Nominees for the 2013 Arthur Ellis Awards Announced

The nominees (short list) for the 2013 Arthur Ellis Awards have been announced by the Crime Writers of Canada honoring the best crime fiction written by Canadian authors.

The winners will be announced at the Arthur Ellis Awards gala dinner on Thursday, May 30th, 2013 at the Arts & Letters Club in downtown Toronto.

The nominees are …

Best Novel:
• Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay (Doubleday)
• Until the Night by Giles Blunt (Random House)
• The Trinity Game by Sean Chercover (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Messenger by Stephen Miller (Delacorte Press)
• Niceville by Carsten Stroud (Knopf)

Best First Novel:
• The Beggar's Opera by Peggy Blair (Penguin)
• Confined Space by Deryn Collier (Simon & Schuster)
• The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James (NAL)
• The Dead of Winter by Peter Kirby (Linda Leith)
• A Private Man by Chris Laing (Seraphim)

Best Novel in French:
• La Nuit des albinos by Mario Bolduc (Libre Expression)
• De pierres et de sang by André Jacques (Druide)
• L'homme du jeudi by Jean Lemieux (La courte échelle)
• L'inaveu by Richard Ste Marie (Alire)
• Je me souviens by Martin Michaud (Goélette)

Best Non-Fiction:
• Bloody Justice: The Truth behind the Bandidos Massacre at Shedden by Anita Arvast (John Wiley)
• Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con by Guy Lawson (Crown Books)
• The Devil's Cinema: The Untold Story behind Mark Twitchell's Kill Room by Steve Lillebuen (McClelland and Stewart)
• Thieves of Bay Street: How Banks, Brokerages and the Wealthy Steal Billions from Canadians by Bruce Livesey (Random House)

Best Juvenile/Young Adult Novel:
• Live To Tell by Lisa Harrington (Cormorant Books)
• The Traitor in the Tunnel by Y. S. Lee (Candlewick Press)
• Crush Candy Corpse by Sylvia McNicoll (James Lorimer)
• Becoming Holmes by Shane Peacock (Tundra Books)
• The Lynching of Louie Sam by Elizabeth Stewart (Annick Press)

Best Short Story:
• "Life without George" by Melodie Campbell (Over My Dead Body Mystery Magazine, August 2012)
• "Sins of the Fathers" by Sandy Conrad (Daughters and Other Strangers, The Brucedale Press)
• "Cruel Coast" by Scott MacKay (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 2012)
• "Mad Dog" by Jas R. Petrin (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 2012)
• "Spring-blade Knife" by Yasuko Thanh (Floating Like the Dead, McClelland & Stewart)

Best Unpublished First Novel ("Unhanged Arthur"):
• Cold Black Tide by Willliam Hall
• The Raffle Baby by Ilonka Halsband
• Sins Revisited by Coleen Steele

New award this year — Best Novella:
• Contingency Plan by Lou Allin (Orca Rapid Reads)
• A Winter Kill by Vicki Delany (Orca Rapid Reads)
• Evil Behind that Door by Barbara Fradkin (Orca Rapid Reads)
• "Reunion" by Christopher Moore (Phnom Penh Noir, Heaven Lake Press)