Duncan Lawrie Dagger 2007: Die Gewinner

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Die → Crime Writers Association (CWA) hat gestern die Gewinner der 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. Wer diesen Preis abräumen konnte und welches Buch gleich zwei Mal auf das Siegertreppchen kam – hier sind die Gewinner:


The Duncan Lawrie Dagger
The Broken Shore
Peter Temple: The Broken Shore

Verlagstext:
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.

Buch bestellen bei:
» amazon.de » libri.de » buch24.de

The Duncan Lawrie International Dagger
wash this blood clean from my hand
Fred Vargas: Wash this Blood Clean from my Hand
Übersetzt aus dem Französischen ins Englische von Sîan Reynolds

Verlagstext:
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.

Buch bestellen bei:
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The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects

Verlagstext:
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:
» amazon.de » libri.de » buch24.de

The CWA New Blood Fiction Dagger 2007
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects

Verlagstext:
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:
» amazon.de » libri.de » buch24.de

The CWA Dagger in the Library
Stuart MacBride

The CWA Debut Dagger
Alan Bradley (Kanada): The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie

The CWA Short Story Award 2007

The CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger 2007
John Harvey
→ Die ausführliche Begründung der CWA-Jury
→ Homepage von John Harvey

Die weiteren Nominierungen in den jeweiligen Kategorien → finden sich hier.