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Hickey wins 2022 Danger Prize

Margaret Hickey has won the 2022 Danger Prize for her debut novel Cutters End (Penguin).

Set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End, the winning novel follows Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti who is seconded to work on a recently reopened case involving a burnt and broken body discovered 300km south of the town and previously ruled an accidental death. Mark makes the journey to Cutters End to find out what really happened that New Year’s Eve of 1989.

Chosen from a shortlist of six, Hickey receives $1000 and the Danger Prize trophy.

Presented by the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, the Danger Prize honours books ‘featuring Australia as a setting for stories about crime and justice’.

Last year Chris Hammer’s novel Trust (A&U) and Gary Jubelin and Dan Box’s nonfiction book I Catch Killers (HarperCollins) jointly won the prize. 

 

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