Вручение 2011 г.
Страна: Великобритания
Дата проведения: 2011 г.
Золотой Кинжал
Лауреат
Том Франклин
3.3
Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy.
Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county—and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.
More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.
Steve Hamilton
4.1
"I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me.
But you can call me Mike."
Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. Whether it's a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe ... he can open them all. It's an unforgivable talent. A talent that will make young Michael a hot commodity with the wrong people and, whether he likes it or not, push him ever close to a life of crime. Until he finally sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.
Steve Hamilton steps away from his Edgar Award-winning Alex McKnight series to introduce a unique new character, unlike anyone you've ever seen in the world of crime fiction.
A.D. Miller
3.6
A.D. Miller's Snowdrops is a riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a thirty-something Englishman's moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets - and corpses- come to light only when the deep snows start to thaw...
A chilling story of love and moral freefall: of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible man. It is taut, intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens to overwhelm, its narrator.
Denise Mina
0.0
When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family.
Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder. It's a web that will spiral through Alex's own home, the local community, and ultimately right back to a swinging rope, hundreds of miles away.
The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and multi-layered novel about family's power of damage-and redemption.
Криминальная литература в переводе
Лауреат
Андерс Рослунд, Берге Хелльстрем
3.6
Писательский дуэт тележурналиста Андерса Рослунда, автора криминальных репортажей, и Бёрье Хелльстрёма, специалиста по реабилитации уголовников, музыканта и барда, оказался на редкость успешным: их детективная сага о комиссаре Эверте Гренсе, переведенная на три десятка языков, принесла создателям множество наград, включая "Стеклянный ключ” и многочисленные призы читательских симпатий. “Три секунды”, пятый роман цикла, признанный “Книгой года” Шведской академией детектива и удостоенный “Кинжала” Британской ассоциации авторов-детективщиков, в настоящее время экранизируется голливудской студией 20th Century Fox.
Фред Варгас
4.3
Недаром Адамбергу не хотелось ехать на скучный полицейский коллоквиум в Лондон. Там-то и началась эта рискованная игра в крестики-нолики - игра не на жизнь, а на смерть. Жуткая находка перед зловещим Хайгетским кладбищем и рассказы Данглара о хайгетских вампирах оказались лишь прелюдией к кровавому кошмару в Гарше, ожидавшему их на родине, а черный туннель под Ла-Маншем, так пугавший Данглара, стал для Адамберга началом долгого пути, который привел его в заповедное место - сербскую деревушку Кисельево...
Андреа Камиллери
0.0
Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia is on the rocks, he feels himself getting even older and he's growing tired of the violence in his job.
Then the dead body of a young woman is found. Her identity is at first unknown; a tattoo of a sphinx moth on her left shoulder links her with three other girls bearing the same mark. Victims of an underworld sex trade, these girls have been rescued by a Catholic charity organization. The problem is they can't help Montalbano with his enquiries. They are all missing…
Ernesto Mallo
0.0
"This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery."—Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize
"This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies. . . . But above all he knows how to narrate."—Ana María Shua, author of El peso de la tentación
Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. Sent to investigate a double murder, he arrives at the crime scene to find three bodies. Two are clearly the work of the Junta's death squads, murders he is forced to ignore; the other one seems different.
The trail leads Lascano through a decadent Argentina, a country poisoned to its core by the tyranny of the regime. The third corpse turns out to be that of Biterman, moneylender and Auschwitz survivor. When Lascano digs too deep, he must confront Giribaldi, an army major, quick to help old friends but ruthless in dealing with dissenters such as Eva, the young militant with whom Lascano is falling in love.
Born in 1948, Ernesto Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a former anti-Junta militant who was pursued by the dictatorship. Needle in a Hay Stack is his first novel and the first in a trilogy with superintendent Lascano. The first two are being made into films.
Жан-Франсуа Паро
4.1
"Убийство в особняке Сен-Флорантен" - пятый том о расследованиях комиссара Шатле Николя Ле Флока из цикла романов популярного французского автора Жана-Франсуа Паро.
1774 год, смерть Людовика XV вынуждает Сартина, начальника комиссара Шатле Николя Ле Флока, уйти с поста генерал-лейтенанта полиции. Преемником Сартина становится некий Ленуар, под началом которого Николя поручается расследовать убийство горничной, найденной с перерезанным горлом в особняке господина Сен-Флорантена, министра нового короля. Розыск убийцы предстоит вести не только в Париже, но и за его пределами и даже при дворе Людовика XVI в Версале, где, помимо всего прочего, Николя предстоит нелегкая задача укрепить свое пошатнувшееся положение...
Domingo Villar
0.0
One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on what appears to be a suicide. But details soon come to light that turn this routine matter into a complex murder investigation. Finding out the truth is not easy when the villagers are so suspicious of outsiders. As Caldas delves into the maritime life of the village, he uncovers a disturbing decade-old case of a shipwreck and two mysterious disappearances.
Стальной Кинжал Яна Флемминга
Лауреат
Стив Гамильтон
4.1
Майкл, страдающий немотой, может быстро открыть любой замок и потому быстро становится добычей воротил преступного мира. Он понимает, что ему придётся призвать на помощь все свои таланты и хитрость, чтобы вырваться из рабства. И вернуться к единственному человеку, способному помочь ему разоблачить страшную тайну детства.
Michael Gruber
0.0
New York Times bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of "the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind" (The Denver Post), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspense
Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group. While her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims, Sonia tries to keep them all alive by working her way into the kidnappers' psyches and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of their language, her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian training, Sonia confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. Meanwhile, when the kidnappers decide to kill their captives, one by one, in retaliation for perceived crimes against their country, Theo races against the clock to try and save their lives.
Craig Smith
0.0
The author of The Blood Lance and The Painted Messiah demonstrates his versatility with this dark, stylish noir thriller set on and around a Midwestern university campus
I turned thirty-seven that summer, older than Dante when he toured Hell, but only by a couple of years.
Life couldn't be better for David Albo, an associate professor of English at a small midwestern university. He lives in an idyllic, out-of-town, plantation-style mansion with a beautiful and intelligent wife and an adoring teenage stepdaughter. As he returns to the university after a long and relaxing sabbatical, there is a full professorship in the offingand, what's more, he has managed to stay off the booze for two whole years. But, once term begins, things deteriorate rapidly. The damning evidence that he has sexually harassed his students is just the beginning as Dave finds himself sucked into a vortex of conspiracy, betrayal, jealousy, and murder. Unless he can discover quickly who is out to destroy him, all that he is and loves is about to be stripped away.
С. Дж. Уотсон
4.0
Каждое утро Кристин Лукас просыпается в незнакомой комнате, в постели с мужчиной, которого не узнает. Каждое утро этот мужчина терпеливо объясняет Кристин, что он ее муж, а она страдает амнезией с тех пор, как в молодости попала в аварию. По совету врача, занимающегося ее случаем, Кристин втайне от мужа начинает вести дневник, записывая туда все, что ей удается узнать и вспомнить в течение дня. Отчаянно пытаясь сложить из обрывков воспоминаний свое прошлое, Кристин задает все больше вопросов — себе и окружающим. Но каждое новое воскресшее воспоминание все больше пугает ее, ей все сложнее понять, что же на самом деле случилось с ней много лет назад, что именно стерло из памяти всю ее прежнюю жизнь?
Кинжал Джона Кризи - Новая кровь
Лауреат
С. Дж. Уотсон
4.0
Каждое утро Кристин Лукас просыпается в незнакомой комнате, в постели с мужчиной, которого не узнает. Каждое утро этот мужчина терпеливо объясняет Кристин, что он ее муж, а она страдает амнезией с тех пор, как в молодости попала в аварию. По совету врача, занимающегося ее случаем, Кристин втайне от мужа начинает вести дневник, записывая туда все, что ей удается узнать и вспомнить в течение дня. Отчаянно пытаясь сложить из обрывков воспоминаний свое прошлое, Кристин задает все больше вопросов — себе и окружающим. Но каждое новое воскресшее воспоминание все больше пугает ее, ей все сложнее понять, что же на самом деле случилось с ней много лет назад, что именно стерло из памяти всю ее прежнюю жизнь?
Conor Fitzgerald
0.0
An engrossing novel of murder, organized crime, and politics in contemporary Italy—the first in a series of Italian crime novels by a promising new writer.
On a hot summer morning, Arturo Clemente is sloppily murdered in his Roman apartment by a mysterious slasher. Though the murder appears amateurish, even random, Clemente is no ordinary victim. An animal rights activist campaigning against dogfighting, he is married to a prominent politician and sleeping with Manuela Fusco, the daughter of a dangerous crime boss.
Police inspector Alec Blume has a favorite suspect, but the investigation is already being manipulated by both the Senate and the Fusco crime ring. As the details of the case continue to trickle out, Blume soon realizes he is being watched from on high—and that solving this crime may be the least of his worries. Angry, sleep-deprived, and unsure who to trust, Blume is losing control of his investigation. As the mob tightens its grip on the city, and with the killer still at large, Blume’s struggle for justice may cost more innocent lives.
In this riveting debut novel, we are introduced to Blume, an American expatriate and seasoned police veteran. Intelligent yet sometimes petulant, instinctive yet flawed, Blume is a likable and trustworthy protagonist for this first installment of a gritty and promising series.
Sam Hawken
0.0
A visceral crime novel based on the true story of mass murder in a Mexican border town
In the last twenty years, over 3000 women have disappeared from Ciudad Juárez, on the border between Mexico and the USA. Sam Hawken takes this story of mass murder and abduction and around it weaves the story of Kelly Courter, a washed up boxer from Texas, who doesn't mind playing the stooge in the ring, so long as he gets paid.Courter is sucked into the underworld of organised crime that flourishes in the city, soon finding himself in way over his head. As his life spins out of control he becomes obsessed with seeking the truth about the female victims of Juárez. Sam Hawken is a classic American voice and Kelly Courteris a timeless American hero, fighting for freedom and justice in this fast-paced and brutal novel.
Дэнни Миллер
0.0
Set in Brighton over the bank holiday weekend of 1964, an ambitious and handsome young detective Vince Treadwell is sent down to solve a murder and catch the elusive and powerful gangster, Jack Regent. In the tangled web of the crime, Vince falls for Jack's beautiful girlfriend, Bobbie LaVita, and discovers the truth about their own dark pasts.
Элизабет Хейнс
4.2
Любовь опасна, иногда смертельно опасна.
Кэти Бейли, красивая молодая англичанка, знает об этом не понаслышке и не из криминальных хроник. Однажды на пути Кэти встречается мужчина ее мечты. Человек-загадка, мужественный красавец, едва ли не супермен, он стремительно завоевывает сердце девушки. Могла ли она догадываться, что под маской красавца и супермена скрывается безжалостное чудовище и Кэти не первая, кого он выбрал для своей смертельной игры.
Erin Kelly
2.0
With its hip London backdrop and expert pacing, Erin Kelly's masterful debut, "The Poison Tree," delivers all the way through to its shocker of an ending. London, 1997. Karen meets exotic, flamboyant Biba and, spellbound, she moves into the crumbling mansion Biba shares with her enigmatic brother, Rex. Drugs and wine flow as Rex and Karen begin an affair, but their summer of freedom is about to end in blood. Ten years later, Karen and nine-year-old Alice pick up Rex from his stint in prison for murder. When old ghosts come calling, Karen will do whatever it takes to protect her family. She is a womanwith everything to lose.
Розамунд Лаптон
3.7
«Разгадай мою смерть» – роман британской писательницы Розамунд Лаптон, сразу покоривший рейтинги продаж в Великобритании и США.
Беатрис Хемминг, тяжело переживающая смерть младшей сестры Тесс, не верит, что та совершила самоубийство. Беатрис убеждена – Тесс убили.
Но кто убийца?
Женатый любовник, от которого забеременела ее сестра? Однокурсник, докучавший ей чрезмерным вниманием? Или таинственный человек в маске, которого все вокруг считали лишь порождением неуемного воображения Тесс? Полиция отказывается проверять подозрения Беатрис. И тогда она решает разгадать тайну гибели сестры самостоятельно – чего бы это ни стоило…
Роман написан от первого лица, в виде письма от старшей сестры, Беатрис, к младшей, Тесс, которая стала жертвой жестокого убийства.
Роман будет экранизирован в 2014-2015 году. Главную роль исполнит Эмили Блант.
Джейсон Уэбстер
0.0
Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb.
Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting, but one hot afternoon in Valencia he has to judge a festival corrida starring Spain's most famous young matador. That night he is back in the ring, and what he finds on the bloodstained sand shocks the city of Valencia to its core. As Camara hunts his prey through the streets and bars, firecrackers echo for the festival of Fallas, and the town hall election. The anti-bullfighting campaigners and the breeders of prize beasts fight to the death. The bullring is a test of virility, but should it be a site of national pride or shame?
Or the Bull Kills You has a brilliantly authentic setting and a great detective, with a love of flamenco and brandy. This is the first of a series of books starring the quirky and forceful Camara - a man clearly destined to make his mark.
Кинжал Дебютанта
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Michele Rowe
0.0
When Detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas is forced to work with retired criminal psychologist Dr Marge Labuschagne to solve the murder of a suspected sex offender, suspicion and distrust threaten to derail the investigation. Persy believes the killer is her childhood sweetheart, now turned vicious gangster; Marge is sure the answer lies in the victim's shady past.
As the women race against time and their own prejudice to hunt the killer, past and present collide, unearthing long buried secrets and lies. As the hunt intensifies they realise they have more in common than they think and are bound in ways they could never have imagined. Finally faced with a ruthless killer, it seems that the darkest secrets are the ones they are hiding from themselves
Peter Wynn Norris
0.0
It's 1952 and the "Winds of Change" are beginning to blow. African nationalism is gaining strength - unrest and rebellion are in the air. The unscheduled refuelling of the new young Queen's plane at Entebbe Airport presents the perfect opportunity for a lone assassin. Rosemary is facing her own "Winds of change." Has she lived too long in the shadow of her District Commissioner husband? Is it time to assert her independence? With the help of Flora, an outcast "soul stealer" sculptress, Rosemary's life begins to take a new path - a route that leads straight to the would-be royal assassin. Peter Wynn Norris was a policeman, first in the SIB of the Royal Military Police, then in the Hertfordshire Constabulary and finally in Uganda. He has written several prize winning short stories and two of his novels - "A Quiet Night At Entebbe" and "The Long Train" - have been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger.
Исторический кинжал
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Andrew Martin
0.0
The Somme Stations plunges into the horrors of World War One trench combat. Stringer and his unit must undertake dangerous nocturnal assignments: driving the trains taking munitions to the front. Death is everywhere, as the trains travel through blasted surrealistic landscapes, and a single-minded military policeman continues to investigate a killing that occurred before the departure for France.
