Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) announced the Shortlists for the 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing.
Since 1984, Crime Writers of Canada has recognized the best in mystery, crime, suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors, including citizens abroad and new residents.
Winners will be announced on Wednesday 29 May 2024.
Maureen Jennings is this year’s recipient of the 2024 Grand Master Award. Established in 2014, the Grand Master (GM) Award recognizes a Canadian crime writer with a substantial body of work that has garnered national and international recognition.
THE 2024 AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE SHORTLISTS
The Peter Robinson Award for Best Crime Novel sponsored by Rakuten Kobo, with a $1000 prize
The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding, Grand Central Publishing
Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena, Doubleday Canada
Middlemen by Scott Thornley, House of Anansi Press
Sunset and Jericho by Sam Wiebe, Harbour Publishing
The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White, Montlake
Best Crime First Novel, sponsored by Melodie Campbell, with a $1000 prize
The Bittlemores by Jann Arden, Random House Canada
Adrift by Lisa Brideau, Sourcebooks
The End Game by Charlotte Morganti, Halfdan Press
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters, Harper Perennial
Perfect Shot by Steve Urszenyi, Minotaur
The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada, sponsored by Charlotte Engel and Crime Writers of Canada, with a $500 prize
The Almost Widow by Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Harper Avenue/HarperCollins
Elmington by Renee Lehnen, Storeyline Press
Cruel Light by Cyndi MacMillan Crooked Lane
Wild Hope by Joan Thomas, Harper Perennial/HarperCollins
Shapes of Wrath by Melissa Yi, Windtree Press
The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery sponsored by Jane Doe, with a $500 prize
The Legacy by Gail Bowen ECW Press
Steeped in Malice by Vicki Delany, Kensington Books
The Game is a Footnote, by Vicki Delany, Crooked Lane Books
The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose, Viking
To Track a Traitor by Iona Whishaw, TouchWood Editions
Best Crime Short Story
Wisteria Cottage, by M.H. Callway, Wildside Press (for Malice Domestic)
Reversion by Marcelle Dubé Mystery Magazine
The Canadians by Mary Keenan, (Killin' Time in San Diego), Down & Out Books
Troubled Water by Donalee Moulton, Black Cat Weekly (Wildside Press)
American Night by Zandra Renwick, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
The Best French Language Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction)
La Punition by Jean-Philippe Bernié, Glénat Québec
Le Mois Des Morts, by Chrystine Brouillet, Éditions Druide
Le Dernier Souffle Est Le Plus Lourd by Catherine Lafrance, Éditions Druide
La Sainte Paix, by André Marois, Héliotrope
Rien by Jean-Jacques Pelletier, Alire
Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book, sponsored by Shaftesbury Films with a $500 prize (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Someone is Always Watching by Kelley Armstrong, Tundra Books
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline,Tundra Books
The Big Sting by Rachelle Delaney, Tundra Books
Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai, Penguin Teen Canada
Champions of the Fox by Kevin Sands, Puffin Canada
The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm (Hamilton), with a $300 prize
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter by Josef Lewkowicz and Michael Calvin, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
The Human Scale by Michael Lista Véhicule Press
Jukebox Empire by David Rabinovitch, Rowman & Littlefield
Cheated by Bill Waiser and Jennie Hansen, ECW Press
Clara at the Door with a Revolver, by Carolyn Whitzman, UBC Press, On Point Press
Best Unpublished Crime Novel manuscript written by an unpublished author
The Patient by Tom Blackwell,
Requiem for a Lotus by Craig H. Bowlsby,
Murder on Richmond Road: An Enquiry Bureau Mystery by Sheilla Jones and James Burns,
The Forest Beyond William Wodhams, Thirty Feet Under by Nora Sellers
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