Arthur Ellis Awards
Nonfiction

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The Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Crime-Related Nonfiction Book 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

  • Charlotte Gray – The Massey Murder

Also shortlisted:

  • Bob Deasy, Mark Ebner – Being Uncle Charlie
  • Joan McEwen – Innocence on Trial
  • Bill Reynolds – Life Real Loud
  • Paula Todd – Extreme Mean

2013

  • Steve Lillebuen – The Devil's Cinema

Also shortlisted:

  • Anita Arvast – Bloody Justice
  • Guy Lawson – Octopus
  • Bruce Livesey – Thieves of Bay Street

2012

  • Joshua Knelman – Hot Art

Also shortlisted:

  • Jay Bahader – The Pirates of Somalia
  • Robert Fowler – A Season in Hell
  • Adrian Humphreys – The Weasel
  • Steven Laffoley – The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

2011

Also shortlisted:

  • Roy MacGregor – Northern Light
  • Robert Wright – Our Man in Tehran

2010

  • Terry Gould – Murder Without Borders

Also shortlisted:

  • Patrick Brode – The Slasher Killings
  • Alex Caine – The Fat Mexican
  • Robert Remington, Sherri Zickefoose – Runaway Devil
  • Jon Wells – Post Mortem

2009

  • Michael Calce and Craig Silverman – Mafiaboy

Also shortlisted:

  • Daphne Bramham – The Secret Lives of Saints
  • Sharon Butala – The Girl in Saskatoon
  • Alex Caine – Befriend and Betray
  • Kerry Pither – Dark Days

2008

  • Julian Sher – One Child at a Time

Also shortlisted:

  • Rodrigo Bascunan & Christian Pearce – Enter the Babylon System
  • Robert J. Hoshowsky – The Last to Die
  • Brian Vallée – The War on Women
  • Paul Watson – Where War Lives

2007

  • Brian O'Dea – High: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler

Also shortlisted:

  • Edward Butts – The Desperate Ones
  • Guy Lawson & William Oldham – The Brotherhoods
  • Mike McIntyre – To the Grave: A Spectacular RCMP Sting
  • Linda Spalding – Who Named the Knife?

2006

  • Rebecca Godfrey – Under the Bridge

Also shortlisted:

  • Linda Diebel – Betrayed
  • Susanne Reber & Robert Renaud – Starlight Tour
  • Daniel Sanger – Hell's Witness

2005

  • Matthew Hart – The Irish Game

Also shortlisted:

  • Pierre de Champlain – Mobsters, Gangsters and Men of Honour
  • Peter Edwards – Night Justice
  • Max Haines – Instruments of Murder
  • Chris Mathers – Crime School: Money Laundering

2004

  • Julian Sher & William Marsden – The Road to Hell

Also shortlisted:

  • "Jane Doe" – The Story of Jane Doe
  • Mike McIntyre – Nowhere to Run
  • Jeffrey Miller – Where There's Life, There's Lawsuits

2003

  • Andrew Mitrovica – Covert Entry

Also shortlisted:

  • Doug Clark – Dark Paths, Cold Trails
  • Max Haines – Unnatural Causes
  • Peter Paradis – Nasty Business
  • Shawn Thompson – Letters from Prison

2002


2001

  • A.B. McKillop – The Spinster and the Prophet

2000

  • Gordon Sinclair, Jr. – Cowboys and Indians

Also shortlisted:

  • Yves Lavigne – Hell's Angels at War
  • Peter McSherry – The Big Red Fox
  • Jeremy Mercer – Money for Nothing
  • Joyce Millgaard and Peter Edwards – A Mother's Story

1999

  • Derek Finkle – No Claim to Mercy

Also shortlisted:

  • Stevie Cameron – Blue Trust
  • David M. Paciocco – Getting Away With Murder
  • Bill Schiller – A Hand in the Water
  • Alison Shaw – A Friend of the Family
  • Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson – A Stolen Life

1998

Also shortlisted:

  • Andreas Schroeder – Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery
  • David Stafford – Churchill and Secret Service

1997

  • Jean Monet – The Cassock And The Crown

1996

  • Lois Simmie – The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson

1995

  • Michael Harris – The Prodigal Husband

1994

  • David R. Williams – With Malice Aforethought

1993

  • Kirk Makin – Redrum the Innocent

1992

  • William Lowther – Arms and the Man

1991

  • Susan Mayse – Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin

1990

  • Lisa Priest – Conspiracy of Silence

1989

  • Mick Lowe – Conspiracy of Brothers

1988

  • Gary Ross – Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Moloney

1987

  • Elliott Leyton – Hunting Humans

1986

  • Maggie Siggins – A Canadian Tragedy

1985

  • Martin Friedland – The Trials of Israel Lipsky