Sisters in Crime Australia recently released its longlists of books being considered for the 2026 Davitt Awards, “celebrating excellence in crime writing by Australian women.”
Adult Fiction:
• At Café 64, by Shaeden Barry (Echo)
• Lyrebird, by Jane Caro (Allen & Unwin)
• Unfinished Business, by Shankari Chandran (Ultimo Press)
• Skull River, by Pip Fioretti (Affirm Press)
• When She Was Gone, by Sara Foster (Harper Collins Australia)
• Revelation Beach, by Susan Francis (Wild Dingo Press)
• Learned Behaviours, by Zeyneb Gamieldien (Ultimo Press)
• Unbury the Dead, by Fiona Hardy (Affirm Press)
• Mad Mabel, by Sally Hepworth (Macmillan Australia)
• The Canvas Killings, by Elise Janes (JETT)
• The Bluff, by Joanna Jenkins (Allen & Unwin)
• Melaleuca, by Angie Faye Martin (HQ Fiction)
• The Wolf Tree, by Laura McCluskey (Harper Collins Australia)
• The Prospect, by Fleur McDonald (Harper Collins Australia)
• Stillwater, by Tanya Scott (Allen & Unwin)
• Nemesis, by Patricia Wolf (Echo)
Non-fiction:
• Groomed, by Sonia Orchard (Simon & Schuster)
• Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-writer, and Her Criminal Son, by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex (Black Inc.)
• The Red House, by Kate Wild (Allen & Unwin)
Young Adult:
• What Have They Done to Liza McLean? by Amy Doak (Penguin Random House Australia)
• A Murder Is Going Down, by Kate Emery (Allen & Unwin)
• We Saw What You Started, by Carla Salmon (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Children’s Books:
• Run, by Sarah Armstrong (Hardie Grant Children’s)
• The Girl and the Ghost, by Jacqueline Harvey (Penguin Random
House Australia)
• Oceanforged: The Wicked Ship, by Amelia Mellor (Simon &
Schuster Australia)
• True South, by Gisela Ervin-Ward (Midnight Sun)
• Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend (Hachette Children’s)
• Promises and Other Lies, by Sue Whiting (Walker)
Ruth Wykes, who chairs the Davitt Awards judging panel, is quoted as saying these works “were the ones that entertained, challenged, taught us, and stayed with us long after we had read the final chapters. Stories that were bold and brave, or beautifully nuanced.”
This year’s shortlists are to be announced in July, and at that same time, voting will commence for the 2026 Readers’ Choice Award. All of the winners are to be declared in August or September.
The Davitt Awards are named for Ellen Davitt (1812-1879), the author of Australia’s first mystery novel, Force and Fraud (1865).
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
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