Decades after Ngaio Marsh ruled as a ‘Queen of Crime’ on the global stage, her literary heirs are laying siege to the local throne with the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards finalists named yesterday. There’s a strong showing from female storytellers, with women dominating the finalist list. Now in their ninth year, the Ngaio Marsh Awards celebrate the best New Zealand crime, mystery, thriller, and suspense writing.
The finalists for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards are:
BEST CRIME NOVEL Marlborough Man by Alan Carter (Fremantle Press) See You in September by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin) Tess by Kirsten McDougall (VUP) The Sound of Her Voice by Nathan Blackwell (Mary Egan Publishing) A Killer Harvest by Paul Cleave (Upstart Press) The Hidden Room by Stella Duffy (Virago) BEST FIRST NOVEL The Floating Basin by Carolyn Hawes Broken Silence by Helen Vivienne Fletcher (HVF Publishing) All Our Secrets by Jennifer Lane (Rosa Mira Books) The Sound of Her Voice by Nathan Blackwell (Mary Egan Publishing) Nothing Bad HappensHere by Nikki Crutchley (Oak House Press)
