Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing 2010 Shortlists
Wyatt
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Wyatt's been away. Now he's back.
Garry Disher’s cool, enigmatic anti-hero has been, uncharacteristically, out of action for a while. Now there’s a new Wyatt—and his legion of fans will not be disappointed.
The job... Buy or find out more →
The Black Russian
$0.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
After yet another slow week at the cash register, that fine purveyor of second-hand literature, Susko Books, is facing financial ruin. Jack Susko sets off to a gallery in Woollahra to scrape up some coin with the sale of... Buy or find out more →
Bleed For Me
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried... Buy or find out more →
Death And The Running Patterer
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Sydney, 1828. All is not well.
One of the convict colony's soldiers had been murdered and Governor Ralph Darling is not pleased.
Reluctantly, he turns to Nicodemus Dunne for help. Dunne, a fallen Bow Street Runner now tr... Buy or find out more →
Document Z
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A masterful, taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue, telling the story of the Petrov defection during the Cold War of the 1950s. Winner of the 2008 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
Evdokia kne... Buy or find out more →
Crooks Like Us
$49.95 – Flexi / Historic Houses Trust
In the 1920s Sydney police began quietly assembling a gallery of the citys most light-fingered, fleet-footed, silver-tongued rogues con artists, magsmen, housebreakers, thugs, gunmen, shoplifters, drug dealers, pickpocke... Buy or find out more →
Pitcairn: Paradise Lost
$24.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Pitcairn Island, remote and wild, home to descendants of the Bounty, a South Pacific Shangri-la, shrouded in myth...
But also, as the world would discover, a place of sinister secrets.
In 2000, police descended on the Br... Buy or find out more →
Medical Murder: Disturbing Cases Of Doctors Who Kill
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
The Hippocratic Oath commands all doctors to 'first do no harm' - what then makes a doctor cross that line to murder? A fascinating study of doctors on the wrong side of the law. In January 2000, world-wide headlines ann... Buy or find out more →
King Of The Cross
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
King of the Cross is a dazzling novel that explores the criminal world of Jacob Mendoza: legendary Godfather of Kings Cross and for more than four decades, Australia's most powerful and notorious crime figure. To record ... Buy or find out more →