Crime Writers
of Canada announced the winners for the 2017 Arthur Ellis
Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing on 25th May
2017
Best Novel:
Best Novel:
The Fortunate Brother
by Donna Morrissey (Viking Canada)
Best First Novel sponsored by Kobo:
Best First Novel sponsored by Kobo:
Strange Things Done by
Elle Wild (Dundurn Press)
Best Novella: The Lou Allin Memorial Award:
Best Novella: The Lou Allin Memorial Award:
Rundown by Rick
Blechta (Orca Book Publishers)
Best Short Story:
Best Short Story:
A Death at the
Parsonage by Susan Daly in The Whole
She-Bang 3, (Toronto Sisters in Crime)
Best Book in French:
Best Book in French:
Red Light: Adieu
by Marie-Eve Bourassa (Mignonne, Groupe Ville-Marie Littérature, vlb editions)
Best Juvenile/YA Book:
Best Juvenile/YA Book:
Masterminds: Criminal
Destiny by Gordon Korman (HarperCollins Publishers)
Best Nonfiction Book:
Best Nonfiction Book:
A Daughter's Deadly Deception:
The Jennifer Pan Story by Jeremy Grimaldi (Dundurn Press)
Unhanged Arthur for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel sponsored by Dundurn Press:
Unhanged Arthur for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel sponsored by Dundurn Press:
The Golkonda Project
by
S.J. Jennings,
CWC also announced the 2017 Derrick Murdoch Award recipient being Christina
Jennings.
The Derrick Murdoch Award is a special achievement award for contributions
to the crime genre. This year's recipient is Christina Jennings, founder,
Chairman and CEO of Shaftesbury Films. She has won a number of awards,
including Genies, Geminis and Canadian Screen Awards, among several other
nominations and accolades throughout her career. Christina founded Shaftesbury
Films in 1987 as a feature film company. She has produced movies and television
series based upon the work of several Arthur Ellis Award-winning Canadian crime
writers including the late novelist and playwright Timothy Findlay (External Affairs), novelists Gail Bowen
(the Joanna Kilbourn TV movies) and Maureen Jennings (Murdoch Mysteries), as well as historian Marjorie Freeman Campbell
(Torso).
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