Anne Emery
Anne Emery is a Canadian writer of murder mystery novels and a lawyer. She was raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, in an Irish Catholic family and graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie Law School. Emery has won multiple awards for her crime fiction, including the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and the Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal. She has published numerous novels in her Collins-Burke mystery series, featuring lawyer Monty Collins and priest Father Brennan Burke, as well as a standalone novel.
Awards
['2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel', '2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards silver medal', '2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel']
Notable Works
['Sign of the Cross', 'Obit', 'Barrington Street Blues', 'Cecilian Vespers', 'Children in the Morning', "Death at Christy Burke's", 'Blood on a Saint', 'Ruined Abbey', 'Lament for Bonnie', 'Though the Heavens Fall', 'Postmark Berlin', 'Fenian Street', 'Counted Among the Dead', 'The Keening: A Mystery of Gaelic Ireland']
