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In Großbritannien gibt es nicht nur einen großen Krimipreis, es gibt auch zahlreiche kleinere, speziellere Preise. Während des Krimifestivals „Left Coast Crime“, das zwischen dem 16. und 19. März 2006 in Bristol standfinden wird, werden der „Lefty“ für den besten humorvollen Kriminalroman und der „Bruce Alexander History Mystery Award“ für den besten historischen Kriminalroman vergeben. Die nominierten Titel beider Preise stehen jetzt fest und hier folgt wie gewohnt die bebilderte Übersicht.

Nominierungen für „The Lefty“

Liz Evans: Cue The Easter Bunny (Verlag: Orion)

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Spring is in the air in the seen-better-days seaside town of Seatoun. Easter is approaching and the weather is surprisingly mild, leading to a mini boom in the tourist industry. Vetch’s Investigations is buzzing with clients and even Jan, the receptionist from hell, is busy – all of which is making Grace Smith feel particularly depressed because she’s the only one without a client in sight. The situation has become so desperate that Grace has taken a job with the town Tourist Board. Dressed as the Easter Bunny, she’s supposed to be promoting the town’s ‚child friendly‘ image. Unfortunately a series of encounters with kids who can’t resist tormenting dumb creatures (albeit six feet tall ones with fluffy pink ears) results in Grace being the first bunny to be nicked for GBH in Seatoun.

So when a woman named Della comes calling, and informs Grace that her son is receiving threatening letters and she wants someone to trace the sender, Grace accepts with alacrity. She lives – only just – to regret it most bitterly …

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Jasper Fforde: The Big Over Easy (Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton)

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It`s Easter in Reading – a bad time for eggs – and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town.

Following the pathologist`s careful reconstruction of Humpty`s shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant Mary Mary are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, the illegal Bearnaise sauce market, corporate politics and the cut and thrust world of international Chiropody.

As Jack and Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jack`s Lime Green Austin Allegro, the clues pile up, but Jack has his own problems to deal with.

And on top of everything else, the Jellyman is coming to town…

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Bill Fitzhugh: Highway 61 Resurfaced (Verlag: Morrow)

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FM rock deejay and private investigator Rick Shannon is back in a big way in the second novel of a series that began with the rollicking Radio Activity.

Highway 61 Resurfaced kicks off when a woman named Lollie Woolfolk sashays into the offices of Rockin‘ Vestigations and says she wants to find her long lost granddaddy, blues producer Tucker Woolfolk. Before it’s over, Rick Shannon has crisscrossed the sweltering Mississippi Delta in search of the thread that connects a dead man in Yazoo City found with a fork stuck in his back to an old man known as Pigfoot Morgan who was just released from Mississippi State Penitentiary after serving fifty years for murder. Further complicating matters is the lovesick Crail Pitts, onetime Ole Miss football star who is driving around the Magnolia State with a noisy lawyer in his trunk, and Cuffie LeFleur, one of four generations of a cotton dynasty that may be on its last legs. In the end, everything points to one of the great mysteries in blues lore: whether Blind Buddy Cotton, Crippled Willie Jefferson, and Crazy Earl Tate ever recorded together. When Rick starts a rumor that he’s found the tapes from the legendary Blind, Crippled, and Crazy sessions, a killer is sent to collect them and Rick starts singing the PI blues.

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Peter Guttridge: Cast Adrift (Verlag: Allison & Busby)

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Walking the plank suddenly seems like the sensible option when gentle journalist Nick Madrid’s foray into stunt work in a low-budget pirate movie finds him fighting for his life with modern-day pirates (motto: “shoot first, you won’t need to ask questions later”), equally ruthless salvage divers intent on looting the loot from the sunken ship of the notorious Captain Kidd, and a whole host of dangerous watery creatures.

Nick and his best friend, Bridget “The Bitch of the Broadsheets” Frost, are in the West Indies working on Blackheart, a musical film biography of the notorious, mass-murdering, raping and pillaging pirate Blackbeard. But with the frankly oddball cast and the impossible pairing of “low budget” with “film made on water”, it doesn’t take long for their movie stardom ambitions to flounder.

Then, as if the unfortunate Nick didn’t already have enough to deal with, he and Bridget become shipwrecked on an island with the sole surviving member of the gone horribly, horribly wrong Survivor-like TV game show, Cast Adrift. Faced with their biggest danger to date and no way of escape, could this be the end of the intrepid duo?

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Charlie Williams: Fags And Lager (Verlag: Serpent’s Tail)

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Royston Blake recounts another tough tale from the crap town of Mangel. Still Head Doorman at Hoppers, Blake begins to notice a change in general punter behaviour. The norm of beery violence and lechery has given way to trance-like stares and nonsensical blatherings. Particularly amongst the younger age bracket, which seems to be dominant these days. Puzzled, he scratches his head and seeks solace at the bottom of a pint glass. And when Doug the shopkeeper offers him a bounty of 400 fags and 400 cans of lager to sort out his teenage daughter’s undesirable boyfriend – an enigmatic outsider with a curious pull on the youth of Mangel – Blake’s solace looks to be in the bag for at least a couple of weeks. But things don’t quite go according to plan. So begins Blake’s journey from pillar of the Mangel community to local pariah. Can he rise above it this time? Will Nathan the barman help him out? And where has Finney got to? Fags, lager and Clint Eastwood intertwine in a fitting sequel to Williams‘ astonishing debut, Deadfolk.

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Nominierungen für den Bruce Alexander History Mystery Award

Tony Broadbent: Spectres In The Smoke (Verlag: St. Martin’s Press)

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It’s the austere 1948 world of post-war, black-market-riddled England, and Jethro, the cat burglar and jewel thief, has been pushed out onto the rooftops of London again by Colonel Walsingham of MI5.

And so, forced once again to step out from behind his disguise as a part-time stage-hand in London’s West End, Jethro does a creep in Mayfair and sets in motion a tale of dark and deadly dealings that mixes national politics with black magic, orgies of abandon, and blackmail.
Things get even deadlier when he stumbles across a royal cover-up and then uncovers a plot to topple Clement Attlee’s Labour Government.

And always ever present, looming in the background, are the twin spectres of the growing communist menace and a rebirth of fascism. There are even rumors the Americans are poking their noses deep into things and that a mysterious OSS agent is roaming around London with his eagle eye set on someone who looks a lot like Jethro.

To top it all, Walsingham comes up with a plan—“in Defence of the Realm”—that calls for Jethro to steal his way into the very heart of English aristocratic circles.
However, Walsingham’s behind-the-scenes string pulling also has unintended consequences in London’s gangland that result in Jethro finding himself up to his neck again in the never-ending battle between two of London’s most notorious gang bosses, Darby Messima and Jack Spot.
And all this is just a precursor to Jethro having to do a very serious bit of burglary at a certain very grand country house, the success or failure of which could mean England saved from going to the dogs or spell curtains for Jethro.

In Spectres in the Smoke, Tony Broadbent has created a dark, shadowy vision of post-war London and spun a truly enthralling tale.

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Maureen Jennings: Night’s Child (Verlag: McCelland & Stewart)

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After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl’s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photograph is of Agnes in a pose captioned “What Mr. Newly Wed Really Wants.” When Agnes doesn’t show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the two photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl, resolves to find the photographer – and to put him behind bars.

Night’s Child is the fifth novel in Maureen Jennings’s highly praised historical mystery series. Two of the stories have already been adapted for the small screen, in acclaimed movies aired by the Bravo network. Another four movies are in development – good news for Jennings’s fast-growing number of avid fans.

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Jacqueline Winspear: Pardonable Lies (Verlag: Henry Holt)

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In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot’s death

Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone. Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious Ramotswe. Every once in a while, a detective bursts on the scene who captures readers’ hearts—and imaginations—and doesn’t let go. And so it was with Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs, who made her debut just two years ago in the eponymously titled first book of the series, and is already on her way to becoming a household name.

A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world.

In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in France and who lost three brothers to the war—one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missing Ralph Lawton.

Following on the heels of the triumphant Birds of a Feather, Pardonable Lies is the most compelling installment yet in the chronicles of Maisie Dobbs, “a heroine to cherish” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review).

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Dieses Buch erscheint voraussichtlich im Juli 2006 in deutscher Übersetzung

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