Winners: Ned Kelly Awards 2007

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Sandra Harvey and Lindsay Simpson

Best First Fiction:
Diamond Dove, Adrian Hyland (Text)

Best Fiction:
Chain of Evidence, Gary Disher (Text)

Best True Crime - Tie:
Written On The Skin, Liz Porter (Macmillan)
Killing For Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders,
Debi Marshall (Random House)

Short List: Ned Kelly Awards 2007

These short lists are quite long (for short lists) however this year things are particularly tight, and breaking them down more may well result in an injustice. In the True Crime realm it has been particularly difficult.

Short-list for Fiction Best First:
The Betrayal of Bindi Mackenzie, Jaclyn Moriaty (Macmillan)
Diamond Dove, Adrian Hyland (Text)
Better Dead Than Never, Laurent Boulanger (C&C International Media Group)
Behind the Night Bazaar, Angela Savage (Text)

Short-list for Best Fiction:
Chain of Evidence, Gary Disher (Text)
The Night Ferry, Michael Robotham (Little Brown)
The Unknown Terrorist , Richard Flanagan (Macmillan)
The Cleaner, Paul Cleave (Random House)
Undertow, Peter Corris (Allen & Unwin)
Spider Trap, Barry Maitland (Allen & Unwin)

Short-list for Best True Crime:
Justice For The Dead, Malcolm Dodd, Beverly Knight (Hachette Livre)
Overboard: The Stories Cruise Ships Don���t Want Told,
Gywn Topham (Random House)
Intractable, Bernie Matthews (Macmillan)
Written On The Skin, Liz Porter (Macmillan)
Silent Death, Karen Kissane (Hachette Livre)
Australian Outlaw, Derek Pedley (Sly Ink)
Killing For Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders,
Debi Marshall (Random House)
The Dodger, Duncan McNab (Macmillan)
Things A Killer Would Know, Paula Doneman (Allen & Unwin)

Ned Kelly Award Entry List for 2007

Best First Fiction:
The Betrayal of Bindi Mackenzie, Jaclyn Moriaty
Behind the Night Bazaar, Angela Savage
Diamond Dove, Adrian Hyland
Equinox, Michael White
Upshot, John Trigger
Blood On A Blue Line, Steve Capk
The Cleaner, Paul Cleave
Prismatic, Edwina Grey
Carnies, Martin Livings
Better Dead Than Never, Laurent Boulanger
The Curer, Lindsay Simpson

Best True Crime:
After Port Arthur, Carol Altman
Sick To Death, Hedley Thomas
Things A Killer Would Know, Paula Doneman, Angela Kamper
My Brother's Keeper, Charles Miranda
Australian Outlaw, Derek Pedley
Girls Like You, Paul Sheehan
The Dodger, Duncan McNab
Intractable, Bernie Matthews
Inside Madness, Melissa Sweet
Written On The Skin, Liz Porter
The Maria Corp Case, Carly Crawford
Done Like A Dinner, Sandra Harvey, Jennifer Cooke
Overboard: The Stories Cruise Ships Don���t Want Told, Gywn Topham
Killing For Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders, Debi Marshall
Silent Death, Karen Kissane
Cold Blooded Murder, Malcolm Brown
Justice For The Dead, Malcolm Dodd, Beverly Knight
The Australian Crime File 2, Paul B. Kidd
The Beat, I.J. Fenn

Best Fiction:
Undertow, Peter Corris
Spider Trap, Barry Maitland
Without Consent, Kathryn Fox
Undertow, Sydney Bauer
A Knife Edge, David Rollins
The Murderers' Club, P.D. Martin
The Tesla Legacy, Robert G .Barrett
Hit, Tara Moss
Chain of Evidence, Gary Disher
And Hope to Die, John Clanchy, Mark Henshaw
Inspector Anders and the Blood Vendetta, Marshall Brown
The Mother, Brett McBain
The Lady Splash, Kirsty Brooks
The Night Ferry, Michael Robotham
Vale Byron Bay, Wayne Grogan
The Cleaner, Paul Cleave