Вручение 2000 г.
Премия вручена за 1999 год.
Страна: Австралия
Дата проведения: 2000 г.
Лучший криминальный роман
Лауреат
Питер Темпл
0.0
Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers. Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refuses, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson child kidnapped years before. But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. As Frank feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, he knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die.
Барри Мейтланд
3.6
Ева, жена крупного бизнесмена и знаменитого филателиста Сэмми Стерлинга, похищена. В обмен на ее возвращение преступники требуют у Стерлинга бесценную марку "Черная Шалонская головка" с изображением королевы Виктории. Попытка полиции подсунуть похитителям фальшивую марку завершается трагически - подделка обнаружена, а Ева Стерлинг жестоко убита.
Расследование дела поручено талантливому детективу Кэти Колла и ее старому другу и учителю Дэвиду Броку. Очень скоро они приходят к неожиданному выводу: аферу с похищением, возможно, задумала сама Ева.
Но тогда почему ее убрали?
И кто стоит за убийством?..
Питер Коррис
0.0
Corruption, murder and a missing girl: routine for Cliff Hardy - except this time it's personal.
Cliff Hardy is stunned to get a phone call from his ex-wife Cynthia. It's been over 20 years since she last shouted she never wanted to see him again... and she was never a woman to change her mind. But that surprise is nothing to the bombshell Cynthia is about to drop. Dying of cancer, she's desperate to get in contact with the daughter she gave up for adoption - and the daughter in question, she confesses, is Cliff's!
A shocked but sceptical Cliff agrees to search for their missing daughter. But this is never going to be a straightforward investigation...
Гарри Дишер
0.0
Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series
A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder—his.
Kerry Greenwood
4.2
Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university, and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that young modernist, Chas Nutall. She has the costume of a lifetime, and she's not afraid to use it. When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving her small children to the neglectful care of a resentful husband. What has become of Joan, who would never leave her babies? Surely, she hasn't run away with a lover, as gossip suggests? Then while Phryne is visiting the university, the very pretty Joss and Clarence ask her to find out who has broken into the Dean's safe and stolen a number of things, including the Dean's wife's garnets and an irreplaceable illuminated book called the Hours of Juana the Mad. An innocent student has been blamed. So Phryne girds up her loins, loads her pearl-handled .32 Beretta, and sallies forth to find mayhem, murder, black magic, and perhaps a really good cocktail before more crime erupts in Sydney. Kerry Greenwood, winner of the Australian Crime Writers Asso-ciation Lifetime Achievement Award, began her Phryne Fisher series in 1989 with Cocaine Blues. She has written 18 books in this series with no sign yet that Miss Fisher is hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Ms. Greenwood lives and writes in Australia. www.phrynefisher.com
Кэтрин Джинкс
0.0
I hereby record those events which took place in and around the city of Lazet relating to the assassination of our venerable Brother Augustin Duese in the year of the Incarnate Word, 1318.
So writes Brother Bernard, an Inquisitor of Heretical Depravity, following the discovery of his superior's dismembered corpse. At a time when heresy is a heinous offence, routed out with ruthless determination, Brother Bernard is accustomed to dispensing harsh justice. But as he attempts to make sense of this shocking crime, he himself becomes an object of persecution-thanks to his passionate involvement with a mysterious suspect and her beautiful daughter.
Pursued as a heretic, implicated as a murderer, Bernard must now face his accusers. To fail such a task, in fourteenth century France, means certain death.
In the tradition of The Name of the Rose, Catherine Jinks has crafted a magnificent tale of murder, forbidden lust and betrayal.
Барри Мейтланд
0.0
A dark and brilliantly plotted crime thriller...full of twists and turns. Always a compelling storyteller, this is Maitland at his best.
Каролин Морвуд
0.0
Caught in a web of complex family ties, Marlo, Melbourne-based professional woman cricketer, is determined to find out if her aunt's death was suicide, or murder. A new crime thriller from the author of "The Blessing File".
Питер Темпл
0.0
Jack Irish is recovering from his last foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the missing son of Des Connors, the last living link to Jack's father. It's an offer he soon regrets, as he discovers that prodigal sons often go missing for a reason, and they always have something to hide. The second book in Peter Temple's Jack Irish series, Black Tide takes us back into a brilliantly evoked world of pubs, racetracks, and sports ? not to mention intrigue, corruption, and violence.
Дэйв Уорнер
0.0
Another murder mystery faced by Andrew (Lizard) Zirk, retired rock guitarist. The author, Dave Warner is rock performer turned author. He was lead singer of 'Dave Warner From the Suburbs' a 1970s band.
Лучший первый криминальный роман
Лауреат
Маршалл Браун
0.0
Inspector Anders of the Rome Police force became a national hero when he closed down an anarchist group ten years ago. But in the action he lost a leg - and his nerve.
Since then he has made his moral compromises with the corruption of the Italian state. Now he has been given one last job before early retirement: to close an inquiry into the murder of a respected judge in southern Italy. Once there he finds himself drawn into a shadowy world of corruption and power, and becomes increasingly involved with both the case and the judge's widow.
Anders must maneuver through layers of corruption as he struggles to close the murder case. Then the judge's widow offers him the chance to redeem his life with one last explosive act of courage. The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders is a remarkable debut sure to captivate and intrigue.
Мосс Тара
3.5
Таинственный заказчик нанимает Мак для расследования убийства некой Меган Уоллас. Полиция считает дело элементарным: виновен местный бродяга-наркоман. Но случай оказывается гораздо более сложным и запутанным, когда Мак обнаруживает опасную паутину, сотканную из ловушек, наемных убийц, могущественных богачей, вскармливающих порок и разврат. Если мальчишка не убивал Меган, то кто его подставил? И как далеко пойдут эти люди, пытаясь сохранить в тайне...
Кэти Коул
0.0
POWER, GREED, CORRUPTION, VIOLENCE - JUST ANOTHER DAY'S WORK FOR NICOLA SHARPE.
Balmain, once the industrial, blue-collar engine room of Sydney, is being transformed. The older locals are being squeezed out by cashed-up developers and hungry young professionals keen for a town house near the city. Water views add value...but are they worth killing for?
Enter Nicola Sharpe, a twenty-nine-year-old private investigator. She's lived in Balmain all her life and is worred about what's happening in her suburb. When a friend of her father's suspects major union fraud then disappears, and a local resident suffers repeated threats and vandalism, Nicola realises something is very, very wrong. On Cockatoo Island, an evil secret is about to surface.
AN OUTSTANDING DEBUT FROM A NEW AND EXCITING AUSTRALIAN WRITER.
Дороти Джонстон
0.0
When a powerful but unpopular bureaucrat is accused of theft and computer fraud, Sandra is convinced the charge is false. While trying to track down the real culprit she becomes caught in a tale of crime, loyalty and betrayal, against the backdrop of a country on the cusp of political change.
Мэри-Роуз МакКолл
0.0
In a secret chamber uncovered by a fire that nearly destroys the nineteenth-century chapel at Archangels University, architect Harriet Darling finds a skull. The police have a body and murderer in mind, and on campus, rumours are rife. But Harriet wants to save the chapel from further harm, and she has ideas of her own. She has a blue rosary and a Black Madonna, and they take her back, to a girls' school, a powerful nun, and a time of innocence lost and found.
What starts as a mystery about a skull becomes a journey to faith. Along the way Harriet has to trust herself and the world and the risks are great. If she fails, she loses not only the chapel but also the place in her own heart where something good can grow.
A murder mystery, a romance and an emotional journey that spans the twentieth century, Angels In The Architecture is about the nature of innocence and the triumph of love over hate.
Кэролайн Шоу
0.0
Lenny Aaron is an ex-cop who now runs a business tracking down Melbourne's cats that have gone AWOL. Having left the police after her last investigation went horribly wrong, Lenny is gradually piecing her life back together with a little help from Zen and a fistful of analgesics.
The daughter of a media mogul hires Lenny's services to find a missing cat and uncover the identity of the author of a series of threatening letters. Before she know it, Lenny - with all her eccentricities, phobias and addictions - is back in the murder business. Without nine lives she must race against time as the adventure gets deadlier and the stakes get higher in this fast-paced game of cat and mouse.
A brilliantly diverse cast - the Japanese psychologist, the Russian barber, the British porn shop owner - populate this sharp debut novel which blends wit, fear and mystery.
Лучшее настоящее преступление
Лауреат
Джон Дейл
0.0
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Non-Fiction
A true crime classic, Huckstepp investigates the murder of the charismatic young woman who has fascinated Australians since she first appeared on national television to accuse NSW detectives of shooting her boyfriend in cold blood. Throughout her short life, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp lived a dangerous existence. This is a true story, brilliantly told, of someone who was gutsy and determined – and who paid the ultimate price for speaking out against corruption and murder.
In 2014, Xoum is proud to release a new edition of this seminal work.
Praise for Huckstepp by John Dale
‘A marvellous book, brilliantly written and researched.’ Louis Nowra
‘A significant, original work that challenges as much as it reveals.’ The Australian
‘Dale nails the treachery, corruption and decadence of a part of Sydney society that traces its origins to the Rum Corps.’ Andrew Rule
‘A brilliantly constructed record of one of Kings Cross’ most infamous characters. A great city story.’ The Australian
‘A fine and disciplined piece of writing.’ HQ
‘As gripping as a thriller.’ The Northern Star
‘Only the very famous – or infamous – are known by a single name. Huckstepp conjures memories of the bad old days in Sydney; of a time when cops and crims were as likely to be allies as enemies. In the age of Underbelly, John Dale’s new edition of Huckstepp is a timely reminder of the human cost behind the headlines. Through extensive interviews with those who knew, loved and used Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, Dale vividly recreates a time when heroin was currency, and corruption and murder were the everyday tools of violent men. It is a deadly, dangerous, brutal world, depicted with realism, not romanticism. For some, the name Huckstepp will forever carry a frisson of excitement, the promise of secrets, sex, drugs and crime. In this book, Dale ensures that Sallie-Anne’s name will also forever remind us of that fateful moment when a young woman with a gap-toothed smile and a story to tell naively believed that publicity would guarantee her protection. Huckstepp is still famous, but her story runs deeper than the headlines. In this book, Dale takes the reader beyond the underbelly, into the very belly of the beast.’ P.M. Newton
Лауреат
Эндрю Рул, Джон Сильвестр
0.0
They couldn't shoot holes in Fred's story. So they shot holes in Fred instead.
You've seen the television series and read the stories in the papers. Now return to the books that started documenting Australia's underbelly. With their trademark forensic skills, respected journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule bring to life stories of gang wars and crooked cops, of crimes in high places and suffering in low, of murder, courtroom drama and political machinations, of drug lords and hitmen in crash-through-or-crash grabs for power and territory.
Робин Боулс
0.0
Jaidyn Leskie was the child of Bilynda Williams and Brett Leskie, kidnapped and murdered in Australia in 1997. Despite leads, and the arrest and trial of a prime suspect, Leskie's murder remains unsolved. Despite deciding in 2002 not to hold an inquest into the toddler's death, the case remained in the news for several more years and an inquest was held in 2006 implicating the mother's boyfriend, Greg Domaszewicz.
Роберт Дрю
0.0
This sun-baked coast was innocently proud, too, of its tranquillity and friendliness. Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers - variously shooting, strangling, stabbing, bludgeoning and hacking his victims and running them down with cars - an innocent Perth was changed forever. In the middle-class suburbs which were the killer's main stalking grounds, the mysterious murders created widespread anxiety and instant local myth. 'The murders and their aftermath have both intrigued me and weighed heavily on me for three decades. To try to make sense of this time and place, and of my own childhood and adolescence, I had, finally, to write about it.' The result is 'The Shark Net', a vibrant and haunting memoir that reaches beyond the dark recesses of murder and chaos to encompass their ordinary suburban backdrop.
