2008 Ned Kelly Award Crime Fiction Shortlist

Matilda Blog states the "Crime Downunder" weblog has reported on the shortlists for the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards for Best Australian crime fiction. The awards presentation is being held on Friday August 29th as a part of the Melbourne Writers' Festival. It is great to see Books Alive 2008 ambassador Michael Robotham on the list. And the nominees are:

Best Crime Fiction Among the Dead by Robert Gott (Scribe), Sucked In by Shane Maloney (Text), El Dorado by Dorothy Porter (Pan Macmillan) and Shatter by Michael Robotham (Hachette Livre).

Best First Crime Novel The Low Road by Chris Womersley (Scribe), A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Penguin), Golden Serpent by Mark Abernethy (Allen & Unwin).

Best Non Fiction Underbelly: The Gangland War by John Silvester and Andrew Rule (Sly Ink), Killing Jodie by Janet Fife-Yeomans (Penguin) and Red Centre, Dark Heart by Evan McHugh (Penguin).

And you can find Matilda Blog here: http://www.middlemiss.org/weblog/archives/matilda/2008/07/2008_ned_kelly_1.html