Ned Kelly Award / Best First Novel
Ned Kelly Awards : Best First Novel designated the winner of the Ned Kelly Awards in the category Best First Novel ( Best First Novel ), which is characterized by an Australian or living in Australia detective author since 1996 the best published in the previous year's debut novel.
| year | Award winners | Novel title | German title |
| 1996 | John Dale | Dark Angel | |
| 1997 | Peter Doyle | Get rich quick | |
| Peter Temple | Bad debts | Forgotten guilt | |
| 1998 |
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| 1999 | Andrew Masterson | The Last Days | |
| 2000 | Marshall Browne | The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders | |
| 2001 | Andrew McGahan | Last drinks | Last drinks |
| 2002 | Bunty Avieson | Apartment 255 | Apartment 255 |
| Emma Darcy | Who Killed Angelique? | ||
| 2003 | Alexa Palmer | Blood Redemption | Angel of retribution |
| 2004 | Jane Goodall | The Walker | |
| Wayne Grogan | Junkie Pilgrim | ||
| 2005 | Malcolm Knox | A private man | |
| 2006 | Wendy James | Out of the silence | |
| 2007 | Adrian Hyland | Diamond Dove | Outback bastard |
| 2008 | Chris Womersley | The Low Road | |
| 2009 | Nick Gadd | Ghostlines | |
| 2010 | Mark Dapin | King of the Cross | |
| 2011 | Alan Carter | Prime Cut | Prime Cut |
| 2012 | Peter Twohig | The cartographer | |
| 2013 | Zane Lovitt | The Midnight Promise | |
| 2014 | Candice Fox | Hades | Hades |
| 2015 | Jock Serong | Quota | Fishing trip |
| 2016 | Emma Viskic | Ressurection Bay | |
| 2017 | Jane Harper | The Dry | Heat / The Dry |
| 2018 | Sarah Bailey | The Dark Lake | Dark Lake |
| 2019 | Dervla McTiernan | The Rúin | Death stream |
Remarks
- ↑ In the United States and Great Britain under the title "Midnight Downs" published