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2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards shortlists announced

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The nominees for the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian crime writing have been announced. 

The winners of the 10 awards will be unveiled on May 26.

In addition, the CWC named Louise Penny, author of the Armand Gamache series, as the recipient of the 2022 Grand Master Award.

Best Crime Novel

Best Crime First Novel

The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada

The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery

Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction)

The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book

  • Don’t Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman (Viking Canada)
  • Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City’s West End by Aaron Chapman (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  • Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary by Catherine Fogarty (Biblioasis)
  • The Beatle Bandit by Nate Hendley (Dundurn Press)
  • The Don: The Story of Toronto’s Infamous Jail by Lorna Poplak (Dundurn Press)

Best French Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Best Crime Novella

  • Identity Withheld by Marcelle Dubé (Falcon Ridge Publishing)
  • Murder in Abstract (A Charley Hall Mystery, book 5) by Brenda Gayle (Bowstring Books)
  • Letters From Johnny by Wayne Ng (Guernica Editions)
  • Not So Fast, Dr. Quick by Elvie Simons (Dell Magazines)

Best Crime Short Story

  • “What can You Do?” by Pam Barnsley (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
  • “Weed Man” by Hilary Davidson (Dell Magazines)
  • “Number 10 Marlborough Place” by Elizabeth Elwood (Dell Magazines)
  • “All My Darlings” by Charlotte Morganti (Mystery Magazine)
  • “Dead Man’s Hand” by Melissa Yi (Dell Magazines)

The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript

  • The Strength to Rise by Delee Fromm
  • Captives by Pam Isfeld
  • Elmington by Renee Lehnen
  • Ken’s Corner by Katie Mac
  • Part Time Crazy by Mark Thomas