Ned Kelly Awards shortlists 2020

The Scholar
Being brilliant has never been this dangerous...
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True West
A fast-paced and unsettling action thriller inspired by historical fact. The book captures Perth's burgeoning Neo-Nazi movement in the late 1980s.
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The Nancys
A schoolgirl and her uncle and his boyfriend have two weeks to solve a murder in a small town style forgot...
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The Wife and the Widow
Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and the Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?
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Bowraville
From the creator of the Walkley Award-winning podcast comes the story of a small Australian town, the murders of three children and a desperate fight for justice.
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Six Minutes
How can a child disappear from under the care of four playgroup mums?
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Death of a Typographer
Martin Kern has a special sensitivity to fonts, a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes. When a local printer is found dead in his workshop, his body in the shape of an X, Martin and his co-investigator, journalist Lucy...
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Lapse
Small town secrets and divisions come bubbling to the surface in Sarah Thornton's gripping debut crime novel.
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The Night Fire
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The Chain
A high concept thriller masterpiece by a world class writer: it doesn't get any better than The Chair.
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Eight Lives
A smart, sophisticated thriller that explores power, class and prejudice, Eight Lives will keep you engrossed until the last page.
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Shark Arm
Truth can be stranger than fiction. In a Coogee aquarium in 1935 a shark coughed up a man's tattooed arm. The authors of Shark Arm have unravelled an extraordinary tale of high-class smuggling around Sydney Harbour and police...
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Where the Truth Lies
She was slipping away. The further she fell, the closer the clouds seemed to come. Wispy transparent slipstreams of white. Cirrus. Pain smashed her head. Floating ...
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Snakes and Ladders
It was no surprise that Angela Williams went to jail. A traumatic, violent upbringing saw to that. But after serving a short sentence for theft as a teenager, she worked hard to break the cycle. Thirteen years later Angela was...
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The Strangers We Know
Imagine seeing your loving husband on a dating app. Now imagine that's the best thing that happens to you all week ...
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River of Salt
Former hitman Blake Saunders flees the Philadelphia Mob for a quieter existence in a coastal Australian town. Life in Coral Shoals is perfect and Blake is a new man. But then a young woman's body is found at a local motel. When...
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Dead Man Walking: The murky world of Michael McGurk and Ron Medich
Employing her insider status and trademark wit, pace and intelligence, Kate McClymont unravels the complex business relationships between Michael McGurk and Ron Medich.
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The Last Widow
The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller!
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Present Tense
What if justice isn't enough?
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Cruel Acts
The Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Irish Independent crime fiction book of the year!
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