Вручение 2013 г.
Страна: Австралия
Место проведения: город Мельбурн
Дата проведения: 2013 г.
Лучший криминальный роман для взрослых
Лауреат
Maggie Groff
0.0
When a secretive American cult moves to the Gold Coast, freelance journalist Scout Davis's investigative antennae start quivering. She sets out to expose the cult's lunatic beliefs and bizarre practices, but when she learns the identity of a recent recruit, her quest becomes personal. And dangerous.
The cult isn't the only case on Scout's agenda. Someone is cutting up girls' underwear at an exclusive school and Scout agrees to look into it. And the sinister secret behind the vandalism is not nice. Not at all.
But Scout has her secrets too. In the dead of night she sneaks out with an underground group of yarn bombers to decorate the locality with artworks. The next mission ticks all the right boxes – it's risky, difficult and extremely silly. However, not everyone is amused, and Scout has a sneaking suspicion that the local police sergeant, Rafe Kelly, is hot on her tail.
Лучший криминальный роман для молодежи
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Jennifer Walsh
0.0
A spooky old house, a historical mystery, an underground mine, and a rising tide—the stage is set for an exciting adventure in the tradition of Enid Blyton and Arthur Ransome
"Come round here!" called David. "We've found something."
"I'm showing them." Andrea pushed him aside. "It's my cave!" She lowered herself into the hole. Her head disappeared, and a moment later they heard her voice, faint and slightly hollow. "Come on!"
When Martin goes exploring under the cliffs with his friends David and Andrea and his sister Kitty, they find every kid's dream: a network of tunnels running under the park, with a secret exit under a mysterious ruined house. It's a great place for adventures, as long as their parents don't find out and forbid them to go there. As Kitty learns more about the old house, she begins to suspect that it is hiding something else, something very important to the ancient lady who once lived there—but as usual no one will listen to her. Martin wants to play out the fantasy adventure games he loves, David wants to forget about growing up for a while, and Andrea—well, Andrea will do anything as long as she doesn’t have to obey the rules. But David also wants to help his mother and grandfather in their fight to save the "Haunted House" from demolition, and it seems that the old lady's secret just might be the key. Are they imagining things, or are they being watched by someone who wants to see just what they are going to find in the old house?
Лучший нехудожественная криминальная книга
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Pamela Burton
0.0
Anthony Waterlow left his decrepit room in a run-down boarding house on November 11, 2009. By 6:00 pm, the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home: his sister Chloe’s in Randwick, Australia. He left behind her slaughtered body and that of their father, celebrated art curator Nick Waterlow. The pair had been stabbed multiple times, in front of Chloe’s three young children. Delving beneath the public face of a successful and affluent family to reveal private suffering, this account follows Anthony Waterlow’s descent into the pits of mental darkness. Ultimately, this book highlights the issues that confront families coping with mental illness and the failings of the health systems in times of need.
Лучшая дебютная криминальная книга
Лауреат
Maggie Groff
0.0
When a secretive American cult moves to the Gold Coast, freelance journalist Scout Davis's investigative antennae start quivering. She sets out to expose the cult's lunatic beliefs and bizarre practices, but when she learns the identity of a recent recruit, her quest becomes personal. And dangerous.
The cult isn't the only case on Scout's agenda. Someone is cutting up girls' underwear at an exclusive school and Scout agrees to look into it. And the sinister secret behind the vandalism is not nice. Not at all.
But Scout has her secrets too. In the dead of night she sneaks out with an underground group of yarn bombers to decorate the locality with artworks. The next mission ticks all the right boxes – it's risky, difficult and extremely silly. However, not everyone is amused, and Scout has a sneaking suspicion that the local police sergeant, Rafe Kelly, is hot on her tail.
Выбор читателей
Лауреат
Kerry Greenwood
2.0
In 1948 a man was found dead on an Adelaide beach. Well-dressed and unmarked, he had a half-smoked cigarette by his side, but no identity documents. Six decades on we don’t know who he was, how he got there or how he died. Somerton Man remains one of Australia’s most mysterious cold cases.
Yet it is the bizarre details of this case that make it the stuff of a spy novel. The missing labels from all his clothing. The tiny piece of paper with the words Tamam Shud found folded into a tiny bundle in his fob pocket. A mysterious code found etched inside the very book of Persian poetry from which this note was torn.
Brimming with facts that are stranger than fiction, the case has intrigued novelist Kerry Greenwood for almost her whole life. She goes on a journey into her own past to try to solve this crime, uncovering a new way of writing about true crime – and herself – as she goes.
