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Ned Kelly Awards 2015
The 2015 Ned Kelly Awards went to Eden by Candice Fox (Best Crime Fiction), Quota by Jock Serong (Best Debut Crime Fiction) and This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner (Best True Crime). 16 books made the shortlist across 3 categories.
Winners
Best Crime Fiction
Best Debut Crime Fiction
Best True Crime
- This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trialsource (opens in a new tab)
Shortlist
Best Crime Fiction
- A Murder Unmentionedsource (opens in a new tab)
- Crucifixion Creeksource (opens in a new tab)
- Gun Street Girlsource (opens in a new tab)
- Present Darknesssource (opens in a new tab)
- Sweet Onesource (opens in a new tab)
Best Debut Crime Fiction
- Chasing the Acesource (opens in a new tab)
- King of the Roadsource (opens in a new tab)
- What Came Beforesource (opens in a new tab)
Best True Crime
- He Who Must Be Obeidsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Fallsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Family Court Murderssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoirsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Murder of Allison Baden-Claysource (opens in a new tab)
About the Ned Kelly Awards
Book categories only: Best Crime Fiction (called Best Fiction to 2019), Best Debut Crime Fiction (Best First Fiction to 2019), Best True Crime, and Best International Crime Fiction (from 2020, its first year). Year is the award year ACWA uses; winners are announced in August-October of that year. Winners for 2006-2019 come from ACWA's all-winners pages. Shortlists come from ACWA's pages for 2019-2025 and from archive.org snapshots of ACWA's old site for 2013-2017. ACWA's shortlists for 2006-2012 and 2018 are not online or archived, so those come from fallbacks: City of Parramatta Libraries' Parra Reads posts made at announcement (2009-2011, 2018) and Stop, You're Killing Me! (2006-2008, 2012). No published Best True Crime shortlist was found for 2006-2008, so those years list winners only. Ties are recorded as two winners (fiction 2006 and 2009, true crime 2007 and 2017). Skipped: the S.D. Harvey short story award, Readers' Vote, Lifetime Achievement, the 2013 and 2018 longlists, and the Louie Award for unpublished manuscripts.
Organization: Australian Crime Writers Association. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Barry Awards 15 shared books
- Dublin Literary Award 13 shared books
- CWA Daggers 12 shared books
- Goodreads Choice Awards 11 shared books
- Thriller Awards 7 shared books