Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel

From the always excellent Christchurch City Libraries Blog

2010 was the inaugural year of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel.
The award is made for the best crime, mystery, or thriller novel written by a New Zealand citizen or resident, published in New Zealand during the previous year. Decided by a panel of local and international judges, it is named after New Zealand’s most successful crime writer, Dame Ngaio Marsh.

2012

Longlist announced 12 June 2012.

• Collecting Cooper by Paul Cleave (Simon & Schuster)
• Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross (Simon & Schuster)
• Furt Ben from Aldaheit by Jack Eden (Pear Jam Books)
• Traces of red by Paddy Richardson (Penguin)
• By any means by Ben Sanders (HarperCollins)
• Bound by Vanda Symon (Penguin)
• The catastrophe by Ian Wedde (Victoria University Press)

2011

• Blood men by Paul Cleave (Random House) Winner
• Captured by Neil Cross (Simon & Schuster)
• Hunting Blind by Paddy Richardson (Penguin)
• Slaughter Falls by Alix Bosco (Penguin)

This year’s winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel was announced at a ceremony at the conclusion of the Setting the Stage for Murder event, Sunday 21 August 2011. New York Times bestselling international crime writers Tess Gerritsen and John Hart also appeared at the event. The winner received a distinctive handcrafted trophy designed and created by New Zealand sculptor and Unitec art lecturer Gina Ferguson, a set of Ngaio Marsh novels courtesy of HarperCollins, and a cheque for $1,000 provided by the Christchurch Writers Festival Trust.

2010

• Cut & Run by Alix Bosco Winner
• Burial by Neil Cross
• Containment by Vanda Symon