The winners will be announced during a ceremony on May 27 in Toronto. Congratulations to the nominees!

Best Crime Novel:
• Finger’s Twist, by Lee Lamothe (Ravenstone)
• Death Spiral, by James W. Nichol (McArthur & Co.)
• Aloha, Candy Hearts, by Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac Press)
• Arctic Blue Death, by R.J. Harlick (RendezVous Crime)
• High Chicago, by Howard Shrier (Vintage Canada/Random House)

Best First Crime Novel:
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
(Doubleday Canada)
• The Cold Light of Mourning, by Elizabeth Duncan (Minotaur Books)
• Weight of Stones, by C.B. Forrest (RendezVous Crime)
• A Magpie’s Smile, by Eugene Meese (NeWest Press)
• Darkness at the Break of Dawn, by Dennis Richard Murphy
(Harper Collins)

Best French Language Crime Novel:
• Je compte les morts, by Genevieve Lefebvre (Groupe Librex)
• Le mort du chemin des Arsène, by Jean Lemieux (la courtee echelle)
• La Faim de la Terre, Volumes 1 & 2, by Jean Jacques Pelletier
(Editions Alire Inc.)
• Peaux de chagrins, by Diane Vincent (Les Editions Triptyques)

Best Juvenile Crime Novel:
• Haunted, by Barbara Hayworth Attard (HarperCollins)
• Not Suitable for Family Viewing, by Vicki Grant (HarperCollins)
• Homicide Related, by Norah McClintock (Red Deer Press)
• The Hunchback Assignments, by Arthur Slade (HarperCollins)
• The Uninvited, by Tim Wynne Jones (Candlewick)

Best Crime Non-fiction:
• The Slasher Killings, by Patrick Brode (Painted Turtle Press)
• The Fat Mexican, by Alex Caine (Random House of Canada)
• Murder Without Borders, by Terry Gould (Random House of Canada)
• Runaway Devil, by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose (McClelland)
• Postmortem, by Jon Wells (John Wiley & Sons)

Best Crime Short Story:
• “Backup,” by Rick Mofina (Ottawa Magazine, July/August 2009)
• “Prisoner in Paradise,” by Dennis Richard Murphy (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM])
• “Nothing Is Easy,” by James Petrin (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
• “Time Will Tell,” by Twist Phelan (in The Prosecution Rests, edited by Linda Fairstein; Little Brown/Back Bay Books)
• “Clowntown Pajamas,” by James Powell (EQMM)

Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (The Unhanged Arthur):
• This Cage of Bones, by Pam Barnsley
• Confined Space, by Deryn Collier
• Corpse Flower, by Gloria Ferris
• Bait of Pleasure, by Blair Hemstock
• Putting Them Down, by Peter Kirby

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