Shortlists for 2013 Arthur Ellis Awards Released

Tonight in a series of events across Canada the shortlists for the Arthur Ellis Awards sponsored by the Crime Writers of Canada were announced. It is a little discouraging as I have not read any of the books listed in any of the categories. The shortlists are:

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 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 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

 

Tickets for the Arthur Ellis Awards Gala on May 30 at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto are now available.