Organizers of New Zealand’s Ngaio Marsh Awards have announced their longlist of 14 nominees for the 2023 Best Novel prize:
• Too Far from Antibes , by Bede Scott (Penguin SEA)
• Exit .45 , by Ben Sanders (Allen & Unwin)
• Remember Me , by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin)
• Blue Hotel , by Chad Taylor (Brio)
• Poor People with Money , by Dominic Hoey (Penguin)
• The Darkest Sin , by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
• The Doctor’s Wife , by Fiona Sussman (Bateman)
• Miracle , by Jennifer Lane (Cloud Ink)
• Better the Blood , by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster)
• In Her Blood , by Nikki Crutchley (HarperCollins)
• The Pain Tourist , by Paul Cleave (Upstart Press)
• Blood Matters , by Renée (The Cuba Press)
• The Slow Roll , by Simon Lendrum (Upstart Press)
• Paper Cage , by Tom Baragwanath (Text)
“Now in their fourteenth season, the Ngaio Marsh Awards celebrate excellence in New Zealand crime, mystery, and thriller writing,” reads a news release . “They are named for Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of the Queens of Crime of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, who penned bestselling mysteries that entertained millions of global readers from her home in the Cashmere Hills.” That bulletin goes on to quote awards founder Craig Sisterson as saying, “I’d like to think Dame Ngaio would be proud of how our modern Kiwi storytellers are continuing her literary legacy, bringing fresh perspectives and a cool mix of fascinating tales to one of the world’s most popular storytelling forms. In recent years we seem to be going through our own golden age, with our local writers offering a treasure trove of terrific stories for readers at home and all over the world.”
Lists of the finalists for Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Non-Fiction are expected in August, with a declaration of the winners coming later as part of this year’s WORD Christchurch literary festival.
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