TORONTO - Alberta-born author, journalist and academic Jon Redfern has won his second Arthur Ellis Award for his historical crime novel "Trumpets Sound No More," about a killing in the theatre world of 19th century London.
Redfern is an English professor at Centennial College in Toronto and has worked as a freelance journalist for the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail, a story editor for the CBC and a children's playwright. His first novel, "The Boy Must Die," won the Arthur Ellis Award for best first crime novel in 2002.
This year's first-novel award went to Liam Duncan for "Garcia's Heart," the story of neurologist Patrick Lazerenko, who travels to The Hague to watch the trial of his mentor, Hernan Garcia, for war crimes.
Other winners announced Thursday night included Julian Sher for non-fiction for "One Child at a Time: The Global Fight to Rescue Children from Online Predators" and Shane Peacock for juvenile fiction for "Eye of the Crow," about an adolescent Sherlock Holmes.
The best short story award went to Leslie Watts for "Turner," published in the Kingston Whig-Standard and the best crime writing in French award went to Mario Bolduc for "Tsiganes."
This was the 25th annual awards ceremony sponsored by the Crime Writers of Canada. The award is named after the professional pseudonym of Canada's hangman.
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