Arthur Ellis Awards
Novel

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The Arthur Ellis Award for Best 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. For more information, visit the official site.

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2015

Also shortlisted:


2014

  • Seán Haldane – The Devil's Making

Also shortlisted:

  • John Brooke – Walls of a Mind
  • Lee Lamothe – Presto Variations
  • Howard Shrier – Miss Montreal
  • Simone St. James – An Inquiry into Love and Death

2013

Also shortlisted:

  • Linwood Barclay – Trust Your Eyes
  • Sean Chercover – The Trinity Game
  • Stephen Miller – The Messenger
  • Carsten Stroud – Niceville

2012

Also shortlisted:


2011

Also shortlisted:

  • Michael Van Rooy – A Criminal to Remember
  • Mike Knowles – In Plain Sight
  • C.B Forrest – Slow Recoil
  • Jeffrey Moore – The Extinction Club

2010

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2009

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2008

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2007

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2006

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2005

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2004

Also shortlisted:

  • Mary Jane Maffini – Lament for a Lounge Lizard
  • Kim Moritsugu – The Glenwood Treasure
  • David Rotenberg – The Hua Shan Hospital Murders
  • Peter Robinson – The Summer that Never Was (aka: Close to Home)

2003

Also shortlisted:

  • Lou Allin – Blackflies are Murder
  • Barbara Fradkin – Once Upon a Time
  • Nora Kelly – Hot Pursuit
  • Kathy Reichs – Grave Secrets

2002

  • Michelle Spring – In the Midnight Hour

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2001


2000

  • Rosemary Aubert – The Feast of Stephen

Also shortlisted:


1999

  • Nora Kelly – Old Wounds

Also shortlisted:

  • Gail Bowen – Verdict in Blood
  • Scott MacKay – Cold Comfort
  • Caroline Roe – Remedy for Treason
  • Jean Ruryk – Next Week Will Be Better
  • Michelle Spring – Standing in the Shadows

1998

Also shortlisted:

  • Rosemary Aubert – Free Reign
  • C.C. Bennison – Death at Sandringham House
  • John Spencer Hill – Ghirlando's Daughter
  • Peter Robinson – Dead Right
  • Robert J. Sawyer – Illegal Alien

1997


1996


1995


1994

  • John Lawrence Reynolds – Gypsy Sins

1993

  • Carsten Stroud – Lizardskin

1992


1991


1990


1989

  • Chris Scott – Jack

1988


1987

  • Edward O. Phillips – Buried on Sunday

1986

  • Eric Wright – Death in the Old Country

1985


1984

  • Eric Wright – The Night the Gods Smiled