Вручение 2007 г.
Страна: Австралия
Место проведения: город Мельбурн
Дата проведения: 2007 г.
Лучший криминальный роман для взрослых
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Sydney Bauer
0.0
It’s the debut thriller guaranteed to pull readers in.
After the daughter of a powerful senator dies in a tragic accident, the witness to the accident, an esteemed female attorney, unexpectedly finds herself charged with murder by the girl’s vengeful father—a man with his own twisted agenda.
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Jaclyn Moriarty
0.0
The Motive
Bindy Mackenzie is the most perfect girl at Ashbury High. She scores in the 99.9th percentile in all her classes. She holds lunchtime advisory sessions for her fellow students. She keeps careful transcripts of everything said around her. And she has been Kmart casual Employee of the Month for seventeen months straight.
No wonder somebody wants to kill her.
The Suspects
Bindy is horrified to learn she must take part in the Friendship And Development Project - a new class meant to provide a "life raft" through "the tricky seas of adolescence." Bindy can't see how airheaded Emily Thompson, absentminded Elizabeth Clarry, mouthy Toby Mazzerati, malicious Astrid Bexonville, silent Briony Atkins, narcissistic Sergio Saba and handsome, enigmatic Finnegon Blonde could ever possibly help her.
(Well, maybe Finnegan could.)
The Crime
But then Bindy's perfect life begins to fall apart. She develops an obsession with the word "Cincinnati." She can't stop feeling sleepy. She fails an exam for the first time ever. And - worst of all - she just doesn’t care.
What could be the cause of all these strange events? Is it conspiracy? Is it madness? Is it . . . murder?
The Truth
Lots of people hate Bindy Mackenzie - but who would actually kill her? The answer is in Bindy's transcripts. The detectives are the members of her FAD group. But Bindy has made every one of them into an enemy . . . and time is running out.
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Карен Киссане
0.0
Julie and Jamie Ramage were the perfect middle-class Australian couple with everything: children at private schools, he - a company director, and she - a financial controller for a fashion house.
But Julie walked out of their seemingly perfect marriage. And then, one day, he killed her. Beneath the veneer of perfection there had lain a relationship marred by affairs, obsession, and a history of violence.
Jamie confessed to the killing - but declared that he had been provoked and was ,therefore, not guilty of murder as his wife had driven him over the edge.
Jamie's defence of provocation was successful, and he is now serving a prison sentence for the lesser crime of manslaughter. The woman he strangled the life from, and buried in a shallow grave had no voice in court, and no way of telling her story.
Silent Death tells Julie's story - but also takes us into the disturbing wider situation - how a killing took place in the comfort and security of a moneyed life; how friends and family either didn't see or think they should be involved. And it is the story of how a court case is about tactics and procedure first - and justice second.
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Kerry Greenwood
3.9
If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well - particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body which is found in a park, dead of malnutrition, Corinna is very disturbed indeed.
But she doesn't only have that to contend with: her hippie mother, Starshine, has turned up out of the blue, hysterical that Sunlight, Corinna's father, has absconded to Melbourne with all their money and a desire for a new young lover; someone is poisoning people with weight loss herbal teas; and then there are odd things happening at the nearby Cafe Vlad Tepes, which attracts a very strange clientele indeed. Altogether, it's a delicious recipe for murder, mayhem and mystery.
The third in the Corinna Chapman series, Devil's Food is another irresistible, criminally entertaining read from the master crime writer, Kerry Greenwood.
Лауреат
Карен Киссане
0.0
Julie and Jamie Ramage were the perfect middle-class Australian couple with everything: children at private schools, he - a company director, and she - a financial controller for a fashion house.
But Julie walked out of their seemingly perfect marriage. And then, one day, he killed her. Beneath the veneer of perfection there had lain a relationship marred by affairs, obsession, and a history of violence.
Jamie confessed to the killing - but declared that he had been provoked and was ,therefore, not guilty of murder as his wife had driven him over the edge.
Jamie's defence of provocation was successful, and he is now serving a prison sentence for the lesser crime of manslaughter. The woman he strangled the life from, and buried in a shallow grave had no voice in court, and no way of telling her story.
Silent Death tells Julie's story - but also takes us into the disturbing wider situation - how a killing took place in the comfort and security of a moneyed life; how friends and family either didn't see or think they should be involved. And it is the story of how a court case is about tactics and procedure first - and justice second.
