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Emery, a lawyer and legal affairs reporter by training, knows her procedure but has an equal handle on creating characters that readers will continue to care about.
Anne Emery (Halifax)
Why you should read her: Not many writers would dare to begin a mystery series by eliciting sympathy for a Catholic priest accused of murdering two young women. But Emery, whose Sign of the Cross won the Arthur Ellis Award for best debut novel, creates a believable crime-fighting duo in Halifax-based lawyer Monty Collins and the aforementioned priest, Brennan Burke. Start with: Sign of the Cross (ECW Press, 2006), a complex, multilayered mystery that goes far beyond what you'd expect from a first-time novelist. Emery, a lawyer and legal affairs reporter by training, knows her procedure but has an equal handle on creating characters that readers will continue to care about. Fun fact: Emery still works as a litigation law analyst for the Halifax firm McInnes Cooper.
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