The awards season is well and truly upon us with the Davitt awards being announced last night.
Frantic, by Katherine Howell, won Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Awards for the best (adult) crime novel by an Australian woman in 2007.
The Davitt Awards were set up by Sisters in Crime in 2001 to celebrate the achievements of Australian women crime writers.
Other winners were:
Young Adult
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Mandy Sayer
True Crime
Killing Jodie How Australia's most elusive murderer was brought to justice
Janet Fife-Yeomans
Reader's choice
Scarlet Stiletto – The First Cut
edited by Lindy Cameron
The awards are named after Ellen Davitt (1812-1879) who wrote Australia’s first mystery novel, Force and Fraud, in 1865.
