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I'm behind - but the Long List for the Annual Sisters in Crime Australia Davitt Awards were announced a while ago on http://www.sistersincrime.org.au/content/davitt-award-long-list-2012(link is external)
Adult Crime Fiction
- Sydney Bauer,The 3rd Victim (PanMacmillan)
- A.A. Bell,Hindsight (HarperCollins)
- Claire Corbett, When We Have Wings (Allen & Unwin)
- Sandy Curtis, Fatal Flaw (Clan Destine Press)
- Miranda Darling, The Siren’s Sting(Allen & Unwin)
- Virginia Duigan, The Precipice (Random House)
- Y A Erskine, The Brotherhood (Bantam/Random House)
- Helen Fitzgerald, The Donor (Allen & Unwin)
- Jaye Ford, Beyond Fear (Bantam/Random)
- Sulari Gentill, Decline in Prophets (Pantera Press)
- Carol Gibson, Click Click, You’re Dead (Zeus Publications)
- H.M. Goltz, Death by Sugar (Atlas Productions Publishing Company)
- Kerry Greenwood, Cooking the Books (Allen & Unwin)
- Judy Johnson, The Secret Fate of Mary Watson (HarperCollins)
- Sylvia Johnson, Watch Out for Me (Allen & Unwin)
- Adriana Koulias, The Sixth Key (Random House)
- Phyllis King, ed., Scarlet Stiletto: The Second Cut (Clan Destine Press) [Readers Choice vote by SinC members only]
- Carolyn Morwood, Death and the Spanish Lady (Pulp Fiction)
- Jennifer Rowe, Love Honour & O'Brien (Allen & Unwin)
- Kim Westwood, The Courier’s New Bicycle (Harper Voyager)
- Nicole Watson, The Boundary (University of Queensland Press)
- Helene Young, Shattered Sky (Hachette Australia)
- Tracey O’Hara, Death’s Sweet Embrace(Harper Voyager)
Children’s/Young Adult
- J.C Burke, Pig Boy (Random House)
- Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day (Allen & Unwin)
- Susan Green, The Truth about Verity Sparks (Walker Books)
- Jacqueline Harvey, Alice-Miranda at Sea (Random House)
- H J Harper, Star League series
Book 1: Lights, Camera, Action Hero!; Book 2: Curse of the Werewolf;
Book 3: Raising the Dead ; Book 4: The Ninja Code
(Random House) - Karen Healey,The Shattering (Allen & Unwin)
- Nansi Kunze, Dangerously Placed (Random House)
- Gabrielle Lord, Conspiracy 365 (Scholastic Australia)
- Sophie Masson, The Understudy’s Revenge (Scholastic Australia)
- Tara Moss, The Spider Goddess (PanMacmillan Australia)
- Meg McKinlay, Surface Tension (Walker Books)
- Belinda Murrell, The Ivory Rose (Random House)
- Joanne Van Os, The Secret of the Lonely Isles (Random House)
- Lili Wilkinson, A Pocketful of Eyes (Allen & Unwin)
True Crime
- Carol Baxter, Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady: The true story of
bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg (Allen & Unwin) - Jo Chandler and Christine Nixon, Fair Cop: Christine Nixon (Melbourne University Press)
- Rachael Jane Chin, Nice Girl: Whatever Happened To Baby Tegan Lane? (Simon & Schuster)
- Helen Cummings,Blood Vows: a haunting memoir of marriage and murder (The Five Mile Press)
- Nichola Garvey, Beating the Odds (Harper Collins)
- Fiona Harari, A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan (Victory Books)
- 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)
- Vikki Petraitis, The Frankston Serial Killer (Clan Destine Press)
Not quite as much catching up to do, but still obviously there's a lot of great books out there!