The winners of the 2007 Davitt Awards have been announced. These awards are presented by the Australian chapter of Sisters in Crime and honour works in the crime genre, written by Australian women. This year's winners were:
Best True Crime and Readers' Choice
Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage by Karen Kissane
Best Adult Crime
Undertow by Sydney Bauer
Best Young Adult Crime
The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty
Readers' Choice
Karen Kissane, and Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood
Angela Savage was at the awards' presentation night and gives an account of what she saw there on her blog.