2023 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Shortlists

Today the Crime Writers of Canada announced the shortlists for this year's Awards of Excellence. Congratulations to those listed. In previous years I read the short list for Best Crime Novel or Best Crime Novel Set in Canada. I am not sure if I am going to read a shortlist this year.

I am very excited that Going to Beautiful by Anthony Bidulka, No. 1 on my Bill’s Best Fiction of 2022 list, is on the shortlist for Best Crime Novel. Unabashedly I am hoping it will be the winner. It is a remarkable book.

I am excited that A.J. Devlin’s book, Five Moves of Doom, is on the shortlist for Best Crime Novel set in Canada.

Winners will be announced in May.

It was also announced that Jack Batten, author and reviewer, was chosen to receive the Derrice Murdoch Award. I will have more on his selection in a subsequent post.

Best Crime Novel sponsored by Rakuten Kobo, with a $1000 prize Linwood Barclay, Take Your Breath Away, HarperCollins Canada Anthony Bidulka, Going to Beautiful, Stonehouse Publishing Nicole Lundrigan, An Unthinkable Thing, Viking Canada Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us, Simon & Schuster Canada Shelly Sanders, Daughters of the Occupation, HarperCollins Canada Best Crime First Novel sponsored by Melodie Campbell, with a $1000 prize T. Lawrence Davis, The Pale Horse, Friesen Press Bill Edwards, Killer Time, Friesen Press Adam Frost, The Damned Lovely, Down and Out Books Sam Shelstad, Citizens of Light, TouchWood Editions M.Z. Urlocker, The Man from Mittlewerk, Inkshares, Inc. The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada sponsored by Charlotte Engel and CWC, with a $500 prize A. J. Devlin, Five Moves of Doom, NeWest Press S. M. Freedman, Blood Atonement, Dundurn Press Joanne Jackson, A Snake in the Raspberry Patch, Stonehouse Publishing Maureen Jennings, Cold Snap, Cormorant Books Amy Tector, The Foulest Things, Keylight Books The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery sponsored by Jane Doe, with a $500 prize Alice Bienia, Knight in the Museum, Cairn Press Anne Emery, Fenian Street, ECW Press Thomas King, Deep House, HarperCollins Canada Mary Jane Maffini, Death Plans a Perfect Trip, Beyond the Page Iona Whishaw, Framed in Fire, Touchwood Editions Best Crime Novella sponsored by Mystery Magazine, with a $200 prize M.H. Callway, Amdur's Ghost, In the Spirit of 13, Carrick Publishing Hilary Davidson, Dangerous to Know, A Grifter's Song Vol. 8, Down & Out Books Julie Hiner, Dead End Track, Julie Hiner Matt Hughes, The Emir's Falcon, Shadowpaw Press Premiere Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, The Man Who Went Down Under, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines Best Crime Short Story sponsored by Mystery Magazine, with a $300 prize Craig H. Bowlsby, The Girl Who Was Only Three Quarters Dead, Mystery Magazine M.H. Callway, Must Love Dogs - or You're Gone, Red Dog Press Blair Keetch, To Catch a Kumiho, In the Spirit of 13, Carrick Publishing Sylvia Maultash Warsh, The Natural Order of Things, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine donalee Moulton, Swan Song, Cold Canadian Crime, Crime Writers of Canada Best French Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction) Geneviève Blouin, Le Mouroir des anges, Éditions Alire Isabelle Lafortune, Chaîne de glace, Éditions XYZ Guillaume Morrissette, Le dernier manège, Saint-Jean éditeur Suzan Payne, Modus operandi, Éditions Perce-Neige Richard Ste-Marie, Monsieur Hämmerli, Éditions Alire Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction) sponsored by Shaftesbury, with a $500 prize Natasha Deen, Lark Steals the Show, Orca Book Publisher Marthe Jocelyn, Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse, Tundra Books H.N. Khan, Wrong Side of the Court, Penguin Teen Wesley King, Butt Sandwich & Tree, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Jo Treggiari, Heartbreak Homes, Nimbus Publishing Limited The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm, Hamilton, with a $300 prize Michael Arntfield, How to Solve a Cold Case: And Everything Else You Wanted to Know About Catching Killers, HarperCollins Canada Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson, The Castleton Massacre, Dundurn Press Ltd. Harley Rustad, Lost in the Valley of Death, Knopf Canada - Penguin Random House Canada Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, HarperCollins Canada Sarah Weinman, Scoundrel, Knopf Canada - Penguin Random House Canada The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript sponsored by ECW Press, with a $500 prize Jan Garnett, No Safe House Mary Keenan, Snowed Joanne Kormylo, Two Knots Joel Nedecky, The Broken Detective Michael Pennock, The Peaks