Anne Emery is a Canadian writer of murder mystery novels and a lawyer. Emery has been awarded the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, silver medal in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. In 2023, Emery’s novel Fenian Street was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery. She has published twelve novels in her Collins-Burke mystery series, which features Monty Collins, a Hallifax lawyer, and Father Brennan Burke, a Catholic priest and choirmaster, and a stand-alone novel.
Books in order of publication:
Sign of the Cross (2006), 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel[4]
Obit (2007)
Barrington Street Blues (2008)
Cecilian Vespers (2009)
Children in the Morning (2010), silver medal winner in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards; the title was inspired by Leonard Cohen’s song “Suzanne”
Death at Christy Burke’s (2011)
Blood on a Saint (2013), on short list for 2014 Atlantic Book Awards
Ruined Abbey (2015)
Lament for Bonnie (2016)
Though the Heavens Fall (2018), 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel
Postmark Berlin (2020)
The Keening: A Mystery of Gaelic Ireland (2021)
Fenian Street (2022)
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