Arthur Ellis Awards
Juvenile

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The Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel for Juveniles written in English is awarded by Crime Writers of Canada to an author living in Canada or a Canadian writer living outside of Canada. For more information, visit the official site.

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2015

  • Sigmund Brouwer – Dead Man's Switch

Also shortlisted:

  • Michael Betcherman – Face-Off
  • S.J. Laidlaw – The Voice Inside My Head
  • Norah McClintock – About That Night
  • Jeyn Roberts – The Bodies We Wear

2014

  • Elizabeth MacLeod – Bones Never Lie

Also shortlisted:

  • Karen Autio – Sabotage
  • Gail Gallant – Apparition
  • Ted Staunton – Who I'm Not

2013

Also shortlisted:

  • Lisa Harrington – Live to Tell
  • Y.S. Lee – The Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel
  • Sylvia McNicoll – Crush Candy Corpse
  • Elizabeth Stewart – The Lynching of Louie Sam

2012

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2011

  • Alice Kuipers – The Worst Thing She Ever Did

Also shortlisted:


2010

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2009

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2008

Also shortlisted:


2007

  • Sean Cullen – Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates

Also shortlisted:

  • Marty Chan – The Mystery of the Graffitti Ghoul
  • L.M. Falcone – The Devil, The Banshee and Me
  • Norah McClintockTell
  • Monique Polak – All In

2006

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2005

  • Carrie Mac – The Beckoners

Also shortlisted:

  • Susan Cliffe – Thread of Deceit
  • Katherine Holubitsky – The Hippie House
  • Shelley Hrdlitschka – Kat's Fall
  • Curtis Parkinson – Sea Chase

2004

  • Graham McNamee – Acceleration

Also shortlisted:


2003

Also shortlisted:

  • Linda Bailey – What's A Serious Detective Like Me Doing in Such a Silly Movie
  • Monica Hughes – The Maze
  • Valerie Sherrard – Out of the Ashes
  • Eric WaltersCamp X

2002

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2001


2000

  • Linda Bailey – How Can a Brilliant Detective Shine in the Dark?

Also shortlisted:

  • Vicki Cameron – That Kind of Money
  • May Labatt – The Ghost of Captain Briggs
  • Sylvia McNicholl – Grave Secrets
  • Shane Peacock – The Mystery of Ireland's Eye

1999

Also shortlisted:

  • Kim Askew – Surfers of Snow
  • Sheila Dalton – Trial by Fire
  • Robert Sutherland – Secret of Devils Lake
  • Mary Woodbury – The Intrepid Polly McDoodle

1998

Also shortlisted:

  • Linda Bailey – What's A Daring Detective Like Me Doing in The Doghouse?
  • Roy McGregor – Terror in Florida
  • Cora Taylor – Vanishing Act
  • Nicholas Boving – Maxim Gunn: The Demon Plan

1997

  • Linda Bailey – How Can A Frozen Detective Stay Hot On The Trail

1996


1995


1994

  • John Dowd – Abalone Summer