Arthur Ellis Awards Arthur Ellis Award Winners 1984-2005
Mike Martin, Darkest Before the Dawn, Ottawa Press and Publishing
Darkest Before the Dawn is the latest adventure of Sgt. Winston Windflower, a Mountie who finds himself surrounded by a new family and a new life in tiny Grand Bank, Newfoundland.
Eve Lazarus, Murder by Milkshake, Arsenal Pulp Press
In 1965, radio personality Rene Castellani poisoned his wife Esther with arsenic flavoured milkshakes so he could marry Lolly.
T.E. Wilson, Wild Dogs of Mexico, Boularderie Island Press
A former aid worker stumbles into the world of exploited foreign workers when she rescues a Filipino nanny accused of murder.
E.C. Bell, Hearing Voices, Tyche Books
Marie wants the nightmares to stop. Doesn’t look like that's going to happen anytime soon.
Iona Whishaw, A Sorrowful Sanctuary, TouchWood Editions
When Lane Winslow finds a badly injured man in a rowboat, she gets a shocking reminder of the perils of the recent war.
Dave Butler, No Place for Wolverines, Dundurn Press
What if someone proposed a new ski area in a national park, but things weren't as they appeared?
Melissa Yi, Death Flight, Windtree Press
A doctor trapped on a plane with a killer battles to save lives—and wonders if she herself might be the murderer.
Bernadette Calonego, The Stranger on the Ice, AmazonCrossing
A frozen corpse on the Ice Road near the Inuit town of Inuvik in Canada`s Arctic and a haunting death on an Arctic expedition.
T.E. Wilson, Wild Dogs of Mexico, Boularderie Island Press
Detective Sánchez investigates the Catholic Church in the desert city of Durango, and offers himself as the final sacrifice.
Judy Penz Sheluk, Past & Present, Superior Shores Press
Sometimes the past reaches out to the present...
Sarah Fox, Yeast of Eden (A Pancake House Mystery), Kensington (Lyrical)
It’s up to pancake house owner Marley McKinney to discover the waffle truth behind a rival’s murder . . .
Nick Wilkshire, Remember Tokyo, Dundurn Press
In Tokyo, Charlie Hillier discovers that you can't always bank on the truth.
Lynn McPherson, The Girls Whispered Murder, Black Opal Books
It's 1954 in the cozy, New England town of Twin Oaks. Murder is on the menu. Can Izzy Walsh help find the culinary killer?
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DERRICK MURDOCH AWARD 2017
The Derrick Murdoch Award is a special achievement award for contributions to the crime genre. It is awarded at the discretion of the Board Chair of Crime Writers of Canada. Known as the Chairman’s Award when first presented in 1984, it was later renamed in honour of its first recipient, Derrick Murdoch.
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 Canadian crime writers including the late novelist and playwright Timothy Findlay (External Affairs), novelists Gail Bowen (The Joanna Kilbourn TV movies) and Maureen Jennings (The Murdoch Mysteries), as well as historian Marjorie Freeman Campbell (Torso). She has also overseen the production of many other crime-themed works, created specifically for the screen and written by Canadians, including The Listener, Houdini and Doyle and The Summit.
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