Shortlists for the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards have been released. Sponsored by the Australian Crime Writers Association, the awards honor works in the categories of best crime fiction, true crime, and international crime fiction, as well as debut crime fiction, which was previously announced. Winners will be named in September.
The judging panel said this year's entries "offered a large range of sub-genre within the crime fiction category, including humor, horror, futuristic, historic and rural crime as well as a book of connected short stories. Settings, too, ranged across several international locations in addition to Australia's inner city, farmlands, and much loved outback."