Annal:2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller
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Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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- 2001 Anthony-Novel winner
- 2001 Macavity-Novel winner
- 2000 Barry-British winner
- 2000 LATimes–Mystery winner
- 2001 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 46.51
On a freezing day in December 1963, thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same again for the inhabitants of the isolated hamlet in the English countryside. A young George Bennett, a newly-promoted inspector, he is determined to solve this case—even if it just to bring home a daughter’s dead body to her mother.
As days progress, the likelihood that Alison has been murdered increases when a gruesome discovery is made in a cave. But with no corpse, the barest of clues, and an investigation that turns up more…
- 2000 LATimes–Mystery finalist
- Score: 6.5
Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother’s legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave’s mind. He’s lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end.
While helping out an…
Blood Rain: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
- 2000 LATimes–Mystery finalist
- Score: 6.5
Despite his best efforts to please everyone and keep out of trouble, the veteran Italian Criminalpol officer Aurelio Zen has made more enemies than friends over the years. Now it’s payoff time. After his last case, amid the gentle hills and lush vineyards of Piedmont, Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily, heart of the Mafia’s power.
The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a deserted part of the island marks the beginning of Zen’s most…
Shame the Devil: A Novel
- 2000 LATimes–Mystery finalist
- Score: 6.5
Shame the Devil opens with a restaurant robbery gone awry in Washington, D.C. Several workers are shot in cold blood, the gunman’s brother is killed by police, a young boy is run over by the getaway car. Victims and their relatives gather together in the aftermath, attempting to find a way past their grief. Except one: the gunman is determined to avenge, not grieve, his lost brother—by killing every person involved in his death.
Shame the Devil captures D.C. as only “the Zola of Washington” (PW) could, bringing together characters whose survival readers…
Cold Is the Grave: A Novel of Suspense
- 2000 LATimes–Mystery finalist
- Score: 6.5
In recent years, the career of Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has been stalled—and, in fact, very nearly destroyed—by the petty animosities of his politically ambitious senior officer Chief Constable Jeremiah “Jimmy” Riddle. But when nude pictures of Riddle’s runaway teenage daughter show up on a pornographic website, he turns to Banks for help.
The trail first leads Banks to London’ Soho and then to Little Venice, where Emily Riddle is living with a dangerous gangster with ties to the world of rock music. At first refusing to go home, Emily later turns…
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