Canadian crime-writing heavyweights William Deverell and Louise Penny are among the authors in the running for the 2012 Arthur Ellis Awards.

In India and Pakistan, the high courts have employed harsh words and the death penalty to try to curtail so-called honour killings. But, as Faiz Jamil reports, that message isn't always filtering down to police and village officials.

Men who kill female family members tend to be treated more leniently by the courts if they are white, rather than non-white men perceived to have committed a so-called honour killing, a study suggests.