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Scott Thornley, The Ambitious City, Random House Digital Inc.

Though everyone knew the myths from the 20th century, of bodies encased in concrete being dumped in the bay, the city isn’t prepared for what the dredging reveals.

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Robert Rotenberg, Stray Bullets, Simon & Schuster

This is the third book in Robert Rotenberg's bestselling legal thriller series set in Toronto. Detective Greene and other familiar faces are back in action with a new homicide case to solve.

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D.J. McIntosh, Witch of Babylon, Penguin Canada

In war-torn Iraq, New York art dealer John Madison races to find the link between a 3000 year-old Mesopotamian conspiracy, a modern-day witch and an ancient one.

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Robert Landori, Mayhem on the Danube, AuthorHouse

Baghdad, October 2001. Chemical Ali, Saddam Hussein’s cousin, has a Weapon of Mass Destruction – human, new variety Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Mad Cow) Disease against which there is no known cure.

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Robert U Doyle, The Tangerine Murders: Dancing with Death, APF Press

Detective sergeant (DS)Tara Street, born in Australia, leads her first homicide investigation with the TPS after the murder of a young server at the Laguna Club in Toronto's Chinatown.

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Janet Bolin, Threaded For Trouble, Berkley Prime Crime

Welcome back to Threadville, where crafts are king, and a“killer” sewing machine lives up to its name…

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Catherine Astolfo, Legacy, Imajin Books

Dark memories from the past and long buried secrets surround seemingly unconnected families.

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Anthony Bidulka, Dos Equis: A Russell Quant Mystery, Insomniac Press

Having spent the last year in self-imposed exile from his life as a Saskatchewan private detective, ten words on a cryptic telephone message change everything.

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Gail Bowen, Kaleidoscope, Random House

The thirteenth in Gail Bowen's beloved and award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series promises to be the best of them all: some very bad things happen very, very close to home, and Joanne may never be quite the same again.

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Alison Bruce, Deadly Legacy, Imajin Books

When Joe Garrett dies unexpectedly, he leaves his daughter Kate half interest in Garrett Investigations, his last case that ties to three murders, a partner she can't stand...

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Liz Bugg, Oranges and Lemons, Insomniac Press

Calli Barnow, Toronto P.I., is back with an undercover assignment that takes her from the world of big-city advertising to the poker tables of Niagara Falls.

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Erika Chase, A Killer Read, Berkley Prime Crime

It's the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society and an intruder is later found dead in his car.

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Vicki Delany, A Winter Kill, Orca Rapid Reads

Nicole Patterson is a young, green and very eager probationary constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Although she spends much of her time breaking up bar fights, giving out traffic tickets and finding lost kids

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David. A. Gibb, Camouflaged Killer: The Shocking Double Life of Colonel Russell Williams, Berkley Books

He was a perfect man living a perfect life...which made him a perfect killer.

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Dave Hugelschaffer, Whiskey Creek, Cormorant Books

In the third book of this unique mystery series, based on forest fires and the crimes they conceal, Porter is sent to investigate a series of wildfires caused by Molotov cocktails...

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Julia Madeleine, The Refrigerator Girls, Malefic

What if a high school girl orchestrates her own kidnapping to find out where a killer is taking his victims?

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Simone St James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, NAL

In 1920's England, Sarah Piper's lonely existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter.

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Throughout the month of May, Crime Writers of Canada has partnered with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to celebrate Canadian crime writing on CBC’s Canada Writes.

  • International best selling author Louise Penny will be leading a master class in crime writing.
  • Four of your favourite crime authors, Gail Bowen, William Deverell, Mary Jane Maffini and Peter Robinson, along with our two contest winners, Therese Greenwood and Doug Moles, will be providing some spine tingling stories.
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Crime Writers of Canada is proud to announce...

The Arthur Ellis Awards Shortlists


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Best Crime Novel
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny, St. Martin’s Press
Before the Poison by Peter Robinson, McClelland and Stewart
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley, Doubleday Canada
I'll See you in My Dreams by William Deverell, McClelland and Stewart
The Guilty Plea by Robert Rotenberg, Simon&Schuster

Best First Novel
The Man Who Killed by Fraser Nixon, Douglas & McIntrye
The Survivor by Sean Slater, Simon&Schuster
The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton, House of Anansi Press Inc.
Tight Corner by Roger White, BPS Books
Watching Jeopardy by Norm Foster, XLibris

Best Crime Book in French
La chorale du diable by Martin Michaud, Les Editions Guélette
Pwazon by Diane Vincent, Editors Triptyque
Pour Ne Pas Mourir ce soir by Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers, Lévesque Éditeur

Best Juvenile or Young Adult Crime Book
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones, Candlewick Press
Charlie's Key by Rob Mills, Orca Book Publishers
Empire of Ruins by Arthur Slade, HarperCollins Publishers
Held by Edeet Ravel, Annick Press
Missing by Becky Citra, Orca Book Publishers

Best Crime Nonfiction
A Season in Hell by  Robert Fowler, Harper Collins
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art by Joshua Knelman, Douglas& McIntyre
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Steven Laffoley, Pottersfield
The Pirates of Somalia by Jay Badadur, Harper Collins
The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob by Adrian Humphreys, Wiley

Best Crime Short Story
A New Pair of Pants by Jas. R. Petrin, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Beer Money by Shane Nelson, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Girl with the Golden Hair by Scott Mackay, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Perfect Mark by Melodie Campbell, Flash Fiction Magazine
What Kelly Did by Catherine Astolfo, North Word Magazine

Best Unpublished First Novel - “Unhanged Arthur”
Gunning for Bear by Madeleine Harris-Callway
Last of the Independents by Sam Wiebe
Snake in the Snow by William Bonnell
The Rhymester by Valerie A. Drego
Too Far to Fall by Shane Sawyer

For details check out the 2012 Cool Canadian Crime Shortlist Special



 

2012 Arthur Ellis Awards Banquet

Who will win the Arthur? Find out on May 31

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This year marks the 30th Anniversary of Crime Writers of Canada, so we’ve planned a special gala for the Awards.

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Thursday May 31, 2012
Toronto I, Hilton Toronto,
145 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Start time: 8 pm
Tickets: $80.00

Click here to order tickets.




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