Lambda Literary Awards 2008: Die nominierten Krimis
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Bei den diesjährigen → Lambda Literary Awards gibt es ein schöne Überraschung. Bei dem US-amerikanischen Preis, mit dem lesbische, schwule, bisexuelle und transgender Literatur in 21 Kategorien ausgezeichnet wird, gibt es auch die Kategorien „Women’s Mystery“ und „Men’s Mystery“ – also lesbische bzw. schwule Kriminalromane. Wer auf die Nominierungen bei den lesbischen Krimis schaut, wird eine Autorin entdecken, die auch hier in Deutschland schon drei Kriminalromane veröffentlicht hat…
Hier sind die Nominierungen in den Kategorien
Men’s Mystery
Chris Beakey: Double Abduction
(Verlag: J. Boylston/ ibooks, Inc.)
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What are the chances that a mother would face the abduction of two children? That is the terrifying prospect that is facing Mary Bennett.
Mary and her brother Michael share a close bond, which has grown tighter as they’ve raised her five-year-old son Justin. But when Justin is abducted, Michael is a prime suspect.
Michael was with Mary’s older son Benjamin when he was taken five years before. He became a suspect in that case as did Scott Brown, Mary’s then boyfriend and Justin’s father. But no one was ever convicted for Benjamin’s abduction and murder.
Now with Justin’s disappearance, both Michael and Scott are suspects again. But what are their motives? Is Michael trying to hurt Mary? Is Scott seeking revenge for being unable to see his son? What connection does the lead investigator Louis D’Amecourt play, and what secrets do he and Michael share? Policewoman Gloria Towson suspects that D’Amecourt is up to no good and that Michael knows more than he is telling.
Towson races against time to keep Justin alive, while attempting to solve the town’s unfolding multiple murder mystery. There’s more than meets the eye in this chilling and fast-paced thriller.
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Anthony Bidulka: Stain of the Berry
(Verlag: Insomniac Press)
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Everyone has their Boogeyman. But who — or what — is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private detective Russell Quant is roused from sleep only to fall into a nightmare case when the family of a suicide victim hires him to uncover the real cause of death. But what is real and what is imaginary?
Quant works to narrow his list of suspects only to find the number of victims growing. Russell is mystified as the trail of fear connects him to a vast landscape of people, including an elegant potash miner, dubious trailer park denizens, reticent farm folk, the Pink Gopher choir, and a gaseous psychiatrist.
Compounding Quant’s bewilderment is the complete and perfect disappearance of his once very real friend, Sereena, who has become a ghost he simply can’t find. With the Boogeyman always a few paces ahead, Russell struggles to keep the hounds of failure from baying. Travelling from Saskatchewan’s summer storms to the menacing Lotus Land of Vancouver, he finally touches down in the Canadian Arctic, where tragic hope resides. Russell returns home to bully attacks, a desperate chase through midnight woods, and a sadistic abduction. As Quant penetrates the truth of the Boogeyman, he finds himself on a perilous suspension bridge between idyllic childhood and grown-up violence.
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Roberto C. Ferrari: Pierce
(Verlag: Haworth)
Verlagstext:
Some family secrets are never meant to be revealed
Grad student Leo Vasari’s life was shattered when his lover Matt died in a car accident. Then exactly one year later, Millie, Matt’s mother and Leo’s close friend, tries to kill herself. Leo, still mourning his loss, must somehow unravel the mystery that lies at the heart of the troubled Pierce family. Pierce is about grief and rebirth, and moving on to love once more. But the only way Leo can do that is by finding out the true reasons for his lover’s death. Leo struggles with his sadness and guilt as he searches for answers—and discovers dark family secrets never meant to be revealed.
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Greg Herren: Murder in the Rue Chartres
(Verlag: Alyson Books)
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Murder hits the Big Easy.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chanse MacLeod returns to a different, shattered New Orleans in an attempt to rebuild his own life and face his own future. When he discovers that his last client before the storm was murdered the very night she hired him to find her long-missing father, he is drawn into a web of intrigue and evil that surrounds the Verlaine family.
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Neil Plakcy: Mahu Surfer
(Verlag: Alyson Books)
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Mahu is a generally negative Hawaiian term for homosexual, and for police detective Kimo Kanapa’aka, being gay doesn’t make for an easy life. Especially when you’re publicly outed. Now, semi-retired, Kimo must go undercover and stop a brutal killer. Already three surfers have been shot dead, and Kimo must infiltrate the close-knit surfing community, knowing his only way back to active duty is to catch a killer he may know all too well.
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Caro Soles: Drag Queen in the Court of Death
(Verlag: Haworth)
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While cleaning out his dead ex-lover Ronnie’s apartment, staid history professor Michael Dunn-Barten makes a grisly discovery—a mummified corpse in a trunk. Suddenly Michael must travel back 25 years to find answers by revisiting everybody who knew Ronnie. Back to the 1960s, back to the realization of his sexuality and the boy he loved. Back to the troubling time when his wife threw him out and his family disowned him. Back to uncover disturbing answers amidst drag queens and murky memories—and to reveal whether or not his first real love was truly a twisted killer. Drag Queen in the Court of Death is a taut thriller about a man who needs to face his past in order to forge a future. He must unravel a mystery that’s a quarter century old—no matter how painful the truth may be.
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Women’s Mystery
Gabrielle Goldsby: Wall of Silence
2nd. Edition. (Verlag: Bold Strokes Books)
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It should have been an average bust. Minimal trouble. Minimal backup.
But when police detective Foster Everett witnesses the unspeakable, average becomes deadly. A cover-up ensues and Foster escapes from her remorse at a neighborhood bar. There she meets Riley Meideros, the one person strong enough to hear Foster’s painful secret and not turn away. But like most secrets, Foster’s refuses to stay hidden. And like even the most carefully built walls—walls that Riley effortlessly seems to breech—the barricades surrounding Foster soon begin to crumble. Fearing that she has put Riley in danger and fighting against the powerful attraction growing between them, Foster vows to uncover the truth. But someone is determined to keep the truth buried, even if it means silencing Foster and Riley permanently.
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Ellen Hart: The Mortal Groove
2nd. Edition. (Verlag: St. Martin’s Press)
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Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless is in the middle of ringing in the New Year the best way she knows how—with her family, friends, and some excellent champagne—when the biggest financial backers in Minnesota politics break up the party with a little backroom proposition for her father: How’d he like to be the state’s next governor?
Flattered, Ray Lawless, a retired defense attorney, agrees to run, and the latecomer’s sprint to the state capital is going great until reporters and opponents start digging up the kind of dirt that is more valuable than gold out on the campaign trail. He and his family are fair game, but worse than that, so are the men running his campaign. Their secrets, involving the mysterious death of a young woman, have been buried since the summer they all came home from Vietnam. Unfortunately for Jane and her father, those secrets won’t stay that way for long.
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Gerri Hill: In the Name of the Father
(Verlag: Bella Books)
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In this sequel to Hunter’s Way, Dallas Homicide Detectives Tori Hunter and Samantha Kennedy investigate the murder of a Catholic priest who is found naked and strangled to death. A sex scandal threatens to erupt and cover-ups are soon revealed as their only suspect is found shot dead – mere hours after the murder.
Soon details of the murder begin to surface and the secret life of a well-loved priest is exposed. Lies and deceptions unfold as the detectives work to solve the case – even as their superiors demand it be closed.
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Jennifer L. Jordan: Selective Memory
(Verlag: Spinsters Ink)
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Alexandra Madigen is a classic pianist experiencing profound memory loss after a near-fatal accident. Unable to trust the perceptions of her partner, friends or family, Alexandra turns to Private Investigator Kristin Ashe to help reconstruct her life in the months leading up to the crash.
When her memories return in fits and flashes—not all of which she shares with Kristin—they reveal a twenty-year obsession with another woman.
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Ursula Steck: Laura’s War
(Verlag: Bella Books)
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Anna Spring has opened a private investigation firm with her neighbor Martha Bega. Now their very first big case lands on their doorstep courtesy of Susan Bradley, one of San Francisco’s few billionaires. It seems that Laura Cunningham, the daughter of one of Susan’s high-society acquaintances, was murdered a few months ago by her lover, Inez Belize. Inez has confessed to the crime and is now serving a lifelong prison sentence.
Anna has been hired to do something that seems simple enough – find a manuscript that Laura had written. Anna’s journey takes her into the entangled conscience of an innocent convict, back to America’s deep south, to the lies and cruelties of a family greedy for wealth, global influence and admiration, and finally into the mind of a most unlikely killer. All the while she has to fight against invisible hunters, unbelievable conspiracies, and her own desire to just run and hide and lead a peaceful life with the woman of her fantasies.
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