How refreshing to have a murder mystery set in 1920s’ Vietnam – and one by a Vietnamese-Australian adult fiction writer. Jacquie Pham has set her debut thriller in 1928 amongst a group of young men running their families’ formidable businesses. They make up Saigon’s most powerful group of friends in 1928 Vietnam’s elite society – until one of them is murdered. All members are automatically included in the draw at the end of each month.
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.
Sarah Barrie has nine novels under her belt. She cut her teeth on romance but, luckily for us, threw her lot in with crime. Sarah spoke about her literary trajectory to Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem for the December Murder Monday. ln a past life, while gaining degrees in arts, science, and education, Sarah worked as a teacher, a vet nurse, a horse trainer, and a magazine editor, before deciding she wanted to write novels.
Sisters in Crime invited convenors, author members, Davitt Award judges and winners, and others to nominate their best holiday reads for 2024-2025. As you’ll note, they traverse an extraordinarily wide range of themes, locations, and interests. Some nominations are up-to-the-minute. Others are golden oldies. What they all offer, of course, are hours of reading pleasure and diversion. I loved the passion revealed in the responses. Discover what passed Hazel Edwards’ ‘hot water test’.
What a night. What winners. Here is the lowdown on the 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards night. Including all the winners.
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 …
Multi-award-winning Sydney author, Hayley Scrivenor, spoke to Sisters in Crime’s Jacq Ellem For the November Murder Monday. Hayley’s debut, Dirt Town, was a number-one bestseller in Australia and won several awards, including the UK Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger Award, the ABIA for General Fiction Book of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award and Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Award for best debut book in 2023. Her latest novel is Girl Falling.