Sisters in crime Australia have announced the long list for the 2020 Davitt award. The short list will be announced in July.
Adult crime novels
Kirsten Alexander, Half Moon Lake (Bantam Australia, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia) Debut
Rachel Amphlett, Bridge to Burn (Detective Kay Hunter Murder Mystery #7) (Saxon Publishing)
Rachel Amphlett, Cradle to Grave (Detective Kay Hunter Murder Mystery #8) (Saxon Publishing)
Rachel Amphlett, The Friend Who Lied (Saxon Publishing)
Diane Armstrong, The Collaborator (HQ Fiction, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
Melissa Ashley, The Bee and the Orange Tree (Affirm Press) Debut
Sarah Bailey, Where the Dead Go (Allen & Unwin)
Sarah Barrie, Devil’s Lair (HQ Fiction, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
Susan Bennett, The Whack Club: Four women are about to start a mob war – and fingernails WILL be broken (Clever Pumpkin)
Violeta M Bagia, Jack of Hart: Wildcard (Hart of Darkness #4) (Violeta M Bagia)
Carmel Bird, Field of Poppies (Transit Lounge)
Isobel Blackthorn, A Prison in the Sun (Canary Islands Mysteries #3) (Next Chapter Publishing)
Ashley Kalagian Blunt, My Name Is Revenge (Spineless Wonders) Debut
Carline Bouilhet, The Samui Conspiracy (Austin Macauley Publishers)
Deborah Burrows, Ambulance Girls at War (Ebury Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK)
Suzanne Cass, Bound by Truth (Suzanne Cass)
Dianah Chorlton, The Vanishing of Venice (Austin Macauley Publishers) Debut
Phillipa Nefri Clark, The Christmas Tree Thief (Charlotte Dean Mysteries #1) (Phillipa Nefri Clark)
Sherryl Clark, Trust Me, I’m Dead (Verve Books) Debut
T M Clark, Cry of the Firebird (Mira, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
Natalie Conyer, Present Tense (Clan Destine Press) Debut
Tea Cooper, The Woman in the Green Dress (HQ Fiction, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
Cindy Davies, The Revolutionary’s Cousin (Odyssey Books) Debut
Livia Day, Keep Calm and Kill the Chef (Café la Femme #3) (Twelfth Planet Press)
Caroline de Costa, Blood Sisters (Wild Dingo Press)
Kaz Delaney, Chocolate and Old Lace (Rosie Hart Mystery #1) (Kerry Lane)
Kaz Delaney, Preserving the Evidence (Rosie Hart Mystery #2) (Kerry Lane)
Joy Dettman, Trails in the Dust (Woody Creek Novel #7) (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Sandie Docker, The Cottage at Rosella Cove (Penguin Random House Australia)
Pip Drysdale, The Strangers We Know (Simon & Schuster)
C M Elliot, Sibanda and the Rainbird (Constable, an imprint of Hachette Australia)
Helen FitzGerald, Worst Case Scenario (Orenda Books UK)
Sara Foster, You Don’t Know Me (Simon & Schuster)
Candice Fox, Gone by Midnight (Penguin Random House Australia)
Sulari Gentill, All the Tears in China (Rowland Sinclair Mysteries #9) (Pantera Press)
J M Green, Shoot Through (Scribe Publications)
Sally Hepworth, The Mother-in-Law (Pan Macmillan Australia) Debut
Diane Hester, Die for Me (Slender Thread Publishing)
Suzie Hindmarsh-Knights, Second Chance (Suzie Hindmarsh-Knights)
Rowena Holloway, From the Ashes (Ashes to Ashes #3) (Fractured Press)
Sarah Hopkins, The Subjects (Text Publishing)
Susan Hurley, Eight Lives (Affirm Press) Debut
Nicole Hurley-Moore, Lawson’s Bend (Allen & Unwin)
Wendy James, The Accusation (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Catherine Jinks, Shepherd (Text Publishing)
Maggie Joel, Unforgiving City (Allen & Unwin)
Dorothy Johnston, Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune (For Pity Sake)
Kylie Kaden, The Day the Lies Began (Pantera Press)
Julie Keys, The Artist’s Portrait (Hachette Australia) Debut
Lian Knight, Idle Lies (Hybrid Publishers) Debut
Katherine Kovacic, Painting in the Shadows (Echo Publishing)
C A Larmer, After the Ferry (Larmer Media)
Jess Lea, A Curious Woman (Ylva Publishing) Debut
Leisl Leighton, Climbing Fear (CoalCliff Stud #1) (Escape Publishing, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
Gabrielle Lord, Sisters (Wilkinson Publishing)
Rhonda Matheson-Browne, Bush (Olympia Publishers UK)
Fleur McDonald, Starting from Now (Allen & Unwin)
Fleur McDonald, Without a Doubt (Allen & Unwin)
Kerry McGinnis, The Roadhouse (Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia)
Petronella McGovern, Six Minutes (Allen & Unwin) Debut
Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone (4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia) Debut
Dervla McTiernan, The Scholar (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
S J Morgan, Hide (MidnightSun Publishing) Debut
Nicola Moriarty, The Ex (HarperCollins Publishers Australia) Debut
Tara Moss, Dead Man Switch (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Meg Mundell, The Trespassers (University of Queensland Press) Debut
Sonia Orchard, Into the Fire (Affirm Press) Debut
L J M Owen, The Great Divide (Echo Publishing)
Beth Prentice, Fatal Break (Aloha Lagoon Mysteries #15) (Gemma Halliday Publishing)
Leah Purcell, The Drover’s Wife (Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia) Debut
Carolyn Re and Loretta Re, Secrets of the IN-group (Resisters) Debut
Carmel Reilly, Life Before (Allen & Unwin) Debut
Kate Richards, Fusion (Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia) Debut
Anna Romer, Under the Midnight Sky (Simon & Schuster) Debut
Elisabeth Rose, The Secrets that Lie Within (Taylor’s Bend #1) (Escape Publishing, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
Elisabeth Rose, Where There Is Smoke(Taylor’s Bend #2) (Escape Publishing, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
Heather Rose, Bruny (Allen & Unwin)
Annie Seaton, Undara (Mira, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Australia)
Jennifer Spence, The Lost Girls (Simon & Schuster)
A M Stuart, Singapore Sapphire (Harriet Gordon Mystery #1) (Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House USA)
Sarah Thornton, Lapse (Text Publishing) Debut
M J Tjia, The Death of Me (Heloise Chancey Mystery #3) (Legend Press UK)
Emma Viskic, Darkness for Light (Caleb Zelic #3) (Echo Publishing)
Anna Willett, Cold Valley Nightmare (The Book Folks UK)
Anna Willett, The Woman Behind Her (The Book Folks UK)
Young Adult crime novels
Joanna Baker, The Elsinore Vanish (Beechworth Trilogy #2) (Soren Press)
K H Canobi, Mindcull (Ford Street Publishing) Debut
Catherine Greer, Love Lie Repeat (Penguin Random House Australia) Debut
Anna Morgan, All That Impossible Space (Lothian Children’s Books, an imprint of Hachette Australia) Debut
Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard (Allen & Unwin)
Tania Park, Stalked (Tania Park Publishing)
Tania Pennell, A Second Helping (Bush N Beach Australia)
Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens (Allen & Unwin) Debut
Children’s crime novels
Sandra Bennett, A Lighthouse in Time (The Adamson Adventures #2) (Elephant Tree Publishing)
Jenny Blackford, The Girl in the Mirror (Eagle Books, an imprint of Christmas Press) Debut
Fiona Hardy, How to Make a Movie in 12 Days (Affirm Press)
Jacqueline Harvey, Kensy and Max: Undercover (#3) (Penguin Random House Australia)
Rebecca Lim, The Race for the Red Dragon (Children of the Dragon #2) (Allen & Unwin)
Rebecca McRitchie, Jinxed!: The curious curse of Cora Bell (Jinxed #1) (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Katrina Nannestad, The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Lucerne (The Girl, the Dog and the Writer #3)(ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Louise Park, Grace’s Secrets (Berbay Books)
Allison Rushby, The Seven Keys (Walker Books)
R A Spratt, Stuck in the Mud (The Peski Kids #3) (Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia)
Renee Treml, Sherlock Bones and the Natural History Mystery (Allen & Unwin) Debut
Ailsa Wild, Squishy Taylor and the Secret Envelope (Hardie Grant Egmont)
Non-fiction crime books
Samantha Battams, The Secret Art of Poisoning: The true crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner (Samantha Battams) Debut
Ava Benny-Morrison, The Lost Girls (ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia) Debut
Robin Bowles, Death on the Derwent: Sue Neill-Fraser’s story (Scribe Publications)
Tanya Bretherton The Suicide Bride: Mystery of tragedy and family secrets in Edwardian Sydney (Hachette Australia)
Adele Ferguson, Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist’s fight for the truth (ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia) Debut
Justine Ford, Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys,Gone Girls (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Catie Gilchrist, Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends: Tales from a Colonial Coroner’s Court (HarperCollins Publishers Australia) Debut
Jane Gilmore, Fixed It: Violence and the representation of women in the media (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia)
Ginger Gorman, Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout (Hardie Grant Books) Debut
Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, control and domestic abuse (Black Inc.) Debut
Sue Ingleton, Making Trouble – Tongued with Fire: An imagined history of Harriet Elphinstone Dick and Alice C Moon (Spinifex Press) Debut
Xanthé Mallett, Cold Case Investigations (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Kate McClymont (with Vanda Carson), Dead Man Walking: The murky world of Michael McGurk and Ron Medich (Vintage Australia, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia) Debut
Lucie Morris-Marr, Fallen: The inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell (Allen & Unwin) Debut
Vikki Petraitis, Inside the Law: 25 years of true crime writing (Clan Destine Press)
Sue Smethurst and Margaret Harrod, Blood on the Rosary (Simon & Schuster)
Loretta Smith, A Spanner in the Works: The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s first all-girl garage (Hachette Australia) Debut
Leigh Straw, Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia’s most beautiful bad woman (ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Helen Thomas, Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne’s most notorious cold case (Nero, a
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