Ned Kelly Award / Best Non-Fiction Book
Ned Kelly Award : Best Non-Fiction Book designates the winner of the Ned Kelly Award in the Best True Crime category, which honors the best work of the previous year from the True Crime genre byan Australian or Australian-based author since 2000. This genre is characterized by the fact that authors take on true crimes as the starting point of a largely fictional plot (such as Truman Capotes in cold blood ).
| year | Award winners | Novel title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | John Dale | Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life | |
|
Andrew Rule John New Years Eve |
Underbelly 3 | ||
| 2001 | Estelle Blackburn | Broken Lives | |
| 2002 | Mike Richards | The Hanged Man | |
| Larry Writer | Razor | ||
| 2003 | Peter Lalor | Blood stain | |
| 2004 | Peter Rees | Killing Juanita | |
| 2005 | Helen Garner | Jo Cinque's Consolation | |
| Tony Reeves | Mr Big | ||
| 2006 | Lauchlin McCulloch | Packing Death | |
| 2007 | Liz Porter | Written on the skin | |
| Debi Marshall | Killing for Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders | ||
| 2008 | Evan McHugh | Red Center, Dark Heart | |
| 2009 | Chloe Hooper | The Tall Man | |
| 2010 | Kathy Marks | Pitcairn Paradise Lost | |
| 2011 | Geesche Jacobsen | The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble | |
| 2012 | Eamonn Duff | Sins of the Father | |
| 2013 | Robin De Crespigny | The People Smuggler | |
| 2014 | John Saffron | Murder in Mississippi | |
| 2015 | Helen Garner | This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial | Three sons: a murder trial and its story |
| 2016 | Gideon Haigh | Certain admissions | |
| 2017 | Duncan McNab | Getting Away with Murder | |
| Brendan James Murray | The Drowned Man | ||
| 2018 | Graham Archer | Unmaking A Murder | |
| 2019 | Bri Lee | Eggshell skull |