The winners of the 2016 Ellis Awards have been
announced. The Arthur Ellis Awards are a group of Canadian literary
awards, presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada, for the best
Canadian crime and mystery writing published in the previous year. The awards are named for Arthur Ellis, the
pseudonym of Canada's official hangman. The award statue itself is a wooden
model of a hanging man.
The winner of the Best Novel is Open Season by Peter Kirby.
This is the third book in the Luc Vanier crime series set in
Montreal. “A Guatemalan journalist is
kidnapped, and the only message from her kidnappers is the murder of her
lawyer. In a race against time, Luc Vanier sets about reconstructing her life,
through the sordid world of human trafficking, the secretive underbelly of a
multinational mining corporation, and the hiding places of desperate refugees.
When Vanier is brutally warned off the investigation, he throws away the rule
book and goes after the villains with a vengeance”
(https://www.amazon.ca/Open-Season-Peter-Kirby/dp/1927535786/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1464462267&sr=8-8&keywords=Open+Season).
The Best First Novel award went to Ausma Zehanat Khan for
The Unquiet Dead, the first in a series featuring a Muslim investigator. See my review: http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2016/02/review-of-unquiet-dead-by-ausma-zehanat.html.
For more information about other Ellis Awards winners, go to
http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/.
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