Вручение 1999 г.
Премия вручалась за 1998 год.
Страна: Канада
Место проведения: город Торонто
Дата проведения: 1999 г.
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Нора Келли
0.0
Historian Gillian Adams drops both her academic career in Vancouver and her plans to spend her sabbatical in London with policeman lover Edward in order to return to her childhood home up the Hudson and care for her aging mother whose heart is giving out. She keeps stimulated with a light guest-lecturer load at sleepy, rural Stanton College, a campus that seems serene, but is soon unsettled by the murder of a student on a lonely stretch of road. Gillian gets involved in solving the crime, facing both her past and her future and copes with the opening-and healing-of old wounds.
Кэролайн Роу
3.4
Испания, Жирона, 1353 год. Слепой лекарь Исаак борется с эпидемией чумы, охватившей город. Но скоро он узнает, что чума — не единственная напасть, угрожающая жителям. В общественных банях обнаруживают труп монахини, которая оказывается переодетой служанкой королевы. Сам епископ Жиронский обращается к пользующемуся авторитетом Исааку за помощью в выяснении обстоятельств этой странной смерти. Расследование приводит Исаака к раскрытию коварного заговора, нацеленного на уничтожение испанской монархии…
Кэролайн Роу — псевдоним Медоры Сейл, специалиста по средневековой истории и автора серии исторических детективов, главным действующим персонажем которых является слепой лекарь Исаак из средневекового испанского города Жироны.
Гейл Боуэн
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Verdict in Blood is Gail Bowen’s sixth novel featuring Joanne Kilbourn, one of Canada’s most beloved sleuths. Teacher, friend, lover, single mother, and now grandmother, Joanne has a quick intelligence and a boundless compassion, which repeatedly get her into – and out of – trouble.
In Verdict in Blood, Joanne’s good friend Hilda McCourt is visiting her in Regina, Saskatchewan, when Judge Justine Blackwell’s corpse is found sprawled across one of the limestone slabs of the Boy Scout memorial in Wascana Park. Blackwell, known for the harsh sentences she’s handed down over the years, had lately been seeking out people she’d once incarcerated and trying to help them. Had she had a genuine change of heart, or had she been getting senile? Even the fearsome judge herself had wondered. Just the night before her death, she’d asked Hilda to make an assessment of her mental condition.
Now she’s dead, the matter is urgent: Which of her two wills should prevail – the one leaving everything to her daughters, including the famous sixties singer Lucy Blackwell, or the one leaving it all to Culhane House, a halfway house for ex-cons? Whoever stood to lose could be her murderer, and Hilda has to decide. Before too long, Joanne (who has problems enough of her own with her lover, Alex, and his troubled nephew, Eli) finds herself once again embroiled in intrigue.
Скотт Маккей
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When the frozen body of Cheryl Latham, stepdaughter of a prominent Toronto politician, is found with a bullet through her heart, overworked, underpaid homicide detective Barry Gilbert inherits the case. The bizarre nature of the crime itself -- apparently the woman was shot after she froze to death -- and the divergent clues do not bode well for a quick and tidy solution.
Who trashed the victim's apartment and what was this person looking for? Why did the intruder kill her parrot? Odder still, Cheryl was never seen leaving her building on the lobby security videotape -- so how did she end up on the dock? Add a large sum of stolen money and a dead sister into the equation and Gilbert is tackling a crime filled with dark secrets, dangerous relations and a killer convinced he can get away with murder.
Жан Рюрик
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Sixty-something furniture restorer Cat Wilde offers to fill in at the Friday Finney's fiel and Sunday's indoor mall flea markets so Rena, recuperating from a gall bladder operation, doe not lose her spots. But Old Sam in the next booth accepts a big wad of bills for a cheap paperback, and turns up dead after he decides to follow Brady, who has costly antiques last sold by Cat's homosexual friends, couple one-eyed Charlie and slim Rafe. Retired cop Mike takes her out to dinner - and offers a (gun) hand. Tina, teen grown up pretty, tries to match-make her father Kostas with Cat too.
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Лиз Брейди
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Jane Yeats is a still-grieving widow who smokes and sometimes drinks too much. Jane is also an acclaimed business writer who supports herself exposing corruption among the business elite. She is asked to investigate the murder of a highly unpopular developer. The prime suspect is his estranged gay son.
Питер Клемент
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St. Paul's Hospital.
Buffalo, New York.
Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. Top ER physician Earl Garnet is one of the few doctors who knows how to insert a cardiac needle. Now a suspect, Garnet races to uncover the truth, even as he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy far bigger and more sinister than he could ever imagine--a secret that could blow apart the very medical establishment Garnet has sworn to serve.
Карен Дадли
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Most biologists believe the worst thing about field biology is watching everything else have sex except you. Robyn Devara is no exception. In the remote logging town of Marten Valley, Robyn knows she's not likely to win popularity contests, much less get any dates. After all, she's there to survey the old-growth forest for spotted owls, and, if she finds any of the endangered birds, it's going to mean big changes for the people of Marten Valley.
Х. Мел Мальтон
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There is a killer at work in the sleepy village of Cedar Falls. The peaceful order of puppet-maker Polly Deacon’s back-to-nature rural life is violently interrupted when she finds her best friend Francy’s abusive husband lying dead in the dump with a hole in his chest. What’s worse, Francy can’t remember what happened the night of the murder. The cops soon get involved…and in more ways than one, as Polly finds herself falling for hunky officer Mark Becker. Afraid that the police will arrest Francy for the murder and exasperated with their ineptitude, Polly decides that only she can get to the bottom of the mysterious murder. The situation comes to a head as the outspoken and resourceful Polly begins receiving threats to her life. As she searches for answers, Polly discovers that the puzzle often points inward and she is forced to question her values and her friendships. But where there is death, there is also grief and passion, and passion in Cedar Falls is never simple, and sometimes, as Polly discovers, it can also be deadly.
Керри Сакамото
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When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of the small Ontario community must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths. Set in the 1970s, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past to explore the dire legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the war.
Лучший роман для подростков и молодежи
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Нора Макклинток
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Ever since Mick arrived in his father's hometown, people have been acting strange around him. Like father, like son, they say. But Mick's dad has done his time in prison - and besides, Mick's mom always said he was wrongfully convicted. Who is hiding the truth? And what does Mick have to do to uncover it?
Шейла Далтон
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Seventeen year-old Nathan is running - running from his past and running from his present. Raised by a white mother and never having known his native father, he must cope with prejudice and stereotypes. When he meets Sally, the beautiful outsider, he finds someone who believes in him. But when Sally's house is put to the torch by an arsonist, suspicion falls on Nathan and he finds himself embroiled in an intrigue and murder that threaten to drive the two teenagers apart
Роберт Сазерленд
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Will Martin can't believe that his father is guilty and sentenced to hang from the gallows in less than two weeks.He knows in his heart that his father, Lieutenant James Martin, could not have stolen the money stored overnight in the blockhouse of The Isthmus and then brutally murdered his commanding officer, Colonel Forrester. But the jury has been swayed by damning circumstantial evidence. Now it's up to 14-year-old Will to find the real murderer and stop the hangman's noose. Only one slim clue guides him: the colonel's missing pet parrot, whose strange and eerie mutterings may hold the key to James Martin's life.
Set in the Brockville/Westport area of Ontario, against the backdrop of the 1837 Rebellion, The Secret of Devil Lake is a race-against-time that's packed full of action, danger and perfectly timed plot twists.
"An exciting story that will keep young readers, perhaps especially the 'reluctant' kind, galloping along to the end."
- The Globe and Mail
Мэри Вудбери
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Someone is polluting Small Shadow Lake, and it looks like a job for the two young detectives. Their neighbour, Erin Darby, has the scientific skills they need to crack the case. But Erin's a mystery herself. What's she so afraid of? And what's she got against Polly? If Polly wants to solve the mystery of the polluted lake, she may have to figure out what's bugging Erin first. Mary Woodbury is the best-selling author of the young adult title The Ghost in the Machine, the Polly McDoodle Mystery Series, and Jess and the Runaway Grandpa, a finalist in the Silver Birch Young Readers Choice Award, and a Canadian Children's Book Centre "Outstanding Title of the Year."
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Лауреат
Дерек Финкл
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How can Canada put so many innocent men behind bars - and is Robert Baltovich one of them?
Many people recall Elizabeth Bain. Photos of her striking face plastered newspapers coast to coast; her tragic disappearance made headlines nationwide. It all began on Tuesday, June 19, 1990, when the twenty-two year old vanished from the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus. When Liz's empty car was found three days later, police zeroed in on 25-year-old Rob Baltovich, Liz's boyfriend of a year. Despite many loose ends, Robert Baltovich was tried and convicted. His crime? Second degree murder. His sentence? Life.
Did police apprehend the right man? Could Elizabeth's killer still be at large? A private investigator, hired by Baltovich, has devoted the last eight years to unearthing the truth. His relentless work has led to an upcoming appeal hearing which may set Baltovich free. One of his findings suggests a possible connection between Elizabeth and the then unidentified Paul Bernardo: the unnamed "Scarborough rapist" whose last known rape in the area took place in May 1990, three weeks before Bain disappeared.
Why does Canada put so many innocent men behind bars? Is Robert Baltovich one of them - another Donald Marshall, David Milgard, another Guy Paul Morin? Could Bernardo turn out to be the killer yet again? This in-depth look at a fascinating case which is once again making headlines is a harrowing journey through Canada's complex legal system and the haunting story of a man who just may be innocent - locked behind bars for killing the woman he loved.
Стиви Кэмерон
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Blue Trust has all the ingredients of a gripping thriller -- except it's all true. In the late 1980s Bruce and Lynne Verchere had it all. He was a successful tax lawyer whose clients included Brian Mulroney, and bestselling novelist Arthur Hailey. She was a computer software entrepreneur whose innovative systems revolutionized office management throughout North America.
When Lynne's company was sold Bruce could finally afford the extravagances he had long coveted: a plane, a yacht, a summer home in Maine, and a condo in Telluride. Through intricate manipulation, he was able to secrete his family's wealth beyond the reach of the taxman and even his wife.
Then Bruce Verchere fell in love. The desperate affair and dangerous ultimatum that followed provide this true story with a chilling climax. Blue Trust is a complex tale of high drama brilliantly told by one of Canada's most admired investigative journalists.
Дэвид М. Пасиокко
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Since Cain killed Abel, the crime of murder has fascinated humans. So, too, do murder trials. They enable us to be voyeurs, peering from a safe distance into the dark recesses of the human capacity for evil and deadly impulse, and allowing us to bear witness to the ceremonial punishment of wrongdoers.
If the process of fatal crime and punishment fascinates, the Canadian criminal justice system infuriates, with its technicalities, its habit of coddling offenders, its abuse of victims, its inane defences, and its parole system.
Using the docudrama of a crime of murder as a lead to each chapter, Getting Away with Murder: the Canadian Criminal Justice System unravels the mysteries of the criminal justice system, explaining how and why we sentence offenders and pointing out where we err, particularly with the parole system. It describes the reasons behind the system's technicalities and why some of the guilty receive their benefit. The book explores the inadequacies and excesses of criminal defences, and illustrates why the system is miserly when it comes to victims' rights. Suggesting that much of the loss of confidence in our criminal justice system is based on misunderstanding and inadequate information, the book provides information to fill in the gaps without becoming an apologia for the system. Although entertaining--written with a sense of humour and a bit of irreverence--the book is a serious, hard hitting, and candid work by a law professor who has acted both as prosecutor and defence counsel.
Элисон Шоу
0.0
A fascinating blend of true-crime story and psychological thriller, this book casts painfully revealing light on the life and mind of a sociopath.
Ивонн Джонсон, Руди Вибе
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"Written with primal intensity, touched with redeeming compassion, Rudy Wiebe--has explored our history, our roots and the secrets of our hearts with moral seriousness and great feeling." - Governor General's Award for Fiction Citation, l994
A powerful, major work of non-fiction, beautifully written, with the impact of Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, from the twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the great-great-granddaughter of Big Bear.
This is a story about justice, and terrible injustices, a story about a murder, and a courtroom drama as compelling as any thriller as it unravels the events that put Yvonne Johnson behind bars for life, first in Kingston's Federal Prison for Women until the riot that closed it, and presently in the Okimaw Ochi Healing Lodge in the Cypress Hills. But above all it is the unforgettable true story of the life of a Native woman who has decided to speak out and break the silence, written with the redeeming compassion that marks all Rudy Wiebe's writing, and informed throughout by Yvonne Johnson's own intelligence and poetic eloquence.
Characters and events spring to life with the vividness of fiction. The story is told sometimes in the first person by Rudy Wiebe, sometimes by Yvonne herself. He tracks down the details of Yvonne's early life in Butte, Montana, as a child with a double-cleft palate, unable to speak until the kindness of one man provided the necessary operations; the murder of her beloved brother while in police custody; her life of sexual abuse at the hands of another brother, grandfather and others; her escape to Canada - to Winnipeg and Wetaskiwin; the traumas of her life thatled to alcoholism, and her slow descent into hell despite the love she found with her husband and three children.
He reveals how she participated, with three others, in the murder of the man she believed to be a child abuser; he unravels the police story, taking us step by step, with jail-taped transcripts, through the police attempts to set one member of the group against the others in their search for a conviction - and the courtroom drama that followed. And Yvonne openly examines her life and, through her grandmother, comes to understand the legacy she has inherited from her ancestor Big Bear; having been led through pain to wisdom, she brings us with her to the point where she finds spiritual strength in passing on the lessons and understandings of her life.
How the great-great-granddaughter of Big Bear reached out to the author of The Temptations of Big Bear to help her tell her story is itself an extraordinary tale. The co-authorship between one of Canada's foremost writers and the only Native woman in Canada serving life imprisonment for murder has produced a deeply moving, raw and honest book that speaks to all of us, and gives us new insight into the society we live in, while offering a deeply moving affirmation of spiritual healing.
