アーサー・エリス賞候補作発表
The Crime Writers of Canada has announced the nominees for the 2012 Arthur Ellis Awards as follows:
Best Crime Novel
A Trick of the Light, by Louise Penny (St. Martin’s Press)
Before the Poison, by Peter Robinson (McClelland and Stewart)
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, by Alan Bradley (Doubleday Canada)
I’ll See you in My Dreams, by William Deverell (McClelland and Stewart)
The Guilty Plea, by Robert Rotenberg (Simon&Schuster)
Best First Novel
The Man Who Killed, by Fraser Nixon (Douglas & McIntrye)
The Survivor, by Sean Slater (Simon&Schuster)
The Water Rat of Wanchai, by Ian Hamilton (House of Anansi Press Inc.)
Tight Corner, by Roger White (BPS Books)
Watching Jeopardy, by Norm Foster (XLibris)
Best Crime Book in French
La chorale du diable, by Martin Michaud (Les Editions Guélette)
Pwazon, by Diane Vincent (Editors Triptyque)
Pour Ne Pas Mourir ce soir, by Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers (Lévesque Éditeur)
Best Juvenile or Young Adult Crime Book
Blink & Caution, by Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick Press)
Charlie’s Key, by Rob Mills (Orca Book Publishers)
Empire of Ruins, by Arthur Slade (HarperCollins Publishers)
Held, by Edeet Ravel (Annick Press)
Missing, by Becky Citra (Orca Book Publishers)
Best Crime Nonfiction
A Season in Hel,l by Robert Fowler (Harper Collins)
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art, by Joshua Knelman (Douglas& McIntyre)
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, by Steven Laffoley (Pottersfield)
The Pirates of Somalia, by Jay Bahader (Harper Collins)
The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob, by Adrian Humphreys (Wiley)
Best Crime Short Story
“A New Pair of Pants,” by Jas. R. Petrin (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, September 2011)
“Beer Money,” by Shane Nelson (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February 2011)
“The Girl with the Golden Hair,” by Scott Mackay (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 2011)
“The Perfect Mark,” by Melodie Campbell (Flash Fiction Magazine, July 2011)
“What Kelly Did,” by Catherine Astolfo (North Word Magazine)
Best Unpublished First Novel (Unhanged Arthur)
Gunning for Bear, by Madeleine Harris-Callway
Last of the Independents, by Sam Wiebe
Snake in the Snow, by William Bonnell
The Rhymester, by Valerie A. Drego
Too Far to Fall, by Shane Sawyer
The winners will be announced on May 31 in Toronto, Canada.
（発表は５月31日）