Canada's crime writers announce winners of 2009 Arthur Ellis Awards
Published Friday June 5th, 2009
OTTAWA - Former Toronto Star humour columnist Linwood Barclay has won a 2009 Arthur Ellis Award for his latest novel, "Too Close to Home."
Arthurs are handed out by the Crime Writers of Canada for excellence in crime writing. They were announced Thursday. Barclay lives in Burlington, Ont., and "Too Close to Home" is his fifth novel.
The best non-fiction award went to Michael Calce and Craig Silverman of Montreal for "MafiaBoy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken."
The best juvenile award went to another Montreal native, Sharon McKay, for "War Brothers" and the award for best crime writing in French went to Jacques Cote for "Chemin des brumes."
Toronto writer Pasha Malla took the best short story award for "Filmsong" and the best first novel award went to another Toronto writer, Howard Shrier, for "Buffalo Jump."
Douglas A. Moles of Oro Station, Ont., won the award for the best as-yet unpublished first crime novel.
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