Duncan Lawrie Dagger Shortlist 2007 – reloaded
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Am vergangenen Mittwoch hatte ich es schon kurz erwähnt: Die → Crime Writers Association (CWA) hat ihre Shortlists für die diesjährigen Daggers in den jeweiligen Kategorien veröffentlicht. In der Hauptkategorie → “Duncan Lawrie Dagger†ist der Preis mit 20.000 £ dotiert und somit weltweit der am höchsten dotierte Krimipreis. Für diese Kategorie können allerdings nur englischsprachige Originalausgaben. Für Übersetzungen gibt es eine eigene Kategorie, den → Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. Hier nun die bebilderte und mit vielen weiterführenden Links aufbereitete Liste mit den Nominierungen.
Folgende Kategorien gibt es in diesem Jahr
- The Duncan Lawrie Dagger
- The Duncan Lawrie International Dagger
- The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
- The CWA New Blood Fiction Dagger 2007
- The CWA Dagger in the Library
- The CWA Debut Dagger
- The CWA Short Story Award 2007
- The CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger 2007
Anmerkung: Für die Kategorie „The CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award 2007“, in dem der beste historische Kriminalroman ausgezeichnet wird, läuft die Nominerungsphase noch bis zum 1. August 2007. Die Kategorie „The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction“ wird nur alle zwei Jahre besetzt, die nächste Nominierung in dieser Kategorie erfolgt 2008.
Giles Blunt: The Fields of Grief
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Photographer Catherine Cardinal’s fatal fall from a high building one moonlit night is ruled an act of suicide. She has a history of depression, a note is found and her psychiatrist is not surprised. But her husband, John Cardinal, won’t accept this conclusion.
Driven by grief and guilt, he launches his own investigation, helped by his reluctant colleagues. And when vicious notes appear, taunting him for his loss, his theory that she was murdered suddenly seems to be credible.
Cardinal revisits his past, searching for a possible suspect among his previous arrests. Someone with a grudge, a person twisted enough to target his innocent wife in revenge.
But could he be looking in the wrong place? The mystery deepens when he uncovers a spate of tragic suicides, leading him to investigate a startling new possibility – one so shocking, it has never been suspected…
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James Lee Burke: Pegasus Descending
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Dave Robicheaux left his drinking days behind him many years ago, but he still feels guilt over a tragic event he wasn’t sober enough to prevent. Dallas Klein, a gambling addict and bar buddy of Dave’s when Dave was posted to Miami PD, was killed in an armed robbery he’d been forced to engineer. Two decades later, several incidents in Dave’s life in Iberia Parish link to those involved. First he meets Dallas‘ daughter, Trish, who keeps odd company and is blackballed by the local casinos. Then the supposed suicide of a young girl appears to be connected to the man Dallas owed money to back in the Miami days.
Dave’s inability to let things alone gets him involved with two very powerful criminals, both wanting to protect their sons from the trouble they court, and both with the attitude of the privileged and white. When a young black drug dealer gets on the wrong side of the boys, tensions run high and there are more needless deaths – causing Dave to come to blows with the FBI, the DA’s office and a thug who has little regard for any life but his own.
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Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects
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WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.
NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg
Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory.
HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle
As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming.
With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable.
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Craig Russell: Brother Grimm
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Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, struggles to interpret the twisted imagery of a dark and brutal mind. Four days later, a man and a woman are found deep in woodland, their throats slashed deep and wide, the names ‚Hansel‘ and ‚Gretel‘, in the same, tiny, obsessively neat writing, rolled tight and pressed into their hands.
It becomes clear that each new crime is a grisly reference to folk stories collected almost two hundred years ago by the Brothers Grimm.
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C.J. Sansom: Sovereign
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Autumn 1541. A plot against the throne has been uncovered, and Henry VIII has set off on a spectacular progress from London to York, along with a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, to quell his rebellious northern subjects. Awaiting his arrival are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak. In addition to processing petitions to the king, Shardlake’s task is to protect a dangerous conspirator until he is transported back to London for interrogation.
But when a local glazier is murdered, things get a little more complicated as the murder seems to be not only connected to Shardlake’s prisoner but also to the royal family itself. Then Shardlake stumbles upon a cache of secret papers that throws into doubt the legitimacy of the entire royal line, and a chain of events unfolds that threatens Shardlake with the most terrifying fate of the age: imprisonment in the Tower of London.
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Peter Temple: The Broken Shore
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Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It’s a peaceful existence – ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashin’s not so sure and as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption and prejudice, he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go.
Winner of Australia’s Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, winner of the Australian Publishing Book of the Year Award and nominated for the Miles Franklin Award (Australia’s premier literary award), „The Broken Shore“ has been published internationally to critical acclaim.
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The Duncan Lawrie International Dagger
Karin Alvtegen: Shame
Übersetzt aus dem Schwedischen ins Englische von Steven T. Murray
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Two women trapped by a past that won’t let go . . .
At first sight, Monika and Maj-Britt are as different as two people can possibly be – they have nothing in common but the determination to obliterate their memories and be left alone. But when a tragic accident brings them face to face, the emotional voids at the centre of their lives threatens to engulf them and they are forced to confront the secrets and the sadness they had hoped to bury.
A suspenseful psychological thriller, Shame reveals the ordinary days of the odd and the lonely as they twist into self-destruction – and holds out a glimmering hope of redemption and acceptance.
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Christian Jungersen: The Exception
Übersetzt aus dem Dänischen ins Englische von Anna Paterson
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Four women work at the Danish Centre for Genocide Studies. When two of them start receiving death threats, they suspect they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, a Bosnian torturer and war criminal. But perhaps he is not the person behind the threats – it could be someone in their very midst. Much of the drama created revolves not only around the scary sense of a killer prowling in the shadows but also around the manipulative games being played between the women in the office as they come under pressure and turn on each other. The irony is that these betrayals and persecutions are taking place amongst professionals who daily analyse cases of appalling cruelty. Now and again, the narrative is broken with extracts from ‚articles‘ dealing with crimes against humanity and the psychology of evil. Whilst the women apply this to their work with genocide (and the killer), there are parallels to their own behaviour.
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Yasmina Khadra: The Attack
Übersetzt aus dem Französischen ins Englische von John Cullen
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Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Dedicated to his work, respected and admired by his colleagues and community, he represents integration at its most successful. He has learned to live with the violence and chaos that plague his city, and on the night of a deadly bombing in a local restaurant, he works tirelessly to help the shocked and shattered patients brought to the emergency room. But this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn. His wife’s body is found among the dead, with massive injuries, the police coldly announce, typical of those found on the bodies of fundamentalist suicide bombers. As evidence mounts that his wife, Sihem, was responsible for the catastrophic bombing, Dr. Jaafari is torn between cherished memories of their years together and the inescapable realization that the beautiful, intelligent, thoroughly modern woman he loved had a life far removed from the comfortable, assimilated existence they shared.
From the graphic, beautifully rendered description of the bombing that opens the novel to the searing conclusion, The Attack portrays the reality of terrorism and its incalculable spiritual costs. Intense and humane, devoid of political bias, hatred, and polemics, it probes deep inside the Muslim world and gives readers a profound understanding of what seems impossible to understand.
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Åsa Larsson: The Savage Altar
Übersetzt aus dem Schwedischen ins Englische von Marlaine Delargy
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In a land of silence and snow, the killing has begun…
Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess…
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Jo Nesbø: The Redbreast
Übersetzt aus dem Norwegischen ins Englische von Don Bartlett
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In 1944, Daniel, a soldier legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the end of the century.
1999: Harry Hole, working alone having caused an embarassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and is lumbered with surveillance duties. He is assigned the task of monitoring neo-Nazi activities; fairly mundane until a report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks his interest. Ellen Gjelten, his partner, from his police officer days makes a startling discovery. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. In a quest which takes him to South Africa and Vienna, Harry finds himself perpetually one step behind the killer. He will be both winner and loser by the novel’s nail-biting conclusion.
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Fred Vargas: Wash this Blood Clean from my Hand
Übersetzt aus dem Französischen ins Englische von Sîan Reynolds
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Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it.
Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work of one person, the terrifying Judge Fulgence. Years before, Adamsberg’s own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg’s help.
History repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman he had met. In order to prove his innocence, Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police and find Judge Fulgence.
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The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Alex Berenson: The Faithful Spy
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A New York Times reporter has drawn upon his experience covering the occupation in Iraq to write the most gripping and chillingly plausible thriller of the post-9/11 era. Alex Berenson’s debut novel of suspense, The Faithful Spy, is a sharp, explosive story that takes readers inside the war on terror as fiction has never done before.
John Wells is the only American CIA agent ever to penetrate al Qaeda. Since before the attacks in 2001, Wells has been hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, biding his time, building his cover.
Now, on the orders of Omar Khadri–the malicious mastermind plotting more al Qaeda strikes on America–Wells is coming home. Neither Khadri nor Jennifer Exley, Wells’s superior at Langley, knows quite what to expect.
For Wells has changed during his years in the mountains. He has become a Muslim. He finds the United States decadent and shallow. Yet he hates al Qaeda and the way it uses Islam to justify its murderous assaults on innocents. He is a man alone, and the CIA–still reeling from its failure to predict 9/11 or find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq–does not know whether to trust him. Among his handlers at Langley, only Exley believes in him, and even she sometimes wonders. And so the agency freezes Wells out, preferring to rely on high-tech means for gathering intelligence.
But as that strategy fails and Khadri moves closer to unleashing the most devastating terrorist attack in history, Wells and Exley must somehow find a way to stop him, with or without the government’s consent.
From secret American military bases where suspects are held and “interrogated†to basement laboratories where al Qaeda’s scientists grow the deadliest of biological weapons, The Faithful Spy is a riveting and cautionary tale, as affecting in its personal stories as it is sophisticated in its political details. The first spy thriller to grapple squarely with the complexities and terrors of today’s world, this is a uniquely exciting and unnerving novel by an author who truly knows his territory.
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Harlan Coben : The Woods
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Paul Copeland’s sister went missing twenty years ago. Now raising a daughter alone, after the death of his wife, he balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything.
Is this body one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Cope has to confront so much he left behind that summer so long ago: his first love, Lucy, his mother who abandoned the family, and the secrets that his parents might have been hiding even from
their own children.
Cope must decide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be brought to the light. And can he find absolution?
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Roger Jon Ellory : City of Lies
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John Harper has always been alone. His mother died when he was just seven years old and he was raised in New York by an aunt he barely knew. He never even made his father’s acquaintance – a man who died shortly after he was born. After leaving the Big Apple as soon as he was old enough, his life consisted of one moderately successful book, a collection affectionately received newspaper columns and a comfortable existence in Miami. But then all that changed. One liquor store heist that goes wrong turns John’s existence on its head. It seems that his father didn’t die all those years ago – in fact, he has thrived in the New York underworld. But now the man himself lies critically injured in a Manhattan hospital and it’s time for father and son to meet at last. But this is just the start. For it seems that John’s father was working on something when he got caught in the heist – something very big indeed. And powerful people all over the city want in on it. The only problem is that the only person with the key to it is John…
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Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects
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WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.
NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg
Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory.
HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle
As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming.
With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable.
Buch bestellen bei:
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Michael Marshall : The Intruders
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The latest conspiracy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Jack Whalen was an LAPD patrol cop for twelve years. He left in difficult circumstances and now he’s not really sure what he is. He’s not too sure about his wife, either — when she goes missing on a routine business trip to Seattle, Jack heads up there to find her: only to discover she’s not really missing after all. Over the coming days it becomes increasingly clear that something has changed, however — and is still changing. Jack is meanwhile contacted by a childhood acquaintance, Gary Fisher. Fisher’s a lawyer now, and wants help in solving an odd little mystery concerning a businessman’s will. The further Jack digs, the bigger the mystery seems to be — and the stranger Fisher becomes. And in Oregon, a ten-year-old girl goes missing. It gradually becomes clear that she’s at least partly in control of the situation, however — and also that she’s very far from defenceless. Searching for answers in the dark secrets of a past that still haunts him, Jack discovers that the truth has roots deeper and darker than he ever feared.
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Michael Robotham : The Night Ferry
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Struggling detective Alisha Barba is trying to get her life back on track after almost being crippled by a murder suspect. Now on her feet again she receives a desperate plea from an old school friend, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, her friend is run down and killed by a car and Alisha discovers the first in a series of haunting and tragic deceptions.
Determined to uncover the truth, she embarks upon a dangerous journey that will take her from London’s gritty East End to Amsterdam’s murky red light district and into a violent underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation.
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Karin Slaughter : Triptych
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When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated. As a one-off killing it’s shocking, but when it becomes clear that it’s just the latest in a series of similar attacks, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are called in, and Ormewood is forced into working with Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team — a man he instinctively dislikes. But then, only 24 hours later, the violence Michael sees around him every day explodes in his own back yard. And, it seems the mystery behind Monroe’s death is inextricably entangled with a past that refuses to stay buried…
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The CWA New Blood Fiction Dagger 2007
C.J. Emerson : Objects of Desire
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Jess has always wondered when this call would come, about the one that got away. She’s never had a death before, not one of hers.
Social-worker Jess Chadwick left London behind in the hope of escaping the distressing cases she has experienced in the past. But even here, on the idyllic Welsh borders, she cannot escape evil. When she gets news that a young child has been found dead in woods, just a few miles from her house, she discovers that the boy was once her client – a child she was meant to protect.
As her professional life becomes harder to cope with she is also forced to come to terms with her own past, when the daughter she gave up for adoption years ago unexpectedly resurfaces. Jess soon finds herself crossing the line from investigator to suspect to victim, and under pressure from all sides is forced to question the very basis of her identity.
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Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects
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WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.
NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg
Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory.
HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle
As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming.
With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable.
Buch bestellen bei:
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Declan Hughes : The Wrong Kind of Blood
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‚The night of my mother`s funeral, Linda Dawson cried on my shoulder, put her tongue in my mouth and asked me to find her husband. Now she was lying dead on her living room floor, and the howl of a police siren echoed through the surrounding hills…‘
Ed Loy hasn`t been back to Dublin for twenty years. But his mother is dead, and he has returned home to bury her. He soon realizes that the world waiting for him is very different from the one he left behind all those years ago.
‚Tommy said you found people who were missing‘, Linda Dawson tells him the evening of his mother`s funeral. Linda`s husband has disappeared. She doesn`t want the police involved. So reluctantly, Loy agrees to investigate.
And suddenly in this place where he grew up – among the Georgian houses, Victorian castles, and modern villas of Castlehill – Loy finds himself thrown into a world of organized crime, long-hidden secrets, corruption and violence. And murder.
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Brian McGilloway : Borderlands
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The abandoned corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone – Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the Borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation, in which the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl’s finger and a piece of an old photograph, left where she died. While Devlin searches for the girl’s killer, her father has his own ideas about who is responsible, and his own ideas about how to make them pay.
As Devlin struggles to handle the murder enquiry – one which also involves a dead drug dealer, a local politician and a young Traveller boy – closer to home he becomes reacquainted with an old flame eager to rekindle their affair.
Then another teenager is murdered.
Things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance, twenty five years previous, of a prostitute– a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated.
As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police-officer and criminal becoming increasingly unclear.
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Andrew Pepper: The Last Days of Newgate
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St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realises that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far-reaching.
In his pursuit of the murderer, Pyke ruffles the feathers of some powerful people, and, falsely accused of murder himself, he soon faces a death sentence, and the gallows of Old Bailey. Imprisoned, and with only his uncle and the headstrong, aristocratic daughter of his greatest enemy who believe in him, Pyke must engineer his escape, find the real killer and untangle the web of politics that has been spun around him.
From the gutters of Seven Dials, to the cells of Newgate prison; from the turmoil of 1800s Belfast to the highest levels of murky, pre-Victorian politics, The Last Days of Newgate is a gripping, darkly atmospheric story with a fantastic, pragmatic – and reluctantly heroic – hero.
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Camilla Way: The Dead of Summer
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It was hot everywhere that year. During the long summer holidays the days rolled by in blue and gold, the sun bouncing off the dustbins and burning into windscreens.
By the end of that summer, three of us were dead.
Anita’s mother has just died. The family has moved to a new town, a new home, and a new neighbourhood. The long school holidays are about to start and the summer stretches out interminably in front of them.
Kyle lives across the road from Anita. Cool, surly, laconic, he knows all the places to hide. He says the area between the houses and the river is littered with hidden, disused mines; a perfect playground for restless kids with nothing better to do.
But what they don’t know is that these mines will form the scene of the most unsettling crime this community has ever known. This summer everything will change. This summer, the dead days have come home to stay.
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The CWA Debut Dagger
- Martin Brackstone (GB): Maletski’s Motive
- Alan Bradley (Kanada): The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie
- Nesta Brzozowski (GB): With a View to Death
- Fay Cunningham (GB): Cry Baby
- Gordon W. Dale (USA): Rome Was Never Like This
- C. J. Harper (USA): The Shadow of the Dead
- David Jackson (GB):Pariah
- D.J. McIntosh (Kanada): The Witch of Babylon
- Gerard O’Donovan (GB): White Lion
- James Oswald (GB): Natural Causes
- Peter James Peacock (GB): Towers of London
- Martie de Villiers (GB): Solitaire
The CWA Short Story Award 2007
- J.A. Konrath: Epitaph. Erschienen in: Thriller
- Peter Lovesey: Needlematch. Erschienen in: Best British Mysteries III
- James Siegel: Empathy. Erschienen in: Thriller
- Kevin Wignall: Retrospective. Erschienen in: Best British Mysteries III
The CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger 2007
John Harvey
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