AustCrimeWriters have just announced the shortlist for the 2013 Ned Kelly Awards at: http://www.austcrimewriters.com/content/announcing-2013-ned-kelly-shortlist(link is external)
The judges' comments, and the lists are now available at: http://www.austcrimewriters.com/content/2013-ned-kelly-awards(link is external)
For a change - I'm nearly caught up on all the books, just got a few of the True Crime entries that I need to read by the looks of it :)
Best First Fiction
Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann – The Marmalade Files
Zane Lovitt - The Midnight Promise
Paul Anderson - The Robbers
Sue Williams - Murder With The Lot
Andrew Grimes - The Richmond Conspiracy
Best Fiction
Robert Gott - The Holiday Murders
Katherine Howell - Web of Deceit
Geoffrey McGeachin - Blackwattle Creek
Adrian McKinty - I Hear The Sirens In The Street
Malla Nunn - Silent Valley
True Crime
Robin De Crespigny - The People Smuggler
Belinda Hawkins - Every Parent's Nightmare
Steve Lillebuen - The Devil’s Cinema
Derek Pedley - Dead by Friday
Mark Tedeschi QC – Eugenia