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An Ellis Nomination for Maureen Jennings!

Like many people who now work for a publishing company one of my first jobs in the field was working at a bookstore. In my case it was the independent mystery bookstore Prime Crime Books in Ottawa. With its cozy living room feel, Sam – Prime Crime’s skeleton mascot – in the front window, the framed Clue board game on the wall, and every possible mystery book that a mystery reader could ever want from Barbara Fradkin’s Inspector Green mysteries to Maureen Jenning’s Murdoch Mysteries, Prime Crime Books, remains one of my favourite bookstores.

One of the highlights of working for an independent bookstore is that you really get to know your customers. One of my favourite regulars was a couple that always came in Friday evenings just before we closed. One Friday they came in and made a beeline for the J section of the store and swooped up all of Maureen Jenning’s Murdoch Mysteries. They had loved the Murdoch miniseries so much that they wanted more. Flash foward a couple of years to last year, now working as a publicist for Dundurn, when the neatest thing happened to this mystery reader – I got to be the publicist for Maureeen Jenning’s new novel, and sequel to Does Your Mother Know?,  The K Handshape, which features forensic profiler Christine Morris.  And now just over a year after the publication of The K Handshape I’m delighted to announce that Maureen Jennings has been nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel for The K Handshape. Congratulations Maureen!

The winners will be announced on Thursday June 4th in Ottawa.

Tags: Arthur Ellis Awards, maureen jennings, Murdoch Mysteries, mystery, Prime Crime Books, The K Handshape

About the author

Erin is a publicist for Dundurn Press. She reads a wide variety of books (maybe even too many!) and wields a vast amount of positively optimistic power over what should and shouldn't be done in the universe.