Journalists win both fiction and non-fiction crime writers' awards

Former Toronto Star columnist Linwood Barclay has won the Arthur Ellis award for best novel from the Crime Writers of Canada.

Barclay's book, Too Close to Home, has been a bestseller in the U.K. and will be issued in paperback in Canada this fall.

Internet hacker Michael Calce and journalist Craig Silverman won the best non-fiction award for Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken.

Calce is the Montreal high school student known as Mafiaboy, who launched a series of denial-of-service attacks on the internet in 2000.

The book is the story of his infiltration of sites such as Yahoo, eBay and CNN and what happened to him afterward.