Can’t have enough crime and want to read more, now it’s what we have been waiting for and something typically Aussie – Ned Kelly Awards longlist presents the best crime writing by Australian writers.

The longlisted titles in each category are:

Best crime

• Marlborough Man (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press)
• Under the Cold Bright Lights (Garry Disher, Text)
• Redemption Point (Candice Fox, Bantam)
• The Lone Child (Anna George, Viking)
• Crossing the Lines (Sulari Gentill, Pantera)
• Class Act (Ged Gillmore, deGrevilo Publishing)
• Pachyderm (Hugh McGinlay, ThreeKookaburras)
• Big Red Rock (David Owen, Fullers Publishing)
• The Secrets She Keeps (Michael Robotham, Hachette)
• The Student (Iain Ryan, Echo)
• Clear to the Horizon (Dave Warner, Fremantle Press)

Best first crime

• The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey, A&U)
• Wimmera (Mark Brandi, Hachette)
• The Girl in Keller’s Way (Megan Goldin, Michael Joseph)
• All Our Secrets (Jennifer Lane, Rose Mira Books)
• The Echo of Others (S D Rowell, Skuda Enterprises)
• See What I Have Done (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
• She be Damned (M J Tija, Pantera)

Best true crime

• The Contractor (Mark Abernethy, Pan Macmillan)
• Unmaking A Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna Jane Cheney (Graham Archer, Ebury)
• The Suitcase Baby (Tanya Bretherton, Hachette)
• Whitely on Trial (Gabriella Coslovich, MUP)
• Last King of the Cross (John Ibrahim, Pan Macmillan)
• The Last Escape (John Killick, New Holland)
• The Fatalist (Campbell McConachie, Hachette)
• Once a Copper: The Life and Times of Brian ‘The Skull’ Murphy (Vikki Petraitis, Wild Dingo Press)

Out of 26 titles on the longlist, two are self-published: Class Act by Ged Gillmore and The Echo of Others by S D Rowell.

Happy reading.