We’re thrilled to announce Nate Hendley’s powerful and impeccably researched book, The Boy on the Bicycle: A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Crime Book.

The full shortlist for the category presents some excellent competition:

Patrick Brode, Dying for a Drink: How a Prohibition Preacher Got Away With Murder, Biblioasis

Thomas Giacomaro and Natasha Stoynoff, The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, 
Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale, BenBella Books, Inc

Nate Hendley, The Boy on the Bicycle: A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto, Five Rivers Publishing

Eve Lazarus, Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer, Arsenal Pulp Press

Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World, Alfred A. Knopf Canada

The winners will be announced at the Awards Gala, Thursday, May 23, 2019. For more information, visit here.

Good luck to all nominees, and most especially to Nate Hendley!