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Davitt Awards – Long List 2016
Adult novels (47)
- Louisa Bennet Monty and Me (HarperCollins Australia)
- Deborah Burrows, A Time of Secrets (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Anne Buist, Medea’s Curse: Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist (Text Publishing) Debut
- Alice Campion, The Painted Sky (Penguin Random House)
- Tania Chandler, Please Don’t Leave Me Here (Scribe) Debut
- Lee Christine, A Dangerous Arrangement (Harlequin)
- Kat Clay, Double Exposure (Crime Factory) Debut
- Shannon Curtis, Runaway Lies (Harlequin)
- Caroline de Costa, Double Madness (Margaret River Press) Debut
- C. M. Elliott, Sibanda and the Death Head Moth (Jacana Media)
- Helen Fitzgerald, The Exit (Faber & Faber/Allen & Unwin)
- Candice Fox, Fall (Penguin Random House)
- Sulari Gentill, Give the Devil His Due (Pantera Press)
- Helen Goltz, Death by Disguise: A Jesse Clarke novel (Atlas Productions)
- Helen Goltz, The Clairvoyant’s Glasses (Atlas Productions)
- J. M. Green, Good Money (Scribe) Debut
- Amanda Howard, Ritual: A thousand cuts (Killing Time Books)
- Katherine Howell, Tell the Truth (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Anna Jacquiery, Death in the Rainy Season (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Gail Jones, A Guide to Berlin (Penguin Random House)
- Kylie Kaden, Missing You (Penguin Random House)
- Carolyn Little, Bergstrom’s Orange (Short Stop Press)
- Sophie Masson, Trinity: The false prince (Momentum Press)
- Fleur McDonald, Emerald Springs (Allen & Unwin)
- L. J. M. Owen, Olmec Obiturary: Dr Pimms, Intermillennial Sleuth (Echo Publishing) Debut
- Bronwyn Parry, Storm Clouds (Hachette Australia)
- J. M. Peace, Time to Run (Pan Macmillan Australia) Debut
- Jan Pearson, Tiger Autumn (Proverse, Hong Kong)
- Elisabeth Rose, Empty Heart (Harlequin)
- Annie Seaton, Kakadu Sunset (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Dorothy Simmons, Living like a Kelly (Tantanoola)
- Vanessa Skye, Bloodlines (The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House)
- Michelle Somers, Lethal in Love (Penguin Random House)
- Lili St Germain, Cartel (Harper Collins Australia)
- D B Tait, Cold Deception (Dark Mountain#1) (Momentum) (e-book) Debut
- D B Tait, Desperate Deception (Dark Mountain#2) (Momentum) (e-book)
- Kendall Talbot, Double Take (Harlequin)
- Kendall Talbot, Treasured Lies (Harlequin)
- Kendall Talbot, Treasured Secrets (Harlequin)
- Pauline Toohey, My Rickety Metronome (Indigo Dreams Publishing) Debut
- Nicole Trope, Hush, Little Bird (Allen & Unwin)
- Ann Turner, The Lost Swimmer (Simon & Schuster) Debut
- Sandy Vaile, Inherited Fear (Crimson Romance) e book
- Emma Viskic, Resurrection Bay (Echo Publishing) Debut
- Felicity Young, The Insanity of Murder (HarperCollins Australia) (e-book)
- Helene Young, Northern Heat (Penguin Random House)
Young Adult Novels (9)
- Kathryn Barker, In the Skin of a Monster (Allen & Unwin) Debut
- Fleur Ferris, Risk (Penguin Random House) Debut
- Sue Lawson, Freedom Ride (Black Dog Books)
- Rebecca Lim, Afterlight (Text Publishing)
- Ellie Marney, Every Move (Allen & Unwin)
- Maureen McCarthy, Stay with Me (Allen & Unwin)
- Dianne Touchell, Small Madness (Allen & Unwin) Debut
- Frances Watts, The Peony Lantern (HarperCollins Australia)
- Gabrielle Williams, The Guy, the Girl, the Artist and His Ex (Allen & Unwin) Debut
Children’s Novels (8)
- C. M. Gray, Zombiefied! Book#1 (HarperCollins Australia) Debut
- Susan Green, Verity Sparks and the Scarlet Hand (Walker Books Australia)
- Julie Hun, KidGlovz (Allen & Unwin)
- Catherine Jinks, Theophilus Grey and the Demon Thief (Allen & Unwin)
- Meg McKinlay, A Single Stone (Walker Press)
- Sally Rippin, Billie B Brown’s Big Book of Mysteries (Hardie Grant Egmont)
- R. A. Spratt, Friday Barnes 2: Under Suspicion (Penguin Random House)
- R.A. Spratt, Friday Barnes 3: Big Trouble (Penguin Random House)
Non Fiction (14)
- Carol Baxter, Black Widow (Allen & Unwin)
- Debbie Benson, Judicial Murder: The Crown vs David Young (Eaglehawk Press) Debut
- Robin Bowles, Smoke and Mirrors:a tragedy of love and murder (Echo Publishing)
- Cheryl Critchley and Helen McGrath, Why Did They Do It? (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Justine Ford, Unsolved Australia (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Victoria Heywood, Every Move You Make (Echo Publishing)
- Kate Kyriacou, The Sting (Echo Publishing) Debut
- Vikki Petraitis, Dog Squad (Penguin Random House)
- Alecia Simmonds, Wildman (Affirm Press)
- Sue Smethurst, Behind Closed Doors (Simon & Schuster)
- Sofija Stefanovic, You’re Just Too Good to Be True (Penguin Random House) Debut
- Lucy Sussex, Blockbuster: Fergus Hume and the mystery of a hansom Cab (Text Publishing)
- Emily Webb, Angels of Death: Disturbing Real-life cases of nurses and doctors who kill (The Five Mile Press)
- Juliet Wills, Dirty Girl: The state sanctioned murder of brothel madam Shirley Finn (Alto Books)