Canadian Crime Writer's Announce Arthur Ellis Award Shortlist
by Chadwick Ginther - Monday May 12 2008 10:14 am
Posted in: Awards, Mystery & Crime


The Arthur Ellis Awards, named for Canada's former official hangman, are awarded to works within the crime genre published for the first time in the previous year. The respective authors must be either living in Canada, or Canadians writing from abroad.

The Arthur Ellis Awards have also recently begun awarding their "Unhanged Arthur" for best unpublished crime novel, designed to launch the careers of the next generation of Canadian crime writers.

Congratulations to Winnipeg's Anita Daher, who has two novels nominated in the juvenile category.

The Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel

  • Linwood Barclay, No Time for Goodbye
  • Terry Carroll, Snow Candy
  • Maureen Jennings, A Journeyman to Grief
  • Louise Penny, The Cruellest Month
  • Jon Redfern, Trumpets Sound No More
  • The Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Novel

  • Anita Daher, Racing for Diamonds
  • Anita Daher, Spider’s Song
  • Vicki Grant, I.D.
  • Shane Peacock, Eye of the Crow
  • Drew Hayden Taylor, The Night Wanderer
  • The Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction

  • Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce, Enter the Babylon System
  • Robert J. Hoshowsky, The Last to Die: Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas, and the End of Capital Punishment in Canada
  • Julian Sher, One Child at a Time: The Global Fight to Rescue Children from Online Predators
  • Brian Vallée, The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Violence in Canadian Homes
  • Paul Watson, Where War Lives
  • The Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel

  • Claire Cameron, The Line Painter
  • Sean Chercover, Big City, Bad Blood
  • Liam Durcan, García’s Heart
  • Susan Parisi, Blood of Dreams
  • Sharon Rowse, The Silk Train Murder
  • Marc Strange, Sucker Punch
  • For a complete list of nominees, including short stories, crime writing in French, and the Unhanged Arthur, click here.



    See:
    The Cruellest Month - trade paperback
    By Louise Penny - $24.95

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called to the peaceful village of Three Pines. A séance held on Easter Sunday has gone t...

     

    Trumpets Sound No More - trade paperback
    By Jon Redfern - $20.95

    Winner of the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.In 1840, the theatre world in London is shocked by the brutal killing of one of its youngest and most successful entrepreneurs, bludgeoned in hi...

     

    No Time for Goodbye - hardcover
    By Linwood Barclay - $25.00

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.The house was deathly quiet. That was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke that morning to...

     

    Snow Candy - trade paperback
    By Terry Carroll - $17.95

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.Promoted to sergeant and estranged from his wife, police detective Carl North has relocated from small-town Belleford to St. Thomas, Ontari...

     

    Journeyman to Grief - trade paperback
    By Maureen Jennings - $22.99

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later — in murder. In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is ...

     

    Racing for Diamonds - children's paperback
    By Anita Daher - $7.95

    Jaz lives in the small northern community of Destiny and is a new member of the Junior Canadian Rangers. Her divorced parents argue a lot, and Jaz hopes if she wins a dog-mushing derby, they will b...

     

    Spider's Song - young adult softcover
    By Anita Daher - $12.99

    I was smarter. I was always smarter. A little cut-cut, drip-drip, blood saved and sprinkled. Stuck in Yellowknife with her crazy grandmother, AJ is one angry girl. She’s lonely, too, and her blo...

     

    Id - young adult softcover
    By Vicki Grant - $9.95
     

    Eye Of The Crow - children's hardcover
    By Shane Peacock - $24.99

    Sherlock Holmes, just thirteen, is a misfit. His highborn mother is the daughter of an aristocratic family, his father a poor Jew. Their marriage flouts tradition and makes them social pariahs in t...

     

    Night Wanderer - young adult softcover
    By Drew Hayden Taylor - $10.95

    Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she's deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself. ...

     

    Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent - trade paperback
    By Rodrigo Bascunan - $22.00

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction.A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation. The 2003 shooting death...

     

    Last to Die - trade paperback
    By Robert J Hoshowsky - $24.99

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction. Although they committed separate crimes, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin met their deaths on the same scaffold at Toronto‘s Don Jail o...

     

    One Child at a Time - trade paperback
    By Julian Sher - $22.00

    Winner of the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction. From a renowned investigative reporter, the true story behind a horrifying Internet abuse epidemic – and the heroes who are out to stop i...

     

    War on Women - hardcover
    By Brian Vallee - $32.95

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction.Twenty years ago, in an international bestselling book entitled Life with Billy, investigative journalist and documentary producer Bri...

     

    Where War Lives - hardcover
    By Paul Watson - $34.99

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction.A Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist takes us on a personal and historic journey from Mogadishu through Rwanda to Afghanistan and Ira...

     

    Line Painter - mass market paperback
    By Claire Cameron - $9.99
     

    Big City, Bad Blood - mass market paperback
    By Sean Chercover - $8.99

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest jo...

     

    Garcia's Heart - trade paperback
    By Liam Durcan - $21.00

    Winner of the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.A searing debut novel told with the dexterity of Graham Greene, the moral complexity of Ian McEwan, and the tension of a thriller. Daz...

     

    The Silk Train Murder - hardcover
    By Sharon Rose - $27.50

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.At the turn of the last century, sleek steam liners carried a fortune in silk from the Orient to Vancouver. The costly material, insur...

     

    Sucker Punch - trade paperback
    By Marc Strange - $11.99

    Nominated for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Joe Grundy is an ex-heavyweight boxer whose main claim to fame was that he got knocked out by champ Evander Holyfield. Now he‘s chie...

     




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