The Arthur Ellis Award for the Best First Crime Novel written in English is awarded by Crime Writers of Canada to an author living in Canada or a Canadian writer living outside of Canada.

An asterisk (*) indicates a review is available for that book.

1998

• Kathy Reichs – Deja Dead

Also shortlisted:

• Jim Christy – Shanghai Alley
• Lyn Hamilton – Xibalba Murders
• Maureen Jennings – Except The Dying
• Allan Levine – Blood Libel
• John Worsley Simpson – Undercut

Added 30 April 2006.
Updated 13 August 2008.