The 2017 long list for Ngaio Marsh award

● Dead Lemons, by Finn Bell ● Pancake Money, by Finn Bell ● Spare Me The Truth, by C. J. Carver ( Bonnier Zaffre) ● Red Herring, by Jonothan Cullinane ( HarperCollins) ● The Revelations of Carey Ravine, by Debra Daley ( Quercus) ● The Three Deaths of Magdalene Lynton, by Katherine Hayton ● Presumed Guilty, by Mark McGinn ● Marshall’s Law, by Ben Sanders ( Allen & Unwin) ● A Strait’s Settlement, by Brian Stoddart ( Crime Wave Press) ● The Last Time We Spoke, by Fiona Sussman ( Allison & Busby) The finalists will be announced in August, along with the finalists for the best first novel and best true- crime categories. The winners, who each receive a trophy and cash prize, will be announced at a WORD Christchurch event in October. Who was Dame Ngaio Marsh? She was a New Zealand- born crime writer best known for her 32 detective novels published between 1934 and 1982. Along with Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, Dame Ngaio is often described as one of the four original “Queens of Crime”. Many of her novels have an English village or country house setting.