The winners for the 2020 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing were announced on the Canadian Crime Writers of Canada’s website and its various social-media channels. This year’s awards gala was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

First-time winners include novelist Michael Christie and YA author Tom Ryan.

The full list of winners is below.

Best Crime Novel

• Greenwood, Michael Christie (McClelland & Stewart)

The Angela Harrison Memorial Award for Best Crime First Novel

• Nobody Move, Philip Elliott (Into the Void Press)

Best Crime Novella

• The Red Chesterfield, Wayne Arthurson (University of Calgary Press)

Best Crime Short Story

• “Closing Doors,” Peter Sellers (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)

Best French Crime Book

• Tempêtes, Andrée Michaud (Éditions Québec Amériques)

Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book

• Keep This to Yourself, Tom Ryan (Albert Whitman & Company)

Best Non-fiction Crime Book

• Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise, Charlotte Gray (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.)

The Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished Crime Manuscript

• The Dieppe Letters, Liz Rachel Walker

The 2020 Grand Master Award: Peter Robinson