Ngaio Marsh Award

Given by WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival

78 Works / 81 Items 4,005 Books 347 Reviews ½ 3.9

The Ngaio Marsh Awards, popularly called the Ngaios, are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand to recognise excellence in crime fiction, mystery, and thriller writing.

Stages:
All, Winner (21), Shortlist (81)
Categories:
All, Crime Novel (41), First Novel (24), Kids / YA (4), Non Fiction (12)
Years:
All, 2023 (15), 2022 (9), 2021 (17), 2020 (8), 2019 (10), 2018 (11), 2017 (3), 2016 (2), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1)
Announced:
November 2023: Winner2023 Recent

Winner 21

Shortlist 81

WorkCategoryYear
Remember Me by Charity NormanCrime Novel2023
Better the Blood by Michael BennettCrime Novel2023
The Slow Roll by Simon LendrumCrime Novel2023
Blood Matters by RenéeCrime Novel2023
Exit .45 by Ben SandersCrime Novel2023
The Doctor's Wife by Fiona SussmanCrime Novel2023
Blue Hotel by Chad TaylorCrime Novel2023
Better the Blood by Michael BennettFirst Novel2023
Paper Cage by Tom BaragwanathFirst Novel2023
Surveillance by Riley ChanceFirst Novel2023
The Slow Roll by Simon LendrumFirst Novel2023
Missing Persons by Steve BrauniasNon Fiction2023
The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry by Gwen AdsheadNon Fiction2023
THE FIX: THE STORY OF ONE OF NEW ZEALAND’S BIGGEST SWINDLES by Scott BainbridgeNon Fiction2023
Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul DiamondNon Fiction2023
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline BublitzCrime Novel2022
The Quiet People by Paul CleaveCrime Novel2022
Nancy Business by R. W. R. McDonaldCrime Novel2022
She's a Killer by Kirsten McDougallCrime Novel2022
The Devils You Know by Ben SandersCrime Novel2022
Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini SinghCrime Novel2022
Shadow Over Edmund Street by Suzanne FrankhamFirst Novel2022
Isobar precinct by angelique KasmaraFirst Novel2022
Waking the Tiger by Mark WightmanFirst Novel2022
The Murder Club (A Miller Hatcher Novel Book 2) by Nikki CrutchleyCrime Novel2021
Sprigs by Brannavan GnanalingamCrime Novel2021
The Tally Stick by Carl NixonCrime Novel2021
The Secrets of Strangers by Charity NormanCrime Novel2021
Tell Me Lies by JP PomareCrime Novel2021
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose CarlyleFirst Novel2021
The Beautiful Dead: a nail biting crime thriller by Kim HuntFirst Novel2021
Where the Truth Lies by Karina KilmoreFirst Novel2021
For Reasons of their Own by Chris StuartFirst Novel2021
Katipo Joe: Blitzkrieg by Brian FalknerKids / YA2021
Red Edge by Des HuntKids / YA2021
A Trio of Sophies by Eileen MerrimanKids / YA2021
Deadhead by Glenn WoodKids / YA2021
Weed, A New Zealand Story by James BorrowdaleNon Fiction2021
Rock College: An unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison by Mark DerbyNon Fiction2021
Gangland by Jared SavageNon Fiction2021
Black hands : inside the Bain family murders by Martin Van BeynenNon Fiction2021
Auē by Becky ManawatuCrime Novel2020
Whatever It Takes by Paul CleaveCrime Novel2020
Girl From The Tree House: Psychological Thriller (Women of our time Book 1) by Gudrun FrerichsCrime Novel2020
In the Clearing by JP PomareCrime Novel2020
The wild card by ReneeCrime Novel2020
The Nancys by R. W. R. McDonaldFirst Novel2020
Tugga's Mob by Stephen JohnsonFirst Novel2020
Into the Void by Christina O'ReillyFirst Novel2020
This Mortal Boy by Fiona KidmanCrime Novel2019
Money in the Morgue by Ngaio MarshCrime Novel2019
The Quaker by Liam McIlvanneyCrime Novel2019
The Vanishing Act by Jen ShieffCrime Novel2019
Call Me Evie by JP PomareFirst Novel2019
One for Another by Andrea JackaFirst Novel2019
Crystal Reign by Kelly LyndonFirst Novel2019
The Great New Zealand Robbery : How gangsters pulled off our most audacious robbery by Scott BainbridgeNon Fiction2019
Behind Bars by Anna LeaskNon Fiction2019
The cause of death by Cynric Temple-CampNon Fiction2019
Marlborough Man by Alan CarterCrime Novel2018
The sound of her voice by Nathan BlackwellCrime Novel2018
A Killer Harvest by Paul CleaveCrime Novel2018
The Hidden Room by Stella DuffyCrime Novel2018
Tess by Kirsten McDougallCrime Novel2018
See You in September by Charity NormanCrime Novel2018
All our secrets by Jennifer LaneFirst Novel2018
The sound of her voice by Nathan BlackwellFirst Novel2018
Nothing Bad Happens Here by Nikki CrutchleyFirst Novel2018
Broken Silence by Helen Vivienne FletcherFirst Novel2018
The floating basin by Carolyn HawesFirst Novel2018
The Last Time We Spoke by Fiona SussmanCrime Novel2017
Dead Lemons by Finn BellFirst Novel2017
In Dark Places: the Confessions of Teina Pora and an Ex-Cop's Fight for Justice by Michael BennettNon Fiction2017
Trust No One by Paul CleaveCrime Novel2016
Inside The Black Horse by Ray BerardFirst Novel2016
Five Minutes Alone by Paul CleaveCrime Novel2015
Where the Dead Men Go by Liam McIlvanneyCrime Novel2014
Death on Demand by Paul ThomasCrime Novel2013
Luther: The Calling by Neil CrossCrime Novel2012
Blood Men by Paul CleaveCrime Novel2011
Cut & Run: When the Truth is No Protection by Alix BoscoCrime Novel2010

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