2013 ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS SHORTLISTS

Arthur Ellis 2013 Shortlists

Congratulations to the finalists!

Best First Novel

• Peggy Blair, The Beggar’s Opera, (Penguin Canada)
• Deryn Collier, Confined Space, (Simon & Schuster)
• Peter Kirby, The Dead of Winter, (Linda Leith Publishing)
• Chris Laing, A Private Man, (Seraphim)
• Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, (NAL)

Best Novel

• Linwood Barclay, Trust Your Eyes, (Doubleday Canada)
• Giles Blunt, Until the Night, (Random House Canada)
• Sean Chercover, The Trinity Game, (Thomas & Mercer)
• Stephen Miller, The Messenger, (Delacorte Press)
• Carsten Stroud, Niceville, (Knopf)

Best Novella

• Lou Allin, Contingency Plan, (Orca Rapid Reads)
• Vicki Delany, A Winter Kill, (Orca Rapid Reads)
• Barbara Fradkin, Evil behind that Door, (Orca Rapid Reads)
• Christopher Moore, "Reunion", Phnom Penh Noir, (Heaven Lake Press)

Best Short Story

• Melodie Campbell, “Life without George” in Over My Dead Body Mystery Magazine, (August 2012)
• Sandy Conrad, “Sins of the Fathers” in Daughters and Other Strangers, (The Brucedale Press)
• Scott MacKay, “Cruel Coast” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, (July 2012)
• Jas R. Petrin, “Mad Dog” in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, (October 2012)
• Yasuko Thanh, “Spring-blade Knife” in Floating Like the Dead, (McClelland & Stewart)

Best Nonfiction

• Anita Arvast, Bloody Justice: The Truth behind the Bandidos Massacre at Shedden, (John Wiley & Sons)
• Guy Lawson, Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con, (Crown Books/Random House)
• Steve Lillebuen, The Devil’s Cinema: The Untold Story behind Mark Twitchell’s Kill Room, (McClelland & Stewart)
• Bruce Livesey, Thieves of Bay Street: How Banks, Brokerages and the Wealthy Steal Billions from Canadians, (Random House Canada)

Best Juvenile/YA

• Lisa Harrington, Live to Tell, (Cormorant Books)
• Y.S. Lee, The Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel, (Candlewick Press)
• Sylvia McNicoll, Crush Candy Corpse, (James Lorimer & Company)
• Shane Peacock, Becoming Holmes, (Tundra Books)
• Elizabeth Stewart, The Lynching of Louie Sam, (Annick Press)

Best Crime Book in French

• Mario Bolduc, La Nuit des albinos: Sur les traces de Max O’Brien, (Libre Expression)
• André Jacques, De pierres et de sang, (Druide)
• Jean Lemieux, L’homme du jeudi, (La courte échelle)
• Martin Michaud, Je me souviens, (Goélette)
• Richard Ste Marie, L’inaveu, (Alire)

Best Unpublished First Crime Novel: the Unhanged Arthur

• William Hall, Cold Black Tide
• Ilonka Halsband, The Raffle Baby
• Coleen Steele, Sins Revisited

Winners will be announced on May 30th, in Toronto.

JF
April 2013

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