Czas list :)

05.11.09, 12:15
Zbliża się chyba koniec roku bo już pojawiają się listy najlepszych kryminałów
2009 roku.
W The Strand Magazine's Newsletter ukazała się taka:
1) A Quiet Belief in Angels by R. J. Ellory (Overlook)
2) A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart (Dutton)
3) The Fury by Jason Pinter (Mira)
4) Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon)
5) Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster)
6) Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
7) 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)
8) Look Again by Lisa Scottoline (St. Martin's)
9) The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Viking)
10) Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay (Doubleday)
11) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
12) The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Sporo nieznanych (mnie) książek, autorzy w większości znani. Nie znałem mumeru
1 - A Quiet Belief in Angels i jego autora. Recenzje od entuzjastycznych do
"najgorsza książka w życiu jaką próbowałem przeczytać" smile
Jest na allegro. Ja zamówiłem.
    • siostra_pelagia Re: Czas list :) 06.11.09, 19:10

      Best Thriller Of 2009
      July 30, 2009

      The International Thriller Writers announced their Best Of awards earlier this
      month.

      The ThrillerMaster Award went to David Morrell, in recognition of his vast body
      of work and influence in the field of literature.

      The Silver Bullet Award was given to Brad Meltzer, for his contributions to the
      advancement of literacy.

      The Thriller Of The Year Award went to The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver.
      The short list for the Thriller Of The Year included:
      Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
      The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
      The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross
      The Last Patriot by Brad Thor

      The Best First Novel Award went to Tom Rob Smith for Child 44.
      The short list for Best First Novel included:
      Calumet City by Charlie Newton
      Criminal Paradise by Steven Thomas
      Sacrifice by S. J. Bolton
      The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd

      Znalazłam coś takiegosmile. Zresztą tych list to sporo jest w sieci.
    • zorija Re: Czas list :) 07.11.09, 08:36
      The Year’s Best Crime Novels: 2009.
      Cold in Hand. By John Harvey. 2008. Harcourt/Otto Penzler, $26 (9780151014620).

      Harvey ended his brilliant Charlie Resnick series 10 years ago, but now he
      brings the beleaguered Nottingham detective back for a coda that adds the
      perfect valedictory note. Harvey’s ability to capture the uncommon determination
      of a good copper to tease out the truth is on display here (as Resnick, nearing
      retirement, helps investigate a gang-related knifing), but, behind that, the
      sense of futility that has lurked in the shadows of every Resnick novel
      threatens to take over completely. A dark but powerful end to a classic series.

      The Dawn Patrol. By Don Winslow. 2008. Knopf, $23.95 (9780307266200).

      San Diego PI Boone Daniels would rather surf than work, but with cash low, he
      agrees to look for a missing stripper. This mainstream hard-boiled detective
      novel becomes something special thanks to its sandy setting and the panache with
      which Winslow writes about the light and dark sides of San Diego and the
      wave-crashing characters who call its coastline home.

      Exit Music. By Ian Rankin. 2008. Little, Brown, $24.99 (9780316057585).

      With only a few days until he is officially retired, Rankin’s iconic Edinburgh
      police inspector John Rebus isn’t going gently into any good nights, not with
      one more meaty case on his plate. Rebus goes out the way he came in,
      “mistrusting teamwork in all its guises”— or as his partner, Siobhan, says,
      summing up his career, “decades of bets hedged, lines crossed, rules broken.” We
      wouldn’t have it any other way. Here’s to Rebus!

      Gone Tomorrow. By Lee Child. 2009. Delacorte, $27 (9780385340571).

      It all starts on New York’s Number 6 subway train, when Jack Reacher spots a
      woman exhibiting all 11 of the signs used by Israeli counterintelligence to
      identify suicide bombers. Reacher is the ultimate man alone, pledging no
      allegiances in a world gone gray, but put a bully in his face, and he’ll find a
      reason to stay in town. Child grounds his hero’s hard body and hard-drive brain
      in believable detail, and he always sets the action in a precisely described
      landscape.

      Liars Anonymous. By Louise Ure. 2009. St. Martin’s/Minotaur, $25.95 (9780312375867).

      Jessica Dancing Gamage got away with murder and has been living with it ever
      since. Now the past comes back full force when she is forced to return to her
      home turf. This masterfully constructed psychological thriller, which rests on
      fiercely moral underpinnings, cements Ure’s position alongside such masters as
      Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters.

      Mine All Mine. By Adam Davies. 2008. Riverhead, paper, $14 (9781594483141).

      In this fantastically imagined novel, detectives aren’t sleuths; they’re
      “pulses,” able to sense what the bad guys will do before they do it. Except Otto
      Starks’ pulse seems to be beating irregularly. In a novel that is equal parts
      comic monologue, screwball romance, and crime story, Davies employs clichéd
      suspense devices with results that are wholly original. Don’t worry about plot
      mechanics; just sit back and enjoy the wonderful word-nerd writing.

      A Rule against Murder. By Louise Penny. 2009. St. Martin’s/Minotaur, $24.95
      (9780312377021).

      Penny’s Armand Gamache novels, starring an intrepid Canadian police inspector in
      the Quebec village of Three Pines, have quickly established themselves as some
      of the best traditional mysteries being published today. This fourth entry finds
      the inspector traveling to a remote resort to celebrate his wedding anniversary;
      naturally, murder is on the guest list. Despite similarities to Poirot and
      Maigret, Gamache is a complete original.

      Secret Speech. By Tom Rob Smith. 2009. Grand Central, $24.99 (9780446402408).

      It’s 1956, and Smith’s long-suffering hero, Leo Demidov, heartsick over his work
      as a Soviet bureaucrat who sends innocent people to the gulag, has become a
      prime target of recently released prisoners out to even scores. Smith’s plotting
      is elaborate, his pacing is relentless, and his characters are wonderfully
      drawn. This stunning follow-up to last year’s Child 44 makes it completely clear
      that a major new talent is in the house.

      Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon. By Joe
      Gores. 2009. Knopf, $24 (9780307262640).

      A prequel to The Maltese Falcon sounds like a bad idea in so many ways but not
      when it’s three-time Edgar winner Gores—author of the novel Hammett (1975), a
      former PI himself, and a master of the hard-boiled style—at the helm. Gores
      creates a compelling backstory for Sam Spade and does it so completely in the
      Hammett style that we suspend disbelief in an instant. A wonderful opportunity
      to walk the streets of San Francisco one more time with the city’s most
      memorable fictional character.

      When Will There Be Good News? By Kate Atkinson. 2008. Little, Brown, $24.99
      (9780316154857).

      The third entry in Atkinson’s acclaimed Jackson Brodie series may be the best
      yet. Atkinson writes about truly horrific matters, often involving violence
      against women, but she brings such remarkable tonal range to her material—four
      revolving narrators alternate between biting humor and somber reflection—that we
      are struck not by the mayhem being described but by the incredible narrative
      richness.


      Best Crime Novel Debuts

      Amberville. By Tim Davys. 2009. Harper, $19.95 (9780061625121).

      A hard-boiled mystery starring a cast of stuffed animals? It sounds like an
      over-the-top gimmick, but everything works in Davys’ surprisingly metaphysical
      take on some classic crime-fiction tropes. The publisher describes it as The Big
      Sleep meets Animal Farm, and frankly, we can’t do any better than that.

      Black Water Rising. By Attica Locke. 2009. Harper, $25.99 (9780061735868).

      Far removed from his glory days as a black activist, Jay Porter is a struggling
      Houston lawyer until a life-changing case falls in his lap. Locke presents a
      searing portrait of a man struggling to reconcile the bitterness of his
      experience with the strength of his convictions. Like Dennis Lehane, she
      skillfully deploys the conventions of the thriller while also presenting biting
      social commentary, a sure sense of place, and soulful characters.

      Echoes from the Dead. By Johan Theorin. 2008. Delacorte, $22 (9780385342216).

      In the 1970s, on the island of Oland in Sweden, a boy disappears in the fog.
      Twenty years later, his mother returns to the island to follow a new clue.
      Alternating the modern-day search with flashbacks to the time of the
      disappearance, Theorin skillfully uses dramatic irony to draw the reader into
      the story. Sweden landed on the crime-fiction map with Henning Mankell’s
      procedurals, but Marie Jungstedt, Asa Larsson, and now Theorin have added
      psychological thrillers to the mix.

      Final Theory. By Mark Alpert. 2008. Touchstone, $24 (9781416572879).

      David Swift, the author of a best-seller about Einstein, learns that the
      physicist did complete his unified field theory but the results were so
      catastrophic that he kept them secret. Now the search is on for the hidden
      notebooks. Alpert, an editor for Scientific American, laces his high-IQ doomsday
      thriller with clearly explicated and hauntingly beautiful scientific theories.

      Nuclear Winter Wonderland. By Joshua Corin. 2008. Kunati, paper, $15.95
      (9781601641601).

      After his twin sister is kidnapped by a strange man with plans involving a
      nuclear device, Adam Weiss joins forces with a former Mob enforcer and a
      Croatian female clown (who only speaks Spanish) to track down the maniac. This
      richly comic thriller is surreal without being silly and wonderfully playful in
      its use of language.

      Ol
      • zorija Re: Czas list :) 07.11.09, 08:44
        Złoty Sztylet: William Brodrick, A Whispered Name

        * Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?
        * Mark Billingham, In the Dark
        * Lawrence Block, Hit and Run
        * M.R.Hall, The Coroner
        * Gene Kerrigan, Dark Times in the City
    • siostra_pelagia Re: Czas list :) 30.01.10, 19:21
      Pojawiły się już nominacje do nagrody Edgara 2010 za najlepszą
      powieść. Oczywiście trzymam kciuki za Nemesis Nesbosmile

      1. The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
      2. The Odds by Kathleen George
      3. The Last Child by John Hart
      4. Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
      5. Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
      6. A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
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