Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women.
The shortlisted titles in two of the categories are:
Adult novel
- Release (Lucy Christopher, Text)
- When We Fall (Aoife Clifford, Ultimo)
- Stone Town (Margaret Hickey, Penguin)
- All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ Fiction)
- The Torrent (Dinuka McKenzie, HarperCollin)
- The Unbelieved (Vikki Petraitis, A&U) *
- Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan) *
- No Country for Girls (Emma Styles, Sphere).
Debut books
- The Cane (Maryrose Cuskelly, A&U) *
- All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ Fiction)
- The Torrent (Dinuka McKenzie, HarperCollins)
- The Unbelieved (Vikki Petraitis, A&U) *
- Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan) *
- No Country for Girls (Emma Styles, Sphere).
The Davitt Awards, including a readers choice award as voted by Sisters in Crime members, will be presented at a gala dinner in Melbourne on Saturday, 2 September by journalist, true-crime author, and television producer Debi Marshall.
For more information, see the Sisters in Crime website.
Books marked * have been reviewed by QRC. To read the review, click on the title.