Anne Emery is a

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writer of

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novels and a lawyer. Emery has been awarded the 2019

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, silver medal in the 2011

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, and the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. In 2023, Emery's novel ''Fenian Street'' was shortlisted for the

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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.

Personal life

Emery was raised in

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in an Irish Catholic family. She graduated from

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and Dalhousie Law School. During the lockdowns of the

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, Emery walked every street on the Halifax peninsula, crossing off the final street in September 2020.

Bibliography

*''Sign of the Cross'' (2006), 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel *''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)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Emery, Anne Living people Canadian women novelists Canadian mystery writers Canadian women mystery writers 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers 1958 births