Джон Лоуренс Рейнольдс0.0 Leaving behind the violence of the Boston streets and the politics of the Boston Police Department, homicide detective Joe McGuire is settled in a new life in the Bahamas. When Aunt Cora, his closest living relative, dies McGuire returns home to attend her funeral and settle her estate.
McGuire quickly discovers that closing Cora’s affairs is anything but simple. And when suspicions of murder provoke an attempt on his own life, McGuire is forced to dig into his aunt’s past, revealing crimes long past and covered up . . . but not forgotten.
Gypsy Sins is the fourth novel in the Joe McGuire mystery series, and won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Mystery Novel. It is followed by Solitary Dancer.
Praise for Gypsy Sins
“…a sly and ingenious story that keeps one’s attention throughout all its twists and turns.”—Books in Canada
Джон Брэйди0.0 The unsolved murder of a Canadian tourist from a decade ago will not be left forgotten. A drizzly October in Dublin has Minogue daydreaming of the piercing blue skies of Greece: he plans a surprise trip with his wife Kathleen only to be called back to sombre reality by the suicide attempt of his partner in the Garda Murder Squad, Seamus Hoey. To compound his problems, his son has been suspected of gun running. Minogue reluctantly travels to the west of Ireland to help. While he is there, he meets a colourful lawyer, and against his own better instincts, Minogue agrees to do some unofficial digging into the murder of Jane Clark, a young Canadian who was visiting Ireland ten years ago.
Minogue and the groggy, beleaguered Hoey are soon enmeshed in the case of Jane Clark and her lover, Jamesy Bourke, the half-crazed poet and local eccentric who was convicted of her murder. After years of electroshock, Bourke’s memory is returning, and what he remembers is causing panic in more than one of the local people. Just as the past is another country, and Hallowe’en brings the return of chaos, Minogue descends into an underworld where he must reckon with with a dark past of violence, revenge and death. Part shaman, part cop, part innocent abroad, Minogue enters a hidden Ireland, where the ancient countryside and its forgotten peoples mutely mock and challenge his wish to make the past disclose its secrets.
Уильям Гибсон4.0 Уильям Гибсон прославился трилогией "Киберпространство" ("Нейромант", "Граф Ноль", "Мона Лиза овердрайв"), ставшей краеугольным камнем киберпанка и определившей лицо современной литературы на десятилетия вперед. Но очень быстро жанровому революционеру стали тесны рамки любого жанра - и за совместной с Брюсом Стерлингом стимпанк-эпопеей "Машина различий" последовал "Виртуальный свет", первый роман "Трилогии Моста", действие которой происходит в своего рода альтернативном настоящем, а фабула триллера, футуристический антураж и виртуозная скупость стилевых приемов порождают взрывоопасный, но неотвратимо притягательный коктейль. Итак, мощное землетрясение рассекло Калифорнию на Северную и Южную, а вырождение экосферы разделило всех людей на аллергиков и "приспособившихся". Полицейский-неудачник Райделл и велосипедистка-курьер Шеветта-Мари сведены волей случая и вместе пытаются выжить в охоте, устроенной на них владельцами сверхважной информации, хранящейся в солнцезащитных очках системы "виртуальный свет"…
Л. Р. Райт0.0 Staff Sargeant Karl Alberg, the keen Canadian police detective, is back for his fifth appearance in a nerve-tingling psychological thriller of electric tension between the sexes and parallel plots that finds L.R. Wright at the peak of her Edgar Award-winning powers.
Беван Амберхилл0.0 NOMINATED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL.
"A clever and thoroughly entertaining murder in five acts that will appeal to mystery and theatre fans alike. A wonderful performance."-- "Halifax Daily News"
"A bloody entertaining concoction with a sly sense of fun."-- "Books in Canada"
"A whimsical mystery diversion that provides a gentle portrayal of Stratford, its environs, ambience and theatrical denizens."-- "The Toronto Star"
Джейн Боу0.0 NOMINATED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL.
Jane Bow covered the trial of Rodger Pearse Brown, and this novel is the fictionalized result of that experience and of the many hours spent with the accused. "Dead and Living" is a compelling examination of the Canadian justice system, the effects of such a trial on the accused's family, and the timless power of guilt and the human spirit.
Кэролайн Вудворд0.0 "...one of those rare books--a satisfying mystery that has no criminal content whatsoever ... even the most hidebound mystery reader is likely to be delighted by this well-written and intriguing tale."
--The Toronto Star
"...a worthy successor to her short fiction collection ... Woodward interweaves several intriguing narrative threads into this intense first-person tale of [Mercy's] actual and mental journeys to discover family, past and present, that will give her life wholeness...enhancing this narrative is the delightfully witty voice of Mercy Brown."
--Canadian Literature
When Mercy Brown, a reluctant psychic and freelance journalist, discovers her late Aunt Ginger's diaries, packed with early Canadian dance history and a painful past, she realizes that she has two mysteries to sort out. Mercy Brown and her dog Sadie embark on a writing assignment up the Alaska Highway.
A BC bestseller, Alaska Highway Two-Step was selected as one of The Globe & Mail's Top 100 Books. Caroline Woodward's sharp wit and unerring ability to create warm, believable characters make this a delightful novel of the North.
Джон Дауд0.0 Winner of the 1994 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Young Adult Novel. A boy spends his summer in the Queen Charlotte Islands, involved in a fight to stop poaching, in this gripping northwest adventure tale.
