At an award's banquet today in Victoria, BC, Louise Penny's
Bury Your Dead has won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel and Avner Mandelman's
The Debba has won for Best First Crime Novel.
A few more details here:
http://www.thestar.com/news/books/ar...-writing-prize
Congrats to winners and those short-listed!
(There's also a nice longer story about the annual conference which is held to host the awards here:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Blo...431/story.html)