Verrat (Frau Morgenstern and the Betrayal) Merle Kröger – Die Experten (The Experts) Ben Riffko – Grünes Öl (Green Oil) Joachim B. Schmidt – Kalmann (Kalmann) Matthias Wittekindt – Vor Gericht (In Court)
2021 NED KELLY AWARDS SHORTLISTS
The Australian Crime Writing Association announced the shortlists for the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards on July 28.
The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious prizes for crime fiction and true crime writing, established in 1995.
BEST CRIME FICTION
Consolation by Garry Disher (Text)
Gathering Dark by Candice Fox (Penguin Random House)
A Testament of Character by Sulari Gentill (Pantera Press)
The Survivors by Jane Harper (Pan Macmillan)
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan (Harper Collins)
Tell Me Lies by J.P. Pomare (Hachette)
When She Was Good by Michael Robotham (Hachette)
White Throat by Sarah Thornton (Text)
BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION
The Good Mother by Rae Cairns (Bandrui Publishing)
The Second Son by Loraine Peck (Text)
The Bluffs by Kyle Perry (Penguin Random House)
The Night Whistler by Greg Woodland (Text)
BEST TRUE CRIME
The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton (Hachette)
Stalking Claremont: Inside the hunt for a serial killer by Bret Christian (Harper Collins)
Public Enemies by Mark Dapin (Allen and Unwin)
Hazelwood by Tom Doig (Penguin Random House)
Witness by Louise Milligan (Hachette)
BEST INTERNATIONAL CRIME FICTION
The Guest List by Lucy Foley (Harper Collins)
The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman (Allen and Unwin)
Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar (Text)
We Begin at the End by Chris Whittaker (Allen and Unwin)
Given by The Australian Crime Writing Association since 1995, the awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious prizes for crime fiction and true crime writing. Each winner receives $1000.
2020 NED KELLY AWARDS
BEST CRIME FICTION
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White (Affirm Press)
BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION
Present Tense by Natalie Conyer (Clan Destine Press)
BEST TRUE CRIME
Bowraville by Dan Box (Penguin Random House Australia)
NED KELLY AWARDS. The 2019 Ned
Kelly Awards, given by the Australian Crime Writing Association, were presented
on September 6.
Best True Crime
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Best First Fiction
The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan
Best Fiction
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
DAVITT AWARDS. The winners of the 2019
Davitt Awards, handed out by Sisters in Crime Australia, were named on August
31. (List obtained with an assist from crime fiction news site Shots.)
Best Adult Crime Novel
The
Rúinby Dervla McTiernan (HarperCollins
Australia)
Best Young Adult Crime Novel
Small Spaces by
Sarah Epstein (Walker Books)
Best Children’s Crime Novel
Wakestone Hall by Judith Rossell (ABC Books)
Best Non-fiction Crime Book
The Arsonist by
Chloe Hooper (Penguin Random House)
Best Debut Novel
Eggshell Skull by
Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin)
Readers’ Choice
The Lost Man by
Jane Harper (Pan Macmillan Australia)
PINCKLEY PRIZES. The
2019
Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction, awarded by the Women’s National Book
Association of New Orleans, honor two women
writers. Both winners will receive both a financial award of $2,500 and a trip
to New Orleans to accept their prize at a ceremony on October 10.
The prize, established in 2011, is given
annually to a book-length work of fiction that “best illuminates the role of
lawyers in society and their power to effect change.”
2018 Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing
The winner of the 2018
Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing has been announced by
North American Branch of the
International Association of Crime Writers. The trophy goes to “the book of the
year that best represents the conception of literary excellence in crime
writing.”
WINNING NOVEL Lou Berney, November Road (William Morrow)
The award will be presented November 1 at Bouchercon.
CWA Dagger Awards Shortlist
British Crime Writers’ Association (CWA)announced the 2019 CWA
Dagger Awards Shortlist. The winners will be
announced in London, England, on October 24.
Congratulations to Lavie Tidhar’s whose “Bag Man”, in The Outcast Hours anthology, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, has made the shortlist in the CWA Short Story Dagger Award category.
CWA Gold Dagger:
All the Hidden Truths, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Puppet Show, by M.W. Craven: (Constable)
What We Did, by Christobel Kent (Sphere)
Unto Us a Son Is Given, by Donna Leon (Heinemann)
American by Day, by Derek B Miller (Doubleday)
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better, by Benjamin Wood (Scribner)
CWA John Creasey (New Blood):
All the Hidden Truths, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Boy at the Door, by Alex Dahl (Head of Zeus)
Scrublands, by Chris Hammer (Wildfire)
Turn a Blind Eye, by Vicky Newham (HQ)
Blood & Sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle)
Overkill, by Vanda Symon (Orenda)
CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction:
All That Remains: A Life in Death, by Sue Black (Doubleday)
An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere, by Mikita Brottman (Canongate)
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime, by Claire Harman (Viking)
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson (Hutchinson)
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre (Viking)
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold (Doubleday)
CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
Give Me Your Hand, by Megan Abbott (Picador)
Safe Houses, by Dan Fesperman (Head of Zeus)
Killing Eve: No Tomorrow, by Luke Jennings (John Murray)
Lives Laid Away, by Stephen Mack Jones (Soho Crime)
To the Lions, by Holly Watt (Bloomsbury)
Memo from Turner, by Tim Willocks (Jonathan Cape)
CWA Sapere Books Historical Dagger:
The Quaker, by Liam McIlvanney (Harper Fiction)
Destroying Angel, by S.G. MacLean: (Quercus)
Smoke and Ashes, by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker)
The House on Half Moon Street, by Alex Reeve (Raven)
Tombland, by C.J. Sansom: (Mantle)
Blood & Sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle)
CWA International Dagger:
A Long Night in Paris, by Dov Alfon; translated by Daniella Zamir (Maclehose Press)
Weeping Waters, by Karin Brynard; translated by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon (World Noir)
The Cold Summer, by Gianrico Carofiglio; translated by Howard Curtis (Bitter Lemon Press)
Newcomer, by Keigo Higashino; translated by Giles Murray (Little, Brown)
The Root of Evil, by Håkan Nesser; translated by Sarah Death (Mantle)
The Forger, by Cay Rademacher; translated by Peter Millar (Arcadia)
CWA Short Story Dagger:
“Strangers in a Pub,” by Martin Edwards (from Ten Year Stretch, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller; No Exit Press)
“Death Becomes Her,” by Syd Moore (from The Strange Casebook, by Syd Moore; Point Blank Books)
“The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing,” by Danuta Reah (from The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and Other Fantastic Female Fables, by Danuta Reah [aka Danuta Kot]; Fantastic)
“I Detest Mozart,” by Teresa Solana (from The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories, by Teresa Solana; Bitter Lemon Press)
“Bag Man,” by Lavie Tidhar (from The Outcast Hours, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin; Solaris)
Dagger in the Library:
M.C. Beaton
Mark Billingham
John Connolly
Kate Ellis
C.J. Sansom
Cath Staincliffe
Debut Dagger (for the opening of a crime novel by an uncontracted writer):
Wake, by Shelley Burr
The Mourning Light, by Jerry Krause
Hardways, by Catherine Hendricks
The Firefly, by David Smith
A Thin Sharp Blade, by Fran Smith
Diamond Dagger Recipient
Robert Goddard
2019 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award
The award, which honors the memory
of pioneering African-American crime fiction author Eleanor Taylor Bland with a
$2,000 grant to an emerging writer of color, was created in 2014 to support
SinC’s vision statement that the organization should serve as the voice for
excellence and diversity in crime writing.
2019 Ned Kelly Award Longlists
The Australian
Crime Writers Association
announced the longlists for the 2019
Ned Kelly Awards. The complete lists are at the link.