Since 2000, the Ned Kelly Awards recognize best crime writers, on both fiction and non fiction genres, in Australia. The 2010 awards have been announced just last month. Here is the shortlists and the winners.
True Crime
Peter Doyle, Crooks Like Us, Historic Houses Trust
Kathy Marks, Pitcairn: Paradise Lost, Harper Collins (WINNER)
Robert M.Kaplan, Medical Murder, Allen & Unwin
Best First Fiction
Andrew Croome, Document Z, Allen & Unwin
Mark Dapin, King of the Cross, Macmillan (WINNER)
Robin Adair, Death and the Running Patterer, Penguin
Best Fiction
Lenny Bartulin, The Black Russian, Scribe Publications
Michael Robotham, Bleed For Me, Hatchette
Garry Disher, Wyatt, Text (WINNER)
SD Harvey Short Story
Lucy Sussex, The Fountain of Justice
Zane Lovitt, Leaving the Fountainhead (WINNER)
Robert Goodman, The Travertine Fountain
Lifetime Achievement Award
Peter Doyle