Anne Emery | |
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Born | 1958 (age 66–67) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [1] |
Occupation | Author |
Genre | Crime fiction |
Notable awards |
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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, [2] silver medal in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, [3] and the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. [4] In 2023, Emery's novel Fenian Street was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery. [5] She has published twelve novels in her Collins-Burke mystery series, [6] which features Monty Collins, a Hallifax lawyer, and Father Brennan Burke, a Catholic priest and choirmaster, [7] and a stand-alone novel.
Emery was raised in Moncton, New Brunswick in an Irish Catholic family. [8] She graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie Law School. [1] During the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emery walked every street on the Halifax peninsula, crossing off the final street in September 2020. [9]
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