Вручение 2012 г.
Страна: Австралия
Место проведения: город Мельбурн
Дата проведения: 2012 г.
Лучший криминальный роман для взрослых
Лауреат
Сулари Джентилл
1.0
In 1932, the R.M.S. Aquitania embodies all that is gracious and refined, in a world gripped by crisis and doubt.
Returning home on the luxury liner after months abroad, Rowland Sinclair and his companions dine with a suffragette, a Bishop and a retired World Prophet. The Church encounters less orthodox religion in the Aquitania's chandeliered ballroom, where men of God rub shoulders with mystics in dinner suits.
The elegant atmosphere on board is charged with tension but civility prevails...until people start to die. Then things get a bit awkward.
And Rowland Sinclair finds himself unwittingly in the centre of it all.
Ким Вествуд
0.0
Join Salisbury Forth on twenty adrenaline-fuelled days as a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of rolling power outages, fuel rationing and curfews.
Life’s stressful, post-pandemic: a vaccine dispensed Australia-wide has caused mass infertility and people are scrambling for cures. This would be fine for the hormone business, except the new government has banned all remedies except prayer.
Now the pious gather under the streetlights at dusk and the Neighbourhood Values Brigades prowl for ‘transgressors’. Meanwhile, the out-of-town animal farms have started up a barbarous form of hormone production and the Animal Protection Vigilantes are planning their next raid.
For Salisbury it’s not all bad. Love is in the air, and the job is a joy—until someone starts distributing suss hormones stamped with the boss’s Cruelty-Free Assured logo. This bike courier turned accidental sleuth has to discover who’s trying to destroy the business before it all goes belly up…
Лучший криминальный роман для молодежи
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Мэг МакКинлей
0.0
When Cassie and Liam start swimming at the lake neither of them realises the dark secrets that lie beneath. As summer heats up and the lake waters become lower and lower, the shocking truth is slowly uncovered. And soon, both their lives will change - forever
Лучший нехудожественная криминальная книга
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Лиз Портер
0.0
Cold case investigators scrape back paint in a renovated flat where a murder was committed twelve years earlier, and find a blood stain that leads them to a killer. Scientists extract DNA from crime-scene samples collected in 1973, and a 21st-century hunt for a triple murderer begins. A forensic dentist probes the mysterious death of an ancient Egyptian mummy. A long-forgotten palm print leads detectives to the real perpetrator of a murder for which an innocent man has already served 12 years' jail.
In this collection of fascinating cold cases from Australia, the UK and the US, award-winning writer Liz Porter shows how modern forensic science can unlock solutions for crimes and mysteries unsolved for decades, and, in some cases, centuries.
Praise for Liz Porter:
"...each of her stories reads like good crime fiction... a compulsive read" (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Лучшая дебютная криминальная книга
Лауреат
Джей Форд
3.3
Для отдыха за городом четыре подрути выбирают самое уединенное место. Как жестоко они за это поплатятся! В их дом явились очень опасные гости, чтобы забрать спрятанное оружие. Ужас сковал тело Джоди: ей было семнадцать, когда изнасилованная на се глазах подруга погибла. Теперь она ни за что не бросит своих сестер по несчастью, но это значит - переступить через свой страх.
Выбор читателей
Лауреат
Y.A. Erskine
0.0
One dead cop, one small island, and an impact that will last a lifetimeWhen Sergeant John White, mentor, savior, and all-round good guy, is murdered during a routine call-out, the tight-knit world of Tasmania Police is rocked to the core. An already difficult investigation into the death of one of their own becomes steeped in political complexities when the main suspect is identified as Aboriginal, and the case, courtesy of the ever-hostile local media, looks set to make Palm Island resemble a Sunday afternoon picnic in comparison. And as the investigation unfolds through the eyes of the sergeant's colleagues, friends, family, enemies, and the suspect himself, it becomes clear that there was a great deal more to John White—and the squeaky-clean reputation of the nation's smallest police service—than ever met the eye. The Brotherhood is a novel about violence, preconceptions, loyalties, corruption, betrayal, and the question a copper should never need to ask: just who can you trust?
Лауреат
Джей Форд
3.3
Для отдыха за городом четыре подрути выбирают самое уединенное место. Как жестоко они за это поплатятся! В их дом явились очень опасные гости, чтобы забрать спрятанное оружие. Ужас сковал тело Джоди: ей было семнадцать, когда изнасилованная на се глазах подруга погибла. Теперь она ни за что не бросит своих сестер по несчастью, но это значит - переступить через свой страх.
