Best First Novel:
The Haunting of Maddy Clare, by Simone St. James (NAL)
The Haunting of Maddy Clare, by Simone St. James (NAL)
Also nominated: The Beggar’s Opera, by Peggy Blair
(Penguin Canada); Confined Space, by Deryn Collier (Simon &
Schuster); The Dead of Winter, by Peter Kirby (Linda Leith); and A
Private Man, by Chris Laing (Seraphim)
Best Novel: Until
the Night, by Giles Blunt (Random House Canada)
Also nominated: Trust Your Eyes, by Linwood Barclay
(Doubleday Canada); The Trinity Game, by Sean Chercover (Thomas & Mercer);
The Messenger, by Stephen Miller (Delacorte Press); and Niceville,
by Carsten Stroud (Knopf)
Best Novella: Contingency
Plan, by Lou Allin (Orca Rapid Reads)
Also nominated: A Winter Kill, by Vicki Delany (Orca
Rapid Reads); Evil Behind that Door, by Barbara Fradkin (Orca Rapid
Reads); and Reunion, by Christopher G. Moore (from Phnom Penh Noir,
edited by Christopher G. Moore; Heaven Lake Press)
Best Short Story:
“Spring-blade Knife,” by Yasuko Thanh
(from Floating Like the Dead, McClelland & Stewart)
(from Floating Like the Dead, McClelland & Stewart)
Also nominated: “Life without George,” by Melodie Campbell (Over
My Dead Body!, August 2012); “Sins of the Fathers,” by Sandy Conrad (from Daughters
and Other Strangers, The Brucedale Press); “Cruel Coast,” by Scott MacKay (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2012); and “Mad Dog,” Jas R. Petrin (Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, October 2012)
Best Non-fiction:
The Devil’s Cinema: The Untold Story behind Mark Twitchell’s Kill Room,
by Steve Lillebuen (McClelland & Stewart)
Also nominated: Bloody Justice: The Truth behind the
Bandidos Massacre at Shedden, by Anita Arvast (John Wiley); Octopus: Sam
Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con, by Guy Lawson
(Crown/Random House); and Thieves of Bay Street: How Banks, Brokerages and
the Wealthy Steal Billions from Canadians, by Bruce Livesey (Random House
Canada)
Best Juvenile/Young
Adult:
Becoming Holmes, by Shane Peacock (Tundra)
Becoming Holmes, by Shane Peacock (Tundra)
Also nominated: Live to Tell, by Lisa Harrington
(Cormorant Books); The Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel, by Y.S. Lee
(Candlewick Press); Crush Candy Corpse, by Sylvia McNicoll (James
Lorimer); and The Lynching of Louie Sam, by Elizabeth Stewart (Annick
Press)
Best Crime Book in
French: La Nuit des albinos: Sur les traces de Max O’Brien, by Mario
Bolduc (Libre Expression)
Also nominated: De pierres et de sang, by André
Jacques (Druide); L’homme du jeudi, by Jean Lemieux (La courte échelle);
Je me souviens, by Martin Michaud (Goélette); and L’inaveu, by
Richard Ste Marie (Alire)
Best Unpublished
First Crime Novel (“The Unhanged Arthur”):
Sins Revisited, by Coleen Steele
Sins Revisited, by Coleen Steele
Also nominated: Cold Black Tide, by William Hall;
and The Raffle Baby, by Ilonka Halsband
Derrick Murdoch Award:
Lyn Hamilton
Congratulations to the winners as well as the other nominees!
(Hat tip to Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan.)
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