2024 CWC AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE SHORTLISTS
The Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 CWC Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing (formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards) and the recipient for the 2024 Grand Master Award recipient as follows:
2024 Grand Master Award recipient:
Maureen Jennings, for her "substantial body of work that has garnered national and international recognition"
The Peter Robinson Award for Best Crime Novel: (5)
The Drowning Woman, by Robyn Harding (Grand Central)
Everyone Here Is Lying, by Shari Lapena (Doubleday Canada)
Middlemen, by Scott Thornley (House of Anansi Press)
Sunset and Jericho, by Sam Wiebe (Harbour)
The Maid's Diary, by Loreth Anne White (Montlake)
Best Crime First Novel: (5)
The Bittlemores, by Jann Arden (Random House Canada)
Adrift, by Lisa Brideau (Sourcebooks)
The End Game, by Charlotte Morganti (Halfdan Press)
The Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters (Harper Perennial)
Perfect Shot, by Steve Urszenyi (Minotaur)
The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada: (5)
The Almost Widow, by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Harper Avenue)
Elmington, by Renee Lehnen (Storeyline Press)
Cruel Light, by Cyndi MacMillan (Crooked Lane)
Wild Hope, by Joan Thomas (Harper Perennial)
Shapes of Wrath, by elissa Yi (Windtree Press)
The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery: (5)
The Legacy, by Gail Bowen (ECW Press)
Steeped in Malice, by Vicki Delany (Kensington)
The Game Is a Footnote, by Vicki Delany (Crooked Lane)
The Mystery Guest, by Nita Prose (Viking)
To Track a Traitor, by Iona Whishaw (TouchWood Editions)
Best Crime Short Story: (5)
"Wisteria Cottage," by M.H. Callway (from Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Traditional, edited by Verena Rose, Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons; Wildside Press)
"Reversion," by Marcelle Dube (Mystery Magazine, April 2023)
"The Canadians," by Mary Keenan (from KillinŐ Time in San Diego, edited by Holly West; Down & Out)
"Troubled Water," by Donalee Moulton (Black Cat Weekly #75)
"American Night," by Zandra Renwick (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2023)
Best French Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction): (5)
La punition, by Jean-Philippe Bernie (Glenat Quebec)
Le mois des morts, by Chrystine Brouillet (Editions Druide)
Le dernier souffle est le plus lourd, by Catherine Lafrance (Editions Druide)
La sainte paix, by Andre Marois (Heliotrope)
Rien, by Jean-Jacques Pelletier (Alire)
Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction): (5)
Someone Is Always Watching, by Kelley Armstrong (Tundra)
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, by Cherie Dimaline (Tundra)
The Big Sting, by Rachelle Delaney (Tundra)
Catfish Rolling, by Clara Kumagai (Penguin Teen Canada)
Champions of the Fox, by Kevin Sands (Puffin Canada)
The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book: (5)
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter, by Josef Lewkowicz with Michael Calvin (HarperCollins)
The Human Scale, The: Murder, Mischief and Other Selected Mayhems, by Michael Lista (Vehicule Press)
Jukebox Empire: The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream, by David Rabinovitch (Rowman & Littlefield)
Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land, by Bill Waiser and Jennie Hansen (ECW Press)
Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto, by Carolyn Whitzman (UBS Press/On Point Press)
The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript: (5)
The Patient, by Tom Blackwell
Requiem for a Lotus, by Craig H. Bowlsby
Murder on Richmond Road, by Sheilla Jones and James Burns
The Forest Beyond, by Nora Sellers
Thirty Feet Under, by William Wodhams
The winners will be announced on the Crime Writers of Canada website on Wednesday, May 29, 2024.
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