Crime Writers of Canada presents the
2019 Arthur Ellis Awards Winners for
Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing
Announced at the Arts & Letters Club, Toronot on
Thursday 23 May, 2019
BEST CRIME NOVEL
Anne Emery, Though the Heavens Fall, ECW Press
BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL
Sponsored by Rakuten Kobo
A.J. Devlin, Cobra Clutch, NeWest Press
BEST CRIME NOVELLA
The Lou Allin Memorial Award
John Lawrence Reynolds, Murder Among the Pines, Orca Book Publishers
BEST CRIME SHORT STORY
Sponsored by Mystery Weekly Magazine
Linda L. Richards, Terminal City, Vancouver Noir, Akashic Books
BEST CRIME BOOK IN FRENCH
Hervé Gagnon, Adolphus - Une enquête de Joseph Laflamme, Libre Expression
BEST JUVENILE/YOUNG ADULT CRIME BOOK
Linwood Barclay, Escape, Puffin Canada
BEST NONFICTION CRIME BOOK
Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
BEST UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT (aka The Unhanged Arthur)
Sponsored by Dundurn Press
Liv McFarlane, The Scarlet Cross
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