Crime Writers of Canada and the Arthur Ellis Awards


I'm a member of the wonderful Crime Writers' group, Crime Writers of Canada. Each year, CWC gives the Arthur Ellis Award to outstanding crime-related books published in 1997. Below are this year's contenders, listed alphabetically by author.

The winners will be announced at the Arthur Ellis Dinner in Toronto, on Wednesday, May 21, 1998.

BEST NOVEL
Free Reign by Rosemary Aubert (Bridge Works Pub. Co.)
Death at Sandringham House by C.C. Benison (Bantam Books)
Trial of Passion by William Deverell (McClelland & Stewart)
Ghirlandaio's Daughter by John Spencer Hill (McClelland & Stewart)
Dead Right by Peter Robinson (Viking)
Illegal Alien by Robert J. Sawyer (Tom Doherty Associates)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Shanghai Alley by Jim Christy (Ekstasis Editions)
The Xibalba Murder by Lyn Hamilton (Berkeley Prime Crime)
Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings (St. Martin's Press)
Blood Libel by Allen Levine (Great Plains Fiction)
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)
Undercut by John W. Simpson (Mercury Press)

BEST NON FICTION
When She Was Bad: Violent Women and The Myth of Innocence by Patricia Pearson (Random House)
Cheats, Charlatans & Chicanery: More Outrageous Tales of Skullduggery by Andreas Schroeder (McClelland & Stewart)
Churchill and The Secret Service by David Stafford (Stoddart Publishing Co.)

BEST SHORT STORY
Rigged to Blow by John Ballem (Simon and Pierre)
Widow's Weeds by Sue Pike (General Store Publishing House)
Two Ladies of Rose Cottage by Peter Robinson (Pocket Books)
The Hand You're Dealt by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor Books)
The Rug by Edo van Belkom (Pocket Books)

BEST JUVENILE
What's a Daring Detective Like Me Doing in the Doghouse by Linda Bailey (Kids Can Press)
Maxim Gunn/The Demon Plan by Nicholas Boving (Taurus Publishing)
The Body in the Basement by Norah McClintock (Scholastic Press)
Terror in Florida by Roy McGregor (McClelland & Stewart Paperback)
Vanishing Act by Cora Taylor (Red Deer College Press)

At the CWC home page, you can see the list of winners from previous years.

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