Renee Lehnen discusses her novel, ELMINGTON, the winner of the Best Unpublished Manuscript for Crime Writers Canada's 2022 Awards of Excellence.
About the Author
Renee Lehnen works as a registered nurse in a long-term care home in Stratford, Ontario. Writing is her favourite stress reliever, but she also enjoys outdoor sports, painting, and torturing an old piano.
A latecomer to the world of writing, she took up the craft as an empty nester and what she lacks in experience, she makes up in enthusiasm.
Her short stories have been published in several anthologies and webzines. More information about her novels can be found at lehnen.ca.
Welcome to the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence.
The annual awards recognize the best in mystery, crime, and suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors.
Crime Writers of Canada offers sincere thanks to our award sponsors:
Rakuten KOBO
ECW Press
Shaftesbury
Writers First
Simpson & Wellenreiter LLP, Hamilton
Mystery Magazine
Jane Doe
And the Engel Family
Crime Writers of Canada would also like to thank Frank Kearney for announcing the shortlist and our winner’s presentation, as well as, Stone Court Studios for producing the video presenations.
Lastly, CWC would like to thank everyone in the Canadian publishing community for making the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence a success through the years.
For more information about Crime Writers of Canada and the Annual Awards, please go to CrimeWritersCanada.com.
A conversation with New York Times best-selling author Shari Lapena, whose novel, NOT A HAPPY FAMILY, has been short-listed for Crime Writers of Canada’s Awards of Excellence for the Best Crime Novel.
About the Author
SHARI LAPENA is the internationally bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest, Someone We Know, The End of Her and Not a Happy Family. She was a lawyer and an English teacher before turning her hand to fiction.
She lives in Toronto.
An interview with Vicki Delany. We discuss her book, MURDER IN A TEACUP, which has been nominated for an Awards of Excellence in The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery category.
About the Author
Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the U.S. She has written more than forty books: clever cozies to Gothic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, to historical fiction and novellas for adult literacy. She is currently writing four cozy mystery series: the Tea by the Sea mysteries for Kensington, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series for Crooked Lane Books, the Catskill Resort mysteries for Penguin Random House, and the Lighthouse Library series (as Eva Gates) for Crooked Lane.
Vicki is a past president of the Crime Writers of Canada and co-founder and organizer of the Women Killing It Crime Writing Festival. Her work has been nominated for the Derringer, the Bony Blithe, the Ontario Library Association Golden Oak, and the Arthur Ellis Awards. Vicki is the recipient of the 2019 Derrick Murdoch Award for contributions to Canadian crime writing. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
An interview with Cathy Ace who has been shortlisted for the 2022 Awards of Excellence. Her book, THE CORPSE WITH THE IRON WILL has been nominated for The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada.
About the Author
Cathy Ace migrated from her native Wales to Canada at the age of 40. She is the award-winning author of the traditional Cait Morgan Mysteries featuring her Welsh Canadian criminology professor sleuth who travels the world tripping over corpses, which have now been optioned for TV. She also writes the cozier WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries featuring a quartet of female PIs who run their business out of a Welsh stately home. Both series have been well-reviewed. Her award-winning standalone, THE WRONG BOY, is a gripping novel of psychological suspense, set in Wales, and has also been optioned for TV.
Linwood Barclay discusses his novel, Find You First, which has been nominated for the Crime Writers Canada Awards of Excellence for Best Crime Novel.
About the Author
Linwood Barclay is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty previous novels, and two thrillers for children. His books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for his novel Never Saw it Coming and his book The Accident has been made into a TV series in France. His novel No Time for Goodbye was a global bestseller. A native of Connecticut, he now lives in Toronto with his wife, Neetha.
A conversation with Catherine Macdonald whose book SO MANY WINDINGS, has been nominated for The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery by Crime Writers Canada.
Hilary Davidson discusses her story WEED MAN, which has been nominated for Best Crime Short Story by Crime Writers Canada for the Awards of Excellence 2022. We also discus her other short stories, novellas and novels.
About the Author
Hilary Davidson was a journalist before she turned to the dark side and started writing crime fiction. Her novels include the award-winning Lily Moore series—The Damage Done, The Next One to Fall, and Evil in All Its Disguises—the bestselling Shadows of New York series—One Small Sacrifice and Don’t Look Down—and the standalone novels Blood Always Tells and Her Last Breath. She is also the author of some fifty short stories. Her fiction has won two Anthony Awards, a Derringer Award, and a host of other accolades. Toronto born and raised, she moved to New York City in October 2001. She is also the author of eighteen nonfiction books.
Charlotte Morganti discusses her story ALL MY DARLINGS published in the Die Laughing: An Anthology of Humorous Mysteries, which has been nominated for the Best Crime Short Story sponsored by Mystery Magazine.
About the Author
Charlotte is a retired lawyer and active member of the Canada West chapter of Sisters in Crime, a collegial group of writers of mostly crime fiction, and Crime Writers of Canada.
For the most part, she writes fiction (mysteries, both dark and light). Occasionally, She’ll write a personal essay or review.
Charlotte lives on the west coast of British Columbia, but was born and raised in Alberta.