Вручение 2002 г.

Премия вручена за 2001 год.

Страна: США Дата проведения: 2002 г.

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Thomas Perry 0.0
“Perry is the best suspense writer in the business. . . . Pursuit is relentless, filled with twists and turns, that rare page-turner that keeps one reading late into the night to finish.”
–The Boston Globe

Thirteen bodies are found in a Louisville restaurant. When the police can find no suspect or motive, a victim’s family seeks the services of the enigmatic and solitary specialist Roy Prescott, known for his ability to find people who don’t want to be found. Working outside the law and willing to do what the police can’t, Prescott hunts the killer, an elusive adversary who is as smart, as methodical, as deadly as he is. The only way to conduct this pursuit is to goad the killer into believing that he must kill Roy Prescott. It is a contest fought from one end of the country to the other, and both men understand that when it’s over, only one of them will be alive.


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Т. Джефферсон Паркер 3.8
Жизнь Джо, замкнутого мальчика с обезображенным лицом, круто меняется, когда его усыновляет Уилл Трона - сильный и мужественный шериф, человек, с мнением которого считаются влиятельные политики и бизнесмены.

Повзрослев, Джо становится правой рукой обожаемого отца, своего идола и кумира. Но однажды привычный и надежный мир Джо рушится: Уилла Трону убивают у него на глазах.

Готовый пойти на все, чтобы отыскать убийцу отца, Джо начинает собственное расследование и делает поразительное открытие: шериф Трона вел двойную жизнь, полную опасных связей и грязных секретов.
Все глубже погружаясь в тайное прошлое отца, Джо понимает, что сам стал мишенью для многочисленных врагов убитого шерифа.
Джо Горес 0.0
In San Francisco, Dan Kearny Associates raids a classic car dealership, while in Los Angeles, a Gypsy's dying words finger a Gypsy princess for his murder. In Hong Kong, a unique treasure has been stolen by gimlet-eyed L.A. oil tycoon Victor Hess -- making Willem Ban de Post, in Rome, plot across continents with his uncle, the King of the Gypsies, to get it back. The mayhem continues when the Gypsies hire DKA to find their framed damsel in distress before the cops do, and a German baron hires DKA to test the defenses at Hess' mountain fortress. But no one is exactly who or what they seem: everyone is conning, scamming, and grifting on all their twisted roads to Rome.
George Pelecanos 0.0
A couple of ex-policemen turned private detectives are hired to investigate the death of a black policeman at the hands of a white one. The two detectives soon find themselves up against institutionalised racism and the worst killers in the USA.
Томас Перри 0.0
A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California insurance company, John Walker knows when people will marry, at what age they will most likely have children, and when they will die. All signs point to a long successful career?until Max Stillman, a gruff security consultant, appears without warning at the office. It seems a colleague with whom Walker once had an affair has disappeared after paying a very large death benefit to an impostor. Stillman wants to find and convict her; Walker is convinced the woman is innocent. Now Walker teams up with Stillman on an urgent north-by-northeast race? relentlessly leading to a pay-off that just might shock the life out of him. . . .

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Карин Слотер 3.8
Садистски жестокое убийство всколыхнуло тихий провинциальный городок.
Но когда еще одна молодая женщина едва не погибла от рук маньяка, атмосфера в городке накалилась до предела.
Кто этот маньяк?
По какому принципу выбирает жертвы?
Расследование начинают коронер Сара Линтон, шеф полиции Джеффри Толливер и сестра одной из жертв преступника - детектив Лена Адаме.
Они двигаются вслепую. У них нет ни единой зацепки. Но если они не остановят маньяка, кровь прольется опять.
Роберт Ройланд 0.0
Brooklyn prosecutor Andrew Giobberti can still remember himself as a father, as a husband, and as the chief of the Homicide Bureau, working out of a hard city’s hardest precincts. That was before a car accident took his daughter but left him untouched—except where it matters. That was before his wife walked out. That was before he became mired in blame and regret that for a year has emptied his life of all meaning and purpose. Everyone wrote him off as too far gone for saving.

Then a case crosses Gio’s desk—the murder of a young girl—that may change everything. Over one impossibly hot August, Gio confronts the fine line that separates the guilty from the innocent, the killers from those who put them away. And as he seeks the girl’s killer, the truth he uncovers may be the final hit. Or it may give him back his life.