Giving Women Their Due

Sisters in Crime Australia has released its shortlists of nominees for the 24th Davitt Awards. There are four categories of “best crime and mystery books”: Adult Novels, Non-fiction, Young Adult Novels, and Children’s Novels. Here are the Adult Novels candidates:

• The Chasm, by Bronwyn Hall (HQ Fiction)
• The Tea Ladies, by Amanda Hampson (Penguin Random House)
• The Half Brother, by Christine Keighery (Ultimo Press)
• Prima Facie, by Suzie Miller (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Exquisite Corpse, by Marija Pericic (Ultimo Press)
• The Fall Between, by Darcy Tindale Penguin Random House)
• When One of Us Hurts, by Mnica Vuu, (Pan Macmillan Australia)

In addition, there will be a prize given for Best Debut Novel, plus a Davitt Readers’ Choice Award, the recipient of which is to be selected by members of Sisters in Crime Australia.

This year’s winners will be declared during a “gala dinner” held at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel on Saturday, August 31.

The Davitt Awards have been presented since 2001, and are named for Ellen Davitt (1812-1879), Australia’s first crime novelist.

(Hat tip to In Reference to Murder.)