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Die nordamerikanische Sektion der International Association of Crime Writers (IACW) hat die Nominierungen für den Hammett-Preis veröffentlicht. Der Hammett wird jährlich für exzellente literarische Werke in der Kriminalliteratur an Autorinnen oder Autoren aus den USA oder Kanada vergeben. Der oder die Preisträger werden in diesem Jahr am 10. Juni während des Krimifestivals „Bloody Words“ in Toronto bekannt gegeben.

Die nominierten Bücher:

John Brady: Island Bridge (Verlag: McArthur & Company)

Kurzbeschreibung:
An off-duty cop witnesses a double murder outside a Dublin nightclub in the nineteen eighties, and faces an ultimatum from the vicious crime boss behind the killings. Soon he soon learns the bitter truth of the saying, ‚The past is never past. It’s not even over.‘ The past is indeed another country, an island, and he can never get there. Facing betrayal from his fellow cops as much as the criminals, he takes the only way out.

Addled with grief, his widow manages to put her breakdown behind her, and she hitches her star to her new husband’s police career, his rapid promotion, and his insider’s knowledge of crime in the new Ireland of The Celtic Tiger. In boomtown Dublin, the crime families continue to make their grim harvest, but watch uneasily as criminals from Eastern Europe show up. Pausing in his Powerpoint lecture, a visiting cop remarks that criminal trafficking has its own map: ‚Ireland is not an island any more, really.“

An informant who offers Matt Minogue a rumour about a Dublin crime boss having a senior cop ‚on side,‘ — and that the death of an undercover detective last year was connected — is found murdered twelve hours later. Inveigling his way into the cold file on the detective’s death, Minogue is soon looking for a Moldovan woman, an asylum seeker, who has vanished. Following an oblique lead with a prostitution racket, Minogue is confronted by someone who brazenly tries to gun him down in a busy Dublin street.

The present is soon overtaken by the past in revenge, and the wheel of betrayal turns toward Minogue: he must now follow up on what a policeman will unwittingly disclose. The result is rage, gunshots in the night in a cop’s home. The story closes on a man in a remote, windswept field facing the sea. Drunk, he yells nonsense into the long grasses that hiss all about him.

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Joseph Kanon: Alibi – A Novel (Verlag: Henry Holt)

Kurzbeschreibung:
It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. Nothing has changed in Venice-not the beautiful palazzi, not the violins at Florian’s, not the shifting water that makes the city, untouched by bombs, still seem a dream.

But when Adam falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during the war, he is forced to confront another Venice, a city still at war with itself, haunted by atrocities it would rather forget. Everyone, he discovers, has been compromised by the Occupation-the international set drinking at Harry’s, the police who kept order for the Germans, and most of all Gianni Maglione, the suave and enigmatic Venetian who happens to be his mother’s new suitor. And when, finally, the troubled past erupts in violent murder, Adam finds himself at the center of a web of deception, intrigue, and unexpected moral dilemmas. When is murder acceptable? What are the limits of guilt? How much is someone willing to pay for a perfect alibi?

Using the piazzas and canals of Venice as an enthralling but sinister backdrop, Joseph Kanon has again written a gripping historical thriller. Alibi is at once a murder mystery, a love story, and a superbly crafted novel about the nature of moral responsibility.

Anm.: Dieser Roman ist kürzlich in der deutschen Übersetzung unter dem Titel „Stadt ohne Gedächnis“ erschienen

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Martin Limón: The Door to Bitterness (Verlag: Soho Crime)

Kurzbeschreibung:
The pair of G.I. cops Martin Limón first introduced in Jade Lady Burning, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, are back with a vengeance in their latest adventures in Seoul and the sin cities surrounding the capital in the 1970s. North Korea is menacing, Vietnam is burning as these two weave through the back alleys and bordellos, as they try to tip back the scales of justice in the right direction.

This time they are not only pursuing criminals, they’re chasing themselves in a way, too. Homicidal thieves have gotten hold of Sueño’s badge, and are using it to lull their victims just long enough to strike — with his gun. That they are murderous makes it all that much worse for the dynamic duo. The army wants its equipment accounted for, the I.D. and weapon recovered. George and Ernie want to recover their reputation and catch the culprits.

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Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men (Verlag: Knopf)

Kurzbeschreibung:
Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex–Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.

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Don Winslow: The Power of the Dog (Verlag: Knopf)

Kurzbeschreibung:
From Don Winslow (“A writer so good you almost want to keep him to yourself”—Ian Rankin), an electrifying new novel of love and revenge, politics and influence, corruption and honor. Moving at breakneck speed, it tells a riveting, sometimes harrowing story set in the shifting nexus of power among the Latin American drug cartels, the American mob, and the U.S. government.

Spanning the years from the rise of the Mexican drug Federación in the 1970s to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s to the vicious drug wars of the 1990s, the action ranges from Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen and the halls of Washington to the streets of Tijuana and the deserts of the American Southwest.

The players: a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, a priest. Caught up in the war on drugs, willingly or not, each is trying to escape the sins of the past while negotiating the treacherous currents of the present. Their seemingly disparate lives—taking shape on one side of the law or the other, or straddling both—slowly converge as they struggle to overcome, in any way possible, the “power of the dog.”

From the jungles of Latin America to the vicious netherworld of the California–Mexico border, this is the war on drugs you haven’t seen—its devastations and deliriums, its alliances and betrayals, its pawns and kings.

A masterpiece of epic storytelling, The Power of the Dog is Don Winslow at the very top of his form.

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