Вручение 1998 г.
Премия вручалась за 1997 год.
Страна: Канада
Место проведения: город Торонто
Дата проведения: 1998 г.
Лучший детективный роман
Лауреат
Уильям Деверелл
0.0
Arthur Beauchamp, a heralded criminal lawyer, has moved to a quiet island off the British Columbia coast. While trying to recover from a marriage gone sour, his retirement is interrupted by his former law partners-they want Arthur to take charge of the defense trial of Jonathan O'Donnell, the acting dean of a law school. O'Donnell has been accused of rape by one of the students, Kimberley Martin, a smart but arrogant woman who is engaged to a rich businessman. After much pleading, Beauchamp agrees to handle the case. He is drawn into complex legal situations dealing with gender and sex, while his personal life takes a provocative turn as well. A courtroom drama ensues, with unpredictable twists and bizarre events.
Розмари Обер
0.0
The offbeat sleuth in this novel is Ellis Portal, once an esteemed judge, who was himself convicted of a felony and disgraced. He now lives as a vagrant in the river valley that is a wilderness preserve running through the heart of the city of Toronto. One day, while working on his hidden vegetable garden, he unearths a severed human hand. On that hand is a ring that Ellis recognizes. Thirty years before, on the day he became a lawyer, he and four of his companions entered into a pact that was sealed by just such a ring. All the participants were white. The hand is black. Ellis' search to identify the victim and investigate the murder the severed hand must represent takes him back into the world that has cast him out. As he inches closer to solving the mystery, he senses he is being stalked. Then one of those who shared information with him is killed, another vanishes. Ellis discovers that one of the city's most prominent attorneys appears to be running a conspiracy that relies on the secret use of questionable medical procedures. Both the attorney and his wife were closely intertwined with Ellis' past. Ellis makes his way to the attorney's office-tower suite, confronting him there with his evidence in a dramatic, moving climax. It involves the loves of the present and the past - and a startling solution to the mystery.
C. C. Бенисон
0.0
Murder in the palaces of England gives sleuth Jane Bee, housemaid to Her Majesty the Queen, a puzzle to fit for a monarch in the second novel of this charmingly irresistible series.
Джон Спенсер Хилл
0.0
The figure lay on its back, arms flung wide, with the bronze spear of a Mycenaean warrior planted squarely in the middle of its chest. Nigel Harmsworth, septuagenarian, and expatriate English painter, stared at the splayed corpse in disbelief. That he should find himself surveying the body of a dead American in the garden of the beautiful Tuscan villa owned by his friend and patron Sir Richard Danvers, an international art dealer, was extraordinary enough. More unsettling still were the events that were to follow, and the secrets that would emerge from the past. What no one anticipated, however, were the prodigious deductive powers of Detective Carlo Arbati, visiting the medieval town of Lucca to receive an award for his most recent volume of poems. When the poet-detective is drawn into the case, justice is certain to triumph - but more blood must flow before Arbati is able to unweave the tangled web of intrigue and deceit that has baffled the local authorities.
Peter Robinson
0.0
New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson brings us a tantalizing tale of suspense in this classic Inspector Banks thriller.
In the long shadows of an alley a young man is murdered by an unknown assailant. The shattering echoes of his death will be felt throughout a small provincial community on the edge—because the victim was far from innocent, a youth whose sordid secret life was a tangle of bewildering contradictions. Now a dedicated policeman beset by his own tormenting demons must follow the leads into the darkest corners of the human mind in order to catch a killer.
Delving into the complicated human psyche, Blood at the Root showcases Peter Robinson’s singular talent in an exceptional novel of suspense that will linger in readers’ minds long past the final page.
Роберт Джеймс Сойер
3.8
Потерпевший аварию космический корабль появляется в атмосфере Земли. Семерых представителей народа «тосок», опережающего людей в развитии, приглашают пожить рядом с землянами. Кто-то убивает известного ученого, и все улики указывают на одного из инопланетян. Пришелец предстает перед судом. На кону может стоить нечто большее, чем расплата за жизнь одного человека.
Лучший дебютный роман
Лауреат
Кэти Райх
3.8
Романы Кэти Райх о Темперанс Бреннан стали классикой детективного жанра, и славу их закрепил всемирно известный телесериал "Кости", также ставший классикой жанра, но уже не в литературе — в кино.В кои веки Темперанс Бреннан решила сменить платье судебного антрополога на дорожную одежду туриста, чтобы хотя бы на время предстоящего уик-энда позабыть о мертвых останках и прочих прелестях своей нелегкой работы. Не тут-то было! Неподалеку от места, где недавно велись археологические раскопки, рабочие обнаружили чьи-то кости. Чтобы удостовериться, что находка не имеет ничего общего с криминальной сферой, необходимо заключение эксперта. И Темпе Бреннан отправляется на место находки…
Лин Гамильтон
3.3
Доктор Эрнан Кастильо Ривас, давний знакомый Лары Макклинток и знаменитый эксперт по культуре и истории майя, просит Лару приехать к нему в Мериду и помочь в одном загадочном исследовании. Однако Эрнан Кастильо так и не встретился с Ларой. Расследуя исчезновение доктора и последовавший за ним ряд других странных событий, Лара оказывается в мексиканских джунглях неподалеку от Мериды, где ей предстоит узнать одну из тайн преисподней майя, грозной Шибальбы.
Maureen Jennings
4.1
In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. Detective William Murdoch quickly finds out that more than one person connected with the girl’s simple life has something to hide.
Аллан Левин
0.0
Sam Klein is a streetwise minder at a local brothel who investigates the murder of a Polish girl — a murder blamed on a North End rabbi. His search for the real killer is frustrated by battles with ethnic intolerance and with authorities who insist they've found their man.
Джон Уорсли Симпсон
0.0
"THE BODY WAS SLUMPED over the desk. Blood ran like a crimson ribbon down both sides of the neck from a tear in the scalp somewhere in the occipital region above the hairline. You couldn't see the wound, and you couldn't tell that the skull was crushed beneath the ruptured skin..."
So begins Undercut, a murder mystery set in east-end Toronto. A young geologist, Chris Andrews, has been murdered in his own office, and homicide detective Harry Stark, who has been wrestling with demons of his own, including the accidental shooting of a young witness at the scene of a robbery, is assigned to the case.
A cast of varied characters peoples this novel, from the former Canadian sailor named Chilly who is found with the murdered man's wallet, to the slimy stock manipulator Martineri, to Andrews' wife, associates and friends. All of them are suspects in this well-structured whodunit with a wonderfully surprising solution.
Лучший роман для подростков и молодежи
Лауреат
Нора Макклинток
0.0
When a body is found buried beneath the café Tasha's parents used to own, the police start looking for a murderer...and their search leads them right to Tasha's father. Tasha's sure he didn't do it. But if he didn't, then who did?
Tasha has to find out who the real killer is, but everywhere she turns she uncovers someone else with a secret to hide...
Линда Бейли
0.0
The fifth book in the best-selling Stevie Diamond Mystery series, What's a Daring Detective Like Me Doing in the Doghouse? stars a pair of true-to-life kids who solve mysteries on their own. Stevie and Jessie find a lost dog in Vancouver and accidentally dye it green. To their horror, they discover that the dog belongs to the visiting American president -- and that it has been stolen! Can they undo the dye job and catch the thief all in one short week? As the plot thickens with a host of suspicious characters, mystery fans are guaranteed a fast-paced, funny and compelling adventure that will keep them guessing to the end.
Рой МакГрегор
0.0
When Travis, Nish, Sarah, and the rest of the gang pile onto a school bus headed for Florida, the Screech Owls expect a spring break filled with sun, sand, and lots of ice. With luck they may even make it to the peewee tournament final, to be held in the magnificent Ice Palace, home of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning!
Muck and Mr. Dillinger have planned a fun trip. As well as camping and swimming, they’ll get to go to Disney World. Nish, of course, has bigger ideas. With his new X-ray glasses he bought on the “stupid stop” on the way down, he’s hoping to see a lot more than just tourist attractions.
The only trouble is, Nish ends up seeing too much! Travis wasn’t looking forward to riding the Tower of Terror at the Disney-MGM Studios, but it’s going to take even more courage to face this. The Screech Owls have uncovered a plot to terrorize all of America!
Terror in Florida is the sixth book in the Screech Owls Series.
Кора Тейлор
0.0
Thirteen-year-old twins Jennifer and Maggie take a journey and join their grandmother on a cruise that could end with the rescue of their father, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. To add extra spice, Jennifer has perfected her own disappearing act, which allows her to become invisible at will.
Николас Бовинг
0.0
Witchcraft in the twentieth century? Computer controlled demons? Maxim Gunn didn't believe it either - until his old enemy Wanda Liszt, miraculously returns from the dead with another plan to control, the world.
Ambushes, a booby trapped tomb, a demonic attack by the fiend Wanda controls keep Gunn on his toes until the crashing finale is reached.
Лучший детективный рассказ
Питер Робинсон
4.3
Иногда даже в самом тихом омуте случаются экстраординарные события, вот и для маленькой йоркширской деревушки таким событием стала загадочная история о двух дамах из Розового коттеджа. Эту историю услышал и пятнадцатилетний, на то время, мальчик, который мечтал стать писателем, со временем она начала стираться из его памяти, но через многие годы он все-таки получил все ответы.
Премия "Кастет" за лучшую криминальную документальную книгу
Лауреат
Патриция Пирсон
0.0
While national crime rates have recently fallen, crimes committed by women have risen 200 percent, yet we continue to transform female violence into victimhood by citing PMS, battered wife syndrome, and postpartum depression as sources of women?s actions. When She Was Bad convincingly overturns these perceptions by telling the stories of such women as Karla Faye Tucker, who was recently executed for having killed two people with a pickax; Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house; and Aileen Wuornos, a Florida woman who shot seven men. Patricia Pearson marshals a vast amount of research and statistical support from criminologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, and includes many revealing interviews with dozens of men and women in the criminal justice system who have firsthand experience with violent women. When She Was Bad is a fearless and superbly written call to reframe our ideas about female violence and, by extension, female power.
Андреас Шредер
0.0
Since 1988, Andreas Schroeder has been a regular contributor to CBC-Radio’s “Basic Black,” entertaining listeners with outrageous – and always very funny – tales of daring scams and rip-offs. In Scams, Scandals, and Skulduggery (1996), he collected seventeen of the stories that received the greatest listener response.
Now, in Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery, he has done it again, collecting another seventeen of his best tales of knavish frauds and thefts, carried out by ingenious – and often lovable – rogues.
Stories Include:
Getting Naked for Big Bucks: How a bevy of disgruntled writers got together to pen a steamy bestseller called Naked Came the Stranger.
The Man Who Bought Portugal: How Alves Reis planned to take over the Bank of Portugal – with its own money.
Stuff and Nonsense at the Ends of the Earth: How explorers Peary, Cook, and Byrd bluffed their way into the history books.
Impersonating Roger: How butcher’s son Arthur Orton became an unlikely celebrity in Victorian England as “The Tichborne Claimant.”
Once again, Andreas Schroeder tells his wonderfully wicked tales with the sly and deadpan humour that his many fans will recognize – and that new readers are sure to enjoy.
Дэвид Стэффорд
4.0
Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence - in times of war, of course, but also in times of peace. As a young correspondent and soldier in Cuba and South Africa, he experienced its worth first hand. As wartime Prime Minister, he built a centralized intelligence community, responded daily to raw "Ultra" reports, created the Special Operations Executive to work behind enemy lines and, with Roosevelt, built the intelligence alliance that endures to this day. With detail about the secret world of agents and double agents this work traces Churchill's connections from his days as a member of the Cabinet that established the Secret Service to the war years, when his extensive network provided him with superior information. Both an account of the origins and inner workings of modern intelligence agencies and a study of Churchill and his role in their development, this volume is a contribution to the study of modern and military history and a key to understanding Churchill himself.
