HISTORY OF THE DAVITT AWARDS

Sisters in Crime Australia launched the Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women at its 10th anniversary convention, SheKilda 2001, to provide some much needed – and overdue – recognition for Australian women crime writers. The Davitts are named after Ellen Davitt, the author of Australia’s first mystery novel, Force and Fraud, in 1865. An e-book …

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IT TAKES A TOWN

A terrible storm hits a country town then glamorous, but hated by everyone, Vanessa Walton is found dead at the bottom of her stairs. And a teenager who believes it was murder, not a trip over a bucket, disappears

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PHEASANTS NEST

Kate Delaney humiliated a man one night and now she’s bound and gagged in the boot of his car. She’s a crime journalist, she knows how much trouble she is in.

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TO THE RIVER

Sabine Kelly lives on a houseboat, on the run 12 years after a caravan fire killed several people, including Sabine’s family. She confessed, then ran to the river.

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