Best First Fiction

Boyd Anderson Ludo

Allan Barbeler An Absence of Discretion

Andrez Bergen Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat

Claire Corbett When We Have Wings

Virginia Duigan The Precipice

Y.A. Erskine The Brotherhood

Maggie Groff Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerrilla Knitter’s Institute

Sylvia Johnson Watch Out For Me

Melanie Joosten Berlin Syndrome

Stuart Littlemore Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice

Noel Mealey Murder and Redemption

Daniel O’Malley The Rook

Alastair Sarre Prohibited Zone

Peter Twohig The Cartographer

Kim Westwood Couriers New Bicycle

Gas Wylde Casino Kurnell

Best Fiction

Lenny Bartulin De Luxe

A.A. Bell Hindsight

Honey Brown After The Darkness

J.C. Burke Pig Boy

Peter Corris Comeback

Miranda Darling Siren’s Sting

Garry Disher Whispering Death

Jaye Ford Scared Yet?

Kerry Greenwood Cooking the Books

Brett Hoffmann The Race

Katherine Howell Silent Fear

Stephen M Irwin The Broken One

Malcolm Knox The Life

Adriana Koulias The Sixth Key

Nansi Kunze Dangerously Placed

Tobsha Learner The Map

Stuart Littlemore Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice

Colleen McCullough The Prodigal Son

Barry Maitland Chelsea Mansions

Kel Robertson Rip Off

Michael Robotham The Wreckage

Jennifer Rowe Love, Honour & O’Brien

Kirsten Tranter A Common Loss

Peter Twohig The Cartographer

Kim Westwood Couriers New Bicycle

Felicity Young A Dissection of Murder

Best True Crime

Hilary Bonney The Double Life of Herman Rockefeller

Peter Corris Mad Dog

Eamonn Duff Sins of the Father

Michael Duffy Call Me Cruel

Lucy Frost Abandoned Women

Fiona Harari A Tragedy in Two Acts

Rochelle Jackson Partners and Crime

Rachael Jane Chin Nice Girl

Kevin Morgan Detective Piggot’s Casebook

Kevin Morgan Gun Alley

James Morton and Susanna Lobez Gangland Melbourne

James Morton and Susanna Lobez Gangland Sydney

Stephen Orr The Cruel City

Liz Porter Cold Case File

Mark ‘Chopper’ Read Road To Nowhere

Kay Schubert Perfect Stranger

Adam Shand Outlaws

David Spiteri The Prez

The SD Harvey Short Story

TBA