SYKM


Ned Kelly Awards

2023 Nominees

Best Crime Fiction
  °  When We Fall by Aoife Clifford
  °  The Tilt by Chris Hammer
  °  Exiles by Jane Harper [review]
  °  The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth
  °  Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic
  °  Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham [review]
  °  TThose Who Perish by Emma Viskic
  °  When The Carnival is Over by Greg Woodland

Best Debut Crime Fiction
  °  Wake by Shelley Burr
  °  The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon
  °  How to Kill a Client by Joanna Jenkins
  °  Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne
  °  Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor [review]
  °  Black River by Matthew Spencer
  °  No Country for Girls by Emma Styles
  °  Denizen by James McKenzie Watson

Best International Crime Fiction
  °  Paper Cage by Tom Baragwanath
  °  The Lemon Man by Keith Bruton
  °  The Favour by Nicci French
  °  The Hitchhiker by Gerwin van der Werf

Best True Crime
  °  Rattled by Ellis Gunn
  °  Betrayed by Sandi Logan
  °  Out of the Ashes by Megan Norris
  °  Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! by Officer A
  °  Death Row at Truro by Geoff Plunkett

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2022

Best Crime Novel
  *  The Chase by Candice Fox
  °  The Enemy Within by Tim Ayliffe
  °  The Others by Mark Brandi
  °  You Had it Coming by B.M. Carroll
  °  Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath
  °  The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald
  °  The Deep by Kyle Perry

Best Debut Crime Novel
  *  Banjawarn by Josh Kemp
  °  Sweet Jimmy by Bryan Brown
  °  Shadow Over Edmund Street by Suzanne Frankham
  °  Cutters End by Margaret Hickey

Best True Crime
  *  Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders by Debi Marshall
  °  The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
  °  Larrimah by Caroline Graham & Kylie Stevenson
  °  A Witness of Fact: The Peculiar Case of Chief Forensic Pathologist Colin Manock by Drew Rooke

Best International Crime Novel
  *  The Maid by Nita Prose [review]
  °  Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
  °  The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves
  °  Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt

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2021

Best Crime Novel
  *  Consolation by Garry Disher
  °  Gathering Dark by Candice Fox
  °  A Testament of Character by Sulari Gentill
  °  The Survivors by Jane Harper
  °  The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
  °  Tell Me Lies by J.P. Pomare
  °  When She Was Good by Michael Robotham [review]
  °  White Throat by Sarah Thornton

Best Debut Crime Fiction
  *  The Second Son by Lorraine Peck
  °  The Good Mother by Rae Cairns
  °  The Bluffs by Kyle Perry
  °  The Night Whistler by Greg Woodland

Best True Crime
  *  Stalking Claremont: Inside the hunt for a serial killer by Bret Christian
  °  The Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton
  °  Public Enemies: Ray Denning, Russell “Mad Dog” Cox and the Golden Age of Armed Robbery by Mark Dapin
  °  Hazelwood by Tom Doig
  °  Witness by Louise Milligan

Best International Crime Fiction
  *  We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker [review]
  °  The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  °  The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman
  °  Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar [review]
  °  Broken by Don Winslow

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2020

Best Crime Fiction
  *  The Wife and the Widow by Christian White [review]
  °  The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale
  °  Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd
  °  The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan [review]
  °  River of Salt by Dave Warner
  °  True West by David Whish-Wilson

Best Debut Crime Fiction
  *  Present Tense by Natalie Conyer
  °  Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
  °  Where the Truth Lies by Karina Kilmore
  °  The Nancys by RWR McDonald
  °  Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern
  °  Lapse by Sarah Thornton

Best True Crime
  *  Bowraville by Dan Box
  °  Dead Man Walking: The Murky World of Michael McGurk and Ron Medich by Kate McClymont
  °  Shark Arm: A Shark, a Tattooed Arm, and Two Unsolved Murders by Phillip Rooper & Kevin Meagher
  °  Snakes and Ladders by Angela Williams

Best International Crime Fiction
  *  The Chain by Adrian McKinty [review]
  °  Cruel Acts by Jane Casey
  °  The Night Fire by Michael Connelly [review]
  °  The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

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2019

Best Crime Novel
  *  The Lost Man by Jane Harper [review]
  °  Kill Shot by Garry Disher
  °  Gone by Midnight by Candice Fox
  °  The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood
  °  The Other Wife by Michael Robotham
  °  Live and Let Fry by Sue Williams

Best First Crime Novel
  *  The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan [review]
  °  The Portrait of Molly Dean by Katherine Kovacic
  °  The Yellow House by Emily O’Grady
  °  Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson

Best True Crime
  *  Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
  °  The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
  °  Siege: Inside the Lindt Café by Deborah Snow
  °  Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild

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2018

Lifetime Achievement *   Garry Disher

Best Crime Novel
  *  Crossing the Lines by Sulari Gentill
  °  Marlborough Man by Alan Carter
  °  Under the Cold Bright Lights by Garry Disher
  °  Redemption Point by Candice Fox
  °  The Lone Child by Anna George
  °  The Student by Iain Ryan

Best First Crime Novel
  *  The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey [review]
  °  Wimmera by Mark Brandi
  °  The Girl in Kellers Way by Megan Goldin
  °  See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt

Best True Crime
  *  Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney by Graham Archer
  °  The Contractor by Mark Abernethy
  °  The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton
  °  The Fatalist by Campbell McConachie

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2017

Best Crime Novel
  *  Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty
  °  Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
  °  The Golden Child by Wendy James
  °  An Isolated Incident by Emily Maquire
  °  The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong [review]
  °  Out of the Ice by Ann Turner

Best First Crime Fiction
  *  The Dry by Jane Harper [review]
  °  Burn Patterns by Ron Elliott
  °  Something for Nothing by Andy Muir
  °  Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra [review]
  °  Goodwood by Holly Throsby
  °  The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Best True Crime (tie)
  *  Getting Away with Murder by Duncan McNab
  *  The Drowned Man by Brendan James Murray
  °  Code of Silence by Colin Dillon with Tom Gilling
  °  Denny Day by Terry Smyth
  °  Murder at Myall Creek by Mark Tedeschi

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2016

Best Crime Novel
  *  Before It Breaks by Dave Warner
  °  R&R by Mark Dapin
  °  The Heat by Garry Disher
  °  Fall by Candice Fox
  °  Ash Island by Barry Maitland
  °  Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty [review]

Best First Crime Novel
  *  Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic [review]
  °  Please Don’t Leave Me Here by Tania Chandler
  °  Good Money by J.M. Green
  °  Amplify by Mark Hollands
  °  Skin Deep by Gary Kemble
  °  Four Days by Iain Ryan

Best True Crime
  *  Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
  °  The Sting: The Undercover Operation that Caught Daniel Morcombe’s Killer by Kate Kyriacou
  °  A Murder Without Motive: The Killing of Rebecca Ryle by Martin McKenzie-Murray
  °  Killing Love by Rebecca Poulson
  °  Kidnapped by Mark Tedeschi

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2015

Best Crime Novel
  *  Eden by Candice Fox
  °  Sweet One by Peter Docker
  °  Murder Unmentioned by Sulari Gentill
  °  Crucifixion Creek by Barry Maitland [review]
  °  Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty [review]
  °  Present Darkness by Malla Nunn [review]

Best First Crime Novel
  *  Quota by Jock Serong
  °  King of the Road by Nigel Bartlett
  °  What Came Before by Anna George
  °  Chasing the Ace by Nicholas J. Johnson

Best True Crime
  *  This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
  °  The Fall by Amy Dale
  °  The Family Court Murders by Debi Marshall
  °  He Who Must Be Obeid by Kate McClymont & Linton Besser
  °  The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay by David Murray
  °  The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir by Liam Pieper

Best Short Story
  *  “Short Term People” by Andrea Gillum
  °  “A Watched Pot” by Aoife Clifford
  °  “Prisoner’s Dilemma” by Stephen Gray
  °  “Sweetie” by Grace Heyer
  °  “Daddy Played the Trumpet” by Adriane Howell
  °  “Roux’s Sister” by Darcy-Lee Tindale

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2014

Best Crime Novel
  *  In the Morning I’ll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty
  °  Bitter Wash Road (Hell To Pay) by Garry Disher
  °  Fatal Impact by Kathryn Fox
  °  Beams Falling by P.M. Newton
  °  One Boy Missing by Stephen Orr
  °  The Dying Beach by Angela Savage

Best First Crime Novel
  *  Hades by Candice Fox [review]
  °  Dead Cat Bounce by Peter Cotton
  °  Blood Witness by Alex Hammond
  °  Every Breath by Ellie Marney

Best True Crime
  *  Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
  °  Disgraced? The Cop at the Centre of Melbourne’s Gangland Wars by Paul Dale
  °  Forever Nine: The Untold Story of Bondi’s Missing Schoolgirl Samantha Knight by John Kidman & Denise Hofman
  °  No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality by Eleanor Learmonth & Jenny Tabakoff
  °  JFK: The Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren
  °  Outlaw Bikers in Australia by Duncan McNab

Best Short Story
  *  “Web Design” by Emma Viskic
  °  “Housewarming” by Louise Bassett
  °  “The Scars of Noir” by Darcy-Lee Tindale
  °  “Voices of SOI 22” by Roger Vicker
  °  “Splinter” by Emma Viskic

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2013

Best Fiction
  *  Blackwattle Creek by Geoffrey McGeachin
  °  The Holiday Murders by Robert Gott
  °  Web of Deceit by Katherine Howell [review]
  °  I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty
  °  Silent Valley (Blessed Are the Dead) by Malla Nunn [review]

Best First Fiction
  *  The Midnight Promise by Zane Lovitt
  °  The Robbers by Paul Anderson
  °  The Richmond Conspiracy by Andrew Grimes
  °  The Marmalade Files by Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann
  °  Murder with the Lot by Sue Williams

Best True Crime
  *  The People Smuggler by Robin de Crespigny
  °  Every Parent’s Nightmare by Belinda Hawkins
  °  The Devil’s Cinema by Steve Lillebuen
  °  Dead by Friday by Derek Pedley
  °  Eugenia by Mark Tedeschi

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2012

Lifetime Achievement *  Gabrielle Lord

Best Fiction
  *  Pig Boy by J.C. Burke
  °  The Life by Malcolm Knox
  °  Chelsea Mansions by Barry Maitland

Best First Fiction
  *  The Cartographer by Peter Twohig
  °  When We Have Wings by Claire Corbett
  °  The Courier’s New Bicycle by Kim Westwood

Best True Crime
  *  Sins of the Father by Eamonn Duff
  °  Call Me Cruel by Michael Duffy
  °  Cold Case Files by Liz Porte

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2011

Best Fiction
  *  The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin
  °  The Half-Child by Angela Savage
  °  Bereft by Chris Womersley

Best First Fiction
  *  Prime Cut by Alan Carter
  °  The Old School by P.M. Newton
  °  Line of Sight by David Whish-Wilson

Best Short Story
  *  “Hemisphere Travel Guides: Las Vegas For Vegans” by A.S. Patric
  °  “Southern Hemisphere Blues” by Robert Goodman

Best True Crime
  *  Abandoned—The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble by Geesche Jacobson
  °  Wasted by Ross Honeywill
  °  Honeymoon Dive by Lindsay Simpson & Jennifer Cooke

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2010

Lifetime Achievement * Peter Doyle

Best Fiction
  *  Wyatt by Garry Disher
  °  The Black Russian by Lenny Bartulin
  °  Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham

Best First Fiction
  *  King of the Cross by Mark Dapin
  °  Death and the Running Patterer by Robin Adair
  °  Document Z by Andrew Croome

Best Short Story
  *  “Leaving the Fountainhead” by Zane Lovitt
  °  “The Travertine Fountain” by Robert Goodman
  °  “The Fountain of Justice” by Lucy Sussex

Best True Crime
  *  Pitcairn: Paradise Lost by Kathy Marks
  °  Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle
  °  Medical Murder: Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill by Robert M. Kaplan

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2009

Lifetime Achievement * Shane Maloney

Best Fiction
  *  Deep Water by Peter Corris
  *  Smoke & Mirrors by Kel Robertson
  °  Bright Air by Barry Maitland

Best First Fiction
  *  Ghostlines by Nick Gadd
  °  The Build Up by Phillip Gwynne
  °  Crooked by Camilla Nelson

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2008

Lifetime Achievement * Marele Day

Best Fiction
  *  Shatter by Michael Robotham
  °  Amongst the Dead by Robert Gott
  °  Sucked In by Shane Maloney
  °  El Dorado by Dorothy Porter

Best First Fiction
  *  The Low Road by Chris Womersley
  °  Golden Serpent by Mark Abernethy
  °  A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz


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2007

Lifetime Achievement * Sandra Harvey & Lindsay Simpson

Best Fiction
  *  Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher
  °  The Cleaner by Paul Cleave
  °  The Undertow by Peter Corris
  °  The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
  °  Spider Trap by Barry Maitland
  °  The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham

Best First Fiction
  *  Diamond Dove (Moonlight Downs) by Adrian Hyland [review]
  °  Better Dead Than Never by Laurent Boulanger
  °  The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie (The Murder of Bindi Mackenzie) by Jaclyn Moriarty
  °  Behind the Night Bazaar by Angela Savage


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2006

Lifetime Achievement * Andrew Rule and John Silvester

Best Fiction (Tie)
  *  Crook as Rookwood by Chris Nyst
  *  The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
  °  Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn by Marshall Browne
  °  Saving Billie by Peter Corris
  °  Rubdown by Leigh Redhead
  °  Five Oranges by Graham Reilly

Best First Fiction
  *  Out of the Silence: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder by Wendy James
  °  Head Shot by Jarad Henry
  °  Dead Set by Kel Robertson


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2005

Lifetime Achievement * Stuart Coupe

Best Fiction
  *  Lost by Michael Robotham
  °  The Happiness Punch by Kirsty Brooks
  °  A Hand in the Bush by Jane Clifton
  °  Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks by Cathy Cole
  °  Dangerous Deception by Sandy Curtis
  °  Heavenly Pleasures by Kerry Greenwood
  °  Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood
  °  Static by Randall Longmire
  °  Spiking the Girl by Gabrielle Lord
  °  No Trace by Barry Maitland
  °  Covet by Tara Moss
  °  Murder by Manuscript by Steve J. Spears
  °  The Domino Game by Greg Wilson

Best First Fiction
  *  A Private Man (Adult Book) by Malcolm Knox
  °  Malicious Intent by Kathryn Fox
  °  The Groundsman by William Youatt-Pine


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2004

Lifetime Achievement * Bob Bottom

Best Fiction
  *  Degrees of Connection by Jon Cleary
  °  The Wrong Door by Bunty Avieson
  °  The Vodka Dialogue by Kirsty Brooks
  °  Master’s Mates by Peter Corris
  °  Until Death by Sandy Curtis
  °  Who Killed Camilla? by Emma Darcy
  °  The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood
  °  Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood [review]

Best First Fiction (Tie)
  *  The Walker by Jane R. Goodall
  *  Junkie Pilgrim by Wayne Grogan
  °  Misconceptions by Terry McGee
  °  Far Horizon by Tony Park
  °  Rogue Element by David Rollins

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2003

Lifetime Achievement * Kerry Greenwood

Best Fiction
  *  White Dog by Peter Temple
  °  The Affair by Bunty Avieson
  °  Open for Inspection by Carmel Bird
  °  The Eye of the Abyss by Marshall Browne
  °  Salt and Blood by Peter Corris
  °  Deadly Tide by Sandy Curtis
  °  Who Killed Bianca? by Emma Darcy
  °  Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher
  °  Murder in Montparnasse by Kerry Greenwood
  °  The Analyst by Fred Guilhaus
  °  Breakfastinfur by Michael Herrmann
  °  Baby Did a Bad Thing by Gabrielle Lord
  °  Babel by Barry Maitland
  °  Something Fishy by Shane Maloney
  °  The Chance by Andy Shea
  °  The Empty Bed by Paul Thomas
  °  Evidence by Emma Tom

Best First Fiction
  *  Blood Redemption by Alex Palmer
  °  Lady Luck by Kirsty Brooks
  °  Half Past Dead by Jane Clifton
  °  The Games by Peter de Vries
  °  The Final Account by Greg Wilson

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2002

Lifetime Achievement * Patrick Gallagher

Best Fiction
  *  Death Delights by Gabrielle Lord
  °  Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools by Marshall Browne
  °  Crime of Silence by Patricia Carlon
  °  Yesterday’s Shadow by Jon Cleary
  °  Skin Deep by Cathy Cole
  °  Lugarno by Peter Corris
  °  Death of the Author by Andrew Masterson
  °  Death Club by Claire McNab
  °  A Simple Death by Carolyn Morwood
  °  The Disciples by Andy Shea
  °  In the Evil Day (Identity Theory) by Peter Temple

Best First Fiction (Tie)
  *  Apartment 255 by Bunty Avieson
  *  Who Killed Angelique? by Emma Darcy
  °  On Probation: Detective Ludowski’s Casebook by Margaret Bevege
  °  Black Ice by Sandy Curtis
  °  The Artist Is a Thief by Stephen Gray

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2001

Lifetime Achievement * Stephen Knight

Best Fiction (tie)
  *  Dead Point by Peter Temple
  * The Second Coming: The Passion of Joe Panther by Andrew Masterson

Best First Fiction
  *  Last Drinks by Andrew McGahan

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2000

Best Fiction
  *  Shooting Star by Peter Temple
  °  Dilemma by Jon Cleary
  °  The Other Side of Sorrow by Peter Corris
  °  The Dragon Man by Garry Disher
  °  Death Before Wicket by Kerry Greenwood
  °  Our Man K by Nicholas Hasluck
  °  The Inquisitor by Catherine Jinks
  °  The Chalon Heads by Barry Maitland
  °  Silvermeadow by Barry Maitland
  °  Set Up by Claire McNab
  °  An Uncertain Death by Carolyn Morwood
  °  Black Tide by Peter Temple
  °  Final Cut by Paul Thomas
  °  Exxxpresso: Too Much Coffee Can Kill by Dave Warner
  °  Murder in the Frame by Dave Warner

Best First Fiction
  *  The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne
  °  Unholy Writ by Carmel Bird
  °  Dry Dock by Cathy Cole
  °  The Trojan Dog by Dorothy Johnston
  °  Angels in the Architecture by Mary-Rose MacColl
  °  Fetish by Tara Moss
  °  Cop This! by Chris Nyst
  °  Cat Catcher by Caroline Shaw

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1999

Lifetime Achievement * Peter Corris

Best Fiction
  *  Amaze Your Friends by Peter Doyle
  °  Cheaters by J.R. Carroll
  °  The Black Prince by Peter Corris
  °  The Dogs Are Barking by John Dale
  °  The Sharp End by Gabrielle Lord

Best First Fiction
  *  The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther by Andrew Masterson

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1998

There were no Ned Kelly awards for 1998.


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1997

Lifetime Achievement * Alan Yates (aka Carter Brown)

Best Fiction
  *  Brush-Off by Shane Maloney
  °  The Clan by J.R. Carroll
  °  Endpeace by Jon Cleary

Best First Fiction (Tie)
  *  Get Rich Quick by Peter Doyle
  *  Bad Debts by Peter Temple
  °  Murder Seventies Style: The Final Dismissal by Anne Hawking
  °  The Kokoda Club by Geoff Stewart
  °  The Scarlet Rider by Lucy Sussex


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1996

Lifetime Achievement * Jon Cleary

Best Fiction
  *  The Malcontenta by Barry Maitland
  *  Inside Dope by Paul Thomas
  °  Wildfire by Susan Geason
  °  Scream Black Murder by Philip McLaren

Best First Fiction
  *  Dark Angel by John Dale
  °  The Cross by Mandy Sayer

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