Sisters in Crime announced the winners of the 2024 Davitt Awards, recognizing the best crime and mystery books by Australian women:
Adult novel: When One of Us Hurts by Monica Vuu
YA novel: Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer by Amy Doak
Children's novel: The Wolves of Greycoat Hall by Lucinda Gifford
Nonfiction: The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher, and His Wife by Rebecca Hazel
Debut crime: The Half Brother by Christine Keighery
Readers' Choice: The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
Ruth Wykes, the jury coordinator, said that judging the Davitts offers "a front-row seat to the wonderful entertainment that is Australian women's crime stories. This year, we traveled the world through the pages of 153 books.... We met some rather colorful characters; some who made us laugh out loud, others who left us in tears. And we had moments where we were secretly rooting for the bad guy. This year's themes seemed darker than last year.... But this is perhaps a realistic reflection of the impact of Covid and those life-changing lockdowns we experienced in 2020. Our worlds changed, and so did the worlds of our storytellers."