A selection of outstanding short crime fiction from award-winning authors Angela Savage, Peter Corris, Leigh Redhead, Andrew Nette, David Whish-Wilson, P.M. Newton, Carmel Bird, and Tony Birch, alongside emerging crime writers selected by one of Australia’s newest crime authors, Zane Lovitt.
"The best short crime stories are where the crime becomes almost incidental, or hasn’t even happened yet, but is building towards it, or it happened in the past and someone is paying for it now." —P.M. Newton, author,Beams Falling
Zane Lovitt's story "Leaving the Fountainhead" won the SD Harvey Short Story Award at the 2010 Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime fiction, and novelThe Midnight Promisewon the 2013 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. That same year he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist.