The Crime Writers of Canada have handed out their 2013 Arthur Ellis awards:
Best First Novel
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James, NAL
Best Novel
Until the Night by Giles Blunt, Random House Canada
Best Novella
Contingency Plan by Lou Allin,, Orca Books
Best Short Story
Yasuko Thanh, “Switch-blade Knife” in Floating Like the Dead, McClelland & Stewart
Best Nonfiction
The Devil’s Cinema: The Untold Story behind Mark Twitchell’s Kill Room by Steve Lillebuen, McClelland & Stewart
Best French Book
La Nuit des albinos: Sur les traces de Max O’Brien by Mario Bolduc, Libre Expression
Best Juvenile/YA Book
Becoming Holmes by Shane Peacock, Tundra Books
Best Unpublished First Novel, aka The Unhanged Arthur
Sins Revisited by Coleen Steele
Derrick Murdoch Award
Lyn Hamilton