Anne Emery

Anne Emery won the 2019 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Novel, for Though the Heavens Fall. In 2023, Fenian Street was a finalist for the Award of Excellence for Best Traditional Mystery. She won the 2007 Award for Best First Crime Novel, for Sign of the Cross. (The CWC's awards were formerly called the Arthur Ellis Awards.) She also won a Silver Medal in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards (international competition), and the 2011 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, both for Children in the Morning. 

Anne was born in Halifax, NS and grew up in Moncton, NB. She is a graduate of St. F.X. University and Dalhousie Law School. She has worked as a lawyer, legal affairs reporter and researcher. Anne lives in Halifax, and travels frequently to Ireland and other favourite destinations.