2012 Davitt Awards - the winners.

Sisters in Crime Australia named the Davitt awards in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812-1879) who wrote Australia’s first mystery novel, Force and Fraud  in 1865.

Davitt Award: Adult Fiction

Jaye Ford, Beyond Fear 

Sulari Gentill, A Decline in Prophets  

Carolyn Morwood, Death and the Spanish Lady 

Jennifer Rowe, Love Honour & O'Brien  

Kim Westwood, The Courier’s New Bicycle 

Helene Young, Shattered Sky  

And the winner is:

A decline in prophets. Sulari Gentill

Davitt Award: Children’s/Young Adult

Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day  

Nansi Kunze, Dangerously Placed  

Meg McKinlay, Surface Tension 

And the winner is:

Surface tension. Meg McKinlay

Davitt Award: True Crime

Wendy Lewis, The Australian Book of Family Murders 

Liz Porter, Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science 

And the winner is:

Cold case files. Liz Porter

                                                  Davitt Award: Debut Crime

Eligible books in all categories compete for the Davitt Award for Debut Crime, the first time Sisters in Crime will present such an award.

And the winner is:

Beyond fear. Jaye Ford

Davitt Award: Reader's Choice Award

All members of Sisters in Crime are eligible to vote in this category.

The award was shared by

The brotherhood. Y.A. Erskine                            Beyond fear. Jaye Ford.