Arthur Ellis Award Winners
Best Novel Award winners
Since 1982 ....
The Night the Gods Smiled
Murder Sees the Light
Death in the Old Country
Buried on Sunday
Jack
Hot Shots
A Chill Rain in January
Lizardskin
Gypsy Sins
A Colder Kind of Death
Mother Love
William Deverell Trial of Passion
Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead
Old Wounds
The Feast of Stephen
In the Midnight Hour
The Delicate Storm
Fifth Son
April Fool
Honour Among Men
Trumpets Sound No More
High Chicago
Before the Poison
Until the Night
The Devil's Making
Plague: Murder Has a New Friend
2016 Peter Kirby
Open Season
The Fortunate Brother
Sleeping in the Ground
Though the Heavens Fall
Greenwood
The Finder
Under an Outlaw Moon
Going to Beautiful
The Maid's Diary
2025 Conor Kerr,
Prairie Edge
2026 Louise Penny
The Black Wolf
Contributing Members
Accomplished Canadian crime writers who have contributed to the development and support of the Arthur Ellis Society.
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