Sara HoodMedia 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?
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?
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?
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!
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!
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!
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.