Ngaio Marsh Award 2018 shortlist announced

11 July 2018 Books+Publishing

The shortlists for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction have been announced.

The shortlisted works in each category are:

Best crime novel

Marlborough Man (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press)
See You in September (Charity Norman, A&U)
Tess (Kirsten McDougall, Victoria University Press)
The Sound of Her Voice (Nathan Blackell, Mary Egan Publishing)
A Killer Harvest (Paul Cleave, Upstart Press)
The Hidden Room (Stella Duffy, Virago)

Best first novel

The Floating Basin (Carolyn Hawes, self-published)
Broken Silence (Helen Vivienne Fletcher, HVF Publishing)
All Our Secrets (Jennifer Lane, Rose Mira Books)
The Sound of Her Voice (Nathan Blackwell, Mary Egan Publishing)
Nothing Bad Happens Here (Nikki Crutchley, Oak House Press)

Three self-published titles were shortlisted in the Best First Novel category: The Floating Basin, Broken Silence and Nothing Bad Happens Here. Last year, the category was won by Finn Bell’s self-published novel Dead Lemons, making Bell the first self-published author to win a Ngaio Marsh award.

The winners will be announced at the WORD Christchurch Festival on 1 September 2018.

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