Previous Award Winners


2010:

Best First Fiction: Mark Dapin: King of the Cross
Best True Crime: Kathy Marks: Pitcain: Paradise Lost
Best Fiction: Garry Disher: Wyatt 

S.D. Harvey Short Story Award: Zane Lovitt: Leaving the Fountainhead

Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Doyle

 

2009:

Best First Fiction: Nick Gadd, Ghostlines
Best True Crime: Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man
Best Fiction (Tie): Peter Corris, Deep Water Kel Robertson, Smoke & Mirrors

 S.D. Harvey Short Story Award: Scott McDermott: Fidget's Farewell

Lifetime Achievement Awards: Shane Maloney

2008:

Best First Fiction: Chris Womersley, The Low Road, (Scribe)
Best True Crime: Evan McHugh, Red Centre, Dead Heart
Best Fiction: Michael Robotham, Shatter (Hachette Livre)
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Marele Day

2007:

Best First Fiction: Adrian Hyland, Diamond Dove (Text)
Best True Crime (Tie): Liz Porter, Written On The Skin (Macmillan) and
Debi Marshall, Killing For Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders (Random House)
Best Fiction: Gary Disher, Chain of Evidence (Text)
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Sandra Harvey and Lindsay Simpson

2006:

Best First Novel: Wendy James, Out of the Silence Random House
Best True Crime: Lachlan McCulloch, Packing Death Sly Ink
Best Fiction (Tie): Chris Nyst, Crook as Rookwood Harper Collins and Peter Temple, The Broken Shore Text
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Andrew Rule and John Silvester

2005

Best First Fiction: Malcolm Knox, A Private Man
Best Novel Michael Robotham, Lost 
Best True Crime (Tie): Helen Garner,  Jo Cinque’s Consolation and Tony Reeves, Mr Big
Lifetime Achievement Award: Stuart Coupe

2004

Best First Fiction (Tie): Jane R Goodall, The Walker and Wayne Grogan, Junkie Pilgrim
Best Fiction: Jon Cleary, Degrees of Connection
Best True Crime: Peter Rees, Killing Juanita
Lifetime Achievement Award: Investigative journalist, Bob Bottom

2003

Best First Fiction: Alex Palmer, Blood Redemption 
Best Fiction: Peter Temple, White Dog 
Best True Crime Peter Lalor, Blood Stain
Lifetime Achievement Award: Kerry Greenwood

2002

Best First Fiction (Tie): Bunty Avieson, Apartment 255 and Emma Darcy, Who Killed Angelique?
Best Fiction: Gabrielle Lord, Death Delights 
Best True Crime (Tie): Larry Writer, Razor and Mike Richards, The Hanged Man
Best Teenage/Young Adult: Ken Catran, Blue Murder
Readers Vote: Bunty Avieson, Apartment 255
Lifetime Achievement Award: Patrick Gallagher, Managing Director, Allan & Unwin

2001

Best First Fiction: Andrew McGahan, Last Drinks 
Best Fiction (Tie): Peter Temple, Dead Point and Andrew Masterson, The Second Coming
Best True Crime: Estelle Blackburn, Broken Lives
Readers Vote: Lindy Cameron, Bleeding Hearts
Lifetime Achievement Award: Stephen Knight

2000

Best First Fiction: Marshall Browne, The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders 
Best Fiction: Peter Temple, Shooting Star 
Best True Crime (Tie): John Dale, Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life and Andrew Rule and John Silvester, Underbelly 3

1999

Best First Fiction: Andrew Masterson, The Last Days
Best Fiction: Peter Doyle, Amaze Your Friends
Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Corris

1997

Best First Fiction (Tie): Peter Temple, Bad Debts and Peter Doyle, Get Rich Quick
Best Fiction: Shane Maloney, Brush Off 
Best Non-Fiction How to write crime edited by Marele Day Lifetime Contribution Awarded to Alan Yates (aka Carter Brown)

1996

Best First Fiction: John Dale, Dark Angel 
Best Novel (Tie): Barry Maitland,  The Malcontenta and Paul Thomas, Inside Dope
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jon Cleary