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.

2000

• Andrew Pyper – Lost Girls

Also shortlisted:

• Peter Hogg – Crimes of War
• Karen Irving – Pluto Rising
• Mary Jane Maffini – Speak Ill of the Dead
• Garrett Wilson – Guilty Addictions

Added 30 April 2006.
Updated 07 August 2008.