The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing.

Best fiction

• Crimson Lake (Candice Fox, Bantam)
• The Golden Child (Wendy James, HarperCollins)
• An Isolated Incident (Emily Maguire, Picador)
• Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly (Adrian McKinty, Serpent’s Tail)
• The Rules of Backyard Cricket (Jock Serong, Text)
• Out of the Ice (Ann Turner, S&S)

Best true crime

• Code of Silence (Colin Dillon, A&U)
• Roger Rogerson (Duncan McNab, Hachette)
• Getting Away with Murder (Duncan McNab, Ebury)
• The Drowned Man (Brendan James Murray, Echo)
• Denny Day (Terry Smyth, Ebury)
• Murder at Myall Creek (Mark Tedeschi, S&S)

Best first fiction

• Burn Patterns (Ron Elliott, Fremantle Press)
• The Dry (Jane Harper, Macmillan)
• Only Daughter (Anna Snoekstra, Mira)
• The Love of a Bad Man (Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe)
• Goodwood (Holly Throsby, A&U)
• Something for Nothing (Andy Muir, Affirm)