Вручение 2008 г.
Премия вручена за 2007 год.
Страна: Австралия
Дата проведения: 2008 г.
Лучший криминальный роман
Лауреат
Michael Robotham
3.8
In Michael Robotham’s latest thriller, psychologist Joe O’Loughlin—the appealing hero of Suspect—tries to prevent a suicide and finds himself locked in a deadly duel with a very clever killer.
Joe O'Loughlin is on familiar territory—standing on a bridge high above a flooded gorge, trying to stop a distraught woman from jumping. She is naked, wearing only high-heel shoes, sobbing into a cell phone. Suddenly, she turns to him and whispers, “You don’t understand,” and lets go. Joe is shattered by the suicide and haunted by his failure to save the woman, until her teenage daughter finds him and reveals that her mother would never have committed suicide—not like that. She was terrified of heights. Compelled to investigate, Joe is soon obsessed with discovering who was on the other end of the phone. What could have driven her to commit such a desperate act? Whose voice? What evil?
Having devoted his career to repairing damaged minds, Joe must now confront an adversary who tears them apart: a man who searches for the cracks in a person’s psyche and claws his fingers inside, destroying what makes them whole.
With pitch-perfect dialogue, believable characters, and intriguingly unpredictable plot twists, Shatter is guaranteed to keep even the most avid thriller readers riveted long into the night.
Шейн Мэлоуни
0.0
Now pushing fifty, Murray Whelan is spinning his wheels in parliament—a toothless cog in Labor’s stalled political machine.
But when the remains of a long-lost union official are found in dried-up Lake Nillahcootie, Murray soon gets sucked into some murky waters. For a start, it seems that his old mate Charlie Talbot was implicated. But Charlie has just dropped dead of a coronary occlusion in the dining room of the Mildura Grand Hotel, leaving behind a lot of unanswered questions. The press are sniffing around and Labor's enemies are lining up for a free kick. Then there's the blackmail attempt.
And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s an ALP preselection going pear-shaped.
Eagerly awaited by his legion of fans, Shane Maloney's sixth Murray Whelan mystery sees the clown prince of the true believers in vintage form.
Лучший первый криминальный роман
Лауреат
Крис Уомерсли
0.0
Unflinching, relentless, and powerfully written, The Low Road paints a searing portrait of two desperate men thrown together by chance as they both try to flee their troubled pasts. This savage noir surprises and grips at every turn. Young petty criminal Lee wakes up in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side, a suitcase of stolen money, and only a hazy idea of how he got there. Wild, a drug-addicted doctor also taking refuge at the motel, is forced by the proprietor to save Lee's life--and move him out before the police show up. Connected by this twist of fate, the two strangers go on the lam, becoming the wariest of traveling companions. As the two men reflect on how they arrived at this point in their lives, the past pursues them in the form of an aging gangster determined to retrieve Lee's suitcase of money--and punish him for the theft. Award-winning and critically acclaimed, The Low Road seduces readers with its poetic language and unique and indelible protagonists.
Кэтрин Ховелл
3.6
У Софи Филипс есть все, чтобы быть счастливой: собственный дом, любящий муж, десятимесячный сын и любимая работа. Она парамедик, ее дело - спасать жизни тех, кому нужна помощь. Но иногда обстоятельства оказываются сильнее. Во время очередного вызова Софи принимала роды, но и мать, и ребенок умерли. Убитый горем отец угрожает ей, а днем позже ее собственного ребенка похищают, выстрелив ее мужу в голову.
Полиция сбивается с ног, проверяя различные версии, а Софи начинает независимое расследование. Читатель убедится, что мать, утратившая ребенка, способна на безумные поступки...
Лучшее настоящее преступление
Лауреат
Эван Макхью
0.0
Journey into Australia's heart of darkness...
. . . where life is lived by a different set of rules and it is easy for criminals to disappear into the vast landscape - and yet it can be difficult to remain anonymous. The worst aspects of human nature reveal themselves in the red centre.
Beginning with the chilling tale of convict and cannibal Alexander Pearce, Red Centre, Dark Heart explores historic and recent true-crime in the outback, including the Belango State Forest murders and the disappearance of Peter Falconio. Read these stories and you'll discover that Australia's dark heart is frighteningly close to home.
