Вручение 1993 г.
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Страна: Великобритания
Дата проведения: 1993 г.
Золотой Кинжал
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Патрисия Корнуэлл
4.0
"Жестокое и странное" - один из лучших романов цикла о судмедэксперте Кей Скарпетте.
Маньяк Ронни Джо Уоддел наконец-то казнен. Но... вскоре после смерти Уоддела происходит новое убийство, в точности повторяющее все особенности его почерка!
Более того, один за другим при загадочных обстоятельствах гибнут люди, имеющие отношение к делу Уоддела, а у Кей пропадают важные записи...
Может быть, кто-то мстит за Уоддела?
Или в игру вступил имитатор?
Кей и ее партнер, опытный детектив Пит Марино, рассматривают и отметают версию за версией, но когда им удается проверить отпечатки пальцев подозреваемого, они делают ошеломляющее открытие, способное поразить даже человека с очень крепкими нервами...
Казненный маньяк жив - и снова вышел на охоту!
Поначалу Скарпетта и Марино оказываются верить фактам. Но для того чтобы поймать преступника, им все же придется поверить в невероятное...
Philip Kerr
0.0
EVERYONE IS GUILTY OF SOMETHING...
In comtemporary Russia the old ghosts have been laid to rest, but the stench of corruption is just as strong as ever. Now a top-level Moscow investigator, dispatched to St. Petersburg, is about to discover just how deep the decadence runs--in both the corridors of power and the labyrinth of the human heart. The man from Moscow has been teamed up with Grushko, a palm-reading local detective with Elvis Presley hair. Together they embark on a investigation into the brutal murder of a famous and controversial journalist. To Grushko, an expert in the ruthlessness of the rising Russian Mafia, the killing has all the earmarks of a professional hit. But in the new Russia appearances have almost as little value as the new ruble.
Soon the focus of the investigation will fall on the journalist's widow, a pinup beauty whom one detective will find impossible to trust...the other to resist.
Уолтер Мосли
0.0
The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind....
Janet Neel
0.0
Throughout her career in Her Majesty's Civil Service, Francesca Wilson has shown herself to be cool, assured, and supremely competent. It is something of a surprise, therefore, when Francesca - married now to Police Superintendent John McLeish and on maternity leave with their young son - seems to be going to pieces. Of course, the baby does cry all the time, and Francesca never seems to get out anymore.... Help arrives in the form of a nanny and an offer of part-time work as the Bursar of London's distinguished all-women's Gladstone College. Combining motherhood and career seems to be the perfect solution for Francesca - until the trouble begins at Gladstone: Two students are molested, a prominent professor is stabbed, and the school is torn apart by the debate over whether to admit men. As Francesca draws ever closer to the dangerous passions behind the serene academic facade, award-winning mystery writer Janet Neel brings us her most stylish and suspenseful novel to date.
Robert Richardson
0.0
On the morning of 27 December, newspapers around the country recieve the following Press Association Report: Police investigating the discovery of two bodies in Hertfordshire house.
Details trickle in: the house belongs to wealthy merchant banker Charles Stansfield; present are well-known news editor Richard Barlow and members of his family.
But the victims identities are withheld. Who are they? Why has a family gathering exploded into violence and death? Through their individual voices the lives of Richard, Tim and Naomi Barlow and their mother, Florence, unfold and a shocking crime comes to light - one that has gone undetected and unpunished, culminating in a double-killing a quarter of a century later.
The Hand of Strange ChildrenPraise for Robert Richardson
''With this, his first novel, Robert Richardson makes a most impressive debut as a writer of the classical English detective story… He knows how to create suspense and an atmosphere of incipient evil; he provides us with a genuine puzzle, his characters are believable people, and the motive of his murderer is psycho-logically credible.” P D James
“Skilful rerouting and the taste of real tears” The Sunday Times
“Eccentrics, suspects and witty writing abound” The Times
“Here is a book to be missed only at your own peril” Armchair Detective
“Elegantly written, beautifully characterised, suspenseful and oddly moving” Mystery Reader’s Journal
“Grand entertainment, deft handling and suave wit” Publishers Weekly
Robert Richardson is a journalist and editor who lives in England.
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Sarah Dunant
0.0
A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, author Sarah Dunant won Britain's prestigious Silver Dagger award for Fatlands, a Hannah Wolfe mystery.
In Fatlands, private investigator Hannah Wolfe, who's independent though not invincible, idealistic but definitely not naive, has taken on one of the less glamorous jobs in the security world -- chaperoning teenage rebel Mattie Shepherd around London. But Mattie's father is paying Hannah lots of money -- more than the job is worth, it seems. Or perhaps not. The girl's father is on the Animal Liberation Front's hit list. But why? When violence explodes, tearing the family apart, this is what Hannah must discover. Her obsession with the truth nearly kills her, wrecking her private life and dragging her into a vortex of lies and betrayal.
Кинжал Джона Кризи - Новая кровь
Мюррей Смит
3.0
В этом "крутом" политическом детективе рассказывается о борьбе британской разведки с колумбийской наркомафией - известным медельинским картелем, крупнейшим в мире производителем и распространителем наркотиков. Описываются связи с картелем ирландских подпольных террористических организаций. Жизнь и поступки главных героев произведения переплетены в художественной форме со многими реальными историческими событиями.
Quintin Jardine
0.0
As head of Edinburgh's CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all... but even he is shocked by the savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The victim is identified as a successful young lawyer, and the motive for the brutal death remains a mystery. Then further seemingly random killings in the city begin to suggest a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. But when the lawyer's fiancee is also murdered, Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest...
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Michael Pearce
0.0
After Miss Skinner, the niece of a U.S. presidential candidate struggling to keep Egyptian antiquities in Egypt, nearly lands in front of a Cairo tram, the Mamur Zapt, Captain Gareth Owen feels it prudent to keep an eye on her. Soon suspecting that many of the antiquities aren't really priceless, Owen must differentiate between the real and the fake--while solving a double murder.
Lindsey Davis
4.0
A.D. 72: To many, Rome is the center of the Empire. To Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial spy and casual informer, it is the home of his mother, the domineering matriarch who has kept the Didius clan together since her husband absconded with a redhead some twenty years before. Trouble is the last thing Falco wants on his return from a six-month mission to the German legions. But trouble is in store: his apartment has been wrecked by squatters and an ex-legionnaire friend of his colorfully heroic brother, Festus, has parked himself in the only other possible refuge, his mother's kitchen. What's worse, the man is demanding money allegedly owed him and his legion from one of Festus's wild schemes. Worse still, the only client Falco can get is his mother, who wants him to clear the family name. But little does he realize that trouble is only just beginning: the legionnaire is found viciously stabbed to death, with Falco the prime suspect. His friend Petronius is investigating the case, and while the intrepid Falco treads the dingy streets of Rome, his girlfriend, Helena Justina, is arrested as an accomplice, leaving her aristocratic family even more certain that this plebeian will not make a suitable husband. Even if her family were to agree to the marriage, Falco still needs an impossible 400,000 sesterces to buy himself into the middle rank. And to clear the family name, he has to find Geminus, the father who left all those years before, for he is the only one who knows what Festus was really up to. Compelled to face the past he deplores and a future he despairs of, Falco has just three days to prove he is not a murderer, to trace the real suspect, amass evidence, and win a fortune...
Reginald Hill
0.0
The author of Recalled to Life introduces a new series and a new sleuth. Balding, middle-aged black Joe Sixsmith of Luton, Beds., U.K., takes his first case--a crazy family who have gotten themselves mixed up in murder.
Золотой Кинжал за нехудожественное произведение
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Alexandra Artley
0.0
While suffering an epileptic fit, Tommy Thompson had been shot by each of his daughters, June and Hilda. At their trial it became clear that for the previous 15 years Thompson had kept them and his wife enclosed in a world of extreme violence, superstition and mental illness all bound together by a terrible love. This is the harrowing reconstruction of their lives together and of the incidents that led Thompson's daughters to destroy him!
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