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
