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Ned Kelly Awards Awarded annually by the Crime Writers Association of Australia, the Ned Kelly awards are presented for Australian Crime Writing in the following categories:
Best Novel/
Best First Novel/
Best True Crime/
Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 2010 |
| Best Fiction |
Wyatt
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Author: Garry Disher
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ISBN: 9781921656026
Wyatt's been away. Now he's back. That's as much as anyone really knows about him. And that's fine with Wyatt. Eddie Oberin thinks he knows enough about Wyatt to make him an offer. A jewel heist - inside information courtesy of Lydia Stark, Eddie's much smarter ex-wife.
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| Best First Fiction |
King of the Cross
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Author: Mark Dapin
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ISBN: 9780330426121
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 his epic life story he employs a hapless young reporter from the Australian Jewish Times. As Mendoza unfolds his seductive story of thugs and drugs, murders and mysteries, bikers, bent cops and girls, girls, girls, it emerges that he's not the only one with a past. And as the memoir takes shape, other more terrifying criminals are circling the kingdom that Mendoza built. Author Biography: Mark Dapin is the author of Strange Country: Travels in a Very Different Australia.
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| Best True Crime |
Pitcairn - Paradise Lost
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Author: Kathy Marks
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ISBN: 9780732282547
Pitcairn Island where Fletcher Christian's descendants live, was until recently a rarely visited English-run Polynesian outpost perched in the South Pacific a tropical paradise. But in 1999, British police, alerted by unsettling reports of a rape, descended on the island. Their investigation developed into a major inquiry that revealed that Pitcairn was the site of widespread and horrific sexual abuse instigated by the island men on girls as young as twelve. Scarcely a man on the island was untainted by the allegations, and almost none of the women had escaped, though most residents feigned ignorance, even when their own daughters were abused. Abusers included the magistrates and police officers as well as brothers and uncles. Few of the victims were able to leave the island those who did never went back. Kathy Marks was one of a handful of journalists permitted to live on the island while she reported on the ensuing trial and witnessed Pitcairn's domestic workings first hand. In this riveting account, she documents a society gone badly astray, leaving lives shattered, codes broken and a paradise truly lost.
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| 2009 |
| Best Fiction (Joint Winner) |
Deep Water
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Author: Peter Corris
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ISBN: 9781741756777
Stripped of his private detective licence and devastated by the murder of his partner Lily Truscott, Cliff Hardy travels to the US to help Lily's brother's tilt for a world boxing title. In San Diego he suffers a heart attack and undergoes a quadruple bypass. He meets nurse Margaret McKinley, an expatriate Australian, who is concerned about the disappearance in Sydney of her father, renowned geologist Henry McKinley. Hardy undertakes to investigate. It turns out that McKinley had discovered a way to tap into the massive Sydney basin aquifer, a possible solution to the city's water problems. Hardy confronts an old enemy and contending forces bent on exploiting the discovery and prepared to kill for it.
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Smoke and Mirrors
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Author: Kel Robertson
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ISBN: 9780330426190
Brad Chen is lured back to work by a double murder. Solving the crimes, while searching for a missing friend, Chen is plunged into the murky worlds of international espionage and organised crime. The body count rises as Chen uncovers the deadly secret behind the most momentous events in Australian political history.
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| Best True Crime |
The Tall Man
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Author: Chloe Hooper
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ISBN: 9780143010661
The story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley, and of the struggle to bring him to trial. Above all, it is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing.
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| Best First Fiction |
Ghostlines
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Author: Nick Gadd
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ISBN: 9781921372049
Ghostlines centres on Philip Trudeau, a once-respected investigative journalist who is now consigned to a suburban newspaper where he writes 'filler' local news articles. Sent to cover what appears to be a tragic yet routine death at a level crossing, he is drawn into a mystery that involves art theft, political intrigue, and business corruption.
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| 2008 |
| Best Fiction |
Shatter
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Author: Michael Robotham
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ISBN: 9780751544473
Joe O'Loughlin from Michael Robotham's bestselling debut The Suspect returns to face a terrifying opponent...
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| Best First Fiction |
The Low Road
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Author: Chris Womersley
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ISBN: 9781921215476
A young petty criminal, Lee, wakes in a seedy motel to find a bullet in his sode and a suitcase of stolen money next to him, with only the haziest memory of exactly how he got there.
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| 2007 |
| Best Novel |
Chain of Evidence
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Author: Garry Disher
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ISBN: 9781921145414
THE FOURTH CHALLIS & DESTRY NOVEL He waited by the van's open door, a clipboard in his hand. Surely she'd be along soon, dreamily pumping the pedals of her bike, helmet crooked on her gleaming curls, backpack bumping against her downy spine. Twice now he'd watched her take this detour after school, down to the waterfront reserve, to the magic of the Waterloo Show. Dodgem cars, Ferris wheel, fairy floss on a stick. The Show was a magnet to all kinds of kids, but he had chosen only one. … … … … … Ten-year-old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss is thinking about the media. And everyone, including Ellen, is wondering whether she's good enough to handle this without D. I. Challis. But Hal Challis is a thousand kilometres away, watching his father die. Ellen Destry's running the show on her own. And if she's right, Katie Blasko may be running out of time.
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| Best First Novel |
Diamond Dove
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Author: Adrian Hyland
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ISBN: 9781921145926
Take a nail-biting mystery, an epic setting and a heroine with a talent for stirring things up. Throw in an affectionate flogging of outback Australia's melanoma-encrusted hide - and Diamond Dove may be the wittiest and most gripping debut of the year.
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| Best True Crime |
Written on the Skin
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Author: Liz Porter
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ISBN: 9780330423342
Liz Porter's rivetingg case book shows how forensic investigators, including pathologists, chemists, and entomologists have used their expertise in dozens of fascinating crimes and mysteries.
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Killing for Pleasure
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Author: Debi Marshall
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ISBN: 9781740512480
A disused bank vault holding eight dismembered bodies immersed in barrels of acid. Two bodies buried in a suburban backyard, a further two found in the bush. A tensely woven and microscopic examination of tawdry loves and tragic deaths.
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| 2006 |
| Best First Novel |
Out of the Silence
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Author: Wendy James
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ISBN: 9781740513838
WINNER OF THE BEST FIRST AUSTRALIAN CRIME NOVEL, NED KELLY CRIME AWARDS 2006 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DOBBIE LITERARY AWARD 2006 FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL BY A FEMALE AUTHOR 'I call his name - only quietly, but he hears me as I knew he would, and wants me as he always does. And we come together - right there in the darkness. And even though there is no way to be certain of any other thing in the world, I am certain that I would risk anything to keep what is between the two of us. For love, I would risk anything, lose everything.' Out of the Silence is a stunning debut novel about three Australian women from very different worlds: Maggie Heffernan, a spirited working-class country girl Elizabeth Hamilton, whose own disappointment in love has served only to strengthen her humanity and Vida Goldstein, a charismatic suffragist from Melbourne and the first woman to stand for Parliament in Australia. When Maggie's life descends into darkness after a terrible betrayal, the three women's lives collide. Around this tragedy Wendy James has constructed a masterfully drawn and gripping fiction.Based on a true story, it unfolds at the dawn of the twentieth century against the compelling backdrop of the women's suffrage movement and a world on the brink of enormous change.
The novel powerfully evokes the plight of women in the early 1900s - not least their limited options, whatever their class and education. However, at its heart this is a story of love - of love gone wrong of its compromises and disappointments but ultimately of its extraordinary transformative power.
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| Best True Crime |
Packing Death
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Author: Lachlan McCulloch
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ISBN: 9780975231869
The Pettingill crime family was almost off limits to police. Two members had been acquitted of the murder of two young policemen with no chance of persecution. Along comes undercover cop Lachlan McCulloch. He spent months befriending the people who had killed his comrades, knowing they would kill him without compunction.
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| Best Novel |
Crook as Rookwood
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Author: Chris Nyst
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ISBN: 9780732280574
When Gold Coast lawyer, Eddie Moran, comes to Sydney to look after Slick's interests after the death of her ex, he finds a simple drug overdose isn't so simple after all.
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The Broken Shore
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Author: Peter Temple
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ISBN: 9781921145353
A wonderful novel about a place, about family, about black-white relations, about politics and power, and the need to live honourably and decently in a world where so much is rotten.
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| Best True Crime |
Joe Cinque's Consolation
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Author: Helen Garner
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ISBN: 9780330421782
In October 1997, a clever young student at the ANU murdered her boyfriend. She and her best friend were later charged with murder. Garner followed the trial in the ACT Supreme Court. This book is about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and law, explores conscience, culpability and much more.
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Mr Big
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Author: Tony Reeves
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ISBN: 9781741752908
When Nellie McPherson reached her eightieth year, her clan got together to give the sprightly grandmother a birthday bash. Her youngest son, Lennie, wasn't invited. He turned up nevertheless, with a small white rabbit. Instead of giving it to his mother, Lennie put one large hand around the rabbit's neck, grasped its head, twisted and pulled and, in a splash of blood, ripped the poor animal's head off. He threw the twitching remains to a horrified Nellie. This was someone who never forgave.Meet Lennie McPherson, the man who came to be known as the Mr Big of Australian crime. Brutality punctuated his whole life. Corruption was his mark. He was a standover man, a murderer, a rapist and a thief. He ran crooked police and corrupt politicians. He was involved in drugs and prostitution. And, he did business with the Mafia and the CIA.In this chilling portrait Tony Reeves uncovers a heart of evil and takes us deep into a dark and violent criminal world. It is a story that could only be told after Lennie's death.
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| 2004 |
| Best First Novel |
The Walker
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Author: Jane Goodall
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ISBN: 9780733618970
Detective Briony Williams is a rookie, appointed to an all-male team, investigating a bizarre murder at an anatomy college in Bloomsbury. Her superiors constantly make her feel left out. But a killer obsessed with following Jack, the Ripper, soon changes that.
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Junkie Pilgrim
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Author: Wayne Grogan
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ISBN: 9781876040512
A raw tale of addiction, corruption and murder that moves betweeen the dark underside of Sydney's waterfront and the alleyways of Kings Cross. A wharfie is in heroin withdrawal, while being stalked by a 'green light' crim for backing out of a big drug shipment.
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| Best True Crime |
Killing Juanita
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Author: Peter Rees
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ISBN: 9781865086842
On 14 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen, a wealthy heiress, Sydney newspaper publisher and anti-development campaigner left an appointment at a Kings Cross nightclub and simply disappeared. For a quarter of a century, the case has remained one of Australia's great unsolved mysteries. This is an unflinching examination of the crime.
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| 2003 |
| Best First Novel |
Blood Redemption
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Author: Alex Palmer
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ISBN: 9780732271312
In this novel, Matthew Lui sees his parents gunned down on a lonely Sydney backstreet. A young woman, the killer, stares him in the face before fleeing the scene. When the police arrive, all they find is the discarded gun. Who is the young woman? How can she have disappeared into thin air?
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| Best Novel |
White Dog
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Author: Peter Temple
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ISBN: 9781920885298
Winner of the 2003 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. Mickey Frances was funny and clever, but there was always something dangerous about him. Now he's been shot five times and his old girlfriend charged with murder. Jack Irish, lawyer, gambler and cabinetmaker, has to try to save her.
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| Best True Crime |
Blood Stain
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Author: Peter Lalor
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ISBN: 9781865088785
Journalist Peter Lalor covered the trial and wanted to know what made Knight go way over the borderline. In this unflinching account he uncovers the layers of her dysfunction, opening the door of 84 St Andrews Street and taking us into the lives of Knight's ex-partners, her family and the locals of Aberdeen, New South Wales. At the time of writing, Katherine Knight was the only woman serving a life sentence in Australia. She is never to be released.
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| Best True Crime |
Razor
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Author: Larry Writer
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ISBN: 9781405039512
In the 1920s and '30s in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australia's history waged war with razor and gun. Razor chronicles in compelling detail the nether word ruled by fabled vice queens Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh, and financed by the spoils of illegal drugs and alcohol, prostitution, gambling and extortion.
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The Hanged Man
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Author: Mike Richards
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ISBN: 9780908011940
This biography of Ronald Ryan, the last man to be executed by the state in Australia, provides a definitive account of the life and death of the man whose sentence stopped a nation. Drawing on previously unpublished documents and personal accounts, this book includes details of Ryan's childhood and his early turn to crime and reveals the truth about Ryan's guilt. It also goes behind the scenes to tell for the first time of the lifelong anguish of the judge who pronounced the death sentence, the inner workings of the Cabinet meeting that decided Ryan's fate, and the political process that resulted in the rejection of appeals to save Ryan.
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| 2001 |
| Best First Crime Novel |
Last Drinks
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Author: Andrew McGahan
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ISBN: 9781741147742
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel.It's a decade since the infamous Inquiry into corruption tore the state of Queensland apart. But for George Verney, disgraced journalist and bit-player in the great scandals of his day, the Inquiry has never quite finished. After ten years of self-imposed exile, drawn by the terrible death of a man who was his friend, he reluctantly returns to Brisbane, the city of his downfall. In a town he no longer recognises and through an underworld that has forgotten him, George must seek out the other hidden survivors of his times, to confront the truth about their common past. Last Drinks, fast moving, funny and shocking, is a lament for all that can go wrong not only in the life of one man, but in the life of an entire state.This is crime fiction that transcends the genre ...It's a truly compelling and stylish novel, seamlessly written.' Debra Adelaide, Sydney Morning Herald
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| Best Novel |
Dead Point
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Author: Peter Temple
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ISBN: 9781921145001
Jack is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colbourne. But Robbie turns up dead from a drug overdose.
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The Second Coming
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Author: Andrew Masterson
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ISBN: 9780732268046
Joe Panther is a psychotic, alcoholic, violent, substance abusing heroin dealer. He is also, he believes, Joshua Ben Pantera, born two thousand years ago, the son of Mary and the Lord God Yaweh Himself, not dead yet, the crucified Jesus: still around, abandoned by his Father, abused by the world, and as pissed off as hell.
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| Best True Crime |
Broken Lives
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Author: Estelle Blackburn
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ISBN: 9781740640732
This riveting investigation into the life and untold crimes of Eric Edgar Cooke, the last man to hang in Western Australia, reveals new evidence to indicate that at least one innocent man, John Button, went to jail for one of Cooke's murders. Author Blackburn winner of 2001 Walkley award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism.
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| 2000 |
| Best Novel |
Shooting Star
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Author: Peter Temple
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ISBN: 9781921351389
Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, retired police negotiator, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family, and hard lessons have been learned. Australian author.
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| Best First Novel |
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
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Author: Marshall Browne
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ISBN: 9781876631154
Meet the latest figure in the international crime scene: Inspector Anders, the Rome cop. In this first Anders book he is sent to a city in Southern Italy to investigate the killing of a respected judge. There he finds himself drawn into a shadowy world of corruption and power.
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Underbelly 3
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Author: John Silvester & Andrew Rule
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ISBN: 9780958607131
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| 1997 |
| Best First Novel |
Bad Debts
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Author: Peter Temple
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ISBN: 9781877008726
Danny McKillop's dead and no one cares much except his wife. And Jack Irish, because now that's twice that he's let McKillop down. But when he starts digging for information, he turns over some rocks that certain people want very badly to stay unturned.
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The Brush-off
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Author: Shane Maloney
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ISBN: 9781877008504
Murray Whelan, political advisor to the newly appointed minister of culture, is hanging onto his job by the toenails after a ministerial shakeup. On his first day, the disgruntled young artist Marcus Taylor is found dead, drowned in the ornamental moat outside the National Art Gallery - Murray, a born detective, investigates.
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