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How do you follow up on a number one best seller that has won multiple awards? Hayley Scrivenor’s latest – Girl Falling – is an exploration of friendship .. and what happens when it turns bad. How did she come to write it? How did she get it down ‘on paper’?
Kate Emery’s new book is set at a family beach holiday in Western Australia. My Family and Other Suspects is a mystery where, you know how it happens, there’s a murder and Ruth, the teenage murder mystery fan in the family, decides that she’s the one to investigate. As Kate says, it owes a lot to Agatha Christie.
Best selling psychological thrillers are Petronella McGovern’s beat. She talks with Natalie Conyer about why and how she writes and her latest page turner, The Last Trace – a gripping thriller about siblings and secrets, and the traces we can never erase.
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 …
As ever, Sisters in Crime Australia is hugely indebted to our wonderful sponsor. We thank them enormously for their support. The Davitt Awards sponsor is Swinburne University of Technology’s Media and Communications Department. There is a wide array of courses from TAFE to post graduate and the list can be found here. If you’re thinking …
The long list for the Davitt Awards 2025 has been announced.
150 books were entered and the judges have selected 29 for the longlist. It has been a particularly challenging task this year. As Ruth Wykes, award winning short story writer and Judges’ Co-ordinator, said this year’s longlist is a stunning and diverse collection of stories.
Media contact for the Davitt Awards 2025 is Ruth Wykes on davitts2025@sistersincrime.org.au or 0407 898 754 MEDIA RELEASES October 2024: Announcement of the awards: Riding the Crime Wave.May 2025: Announcement of the longlist: 29 books announced on the long list July 2025: Announcement of shortlist: 13 books made it August 2025: Davitt Awards ceremony on …
Australia’s premier book awards for crime books written by Australian women. Full information here.
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 …
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?