Looking for a great crime book to read? 🧐 This year’s Best Crime Novel Shortlist for the Ngaio Marsh Award has been announced! 🏆 😍

The Ngaio Marsh Award promotes and celebrates excellence in crime, mystery and thriller writing by New Zealand authors. It is awarded each year in a ceremony held in Christchurch, the birthplace and hometown of Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of the four Queens of Crime of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. 👑

If you would like to put any of these books on hold, just CLICK on the BOOK COVER and it will take you straight to our catalogue!

Best Crime Novel 2021

Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam - WINNER

The Murder Club by Nikki Crutchley

The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon

The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman

Tell Me Lies by J.P. Pomare

Best Non-Fiction 2021

Black Hands: Inside the Bain Family Murders by Martin Van Beynen – WINNER

Weed: A New Zealand Story by James Borrowdale

Rock College: An unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison by Mark Derby

From dog collar to dog collar by Bruce Howat Gangland by Jared Savage