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.

2002

• Jon Redfern – The Boy Must Die (*)

Also shortlisted:

• T.F. Banks – The Thief-Taker: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner
• J. David Carpeter – Devil in Me
• James Hawkins – Missing: Presumed Dead
• Cathy Vasas-Brown – Every Wickedness

Added 30 April 2006.
Updated 19 August 2008.