Barclay and Blunt among Arthur Ellis nominees

Previous winners Linwood Barclay and Giles Blunt are among the luminaries of Canadian crime writing in the running for this year's Arthur Ellis Awards (see below)

Best First Novel Best Novel Best Novella Best Nonfiction Best Juvenile/YA

Best Crime Writing in French

Best Short Story

• Melodie Campbell for Life Without George in Over My Dead Body Mystery Magazine
• Sandy Conrad for Sins of the Fathers in Daughters and Other Strangers
• Scott MacKay for Cruel Coast in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
• Jas R. Petrin for Mad Dog in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
• Yasuko Thanh for Spring-Blade Knife in Floating Like the Dead