Die Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) haben die Nominierungen für den 25. Arthur Ellis Award bekannt gegeben. Die Gewinner werden am Donnerstag, den 5. Juni, in Toronto verkündet. Die Nominierten sind:
Best Novel:
• No Time for Goodbye, von Linwood Barclay (Bantam)
• Snow Candy, von Terry Carroll (Mercury Press)
• A Journeyman to Grief, von Maureen Jennings (McClelland & Stewart)
• The Cruellest Month, von Louise Penny (McArthur & Company)
• Trumpets Sound No More, von Jon Redfern (RendezVous Crime/Napoleon & Company)
Best First Novel:
• The Line Painter, von Claire Cameron (HarperCollins)
• Big City, Bad Blood, von Sean Chercover (Morrow/HarperCollins)
• García’s Heart, von Liam Durcan (McClelland & Stewart)
• Blood of Dreams, von Susan Parisi (Penguin Australia)
• The Silk Train Murder, von Sharon Rowse (Carroll & Graf)
• Sucker Punch, von Marc Strange (Castle Street Mysteries/Dundurn)
Best Non-fiction:
• Enter the Babylon System, von Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce (Random House Canada)
• The Last to Die: Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas, and the End of Capital Punishment in Canada, von Robert J. Hoshowsky (Hounslow/Dundurn)
• One Child at a Time: The Global Fight to Rescue Children from Online Predators, von Julian Sher (Random House Canada)
• The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Violence in Canadian Homes, von Brian Vallée (Key Porter)
• Where War Lives, von Paul Watson (McClelland & Stewart)
Best Short Story:
• “Eight Lords A’Leaping,” von Vicki Cameron (in Locked Up, herausgegeben von Sue Pike; Deadlock Press)
• “Wreckwood,” von Maureen Jennings (in Blood on the Holly, herausgegeben von Caro Soles; Baskerville Books)
• “The Hounds of Winter,” von D.J. McIntosh (in Blood on the Holly)
• “As Long as We Both Shall Live,” von Rick Mofina (in Blood on the Holly)
• “Turner,” von Leslie Watts (Kingston Whig-Standard, July 7, 2007)
Best Juvenile:
• Racing for Diamonds, von Anita Daher (Orca)
• Spider’s Song, von Anita Daher (Puffin Canada/Penguin Canada)
• I.D., von Vicki Grant (Orca)
• Eye of the Crow, von Shane Peacock (Tundra)
• The Night Wanderer, von Drew Hayden Taylor (Annick Press)
Best Crime Writing in French:
• Tsiganes, von Mario Bolduc (Libre Expression)
• Le Cercle des Pénitents, von Johanne Seymour (Libre Expression)
• GHB: Grossier, Horrible et Bête, von Pierre H. Richard (Editions Pratiko)
• Epidermes, von Diane Vincent (Triptyque)
• Scènes de Crimes: Enquêtes sur le Roman Policier Contemporain, von Norbert Spehner (Alire)
Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (the Unhanged Arthur):
• Mummer’s the Word, von Patricia Flewwelling
• The Witch of Babylon, von D.J. McIntosh
• The Paris Letters, von Amy Tector
• Condemned, von Kevin Thornton
(Dank an The Rap Sheet)