Вручение 2002 г.
Страна: Великобритания
Дата проведения: 2002 г.
Золотой Кинжал
Лауреат
Хосе Карлос Сомоса
3.9
Афины времен Платона.
Эпоха расцвета философии - и серии жестоких, непонятных убийств, жертвами которых становятся юноши-эфебы.
Снова и снова находят в уединенной роще останки тел, на первый взгляд, растерзанных волками...
Снова и снова уходит от расплаты истинный убийца...
Наконец, расследование преступлений начинают двое друзей-философов, способных подойти к нему с самой неожиданной стороны...
Майкл Коннелли
4.2
Убийство.
Садистски жестокое убийство ребенка, совершенное двадцать лет назад.
Одно из самых трудных дел детектива Гарри Босха.
Дело о преступлении, раскрыть которое почти невозможно.
Не сразу удается Босху найти единственную зацепку, и лишь эта тоненькая нить способна привести его к истине, если он решится пройти сквозь ад...
Mark Billingham
4.3
TWO WOMEN DEAD
It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. And this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day.
TWO KILLERS WORKING TOGETHER
It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them - and two killers are way more deadly than one . . .
Серебряный Кинжал
Лауреат
Джеймс Крамли
0.0
James Crumley caught the attention of crime-fiction aficionados as a promising new writer with his 1975 debut, The Wrong Case , a memorably sleazy thriller featuring hard-drinking private investigator Milo Milodragovitch. Three years later he delivered on that promise with his masterpiece, The Last Good Kiss , which has become one of the seminal PI novels of the late 20th century.
Crumley published only three more novels (Dancing Bear, The Mexican Tree Duck, and Bordersnakes) over the next 18 years and has come to be known as an author who takes his time to perfect his craft, although none of his later novels matched the level of his early work. Given that context, The Final Country is an unexpected pleasure -- a fierce, funny, wickedly well written novel, easily Crumley's finest since The Last Good Kiss.
The Final Country brings back Milo Milodragovitch, who has stumbled into a prosperous, peaceful late middle age and hates every minute of it. He owns a bar and a motel in the Texas Hill Country, has more money than he ever really wanted, and has entered the terminal stages of his latest long-term relationship. To counteract the boredom that has permeated his life, Milo resumes his interrupted career as a private eye. While tracking down a runaway wife, he meets -- and shares a drink with -- an on-the-lam ex-con named Enos Walker, who has just gunned down a drug dealer in the Over the Line Saloon. Milo feels an atavistic sympathy for Walker, who might have acted in self-defense. For various complex reasons, he attempts to follow Walker's trail and to investigate his criminal past. That investigation threatens to unearth some long-buried secrets and also threatens the security of some ruthless, highly placed people.
Milo's quest, which seems simple at first, widens exponentially, gradually encompassing a vast, interconnected web of lies, crimes, and betrayals that reach back 20 years into the past. His inquiry takes him from Texas to Las Vegas to Montana and involves a vividly drawn cast of characters on both sides of the law. Among them are a corrupt district attorney and his lethal twin, a multimillionaire with a questionable past, a slightly kinky acupuncturist, and a number of Milo's own closest associates. In the course of his investigation, Milo nearly dies on a number of occasions, ingests heroic quantities of alcohol and cocaine, and endures more physical punishment than most of us will ever experience. By the time the last shot has been fired and the final secret illuminated, the 60-year-old Milo has changed for good, becoming an old, virtually unrecognizable man.
The Final Country is a lurid, over-the-top account of violence, retribution, and greed. In lesser hands, it might have collapsed into parody, but Crumley holds it together with his effortless mastery of setting, character, and mood, his drop-dead accurate dialogue, and his rhythmic, flexible prose. (Bill Sheehan)
Bill Sheehan reviews horror, suspense, and science fiction for Cemetery Dance, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and other publications. His book-length critical study of the fiction of Peter Straub, At the Foot of the Story Tree, won the International Horror Guild's award for best nonfiction book of 2000.
Стальной Кинжал Яна Флемминга
Лауреат
John Creed
0.0
Jack Valentine has been in the intelligence game too long and it is starting to show, but he accepts one more mission. He always does. It seems like a simple task but it starts to throw up questions and he doesn't know the answers. What were American Special Forces doing in Ireland twenty-five years ago and why does it matter now? What is the thread that leads from a deserted mountainside to the offices of the White House? Suddenly Valentine has information that everybody wants and he finds himself the quarry in a pitiless chase. To complicate matters he is joined by an old friend who is staying just ahead of his own deadly pursuit. And he draws an old flame into danger, because it seems that wherever Jack Valentine goes, innocence seems to suffer. Valentine no longer know which threatens him most - the dark alliance of men who want to kill him, the terrible storm crossing he is forced to undertake in a battered, converted trawler, or his own dangerous cynicism.
Том Брэдби
0.0
Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by his past and recently appointed to the international police. He's not there long before called to the flat of a Russian prostitute, former daughter of privilege found sadistically murdered, handcuffed to her bed. When he discovers among her possessions a cryptic shipping log, he senses that this murder is more than a random crime of perverse passion. What unfolds is a searing story that propels Field into a confrontation with the city's most ruthless and powerful gangster, and a dangerous attraction to another salacious Russian whose sordid connections seem destined to make her the next victim. Scintillating and subtle, The Master of Rain is a marvelous debut
Ли Чайлд
4.1
Бывший военный полицейский Джек Ричер - одиночка по натуре. У него нет ни постоянной работы, ни собственного дома, он не платит налогов и предпочитает не завязывать длительных отношений. Но когда раздается призыв о помощи, Ричер всегда откликается на него. Вот и теперь он готов помочь женщине по фамилии Фролих. Она возглавляет службу безопасности вице-президента Соединенных Штатов, и в первый момент ее слова вызывают у Ричера шок: она предлагает ему... убить вице-президента.
Ли Чайлд - один из лучших современных авторов, работающих в жанре детектив-экшн. Его герой Джек Ричер стал поистине культовой фигурой, воплощением несгибаемого героя-детектива.
Роберт Крейс
4.2
Трое преступников, преследуемых полицией, берут в заложники обитателей особняка в пригороде Лос-Анджелеса. Но даже в кошмарном сне им не могло привидеться, что дом, в котором они оказались, хранит грязные тайны мафиозной верхушки Лос-Анджелеса.
Стивен Лизер
4.2
Трое совсем еще юных полицейских...
Интеллектуал Джеми Фуллертон.
Душа компании Банни Уоррен.
Красавица Тина Лей.
Им предстоит работать под прикрытием, внедрившись в сеть одного из крупнейших наркодилеров мира.
Не просто работа - полное перевоплощение в преступников.
Возможно - долгие годы вне закона...
Джеми, Банни и Тина готовы рискнуть... наверное, потому, что еще не знают, что их ожидает.
Кинжал Джона Кризи - Новая кровь
Лауреат
Луиза Уэлш
3.6
Случайно наткнувшись на фотографии со "снаффом", мистер Рильке решает узнать правду об их происхождении. Над ним смеются, его бьют, забирают в полицию, ему рассказывают истории. Безумцы, наркоманы, религиозные фанатики и люди, имена которых лучше не
David Benioff
0.0
All Monty Brogan ever really wanted when he grew up was to be a fireman. Now he's about to start a seven-year stretch in the federal penitentiary for drug dealing. With just twenty-four hours of freedom to go, he prowls the city with his girlfriend and his two best friends from high school-a high-flying bond trader and an idealistic teacher. As the minutes count down, Monty seizes one last chance to stack the odds in his favor.
Hurtling from the money pits of Wall Street to Manhattan's downtown lounge and club scene, from the enclaves of the Russian mob to the old immigrant neighborhoods, The 25th Hour evokes the pulsing rhythms and diamond-hard edges of a city in the raw, illusory hours between midnight and dawn. A taut and mesmerizing tale of an urban purgatory suspended between the crime and the punishment, The 25th Hour is a major player in contemporary noir fiction from the author of the bestselling novel City of Thieves and the short story collection When the Nines Roll Over.
Кинжал Дебютанта
Лауреат
Илона ван Мил
0.0
Hidden among the glacial hills and lakes of the Canadian Shield lies Sugarmilk Falls, a close-knit community with the worst of secrets. Everyone, including the aging priest and the town’s sole policeman, who have their own reasons for concealing the facts, remembers a different version of what really happened there over twenty years ago.
But secrets cannot stay buried forever. As the thick snow of a winter’s night sets in, the inhabitants gather together, induced by a questioning stranger to talk openly for the first time about the sinister events of the past. Some think that it all began when Grand’mère Osweken, an Ojibwa shaman, lost the maple forests on a gamble during a game of craps. Others contend it goes further back, to the arrival of the schoolteacher Marina Grochowska, a newcomer with a tightly guarded past. Or perhaps it really started years before that when the woodsman Zack Guillem discovered a curious powdery coating over an area of foliage in the bush.
Beautifully crafted and darkly compelling, this is a remarkable debut that captures the spirit and repression of a blighted community as it slowly turns in on itself. Sugarmilk Falls has earned comparisons with David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, as it similarly takes readers deep inside a community riven by prejudice and by the secrets of the past.
Исторический кинжал
Лауреат
Сара Уотерс
3.9
Лондонский бедный квартал, вторая половина XIX века. Сью Триндер, сирота, выросшая среди воров и мошенников, не знает, что судьба странными узами соединила ее жизнь с юной наследницей богатого имения, живущего замкнуто и уединенно. И едва порог дома переступает неотразимый Джентльмен, начинаются приключения, захватывающие дух своей непредсказуемостью.
Хосе Карлос Сомоса
3.9
Афины времен Платона.
Эпоха расцвета философии - и серии жестоких, непонятных убийств, жертвами которых становятся юноши-эфебы.
Снова и снова находят в уединенной роще останки тел, на первый взгляд, растерзанных волками...
Снова и снова уходит от расплаты истинный убийца...
Наконец, расследование преступлений начинают двое друзей-философов, способных подойти к нему с самой неожиданной стороны...
Lindsey Davis
4.0
‘To find a drowned man head-first down a well was slightly unusual, exciting maybe.’ For Falco, a relaxed visit to Helena’s relatives in Britain turns serious at the scene of a downtown murder. The renegade henchman of Rome’s vital ally King Togidubnus has been stuffed head-first down a barroom well – leading to a tricky diplomatic situation which Falco must defuse. One murder leads to others. Londinium now has a forum and an amphitheatre; the town is a magnet for legitimate traders – and for criminals from Rome. With his vigiles pal Petronius, Falco leads the hunt for gangsters who are intent on taking over. This will bring unwelcome encounters with faces from the past and grave threats to their present relationships. Danger and death lurk throughout their pursuit, all the way from the brand new wharves beside the River Thames to the familiar old haunts of organised crime back home in Italy.
Филип Гуден
3.8
"Бледный гость" (2002), номинированный на премию Эллис Питерс за лучший исторический детектив, - один из серии "шекспировских" романов английского писателя Филипа Гудена. Современник Шекспира Ник Ревилл, актер труппы лорд-камергера и сыщик-любитель, снова становится случайным свидетелем загадочных и трагических событий. На этот раз актеры едут в Солсбери, чтобы дать представление пьесы "Сон в летнюю ночь" по случаю свадьбы старшего сына лорда Элкомба. Вопреки ожиданиям, "сон в летнюю ночь" оборачивается ночным кошмаром с убийствами и "скелетами в шкафу" знатного семейства.
Gillian Linscott
0.0
After three years of traipsing across Europe with her lovesick, widowed mother, Nell Bray has finally found her way to Oxford University. There she has befriended the beautiful Imogen and the charming Midge.
When the three girls decide to accept an invitation by their male classmates to join a reading party in the country during vacation - accompanied by a dashing philosophy don with a reputation for stirring up trouble - they go against what is quickly becoming the obsolete conventions of the nineteenth-century.
Once they arrive in the country, they are greeted by the unpleasant fact that their host has been accused of murder when a local boy is missing. Rather than return home, however, the six students and their mentor decide to put down their books and put their intellectual prowess to the test by solving the mystery.
This combination of mystery and learning - with some college crushes and loves along the way - makes Dead Man Riding Gillian Linscott's best mystery to date.
Бриллиантовый Кинжал Картье
