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CANDICE FOX Redemption Point. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

CANDICE FOX Redemption Point. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 20 Nov 2018 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

This second book in the Ted Conkaffey series clearly demonstrates why Candice Fox has won two Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing.  Following on from Crimson Lake, Redemption Point is dark, dry, funny, cleverly plotted and populated by wonderfully real, often...
Roundup of the shortlists for the 2018 Ned Kelly Awards. By Karen Chisholm

Roundup of the shortlists for the 2018 Ned Kelly Awards. By Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 31 Jul 2018 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

This year’s shortlists for the Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Awards celebrate the novels of well-established crime writers and talented newcomers.  In July the ACWA released their longlists of entries, decided by individual panels of judges...
NRB Editors on their favourite books of 2017

NRB Editors on their favourite books of 2017

by NRB | 19 Dec 2017 | Fiction, Non-fiction | 2 comments

For the first time in NRB’s history, Jean and Linda both have the same title on their books-of-the-year lists. What could it be? Read on to find out … Jean’s picks (As I was one of the judges for the Ned Kelly Awards this year, I read a lot of wonderful Australian...
Crime Scene: ZANE LOVITT Black Teeth. Reviewed by Chris Maher

Crime Scene: ZANE LOVITT Black Teeth. Reviewed by Chris Maher

by NRB | 9 Aug 2016 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

Zane Lovitt, winner of the 2013 Ned Kelly Award, has produced an original Melbourne take on the noir crime novel. Black Teeth is peopled by loners. A protagonist who suffers breathless anxiety in public, his neighbour who cloisters herself away in her flat, an absent...
Crime Scene: CANDICE FOX The Frank Bennett and Eden Archer series. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

Crime Scene: CANDICE FOX The Frank Bennett and Eden Archer series. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 11 Feb 2016 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

Candice Fox is on the verge of scoring a rare hat-trick at this year’s Ned Kelly awards with the release of the third book in her Frank Bennett and Eden Archer series. In 2014, Candice Fox’s Hades blasted onto the Australian crime-fiction scene and won the Ned Kelly...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on gongs and milestones

by NRB | 8 Mar 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I’ve been lucky with reviewers, lucky even in their mistakes. A recent positive review of my current Cliff Hardy novel The Dunbar Case credited me with four Ned Kelly awards for crime writing but I only have two. Another, equally pleasing review, declared it to be the...
             

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