The 2011 Arthur Ellis Award Nominees Announced

(Toronto, ON) April 29, 2011 – Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) have announced the nominees for the 28th annual Arthur Ellis Awards, Canada’s premier awards for excellence in crime writing. The 2011 awards are for books and short stories published in 2010. Crime Writers celebrate all facets of the genre, including crime, detective, espionage, mystery, suspense, and thriller, and include fictional or factual accounts of criminal doings and literary works with a criminal theme.

BEST NOVEL
C. B. Forrest, Slow Recoil (RendezVous Crime)
Mike Knowles, In Plain Sight (ECW Press)
Jeffrey Moore, The Extinction Club (Penguin Group)
Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Little, Brown UK) -
Michael Van Rooy, A Criminal to Remember (Turnstone Press)

BEST SHORT STORY
Mary Jane Maffini, “So Much in Common” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Jas R. Petrin, “In it Up to My Neck” in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Jordan McPeek, “The Big Touch” in Thuglit
James Powell, “The Piper's Door” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
William Deverall, “The Bust” in Whodunit: Sun Media’s Canadian Crime Fiction Showcase

BEST NON-FICTION
Stevie Cameron, On the Farm (Knopf Canada)
Robert Wright, Our Man in Tehran (HarperCollins)
Roy MacGregor, Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him (Random House)

BEST JUVENILE/YOUNG ADULT
Allan Stratton, Borderline (HarperCollins)
Alice Kuipers, The Worst Thing She Ever Did (HarperCollins)
Sharee Fitch, Pluto’s Ghost (Doubleday Canada)
Norah McClintock, Victim Rights (Red Deer Press)
Yvonne Prinz, The Vinyl Princess (HarperCollins)

BEST CRIME WRITING IN FRENCH
Jacques Savoie, Cinq secondes (Libre Expression)
Jacques Côté, Dans le quartier des agités (Alire)
Johanne Seymour, Vanités (Libre Expression)
Michel Châteauneuf, La société des pères meurtriers (Vents D'ouest)
Bernard Gilbert, Quand la mort s'invite à la première (Québec Amérique)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Hilary Davidson, The Damage Done (Tom Doherty Associates)
Avner Mandleman, The Debba (Other Press)
Michael McKinley, The Penalty Killing (McClelland & Stewart)
Nicholas Ruddock, The Parabolist (Doubleday)
Chevy Stevens, Still Missing (St. Martin's Press)

UNHANGED ARTHUR (Best Unpublished First Crime Novel)
John Jeneroux, Better Off Dead
Kevin Thornton, Uncoiled
Jayne Barnard, When the Bow Breaks

All the award winners will be announced at the Arthur Ellis Awards Banquet in Victoria, B.C., on June 2, 2011, in the Pender Island Ballroom at the Grand Pacific Hotel.

For additional information please contact:
Melodie Campbell
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For additional information on Crime Writers of Canada and the Arthur Ellis Awards:
www.crimewriterscanada.com