Crime Writers of Canada announces the 2022 Awards of Excellence

 

Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) have announced the winners for the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing. Started in 1984, the annual Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, then known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, recognizes the best in mystery, crime, and suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors.

The presentation of the winners can be viewed on CWC’s YouTube channel: 

Best Crime Novel sponsored by Rakuten Kobo, with a $1000 prize

Under an Outlaw Moon by Dietrich Kalteis ECW Press

Best Crime First Novel sponsored by Writers First, with a $500 prize

The Push by Ashley Audrain Viking Canada

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

What’s the Matter with Mary Jane? By Candas Jane Dorsey ECW Press

The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada sponsored by The Engel Family, with a $500 prize

Beneath Her Skin by C. S. Porter, Vagrant Press / Nimbus Publishing Inc.

Best Crime Novella sponsored by Mystery Magazine, with a $200 prize

Letters From Johnny by Wayne Ng Guernica Editions

Best Crime Short Story sponsored by Mystery Magazine, with a $300 prize

Number 10 Marlborough Place by Elizabeth Elwood Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Best French Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction) 

Flots by Patrick Senécal, Editions Alire

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

The Traitor's Blade by Kevin Sands Aladdin (Simon & Schuster)

The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by Simpson & Wellenreiter LLP, Hamilton, with a $300 prize

The Beatle Bandit by Nate Hendley Dundurn Press

The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript sponsored by ECW Press, with a $500 prize

Elmington by Renee Lehnen

About Crime Writers of Canada

Crime Writers of Canadawas founded in 1982 as a professional organization designed to raise the profile of Canadian crime writers. Members include authors, publishers, editors, booksellers, librarians, reviewers, and literary agents as well as many developing authors. Past winners of the Awards have included major names in Canadian crime writing such as Mario Bolduc, Gail Bowen, Stevie Cameron, Howard Engel, Barbara Fradkin, Louise Penny, Peter Robinson and Eric Wright.

2014 Arthur Ellis Awards Shortlists and CWC Grand Master Award

Crime Writers of Canada announced the 2014 Arthur Ellis Awards Shortlists, and the winner of the CWC Grand Master Award for Crime Writing in Canada.

This is the inaugural year of the CWC Grand Master Award, intended to recognize Canadian crime writers who have a substantial body of work that has garnered national and international recognition.

This year’s winner of the CWC Grand Master Award is Howard Engel, the author of the award winning Benny Cooperman detective series. A mainstay of the Canadian crime writing scene for many years, Mr. Engel helped put Canadian crime writing on the map at a time when few mysteries were set in this country.

Excellence in Crime Writing Best Novel
Walls of a Mind by Jon Brooke (Signature Editions)

The Devil’s Making by Seán Haldane (Stone Flower Press)

Presto Variations by Lee Lamothe (Dundurn)
Miss Montreal by Howard Shrier (Vintage Canada)

An Inquiry into Love and Death by Simone St. James (Penguin Books)

Best First Novel
Almost Criminal by E.R. Brown (Dundurn)

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison (Penguin Books Canada)
Hot Sinatra by Axel Howerton (Evolved Publishing)
Messum, Bait by J Kent (Penguin Canada)
Die on Your Feet by S.G Wong (Carina Press)

Best Novella,

The Goddaughter’s Revenge by Melodie Campbell (Orca Books)

My Sister’s Keeper by Brenda Chapman (Grassroots Press)

A Woman Scorned by James Heneghan (Orca Books 1)

Best Short Story 
Watermelon Weekend by Donna Carrick in Thirteen, (Carrick Publishing),

Under Cap Ste. Claire by Jas. R. Petrin in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, October 2013, (Dell Magazines)
Footprints in Water by Twist Phelan in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 2013, (Dell Magazines)

The Emerald Skull by Sylvia Maultash Warsh in Thirteen (Carrick Publishing)

The Third Echo by Sam Wiebe in Girl Trouble: Malfeasance Occasional, (MacMillan/St Martin’s Press)

Best Book in French 

Saccages by Chrystine Brouillet (La courte échelle),

Et à l'heure de votre mort by Jacques Côté (éditions Alire)

L’enfant promis by Maureen Martineau (La courte échelle)

Le fils emprunté by Jacques Savoie (Éditions Libre Expression)

Best Juvenile/YA 

Apparition by Gail Gallant, (Doubleday Canada)
Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve History’s Mysteries by Elizabeth MacLeod (Annick Press)

Who I’m Not by Ted Staunton (Orca Books)

Unhanged Arthur 

Death at the Iron House Lodge by L.J. Gordon

Cold Girl by Rachel Greenaway

The Snow Job by Charlotte Morganti

Descent by Kristina Stanley

Coiled by Kevin Thornton

Crime Writers of Canada was founded in 1982 as a professional organisation designed to raise the profile of Canadian crime writers from coast to coast. Members include authors, publishers, editors, booksellers, librarians, reviewers, and literary agents as well as many developing authors.