Вручение 30 сентября 1999 г.

Страна: США Место проведения: Милуоки, Висконсин, Bouchercon XXX Дата проведения: 30 сентября 1999 г.

Лучший роман

Лауреат
Майкл Коннелли 4.2
Бывший агент ФБР Терри Маккалеб живет размеренной жизнью на шхуне, пришвартованной в порту Лос-Анджелеса, и старается избегать стрессов: после операции по пересадке сердца врачи рекомендуют ему полный покой. Но когда к нему за помощью обращается Грасиэла Риверс, сестра которой погибла при ограблении магазина, Маккалеб не может отказать. Ведь в его груди теперь бьется сердце покойной Глории Торрес. Дело, которым занимается Маккалеб, крайне запутанное, и вскоре охоту на него начинают и ФБР и полиция. И теперь Маккейлеб должен успеть поймать хитроумного и опасного маньяка, который пойдет на все, чтобы обыграть знаменитого в прошлом охотника на серийных убийц...
Деннис Лихэйн 4.2
Пропала четырехлетняя Аманда Маккриди. Частные детективы Патрик Кензи и Энджи Дженнаро берутся за расследование. Кто мог похитить несчастного ребенка: наркоторговцы, которых обманула беспутная мать Аманды, или жуткая семейка садистов-педофилов? Дело оказывается смертельно опасным, в нем появляются все новые и новые трупы. Похоже, детективы разворошили настоящее змеиное гнездо. Они больше никому не могут доверять. Возможно, даже друг другу.
Nevada Barr 0.0
Lechuguilla Cavern is a man-eating cave discovered in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the mid-1980s. Estimated to extend for more than three hundred miles, only ninety of them mapped, the cave was formed by acid burning away the limestone; corridors, pits, cramped wormholes, cliffs, and splendid rooms the size of football fields tangle together in a maze shrouded in the utter darkness of the underground. When a fellow ranger is injured in a caving accident, Anna swallows her paralyzing fear of small spaces and descends into Lechuguilla to help a friend in need. Worse than the claustrophobia that haunts her are the signs - some natural and some, more ominously, manmade - that not everyone is destined to emerge from this wondrous living tomb. The terrain is alien and hostile; the greed and destructive powers of mankind all too familiar. In this place of internal terrors, Anna must learn who it is she can trust and, in the end, decide who is to live and who is to die.
Reginald Hill 0.0
Into thin air...

Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a young detective in those days, never found their bodies--or the person who snatched them. Then the valley where Dendale stood was flooded to create a reservoir, and the town itself ceased to be... except in Dalziel's memory.

Twelve years later, the threads of past and present are slowly winding into a chilling mosaic. A drought and dropping water table have brought Dendale's ruins into view. And a little girl has gone missing from a nearby village. Helped by Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, an older, fatter, and wiser Dalziel has a second chance to uncover the secrets of a drowned valley. And now the identity of a killer rests on what one child saw... and what another, now grown, fears with all her heart to remember...
Aileen Schumacher 0.0
When a ceiling collapses in a posh El Paso home, two dead women and a baby are pulled from the wreckage in what at first seems to be a bizarre accident. But when a secret room is discovered and the strange connection between the victims emerges, to engineer Tory Travers and detective David Alvarez it begins to look suspiciously like murder.

Лучший дебютный роман

Лауреат
Уильям Кент Крюгер 3.6
Наполовину ирландец, наполовину индеец из анишинаабе, Корк О'Коннор, бывший шериф города Авроры штата Миннесота, с трудом справляется с семейным кризисом, который разлучил его с детьми.

До переезда в Аврору, где постоянно живет не больше четырех тысяч жителей, Корк работал полицейским в Чикаго, так что его мало чем может шокировать. Но когда жестоко убит городской судья, подросток-скаут объявлен пропавшим – и сам Корк оказывается втянут в это запутанное и сбивающее с толку дело о заговоре и коррупции – то даже он приходит в ужас от тайны маленького городка.
Джеррилин Фармер 0.0
Madeline Bean, caterer to the stars, is in the middle of the biggest job of her career. She and her partner Wesley have pulled off Hollywood's most outrageous A-list Halloween party for notorious producer Bruno Huntley, complete with an eerie fortuneteller who is astonishingly accurate, and exotic food that's to die for. Before long, Bruno is thrashing and writhing out on the dance floor. Just one problem: he's not standing up, And soon, he's not even breathing.

The newly late Mr. Huntley was poisoned, that's certain. But the number of suspects with a yen to send Bruno to the devil could fill an audition for extras in the next Quentin Tarantino flick. When Wesley is arrested for the murder because of a long-standing dispute with the maniacal mogul, Madeline knows he couldn't be guilty. But to prove it, she has to wade through the muck of a mudslinging family, outrun a pair of crazed canines, dodge a pair of well-aimed bullets, and expose a slew of secrets that could put a soap opera to shame. Somebody's cooked up a murder, and it's up to Madeline to find out who--before she faces a fadeout of her own.
Жаклин Фидлер 0.0
A zoo full of cagey creatures and sketchy clues... With a habit of looking everywhere except where she's going, thirty-one-year-old wildlife artist Caroline Canfield knows one thing for sure: accidents have a way of finding her. So after her free-spirited mentor, Anthony Chirico, plunges to his suspicious death from a scaffold, Caroline initially turns down the chance to finish his jungle mural at the Fox Valley Zoo. Aware of Tony's penchant for leaving hidden messages in his work, Caroline starts to wonder if his fall was no accident -- and when she finds Tony's assistant with a knife in his throat, she gets the point that someone desperately wants to keep the zoo's new exhibit from opening.

Spurred by her desire to know the truth and uncover the secrets of the mural, Caroline reluctantly accepts the Fox Valley Zoo commission. But working at the zoo isn't a walk in the park -- animals are being threatened and "accidents" start happening with alarming frequency. If Caroline doesn't put the pieces of the puzzle together soon, she may never get out of this jungle alive.
Steve Hamilton 0.0
When first published, "A Cold Day in Paradise" won both the Edgar and Shamus awards for Best First Novel, launching Steve Hamilton into the top ranks of today's crime writers. Now, see for yourself why this extraordinary novel has galvanized the literary and mystery community as no other book before it....

Other than the bullet lodged near his heart, former Detroit cop Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, the man convicted of the crimes has been locked away for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cabin in the woods, a murderer with the same unmistakable trademarks appears to be back. McKnight can't understand who else would know the intimate details of the old murders. And it seems like it'll be a frozen day in Hell before McKnight can unravel truth from deception in a town that's anything but Paradise.
Donald Harstad 0.0
In a mesmerizing debut, cop-turned-author Donald Harstad uses real-life events to paint a jarring picture of crime in America's heartland--where two-stoplight towns no longer offer refuge from modern-day brutality.

Life in Maitland, Iowa, is usually predictable, even for a cop. But all that changes the day Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman's dispatcher receives the terrifying 911 call. The day cops find the mutilated bodies at a remote farmhouse. The first of eleven days Carl will never forget.

As hotshot investigators fly in from New York, Carl and his fellow cops use old-fashioned detective work to piece together clues. But to turn suspicions into suspects, Carl must search among his closest friends to find a killer who has shocked and bewildered cops who'd thought they'd seen it all. And before it's over, Carl will be forced into an unrelenting spiral of chaos, coming face-to-face with evil he never dreamed could exist in Maitland...or anywhere else.
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