The Davitt Awards shortlist 2020
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2020 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women.
Here are the shortlisted books in each category:
Adult crime novels
- Bruny by Heather Rose
- Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
- Life Before by Carmel Reilly
- Present Tense by Natalie Conyer
- The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
- Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern
- The Trespassers by Meg Mundell
Young adult crime novels
- All That Impossible Space by Anna Morgan
- Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
- When the Ground is Hard by Malla Nunn
Children’s crime novels
- The Girl in the Mirror by Jenny Blackford
- The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Lucerne by Katrina Nannestad
- Jinxed!: The curious curse of Cora Bell by Rebecca McRitchie
- Sherlock Bones and the Natural History Mystery by Renée Treml
Non-fiction crime books
- Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson
- Fallen by Lucie Morris-Marr
- Fixed It by Jane Gilmore
- See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
- Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman
Debut titles
- Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson
- The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley
- The Drover’s Wife by Leah Purcell
- Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
- Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
- Life Before by Carmel Reilly
- Present Tense by Natalie Conyer
- Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern
- Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman
