..And the Arthur Ellis Award Shortlists

The Crime Writers of Canada has selected its shortlists of nominees for the 2007 Arthur Ellis Awards:

Best Novel
• Lone Wolf, by Linwood Barclay (Bantam/RHC)
• Every Secret Thing, by Emma Cole aka Susanna Kearsley (Allison & Busby)
• Honour Among Men, by Barbara Fradkin (RendezVous Press)
• Break No Bones, by Kathy Reichs (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Piece of My Heart, by Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart)

Best First Novel
• The Elvis Interviews, Glen Bonham (Battlefield Publishing)
• Sign of the Cross, by Anne Emery (ECW Press)
• Reparations, by Stephen Kimber (HarperCollins Canada)
• Dead Money, by Grant McCrea (Random House Canada)
• Deadly Lessons, by David Russell (RendezVous Press)

Best Non-fiction
• The Desperate Ones: Forgotten Canadian Outlaws, by Edward Butts (Dundurn Press)
• The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia, by Guy Lawson and William Oldham, (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• To the Grave: A Spectacular RCMP Sting, by Mike McIntyre (Great PlainsPublications)
• High: Confessions of a Pot Smoker, Brian O’Dea (Random House Canada)
• Who Named the Knife? by Linda Spalding (McClelland & Stewart)

Best Juvenile
• The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul, Marty Chan (Thistledown Press)
• Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates, by Sean Cullen (Penguin Canada)
• The Devil, The Banshee and Me, by L.M. Falcone (Kidscan Press)
• Tell, by Norah McClintock (Orca)
• All In, by Monique Polak (James Lorimer)

Best Short Story
• “Lady in Violet Satin,” by Vicki Cameron (Storyteller, Fall 2006)
• “The Curious Case of the Book Baron,” by Karl El-Koura (Storyteller, Spring 2006)
• “Voices from the Deep,” by Barbara Fradkin (in Dead in the Water, edited by Violette Malan and Therese Greenwood; RendezVous)
• “Canadian Diamonds,” by Jennifer Geens (Storyteller, Summer 2006)
• “Fuzzy Wuzzy,” by Dennis Richard Murphy (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 2006)

Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (the Unhanged Arthur)
• Murder in a Cold Climate, by Jennifer Hemstock
• Ego Tenderloin, by Meika Erinn McClurg
• Last Date, by Rosemary McCracken
• Margarita Nights, by Phyllis Smallman
• Condemned, by Kevin Thornton

Winner will be announced on June 7, 2007, at Mysteriously Yours …

Dinner Theatre in Toronto during the 24th annual Arthur Ellis Awards

dinner. Congratulations to all the nominees.