The winners for the 2025 Danger Awards were announced at the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival.
Leading indigenous journalist Amy McQuire has won Best Crime Non-Fiction award for her thought-provoking collection of essays which showcase how journalism can be used to hold the powerful to account, while Best Crime Fiction has been won by established author Pip Fioretti, but with her first foray into crime fiction.
Winner of the best crime fiction debut has been won by sports journalist Mitch Jennings (who originally didn’t even set out to write a crime novel), while Hayley Scrivenor’s compelling second novel has been embraced by readers as the winner of the Libby App People’s Choice Award.
WINNERS
BEST CRIME FICTION:
Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti
BEST CRIME FICTION DEBUT:
A Town Called Treachery by Mitch Jennings
CRIME NON-FICTION:
Black Witness by Amy McQuire
LIBBY APP PEOPLE’S CHOICE:
Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor
