Ned Kelly Crime Award 2010: First Fiction Shortlist
Riding High
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
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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 →
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 →
The Contract
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A forgotten file.
A woman on the run.
Secrets can be bad for business.
Wall Street star consultant Stella Sartori is very good at her job. So good, in fact, that she can't help but follow up a casual remark made during a... Buy or find out more →
On The Run
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Covert operative Cole Goodwin pulls off the biggest undercover sting in Australia. Now he's on the run in the biggest gig of his life-survival.
Cole Goodwin spent years undercover, infiltrating the Mafia and putting the ... Buy or find out more →
The Silence
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
From the creator of The Sacrifice comes a provocative graphic novel about the nature of art, told through the eyes of Choosy McBride, gallery manager and curator, and her artist partner, Dmitri.
When Choosy McBride disco... Buy or find out more →
Sharp Shooter
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Introducing Tara Sharp, a fun, feisty, kick-arse crime fighter for fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum.
Tara Sharp should be just another unemployable, twenty-something, ex-private schoolgirl . . . but she has the g... Buy or find out more →
Steel River
$19.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
For Jayne Buchanan, a train ride to the city heralds the beginning of a trip into a sinister and callous world of violence, exploitation and murder. She finds herself stalked, kidnapped and running hard for her life; har... Buy or find out more →
Gladiatrix: Kannon Dupree Time Stalker Book One
$20.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
When time travel was invented, everyone thought it would solve their problems.
But for 22-year-old Kannon, it′s about to turn her life upside down.
Left for dead in the Blue Mountains when she was just a baby, Kannon h... Buy or find out more →
Slights
$20.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Stephanie is a killer.
After an accident in which her mother dies, she has a near-death experience and finds herself in a room full of people - everyone she′s ever slighted.
They clutch at her, scratch and tear at her.... Buy or find out more →
Hostage
$18.99 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
What if you could have your life over again. Would it be different? Tully becomes a hostage when she is abducted from a chemist on Christmas Eve. Her ordeal lasts 24 hours. Or so she says. Buy or find out more →
King Of The Cross
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
"Violently funny, brutally incorrect, sly and subversive and addictive... A killer read from a writer who punches both hands and winks at the crowd while he's at it. His protagonist is part punk, part pug, part poet – an... Buy or find out more →
Liar
$22.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Micah Wilkins admits she's a liar. But will murder be enough of a reason to stop lying? An extraordinary and original story that will have you grasping for the truth until the very last page.
Secrets, lies, murder and be... Buy or find out more →
The Dead Path
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hachette
After his wife's sudden death, Nicholas leaves the life he had in London and returns home to Australia. He knows something is very wrong and feels he is teetering on the brink of madness. But the truth is much, much more... Buy or find out more →
The Gene Thieves
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Brilliant‚ lonely genetic scientist Piggy Brown is desperate for a child‚ but he′s in a tricky legal situation. Dancer is a lawyer with his own reasons for wanting to grant Piggy′s dearest wish -- and he can set up Conju... Buy or find out more →