The Danger Awards continue to honour books featuring Australia as a setting for stories about crime and justice.  

A good crime story always has a strong sense of time and place. Whether this be a rural township experiencing drought as in Jane Harper’s The Dry or the busy inner city streets of Sydney in the 1960s as in Amanda Hampson’s The Tea Ladies, such stories extend our knowledge and understanding of the world while drawing attention to ongoing questions of social justice.

The winners in each category are:

Debut crime fiction

• A Town Called Treachery by Mitch Jennings

Crime fiction

• Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti

Crime nonfiction

• Black Witness by Amy McQuire

Libby App People’s Choice

• Girl Falling  by Hayley Scrivenor