Вручение 1994 г.

Премия вручена за 1993 год.

Страна: США Место проведения: город Лос-Анджелес Дата проведения: 1994 г.

Лучший детектив.

Лауреат
Питер Хёг 3.8
Она читает снег, как раскрытую книгу. Она верит числам, но не верит людям. Особенно - официальным лицам, тем, кто пытается ей доказать, что мальчик-гренландец просто играл на крыше и случайно сорвался вниз. Потому что она знает, как сильно он боялся высоты. Потому что следы на снегу ведут прямо к краю. И это не следы играющего ребенка.
Она - Смилла Кваавигаак Ясперсен, полудатчанка-полуэскимоска, родившаяся в Гренландии, живущая в Копенгагене. Для нее с этой смерти начинается поиск ответов на вопросы, поставленные недомолвками, голосом на старой кассете, полосами на рентгеновском снимке. Поиск, который уводит ее все дальше: город - море - лед.
К Питеру Хёгу после выхода этой книги пришла всемирная слава. Слава тем более заслуженная, что и теперь, спустя пятнадцать лет после первой публикации, этот роман по-прежнему не с чем сравнить - он неповторим, как снежинка или кристаллик льда.
Стивен Сейлор 4.3
63 год до нашей эры. Сбывается заветная мечта Гордиана Сыщика - он бросает коррумпированный Рим и уезжает из города вместе со своей семьей в поместье.
В то же самое время давнишний покровитель Гордиана Цицерон тоже достиг своей цели — стал консулом. Цицерон просит Гордиана проследить за действиями сенатора Катилины, подозреваемом в антигосударственном заговоре. Невольно Гордиан оказывается вовлеченным в сеть обманов и интриг, не подозревая об опасностях, угрожающих ему и его близким, и даже начинает сомневаться, на чьей стороне он находится.
Неожиданно обнаруженный в поместье Гордиана обезглавленный труп усложняет ситуацию. Сыщик сталкивается с самой зловещей загадкой в своей работе.
Эпическая по размаху, злободневная по описанию политических интриг, блестящая по разработке сюжета, «Загадка Катилины» увлекательно рисует разные стороны античной жизни — от обманчивого спокойствия деревни до хаоса выборов в Риме.
Майнет Уолтерс 4.0
Обстоятельства дела казались простыми: Олив Мартин призналась в убийстве своей сестры и матери. В тюрьме она получила леденящее кровь прозвище "Скульпторша".
Вот и все, что было известно журналистке Розалинде Лей, когда она отправилась на первое свидание с Олив, отбывающей пожизненный срок в заключении. Могла ли Роз предвидеть, что эта встреча навсегда изменит ее жизнь?
Sharan Newman 4.0
Catherine LeVendeur is a young scholar come to conquer her sin of pride at the Convent of the Paraclete, famous for learning, prayer, and its abbess, the fabled Heloise.

When a manuscript the convent produced for the great Abbe Suger disappears, rumors surface saying the book contains sacrilegious passages and will be used to condemn Heloise's famous lover, Peter Abelard.

To save her Order, and protect all she holds dear, Catherine must find the manuscript and discover who altered the text. She will risk disgrace, the wrath of her family and the Church, and confront an evil older than Time itself--and, if she isn't careful, lose her immortal soul.

With Death Comes As Epiphany, the first in the Catherine LeVendeur mystery series, medievalist Sharan Newman has woven dark mystery and sparkling romance into a fascinating and richly detailed tapestry of everyday life in twelfth-century France, and one of the most moving love stories of all time: Abelard and Heloise.
Marcia Muller 0.0
Successful in her investigative work for All Souls Legal Cooperative, happy with her newly renovated house, and feeling somewhat more secure in her relationship with the mysterious environmental activist, Hy Ripinsky, Sharon is shocked to find herself suddenly faced with a wrenching ultimatum. No longer a small, informal co-op, All Souls has grown. New legal partners, exasperated with Sharon's free-wheeling ways, want to kick her upstairs with a raise, perks, and a "career opportunity" that will chain her to a desk forever. Offered a take-it-or-leave-it deal, Sharon is in turmoil. And to make matters worse, Hy has disappeared. His abandoned plane, wrecked rental car, and a road map point to RKI, a firm of international security consultants with a reputation for questionable, unorthodox tactics and clients engaged in controversial research. Sharon discovers that they hired Hy as a free-lance operative and that they, too, are looking for him. Determined to find out what has happened, Sharon pushes aside her career concerns at All Souls and plunges into a search that will force her to take unlikely sanctuary in her abandoned San Diego childhood home and find and unexpected ally in her wild, unpredictable brother John. From the drive-by hiring hall for illegal aliens in Imperial Beach to an opulent villa on the Mexican coast, she will track down every clue in a complex plot that builds to a breathtaking climax on the treacherous canyon trails that lead back across the border. There, in a no-man's-land where terrified pollos defy la migra in a desperate bid for freedom...and where decisions won't wait, Sharon must make the tough choices that put her own life, her own freedom, and everythingshe holds dear at deadly risk.
Сандра Уэст Проуэлл 0.0
Phoebe Siegel has a brother who's a priest; her other brother was a cop and everyone thinks he killed himself. Her sister is a recovering drug addict. And Fee, as the folks in Billings, Montana, call her, is a divorced ex-cop with a private investigator's license. Things could be worse...and they're about to get that way. Just north of Billings, there's a place called Whispering Pines. It's a nice, gentle name, a fitting name for a rehab center. But what happens there is anything but gentle, and the things Phoebe finds out about the people who run it, about her brother, and about some of the other things that happen under the Big Sky, leave the pines anything but whispering. It begins in March, a month Fee usually takes as a vacation because everything awful that has ever happened to her has happened then. But the woman seeking help with her daughter has an ace up her sleeve. In the file she turns over there's a picture of a young woman wearing a silver Medic-Alert bracelet - and that little piece of jewelry belonged to Phoebe's dead brother. From City Hall to the run-down church where Fee's brother is pastor, from the closely guarded grounds of Whispering Pines to the back alleys of Billings, Phoebe establishes the links in the chain of events that have bound the innocent and led to cover-ups, bribery, and murder.
Don Winslow 0.0
From domestic war to ballroom brawls. grad student-turned-P.I..I. Neal Carey's got more than studying on his plate.

Graduate student Neal Carey's three-year confinement in Chinese monastery is finally over-but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to find Cody McCall, a two-year-old boy recently abducted by his father in a bitter Hollywood custody battle-a task that will propel Neal from the glittering Hollywood hills to the remote wilds of Nevada.

To find Cody, Neal has to turn outlaw in a land of two-bit casinos and roadside cathouses, and infiltrate a vicious white supremacist group spouting hatred and dealing in terror. But the deeper undercover he goes, the deadlier the game becomes. Now Neal must force a showdown with the group's crazed leader and find Cody before the missing toddler ends up lost in a world of unspeakable evil.