April 27, 2009

Dark Days shortlisted for Arthur Ellis Award

My book, Dark Days, has been shortlisted in the non-fiction category for the Arthur Ellis Awards. Finalists will be announced by Crime Writers Of Canada in Ottawa on June 4 at the the 26th annual Arthur Ellis Awards dinner. I’m honoured to be considered alongside the other authors whose works are shortlisted in this category:

  • Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect (Vintage Canada/RHC)
  • Sharon Butala, The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Friendship, Memory and Murder (Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins)
  • Alex Caine, Befriend and Betray: Infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods (Vintage Canada/RHC)
  • Michael Calce & Craig Silverman, Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken (Penguin Canada)

    • Past winners of the Arthur include most of the major names in Canadian crime writing, including Howard Engel, Eric Wright, Peter Robinson, the late L.R. Wright, Giles Blunt, Carol Shields, William Deverell, Gail Bowen, Ann Lamontagne, James Dubro, John Lawrence Reynolds, Norbert Spehner, Rosemary Aubert, Barbara Fradkin, and Andrew Pyper.

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