Danger Awards 2024 shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2024 Danger Awards have been announced.

Shortlisted titles in each category are:

Debut fiction  

• Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl (Fiona Britton, A&U)  
• The House of Now and Then (Jo Dixon, HQ Fiction)  
• How to Kill a Client (Joanna Jenkins, A&U)  
• Dark Mode (Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Ultimo)  
• Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne, Penguin)  
• Echo Lake (Joan Sauers, A&U)  
• Judgement Day (Mali Waugh, Macmillan)  

Fiction

• Killer Traitor Spy (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) 
• The Unearthed (Lenny Bartulin, A&U) 
• Ripper (Shelley Burr, Hachette) 
• Mole Creek (James Dunbar, Echo)  
• The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin)  
• Apartment 303 (Kelli Hawkins, HarperCollins)  
• Broken Bay (Margaret Hickey, Penguin)  
• The Wiregrass (Adrian Hyland, Ultimo)  
• The Strip (Iain Ryan, Ultimo) 
• Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Benjamin Stevenson, Michael Joseph)

Nonfiction 

• O’Leary of the Underworld (Kate Auty, La Trobe University Press) 
• Killing for Country (David Marr, Black Inc.) 
• Crossing the Line (Nick McKenzie, Hachette)  
• Naked City (John Silvester, Macmillan)  
• The Teacher’s Pet (Hedley Thomas, Macmillan).

The winners will be announced at the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, which runs from 11 to 14 September and features authors including Candice Fox, Duncan McNab and Amanda Hampson.

More information about the Danger Awards and the program for the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival is available on the festival website.

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