About Anne Emery
Born 1958. Anne Emery is a Canadian, Swiss and French writer and artist.

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, silver medal in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. In 2023, Emery's novel Fenian Street was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada 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, She graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie Law School.
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Canadian writer of murder mystery novels
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Anne Emery was born in 1958 in Halifax.
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Anne Emery is a writer and artist.
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Anne Emery is Canadian, Swiss and French.
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