The shortlists for the 2012 Davitt Awards have been released.
Davitt Award (Adult Fiction)
Jaye Ford, Beyond Fear (Bantam/Random)
Sulari Gentill, Decline in Prophets (Pantera Press)
Catherine Morwood, Death and the Spanish Lady (Pulp Fiction Press)
Jennifer Rowe, Love Honour & O'Brien (Allen & Unwin)
Kim Westwood, The Courier's New Bicycle (Harper Voyager)
Helene Young, Shattered Sky (Hachette Australia)
Davitt Award Children's/Young Adult
Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day (Allen & Unwin)
Nansi Kunze, Dangerously Placed (Random House)
Meg McKinlay, Surface Tension (Walker Books)
Davitt Award (True Crime)
Wendy Lewis, The Australian Book of Family Murders (Pier 9/Murdoch Books)
Liz Porter, Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science (PanMacmillan)
The winners will be announced at a dinner to be held in Melbourne on September 1.
Davitt Award (Adult Fiction)
Jaye Ford, Beyond Fear (Bantam/Random)
Sulari Gentill, Decline in Prophets (Pantera Press)
Catherine Morwood, Death and the Spanish Lady (Pulp Fiction Press)
Jennifer Rowe, Love Honour & O'Brien (Allen & Unwin)
Kim Westwood, The Courier's New Bicycle (Harper Voyager)
Helene Young, Shattered Sky (Hachette Australia)
Davitt Award Children's/Young Adult
Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day (Allen & Unwin)
Nansi Kunze, Dangerously Placed (Random House)
Meg McKinlay, Surface Tension (Walker Books)
Davitt Award (True Crime)
Wendy Lewis, The Australian Book of Family Murders (Pier 9/Murdoch Books)
Liz Porter, Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science (PanMacmillan)
The winners will be announced at a dinner to be held in Melbourne on September 1.
