Вручение 17 октября 2002 г.
Страна: США
Место проведения: Bouchercon XXXIII, Остин, штат Техас
Дата проведения: 17 октября 2002 г.
Лучший роман в жанре исторического детектива
Лауреат
Мириам Монфредо
0.0
In 1862, while troops prepare to capture Richmond, undercover agent Bronwen Llyr begins her own battle: to free her brother from prison. But as time escapes her, so does hope.
Барбара Клеверли
4.5
In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who survived the horror of the Western Front and has endured six sultry months in English-ruled Calcutta. Sandilands is ordered to investigate, and soon discovers that there have been other mysterious deaths, hearkening sinister ties to the present case.Now, as the sovereignty of Britain is in decline and an insurgent India is on the rise, Sandilands must navigate the treacherous corridors of political decorum to bring a cunning killer to justice…knowing the next victim is already marked to die.
Джозеф Кэнон
0.0
With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam Conference. His assignment: a series of articles on the Allied occupation. His personal agenda: to find Lena, the German mistress he left behind at the outbreak of the war.
When Jake stumbles on a murder -- an American soldier washes up on the conference grounds -- he thinks he has found the key that will unlock his Berlin story. What Jake finds instead is a larger story of corruption and intrigue reaching deep into the heart of the occupation. Berlin in July 1945 is like nowhere else -- a tragedy, and a feverish party after the end of the world.
As Jake searches the ruins for Lena, he discovers that years of war have led to unimaginable displacement and degradation. As he hunts for the soldier's killer, he learns that Berlin has become a city of secrets, a lunar landscape that seethes with social and political tension. When the two searches become entangled, Jake comes to understand that the American Military Government is already fighting a new enemy in the east, busily identifying the "good Germans" who can help win the next war. And hanging over everything is the larger crime, a crime so huge that it seems -- the worst irony -- beyond punishment.
At once a murder mystery, a moving love story, and a riveting portrait of a unique time and place, The Good German is a historical thriller of the first rank.
Оуэн Пэрри
0.0
Union Major Abel Jones, Welsh immigrant and veteran of Britain's distant wars, survives the battle's slaughter only to face the riddle of a different kind of massacre. Far from the cries and smoke of combat, forty murdered slaves hang at a crossroads. Their blood may be on Northern as well as Southern hands, with devastating political repercussions. Though few are concerned over the lost lives, one man insists on justice -- a plain-speaking officer with a Welsh lilt, a limp, and his own troubled conscience. But the chain of death soon proves as brutal and consuming as the war itself, dragging Major Jones into a dark world of midnight savagery, ritual murder, and sudden combat, as desperate men and women struggle to survive the fury of a divided nation.
Troy Soos
0.0
In "Island of Tears," Troy Soos surpasses his previous achievements, delivering a novel that seamlessly weaves an intriguing mystery with an impeccably detailed historical setting and a cast of fully-realized, complex and interesting characters -- both real and imagined.On January 1, 1892, the first immigrant ship arrived at Ellis Island. For those on board, the journey was full of sorrow and hardships. Leaving families and homes behind, they sought a new beginning in the land of opportunity. But what awaited them was corruption and exploitation by those who saw the immigrants' plight as a path to profit.
Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb finds himself embroiled in this world after a chance encounter with a young Dutch girl who vanishes from Ellis Island moments after she arrives.
Stalled by bureaucrats, Marshall's investigation takes him to Chandler House and reformer Rebecca Davies. Amid the abused women and the runaway children, Marshall learns the harsh reality of how the other half truly lives.
When he uncovers white slavery and murder, Webb realizes how far the powerful will go to protect their illicit enterprises. With Rebecca's help, he is determined to stand against the corrupt criminal and political machine -- and prove that justice doesn't come at a price.
Лучший дебют США в жанре исторического детектива
Лауреат
Rhys Bowen
4.0
Meet Molly Murphy, a resourceful young woman who lives by her own set of laws. Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother had predicted. So when she commits murder in self-defence, she flees her cherished Ireland for the anonymous shores of America. When she arrives in New York and sees the welcoming promise of freedom in the Statue of Liberty, Molly begins to breathe a little easier. But then a man is murdered on Ellis Island. a man last seen arguing with Molly - so she becomes the prime suspect in the crime. Escaping Ellis Island, she sets out to find the killer on her own, pounding the notorious streets of Hell's Kitchen on New York's Lower East Side in a bid to clear her name before her deadly past comes back to haunt her new future.
Глен Дэвид Голд
4.1
"Ревущие двадцатые", описанные в удивительной интеллектуальной манере..."
"Восхитительный коктейль из "Регтайма, "Дж.Ф.К." - и абсолютно оригинального авторского стиля..."
Вот лишь немногое из восторженных отзывов на роман Глена Дэвида Голда "Картер побеждает дьявола", в котором причудливо и изысканно переплетаются история расследования обстоятельств загадочной смерти президента США Хардинга, история "золотого века" американского цирка и своеобразная летопись веселых, безумных и богемных 20-х гг. прошлого века.
Чарльз O'Брайен
0.0
Рicture the Scarlet Pimpernell as a woman--dealing with murder before the Terror made heads roll...
It's the eve of the French Revolution. Fiscal crisis and social tensions brew. Anne Cartier, a headstrong young vaudeville actress at Sadler's Wells company in London hears terrible news. Her stepfather, the actor Antoine Dubois has mysteriously died in Paris. The official verdict: he killed his mistress, then himself. Anne enlists the aid of Colonel Paul de Saint-Martin and his adjutant Georges Charpentier of the royal highway patrol. But, in her search for truth, Anne befriends a deaf, illiterate seamstress with a talent for puppetry who gives Anne an entre into the Palais Royale. Her quest further confronts her with an amateur theatrical society of dissolute young noblemen; a tormented female botanist; a sadistic aesthete; a rich, well-connected financier; a professional assassin.
Unravelling the mystery tests Anne's nerve as well as her remarkable acrobatic skills. At a critical juncture in the investigation, she acts the part of an exotic queen in Indian costume at a reception. Priceless Indian jewelry disappears. Its owner, an aged count is murdered. And a venal police inspector threatens to derail Anne's project.
The story rises to a violent climax in a vast limestone caveoutside Paris where the city has begun to bury its dead. Historian O'Brien's debut novel is elegantly written as befits the times and explores borders between countries and between layers of society. Few have chosen to place a crime novel here. O'Brien makes us wonder why.
Джон Рэй
0.0
This extraordinary debut novel from Whiting Writers’ Award winner John Wray is a poetic portrait of a life redeemed at one of the darkest moments in world history.
Twenty years after deserting the army in the first world war, Oskar Voxlauer returns to the village of his youth. Haunted by his past, he finds an uneasy peace in the mountains–but it is 1938 and Oskar cannot escape from the rising tide of Nazi influence in town. He attempts to retreat to the woods, only to be drawn back by his own conscience and the chilling realization that the woman whose love might finally save him is bound to the local SS commander. Morally complex, brilliantly plotted, and heartbreakingly realized, The Right Hand of Sleep marks the beginning of an important literary career.
Patricia Wynn
0.0
In the turbulent reign of George I in England, Gideon Viscount St. Mars is accused of murdering his own father. Having no friends in the courts, he must escape to avoid being hanged. With the help of Hester Kean, the only person who believes in his innocence, he assumes the guise of highwayman "Blue Satan" to investigate the political intrigue that caused his father's death in a swashbuckling tale of romance and adventure.
Лучший исторический детективный рассказ
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