Davitt Awards 2025
An incredible number of books have been submitted and now the judges are underway with their marathon of reading. We wish them joy! For more information check out our portal page.
Sara Hood
25th Davitt Awards: how to enter
For the best Australian women’s crime and mystery books of 2024 Note: contact details have changed. All enquiries should be sent to the judge co-ordinator Ruth Wykes. THE DAVITT AWARDS ARE NOW CLOSED. JUDGING IS UNDERWAY. ENTRY FEES Save 33% with EarlyBird entries from 1-30 November 2024. Full fee entries from 1 December 2024 to …
The Crime Stack: The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish
For the February Crime Stack, Simon and Schuster has kindly offered 20 copies of The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish. To be in the running you need to be a member of Sisters in Crime. Why not join now?
The Crime Stack: The Next Girl by Pip Drysdale
For the December Crime Stack, Simon and Schuster has kindly offered 20 copies of The Next Girl by Perth author Pip Drysdale. To be in the running you need to be a member of Sisters in Crime. Why not join now?
The Crime Stack: After You Were Gone by Vikki Wakefield
For the November Crime Stack, Text Publishing has kindly offered 20 copies of After You Were Gone by Adelaide author Vikki Wakefield.
The first adult crime book by award-winning author Vikki Wakefield is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that poses the questions: How far would you go to find your child?
The Crime Stack: Cut by Susan White
For the October Crime Stack, Affirm Press has kindly offered 20 copies of Cut by Melbourne author and medical doctor Susan White. Cut is a thrilling, provocative novel set against the backdrop of a major Melbourne hospital’s surgical team in the time before #metoo blew the lid off institutionalised misogyny and sexism. Be a member and be in the running to win!
The Crime Stack: 35 books across 7 titles. Bumper haul!
Thanks to our friends at Allen & Unwin this month’s Crime Stack member book draw is huge. 35 books across 7 titles! And such ripper books too. If you want to be in the draw you need to be a member. Click on Read More to find out … more!
The Crime Stack: Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic
This month’s member draw is for the addictive new Caleb Zelig thriller from multi-award winning Sisters member Emma Viskic. A remote island. An isolated community. A killer picking the off one by one. And Caleb’s brother is in the firing line.
How to be in the draw? Be a member!
The Crime Stack: The Shadow House by Anna Downes
For the June Crime Stack, Affirm Press has kindly offered 20 copies of The Shadow House, a haunting psychological thriller from Anne Downes. When single mother Alex flees her abusive relationship and moves with her teenage son and baby girl to a rural ecovillage, she thinks she’s made the best decision of her life. But her arrival at Pine Ridge disturbs barely submerged secrets and this time there may be nowhere else to run.
The Crime Stack: All that I Remember about Dean Cola by Tania Chandler
For the May Crime Stack, Scribe Publications has kindly offered 20 copies of All That I Remember About Dean Cola, the third novel by Victorian Sisters in Crime member, Tania Chandler.