2008 Shortlist

This is a selection of our 2008 Shortlist section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

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

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...

 

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

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...

 

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

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...

 

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

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 ...

 

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

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...

 

No Time for Goodbye - hardcover
By Linwood Barclay - $25.00 - add to cart

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...

 

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

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...

 

Snow Candy - trade paperback
By Terry Carroll - $17.95 - add to cart

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...

 

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

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...

 

War on Women - hardcover
By Brian Vallee - $32.95 - add to cart

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 - add to cart

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...

 




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