The shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:

Best Crime Fiction
Prime Cut by Alan Carter

Line of Sight by David Whish-Wilson

The Old School by PM Newton

Best Fiction
The Half-Child by Angela Savage

The Diggers Rest Hotel byGeoffrey McGreachin

          
Bereft by Chris Womersley

True Crime
Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble by Geesche Jacobson
Wasted by Ross Honeywill
Honeymoon Dive by Lindsay Simpson & Jennifer Cooke

S D Harvey Short Story Award
‘Southern Hemisphere Blues’ by Robert Goodman
‘Hemisphere Travel Guides: Las Vegas for Vegans’ by A S Patric.