2012 Davitt Award longlist

There are 49 books competing for this year’s Davitt Awards,
presented by Sisters in Crime Australia for the best crime books
by Australian women published in Australia in 2011.

Davitts will be awarded for the Best Adult Crime novel,
the best Children’s/Young Adult Crime novel,
the Best True Crime book, the Readers’ Choice
and – for the first time – the Best Debut Crime (any category).

All categories except the Reader's Choice
(which is decided by the members of sisters in Crime)
are judged by a panel of five judges.

The Davitts will be presented on Saturday September 1
in an Award Ceremony and dinner at the Celtic Club in Melbourne.

So, you have two months to catch up on your reading of great Australian crime if you want
to get clued up about who's been writing what before the Davitts are announced.

Adult Crime Fiction

• Sydney Bauer, The 3rd Victim 
  (PanMacmillan)
• A.A. Bell, Hindsight 
  (HarperCollins)
• Claire Corbett, When We Have Wings 
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Sandy Curtis, Fatal Flaw 
  (Clan Destine Press)
• Miranda Darling, The Siren’s Sting 
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Virginia Duigan, The Precipice 
  (Random House)
• Y A Erskine, The Brotherhood 
  (Bantam/Random House)
• Helen Fitzgerald, The Donor 
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Jaye Ford, Beyond Fear 
  (Bantam/Random)
• Sulari Gentill, Decline in Prophets 
  (Pantera Press)
• Carol Gibson, Click Click, You’re Dead 
  (Zeus Publications)
• H.M. Goltz, Death by Sugar 
  (Atlas Productions Publishing Company)
• Kerry Greenwood, Cooking the Books 
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Judy Johnson, The Secret Fate of Mary Watson 
  (HarperCollins)
• Sylvia Johnson, Watch Out for Me 
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Adriana Koulias, The Sixth Key 
  (Random House)
• Phyllis King, ed., Scarlet Stiletto: The Second Cut 
  (Clan Destine Press)  [Readers Choice vote by SinC members only]
• Carolyn Morwood, Death and the Spanish Lady
  (Pulp Fiction)
• Jennifer Rowe, Love Honour & O'Brien
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Kim Westwood, The Courier’s New Bicycle
  (Harper Voyager)
• Nicole Watson, The Boundary 
  (University of Queensland Press)
• Helene Young, Shattered Sky 
  (Hachette Australia)
• Tracey O’Hara, Death’s Sweet Embrace
  (Harper Voyager)

Children’s/Young Adult

•  J.C Burke, Pig Boy 
  (Random House)
• Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Susan Green, The Truth about Verity Sparks 
  (Walker Books)
• Jacqueline Harvey, Alice-Miranda at Sea 
  (Random House)
• H J Harper, Star League series
  Book 1: Lights, Camera, Action Hero!; Book 2: Curse of the Werewolf;
  Book 3: Raising the Dead ; Book 4: The Ninja Code
  (Random House)
• Karen Healey,The Shattering 
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Nansi Kunze, Dangerously Placed
  (Random House)
• Gabrielle Lord, Conspiracy 365 
  (Scholastic Australia)
• Sophie Masson, The Understudy’s Revenge 
  (Scholastic Australia)
• Tara Moss, The Spider Goddess 
  (PanMacmillan Australia)
• Meg McKinlay, Surface Tension
  (Walker Books)
• Belinda Murrell, The Ivory Rose
  (Random House)
• Joanne Van Os, The Secret of the Lonely Isles 
  (Random House)
• Lili Wilkinson, A Pocketful of Eyes 
  (Allen & Unwin)

 True Crime

• Carol Baxter, Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The true story of
  bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg
  (Allen & Unwin)
• Jo Chandler and Christine Nixon, Fair Cop: Christine Nixon
  (Melbourne University Press)
• Rachael Jane Chin, Nice Girl: Whatever Happened To Baby Tegan Lane? 
  (Simon & Schuster)
• Helen Cummings,Blood Vows: a haunting memoir of marriage and murder 
  (The Five Mile Press)
• Nichola Garvey, Beating the Odds (Harper Collins)
• Fiona Harari, A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan
  (Victory Books)
• Wendy Lewis, The Australian Book of Family Murders
  (Pier 9/Murdoch Books)
• Liz Porter, Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science
  (PanMacmillan)
• Vikki Petraitis, The Frankston Serial Killer
  (Clan Destine Press)

If you are a financial member of Sisters in Crime Australia you are eligible to vote
in the Readers' Choice category of The Davitts.

The online member's voting form is here.