Вручение 2003 г.
Премия вручалась за 2002 год.
Страна: Канада
Место проведения: город Торонто
Дата проведения: 2003 г.
Лучший детективный роман
Лауреат
Рик Мофина
3.5
The disappearance and murder of a lonely San Francisco insurance clerk puts a relentless crime reporter and legendary homicide cop on separate tracks in their pursuit of a killer.
The suspect lures solitary women out of their quiet worlds and into his nightmare as he races the clock and travels the globe searching for the one woman who will forgive the unforgivable.
In the course of a widening investigation, Olivia Grant, a shy gift store sales manager who aches to escape her painful solitude, meets Ben Wyatt, an outcast San Francisco cop on the case, Wyatt is a man gripped with self-doubt over the shooting of his former partner.
Blood of Others is a study of loneliness and human frailties; a story steeped in terrifying suspense that threatens to destroy the lives of those drawn into it as it rockets to a heart-pounding conclusion
Кэти Райх
3.7
Долг службы приводит судебного антрополога Темперанс Бреннан в Центральную Америку. Задача, которую ей предстоит решить, — поиск и опознание жертв преступления многолетней давности. Но неожиданно в прошлое вторгается настоящее — в забытом богом отеле обнаружен труп девушки, одной из нескольких пропавших за последнее время. Дело отягощается тем, что одна из пропавших без вести — дочка посла Канады, и Темперанс вынуждена лавировать между двумя напастями — постоянным контролем сверху и чьими-то настойчивыми попытками помешать ей вести расследование.
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.
На русском языке книга издается впервые!
Лу Эллин
0.0
In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder, it’s now high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots chase Belle Palmer from her quiet forest paths. Then, on her remote lakeside road, the savage and unexplainable murder of an elderly neighbour puts her on guard against two-footed killers. Does the answer lie in the woods? In the alleys of the Nickel Capital? Or in the black rock moonscape of an ecological disaster area Belle’s investigations gradually uncover the sordid details of a sexual abuse scandal in a residential school years before that has left scars on its victim that can never heal. The horrifying truth and its deadly fallout may destroy many more lives before this tragedy reaches its last act.
Барбара Фрадкин
0.0
When an old man dies a seemingly natural death in a parking lot, only Inspector Michael Green finds it suspicious. Something about the closed case has caught his eye - why did the victim have a mysterious gash on his head, inflicted around the time of his death? Talking to the man’s family only increases Green’s curiosity. They are obviously hiding something about the old man, who lived in isolation as though avoiding painful memories. A search of his house turns up an old tool box with a hidden compartment containing a German ID card from World War II. Was the victim a Jewish camp survivor or a Nazi soldier trying to escape imprisonment? Or had he been a Polish collaborator who had sold his own people into slavery and death? Could someone have tracked him down for revenge? Even Green, with all his experience, could never have imagined the truth. The sequel to Do or Die is not only a tightly plotted police mystery, but a compelling tale of unhealed emotional wounds from a time of unspeakable atrocity.
Нора Келли
0.0
A great city is a mirror reflecting everyone's dreams and desperation. From Arthur Ellis Award winner Nora Kelly comes a powerful suspense story set in London.
Gillian Adams has moved to London to live with policeman Edward Gisborne, her lover of many years. Feeling displaced, she seeks out her old friend Charlotte, once a brilliant television producer. But Charlotte is sunk in despair, and her daughter Olivia, a young actress, is fleeing from a disturbed fan who may be a dangerous stalker. London, on the brink of the new millennium, boils with traffic, money and a record heat wave. After Charlotte is found dead, events gather towards an explosive climax as Olivia confronts her pursuer and the terrible sequel to a hidden past. Complex characters, diamond-sharp prose and a vivid sense of London old and new draw the reader into a novel of suspense in which love, obsession, tragedy and renewal are inextricably linked.
Лучший дебютный роман
Лауреат
Джеймс В. Николь
0.0
A terrified three-year-old boy is found clinging to a wire fence at the side of a country road. His mother had whispered to him to never let go, and then she vanished. The only clue found by authorities as to the child's identity is a photograph of two summering teenage girls and a letter presumably written from one to the other. Sixteen years later, Walker Devereaux finds himself in Toronto to uncover the truth about his biological parents, of whom he has a dim memory. Working as a cab driver, Walker befriends Krista, a pretty, demanding, wheelchair-bound night dispatcher. Krista and Walker become fast friends, and she can't help but involve herself with Walker's quest to understand his shrouded identity. Soon enough, though, their off-hours sleuthing turns perilous as they become the prey of another abandoned boy who has transformed himself into the embodiment of his own desperate, violent, and sinister pathologies
Томас Ренделл Карран
0.0
May 1947 in St. John's, a woman is brutally murdered in her bath. In the same neighbourhood, in 1943, a young American soldier was also murdered, a crime that was never solved. Two murders, four years apart. One killer or two? Inspector Eric Stride of the Newfoundland Constabulary uncovers a complex web of evidence and circumstance, following a trail that goes back more than twenty years. Along the way, Stride finds that his own life is in danger. Undertow is set against the backdrop of wartime and post-war Newfoundland, in a time of social and political upheaval.
Джонатон Платц
0.0
Nominated for the 2003 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel, and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book.
Кевин Дж. Портер
0.0
A murder, unlike no other, has been committed by a serial killer who believes Hannibal Lecter would envy his techniques. In tracking down the killer, Kevin Porter takes his readers on a breathless trail in and around Hollywood North (Vancouver, Canada), including the set locations of The X-Files. Because of its style, Come Clean allows readers to be a jump ahead of Porter, thus being privy to his foibles and flaws of character. As the unrelenting tension builds, Porter shares intimacies about his ten-year inter-generational relationship with a young gay man, Brent Barnes. Poignant, but often hilarious, these "personal" insights are a welcome relief from the heart-thumping suspense that builds right up to the final moments of Come Clean.
Praise for Come Clean
"I knew I'd met a unique author/hero in Kevin Porter. Moving through layers of mystery in plot and character, he blends horror, humor, and grace with rare professionalism. (Beverley Simons, playwright-Crabdance, Leela Means to Play)
"Come Clean is not for the fainthearted. I dare you to read this thriller." (Ronald O'Connell, book printer)
"I see a suspense movie here." (Mark Lewis, film director of Ill-Fated)
"Poignant and riveting, Come Clean takes the reader to the heights of suspense." (Dr. Jennifer Hurd, Literary Editor, Houghton Mifflin)
Лучший детектив на французском языке
Лауреат
Жак Кот
0.0
Car je ne puis trouver parmi ces pâles roses/Une fleur qui ressemble à mon rouge idéal. Ces vers tirés des Fleurs du mal de Baudelaire acquièrent soudain un charme vénéneux quand on les retrouve en exergue du Rouge idéal, cinquième roman de Jacques Côté. Pourquoi ? On le comprendra dès les premières pages de cette seconde enquête menée par le lieutenant Daniel Duval, enquêteur à la Sûreté du Québec qui faisait ses premières armes dans Nébulosité croissante en fin de journée.
Au cours du mois d'octobre 1979, on découvre, dans un collège de jeunes filles de Québec, une main coupée, empalée sur un piquet de clôture. Enroulée autour de l'index, telle une funeste alliance, se trouve une bande de papier sur laquelle quelqu'un a écrit : Mes amours décomposés. La veille, à l'université Laval, on a trouvé dans le boisé le cadavre d'un chien dépecé au scalpel puis, sur les murs d'un corridor, un graffiti écrit en lettres rouges : au bout de ton sang, femelle. Pour traquer ce malade misogyne fou de poésie, Daniel Duval devra reléguer au second plan ses angoisses de père et sa relation naissante avec Laurence.
Jacques Côté met ses talents de conteur au service d'un style, le roman policier, qu'il maîtrise de mieux en mieux. Le Rouge idéal lui permet d'entrer de plain-pied dans le cercle restreint des auteurs de polar made in Québec. --Marie Claude Fortin
Лучший роман для подростков и молодежи
Лауреат
Нора Макклинток
0.0
First it’s cheating on a test, then breaking into her teacher’s car... Somebody is trying to set Chloe up, but who’d want to get her into trouble? As she tries to figure out who’s framing her, Chloe hears about a series of break and enters…and ultimately stumbles upon a dead body and a big mystery.
Лучший детективный рассказ
Премия "Кастет" за лучшую криминальную документальную книгу
Лауреат
Эндрю Митровица
0.0
A unique, unprecedented look at the inner workings of our domestic secret service by a leading investigative reporter. An alarming portrait of incompetence -- and worse -- inside the agency that is supposed to protect us from terrorism.
Canada’s espionage agency enjoys operating deep in the shadows. Set up as a civilian force in the early eighties after the RCMP spy service was abolished for criminal excesses, no news is good news for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). This country’s spymasters work diligently to prevent journalists, politicians and watchdog agencies from prying into their secret world.
Few journalists have come close to rivalling Andrew Mitrovica at unveiling the stories CSIS does not want told. In Covert Entry, the award-winning investigative reporter uncovers a disturbing pattern of corruption, law-breaking and incompetence deep inside the service, and provides readers with a troubling window on its daily operations.
At its core, Covert Entry traces the eventful career of a veteran undercover operative who worked on some of the service’s most sensitive cases and was ordered to break the law by senior CSIS officers, in the name of national security. Like Philip Agee’s Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Mitrovica’s book delivers a ground-level, day-to-day look at who is actually running the show in clandestine operations inside Canada. The picture he paints does not fill one with confidence and definitively shatters the myth that CSIS respects the rights and liberties it is charged with protecting.
