Arthur Ellis Awards

The Crime Writers of Canada announced the winners of the Arthur Ellis Awards tonight in Toronto. Congrats to all!

Best First Novel:
• The Haunting of Maddy Clare, by Simone St. James (NAL)

Best Novel:
• Until the Night, by Giles Blunt (Random House Canada)

Best Novella:
• Contingency Plan, by Lou Allin (Orca Rapid Reads)

Best Short Story:
• “Spring-blade Knife,” by Yasuko Thanh (from Floating Like the Dead, McClelland & Stewart)

Best Non-fiction:
• The Devil’s Cinema: The Untold Story behind Mark Twitchell’s Kill Room, by Steve Lillebuen

Best Juvenile/Young Adult:
• Becoming Holmes, by Shane Peacock (Tundra)

Best Crime Book in French:
• La Nuit des albinos: Sur les traces de Max O’Brien, by Mario Bolduc (Libre Expression)

Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (“The Unhanged Arthur”):
• Sins Revisited, by Coleen Steele

Hat Tip: Deryn Collier who tweeted the winners!