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Best holiday reads, 2024-2025

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’.

Scarlet stilleto trophy with caption All the Winners

Painting the town red: Scarlet Stiletto Awards Night

What a night. What winners. Here is the lowdown on the 31st Scarlet Stiletto Awards night. Including all the winners.

HISTORY OF THE DAVITT AWARDS

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 …

davitt awards 2025: SponsorS

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 …

Davitt Awards: Longlist

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.

DAVITT AWARDS 2025: for media

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 …

Murder Monday: Hayley Scrivenor

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.

When things go wrong

New Zealander Charity Norman, author of Home Truths (Allen & Unwin, 2024) spoke to Sisters in Crime’s Robyn Walton about her latest novel, Home Truths. She chose to set it in North Yorkshire because she knows and loves it – and in the years 2019-2020 because the Covid pandemic triggered a perfect storm of isolation, anxiety and the explosion of online disinformation.

221B Baker Street, werewolves, and me: Narrelle M. Harris

Think every re-working or re-imagining of the great Sherlock Holmes has already been done? Think again! Melbourne’s Narelle M Harris brings us The She-Wolf of Baker Street. The simple question is: what if Mrs Hudson was a werewolf? And it’s a wild ride.

Pip Drysdale, The Close-Up

Love the twisty, turny plots of Pip Drysdale? Twenty copies of her latest The Close-Up are up for grabs in the November Crime Stack draw for members only. The Close-Up is an electrifying, dark and (of course) twisty thriller that follows a young novelist, once full of promise but now failing to live up to it, who becomes embroiled in the life of a hot movie star… and his stalker.

The Crime Stack is a benefit for Sisters in Crime members. Every month there are 20 books to win in a random draw of members.

Join now and be in the running for a complimentary paperback copy of The Close-Up