Michael J. McCann is a Canadian author of crime fiction and supernatural fiction. His crime novel "Sorrow Lake", the first March and Walker Crime Novel, is a finalist for the 2015 Hammett Prize. He is also the author of the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series and "The Ghost Man", a supernatural thriller. He is a member of the Crime Writers of Canada.
2018 was the first time that someone considered whether Michael J. McCann should have a prize for one of his books. 
He was up for an award in 2015 so saying that 2018 as the first year that he was considered for an award would be definitively incorrect. 
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