The winners of the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction and true crime writing have been announced.
Best Crime Fiction went to Consolation by Garry Disher. I am three-quarters of the way through this novel at the moment and it’s excellent, so expect a review soon.
Best Debut Crime Fiction went to The Second Son by Loraine Peck , which I read earlier in the year as part of my Southern Cross Crime Month.
Best True Crime went to Stalking Claremont: Inside the hunt for a serial killer by Bret Christian, which has been on my TBR since publication last year and which is another I hope to read soon seeing as it’s about an investigation that happened right here in Perth.
Best International Crime Fiction went to We Begin at the End by Chris Whittaker.
You can find out more about the awards and what the judges said about the prize winners via the announcement on the official website.
Reading Matters 
I;ve got some catching up to do. I’ve read not one of these authors.
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Wel, I suspect only Disher is available outside of Australia 🤷🏻♀️
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The only one of these books that I’ve heard of is “We Begin at the End,” which I was able to get here in the U.S. It’s a good one.
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I’m not surprised you haven’t heard of them. These awards are for Australian crime writing, not all of which is published abroad. The “international crime winner” is a British book, so that’s why you will have heard of it and can access it.
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