Thursday 20 April 2023

The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 2023 Shortlists

 

Best Crime Novel (Sponsored by Rakuten Kobo, with a $1000 prize)

Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay (William Morrow)

Going to Beautiful by Anthony Bidulka (Stonehouse Publishing)

An Unthinkable Thing by Nicole Lundrigan (Viking Canada)

Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie Simon & Schuster Canada)

Daughters of the Occupation by Shelly Sanders (HarperCollins Canada)


Best Crime First Novel (Sponsored by Melodie Campbell, with a $1000 prize)

The Pale Horse by T. Lawrence Davis (Friesen Press)

Killer Time by Bill Edwards (Friesen Press)

The Damned Lovely by Adam Frost (Down and Out Books)

Citizens of Light by Sam Shelstad (TouchWood Editions)

The Man from Mittelwerk by M.Z. Urlocker (Inkshares, Inc)

 

The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada (Sponsored by Charlotte Engel and CWC, with a $500 prize)

Five Moves of Doom by A. J. Devlin (NeWest Press)

Blood Atonement by S. M. Freedman (Dundurn Press)

A Snake in the Raspberry Patch by Joanne Jackson (Stonehouse Publishing)

Cold Snap by Maureen Jennings (Cormorant Books)

The Foulest Things by Amy Tector (Keylight Books)

 

The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery (Sponsored by Jane Doe, with a $500 prize)

Knight in the Museum by Alice Bienia (Cairn Press)

Fenian Street by Anne Emery (ECW Press)

Deep House by Thomas King (HarperCollins Canada)

Death Plans a Perfect Trip by Mary Jane Maffini (Beyond the Page)

Framed in Fire by Iona Whishaw (Touchwood Editions)

 

Best Crime Novella (Sponsored by Mystery Magazine, with a $200 prize) 

Amdur's Ghost by M.H. Callway (In the Spirit of 13,Carrick Publishing)

Dangerous to Know by Hilary Davidson - In A Grifter's Song Vol. 8, (Down & Out Books)

Dead End Track by Julie Hiner (Julie Hiner)

The Emir's Falcon by Matt Hughes (Shadowpaw Press Premiere)

The Man Who Went Down Under by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines)

 

Best Crime Short Story (Sponsored by Mystery Magazine, with a $300 prize) 

The Girl Who Was Only Three Quarters Dead by Craig H. Bowlsby (Mystery Magazine)

Must Love Dogs - or You're Gone by M.H. Callway (Red Dog Press)

To Catch a Kumiho by Blair Keetch (In the Spirit of 13, Carrick Publishing)

The Natural Order of Things by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

Swan Song by Donalee Moulton – In Cold Canadian Crime, (Crime Writers of Canada)

 

Best French Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Le Mouroir des Anges by Geneviève Blouin (Éditions Alire)

Chaîne de Glace by Isabelle Lafortune (Éditions XYZ)

Le Dernier Manège by Guillaume Morrissette (Saint-Jean éditeur)

Modus operandi by Suzan Payne (Éditions Perce-Neige)

Monsieur Hämmerli by Richard Ste-Marie (Éditions Alire)

 

Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction) (Sponsored by Shaftesbury, with a $500 prize)

Lark Steals the Show by Natasha Deen (Orca Book Publisher)

Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra Books)

Wrong Side of the Court by H.N. Khan (Penguin Teen)

Butt Sandwich & Tree by Wesley King (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Heartbreak Homes by Jo Treggiari (Nimbus Publishing Limited)

 

The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book (Sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm, Hamilton, with a $300 prize)

How to Solve a Cold Case: And Everything Else You Wanted to Know About Catching Killers by Michael Arntfield (HarperCollins Canada)

The Castleton Massacre by Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson (Dundurn Press Ltd)

Lost in the Valley of Death by Harley Rustad (Knopf Canada - Penguin Random House Canada)

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan (HarperCollins Canada)

Scoundrel by Sarah Weinman (Knopf Canada - Penguin Random House Canada)

 

The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript (Sponsored by ECW Press, with a $500 prize)

No Safe House by Jan Garnett

Snowed by Mary Keenan

Two Knots by Joanne Kormylo

The Broken Detective by Joel Nedecky

The Peaks by Michael Pennock, 

The Winners will be announced Thursday, 25 May 2023.

More information about the shortlist and the Crime Writers of Canada can be found here.

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