2019 Arthur Ellis Award Winners for Canadian Crime Fiction

It is the best night of the year with the announcement by the Crime Writers of Canada of the winners of the 2019 Arthur Ellis Awards.

CONGRATULATIONS

to the Winners of the

2019 ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS

BEST CRIME NOVEL

Anne Emery
Though the Heavens Fall  
                                                                                  ECW Press

BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL
Sponsored by Rakuten Kobo

A.J. Devlin
Cobra Clutch
NeWest Press

BEST CRIME NOVELLA
The Lou Allin Memorial Award

John Lawrence Reynolds
Murder Among the Pines
Orca Book Publishers

BEST CRIME SHORT STORY
Sponsored by Mystery Weekly Magazine

Linda L. Richards
Terminal City
Vancouver Noir, 
Akashic Books

BEST CRIME BOOK IN FRENCH

Hervé Gagnon
Adolphus - Une enquête de Joseph Laflamme
Libre Expression

BEST JUVENILE/YOUNG ADULT CRIME BOOK

Linwood Barclay
Escape
Puffin Canada

BEST NONFICTION CRIME BOOK

Sarah Weinman
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
Alfred A. Knopf Canada

BEST UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT (aka The Unhanged Arthur)
Sponsored by Dundurn Press

Liv McFarlane
The Scarlet Cross

Of the winners I have read and enjoyed and reviewed Cobra Clutch. Devlin is a talented new crime fiction writer and Jed "Hammerhead" Ounslow a memorable sleuth.

I have not read Anne Emery and intend to read Though the Heavens Fall.

There is a lot of good Canadian crime fiction being written.