Вручение 2004 г.
Страна: США
Дата проведения: 2004 г.
Лучший дебют
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Ребекка Павел
0.0
"Pawel anchors a tense and exciting story with a terrific and complex plot."—Detroit Free Press
"[Pawel] turns the clock back to 1939 and Madrid’s tumultuous past. . . . An intriguing juxtaposition of the political and the personal."—Kirkus Reviews
"An intriguing tale amid the gloom of war-torn Madrid. It is a humane and moving portrait of a divided people coming to grips with the virtues of enemies and the villainy of friends."—Dan Fesperman
Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y León is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist.
This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot help seeking justice.
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Иэн Рэнкин
3.8
Инспектор Джон Ребус, дико раздраженный неправильным, по его мнению, ведением следствия, метнул кружку с чаем в свою непосредственную начальницу. И добился лишь того, что его отправили на перевоспитание в полицейский колледж вместе с четырьмя другими провинившимися стражами порядка. Помимо душеспасительных бесед, штрафникам предстоит испытание: они должны доказать свою профпригодность, раскрыв убийство некоего Рико Ломакса - мерзкого типа, о смерти которого не пожалел ни один человек на свете. Не выбрано ли это провальное дело намеренно и не хочет ли начальство не реабилитировать, а, напротив, "засыпать" своих беспокойных коллег?
Лучшая книга в мягкой обложке
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Сильвия Маулташ Уарш
0.0
Winner of the 2004 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original, short-listed for the 2004 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original and for Best Historical Mystery
Still coming to terms with the death of her husband, Dr. Rebecca Temple tries to continue her practice and carry on with life as usual. She meets a charming Polish count who has written a historical novel based on his own family. During a visit to his home, she discovers a murder and soon realizes that the count’s manuscript may contain clues to the killer’s identity.
Frustrated by the inaction of a skeptical police department, she scours the manuscript for answers. As she reads, she journeys back to Enlightenment Europe and uncovers the true story of a love affair between the girl who would become Catharine the Great, and the young man who would become the last king of Poland.
In this eagerly anticipated sequel to the acclaimed To Die in Spring, Sylvia Maultash Warsh engages readers in an enthralling mystery that spans three centuries.
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Грэм Макнэми
4.0
It's a hot summer and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority's lost and found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging misplaced belongings. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will ever claim, Duncan has just about had enough. Then he finds a little leather book filled with the dark and dirty secrets of a twisted mind, a serial killer stalking his prey in the subway. And Duncan can't stop reading. What would you do with a book like that? How far would you go to catch a madman?
Лучший детский роман
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
0.0
Book Description There are strange goings-on once again in Middleburg. Someone has put up posters warning townspeople that the dreaded Indiana Aztec bat has been sighted in the area. What's more, the town is in an uproar over the bells recently
Премия Мэри Хиггинс Кларк
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Марсия Престон
0.0
Acclaimed mystery writer Marcia K. Preston returns with her second Chantalene mystery. Filled with mistaken identities, waking dreams of a strange, lost girl, a bogus oil company, robbery, murder, a crazy hermit, and a handsome cowboy, Song of the Bones is sure to thrill Preston's growing fan base.
Tetumka, Oklahoma's friendly postmistress, Thelma Patterson, and Chantalene Morrell's surrogate aunt, -retains Drew Sander's legal services-with Chantalene as his assistant. Billy Ray Patterson, the younger man Thelma married thirty years before, disappeared soon -after. And now Thelma needs to find him. An oil company wants to lease Thelma's land for exploration, but Billy Ray's name is still on the property and she needs to clear the title. They assume he's dead, that is until a handsome cowboy claiming to be Billy Ray shows up in Tetumka and moves in with Thelma. After a few days, Thelma is convinced the man living in her house is not her husband.
Meanwhile, Chantalene has problems of her own. -Personal items are missing from her house, and she's haunted by waking dreams of a strange, lost girl she doesn't know. Is she losing her mind? Chantalene has mounting suspicions that someone is stalking her.
Chantalene learns the story of Thelma's once-in-a--lifetime romance with her handsome younger man and follows his cold trail to New Mexico. Once Chantalene comes to the conclusion that the man in Thelma's house is not Billy Ray, but his long-thought-dead brother Donnie Ray, things turn sinister. And the danger is just beginning . . .
Marcia K. Preston grew up on a wheat farm in Oklahoma, near a town not too different from the setting of her mystery series featuring Chantalene Morrell. The first book in the series, Perhaps She'll Die, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award for suspense fiction, and for Macavity and Barry awards in the Best First Mystery -division.
