Sunday, October 12, 2008

Katherine Howell's Frantic wins Davitt crime award

A DEBUT crime novel by a former ambulance officer has been named the best crime novel of 2007 by an Australian woman.
Frantic (PanMacmillan), by New South Wales writer Katherine Howell, won the Sisters in Crime's Davitt Award for adult fiction.

Sydney writer Mandy Sayer took out the young adult award for The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (HarperCollins) while award-winning journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans won the true crime award for Killing Jodie (Penguin Books Australia).

A readers' choice award, voted for by members of Sisters in Crime, went to Victorian crime writer Lindy Cameron who edited Scarlet Stiletto - The First Cut (Mira), a collection of winning short stories from 13 years of Sisters in Crime's Scarlet Stiletto Awards competition.
For the full story and an excerpt from FRantic go to the Courier Mail online.

1 comment:

June Saville said...

You brought me some good news Graham. Katherine is a friend of mine - we shared Creative Writing at uni.