2009 Arthur Ellis Award nominees
by Oline H. Cogdill
April 24th, 2009The Crime Writers of Canada announces the nominees for the Arthur Ellis Award.
The winners in all categories will be announced at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on June 4.
Best novel:
Linwood Barclay, Too Close to Home (Bantam)
Maureen Jennings, The K Handshape (Dundurn)
James W. Nichol, Transgression (MacArthur & Company)
Louise Penny, The Murder Stone (MacArthur & Company)
Michael E. Rose, The Tsunami File (MacArthur & Company)
Best first novel:
Nadine Doolittle, Iced Under (Bayeux Arts/Gondolier)
John C. Goodman, Talking to Wendigo (Turnstone)
April Lindgren, Headline: Murder (Second Story Press)
Howard Shrier, Buffalo Jump (Vintage Canada)
Phyllis Smallman, Margarita Nights (McArthur & Company)
Best juvenile novel:
Vicki Grant, Res Judicata (Orca)
Susan Juby, Getting the Girl (HarperCollins)
Elizabeth MacLeod, Royal Murder (Annick Press)
Norah McClintock, Dead Silence (Scholastic Canada)
Sharon E. McKay, War Brothers (Penguin Canada)
Best crime writing in French:
Jacques Côté, Le Chemin des brumes (Alire)
Maxime Houde, Le Poids des illusions (Alire)
Andre Jacques, La Tendresse du serpent (Québec Amerique)
Sylvain Meunier, L’Homme qui détestait le golf (La courte échelle)
Antoine Yaccarini, Meurtre au Soleil (VLB éditeur)
Best short story:
Pasha Malla, “Filmsong” in Toronto Noir (Akashic Books)
James Powell, “Clay Pillows” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (June 2008)
Peter Robinson, “Walking the Dog” in Toronto Noir (Akashic Books)
Amelia Symington, “An Ill Wind” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Sept./Oct. 2008)
Kris Wood, “Thinking Inside the Box” in Going Out with a Bang (RendezVous Crime)
Best non-fiction:
Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect (Vintage Canada/RHC)
Sharon Butala, The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Friendship, Memory and Murder (Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins)
Alex Caine, Befriend and Betray: Infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods (Vintage Canada/RHC)
Michael Calce & Craig Silverman, Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken (Penguin Canada)
Kerry Pither, Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror (Penguin Canada)
Best unpublished novel:
Pam Barnsley, This Cage of Bones
Gloria Ferris, Cheat the Hangman
Stephen Maher, Salvage
Douglas A. Moles, Louder
Kevin Thornton, Condemned
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