2008 Ned Kelly Awards Long List

Australia's Crime Fiction award season is coming around again with the announcement of the long list of the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards. At this stage the long list is...well, long. As we draw closer to the Melbourne Writers Festival when the winners are announced, this list will be pared down to a short list.

BEST NOVEL

Trick or Treat by Kerry Greenwood
Cherry Pie by Leigh Redhead
Endangered List by Brian Westlake
Harum Scarum by Felicity Young
Sensitive New Age Spy by Geoffrey McGeachin
Sucked In by Shane Maloney
Night Has A Thousand Eyes by Mandy Sayer
Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
Amongst The Dead by Robert Gott
Appeal Denied by Peter Corris
Open File by Peter Corris
Gospel by Sydney Bauer
Broken by Ilsa Evans
Skin And Bone by Kathryn Fox
Fan Mail by P.D. Martin
El Dorado by Dorothy Porter
Shattered by Gabrielle Lord
The Calling by Jane Goodall
Shatter by Michael Robotham
Game As Ned by Tim Peglar
The Tattooed Man by Alex Palmer
Blood Sunset by Jarad Henry
Redback by Lindy Cameron

BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL

Golden Serpent by Mark Abernethy
Shadow Maker by Robert Sims
A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz
The Low Road by Chris Womersley
The Butcherbird by Geoffrey Cousins
Bye Bye Baby by Lauren Crow
Broken Swallow by JJ Burn
Green Velvet Shoes by Christina Ann Alexander
Frantic by Katherine Howell
Vodka Doesn't Freeze by Leah Giarratano
Iraqi Icicle by Bernie Dowling
Maelstrom by Michael MacConnell

BEST NON-FICTION

Bondi Badlands by Greg Callaghan
Underbelly The Gangland War by John Silvester and Andrew Rule
Killing Jodie by Janet Fife-Yeomans
Red Centre by Dark Heart, Evan McHugh
Big Shots by Adam Shand
Lives of Crime by Tippet & Munro
Fatal Flaw by Roger Maynard
Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter by Carole Wilkinson
Wild Colonial Boys by Paula Hunt