Davitt Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2019 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women.

The shortlisted works in each category are:

Adult novel

• This I Would Kill For (Anne Buist, Text)
• Second Sight (Aoife Clifford, S&S)
• Redemption Point (Candice Fox, Penguin)
• Mine (Susi Fox, Michael Joseph)
• The Lost Man (Jane Harper, Macmillan)
• Wintering (Krissy Kneen, Text)
• The Killing of Louisa (Janet Lee, UQP)
• The Rúin (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins)
• Live and Let Fry (Sue Williams, Text)

Young adult novel

• Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker)
• Found (Fleur Ferris, Random House Australia Children’s)
• The Finder (Kate Hendrick, Text)
• White Night (Ellie Marney, A&U)
• After the Lights Go Out (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)

Children’s novel

• The Relic of the Blue Dragon: Children of the Dragon #1 (Rebecca Lim, A&U)
• The Peacock Detectives (Carly Nugent, Text)
• His Name Was Walter (Emily Rodda, HarperCollins)
• Wakestone Hall (Judith Rossell, ABC Books)
• The Mystery of the Squashed Cockroach: The Peski Kids #1 (R A Spratt, Puffin)

Nonfiction

• Trace: Who killed Maria James? (Rachael Brown, Scribe)
• The Arsonist (Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton)
• Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U)
• Gorgeous Girl (Mary Pershall, Viking)
• The Lindt Café Siege (Deborah Snow, A&U)
• Waiting for Elijah (Kate Wild, Scribe)

Debut

• Trace: Who killed Maria James? (Rachael Brown, Scribe)
• Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker)
• Mine (Susi Fox, Michael Joseph)
• Wintering (Krissy Kneen, Text)
• The Finder (Kate Hendrick, Text)
• Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U)
• The Killing of Louisa (Janet Lee, UQP)
• The Peacock Detectives (Carly Nugent, Text)
• Gorgeous Girl (Mary Pershall, Viking)
• The Lindt Café Siege (Deborah Snow, A&U)
• Waiting for Elijah (Kate Wild, Scribe).

The shortlisted titles were chosen from longlists announced in May. The winners will be announced on 31 August at an event in Melbourne with Emma Viskic and New Zealand author Joanne Drayton.

For more information, see the Sisters in Crime website.

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