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Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year
The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is one of the UK's top crime-fiction awards, sponsored by Theakston's Old Peculier. It is awarded annually at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in the UK, held every July, as part of the Harrogate International Festivals Harrogate International Festivals (HIF) is a registered charity and one of the UK's longest running arts festivals, having been established in 1966. Based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Festivals include the Harrogate Music Festival, Theakston Ol .... The winner receives £3000 and a small hand-carved oak beer cask carved by one of Britain's last coopers. Novels eligible are those crime novels published in paperback any time during the previous year. Voting is by the public with decisions of a jury-panel also taken into account, a fact not-much publicised by the award organisers, who are keen to emphasize the public-voting aspect of the award. Recipients References {{DEFAULTSORT:Theakston's Old Pecul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theakston's Old Peculier
T&R Theakston is a brewery in the market town of Masham, North Yorkshire, England. The company is the sixteenth largest brewer in the UK by market share, and the second largest brewer under family ownership after Shepherd Neame. The brewery is also one of the last remaining in the UK to have an in-house cooperage. History T&R Theakston Ltd. was founded in 1827 by Robert Theakston and John Wood at the Black Bull pub and brewhouse in College Lane, Masham. By 1832, Theakston had sole ownership of the brewery and in 1875 he passed control over to his sons Thomas and Robert. Thomas and Robert Theakston formed the T&R Theakston partnership and constructed a new brewery on the Paradise Fields, a stone's throw away from the original site. In 1919, the company acquired the Lightfoot Brewery, also in Masham, now used as the company's flagship hotel, The White Bear. Through successive generations the business became the established brewer in North Yorkshire being well placed to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exit Music
''Exit Music'' is the seventeenth crime novel in the internationally bestselling Inspector Rebus series, written by Ian Rankin. It was published on 6 September 2007. The book is named after the Radiohead song " Exit Music (For a Film)". Plot summary The novel takes place on November 15-27, 2006; Rebus's last day in the Edinburgh CID is November 25. Rebus and Siobhan Clarke are investigating the death of a famous Russian exile poet who was mugged and beaten to death on King's Stables Road. Then a sound recordist with close ties to the dead Russian poet dies at home in an arson fire. Rebus discovers that the dead poet had eaten his last meal with the recordist, then had a drink with Morris Gerald Cafferty, Rebus's gangster nemesis, in a bar where Cafferty was meeting a Russian oligarch and a Labour official from the Scottish Parliament. Rebus finds Cafferty's hand in many schemes (drugs, abusive landlord practices), but the biggest ones involve real estate and are quite le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Literary Awards
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Mystery And Detective Fiction Awards
Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange'' Films * ''Mystery'' (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film * ''Mystery'' (2014 film), a 2014 Chinese suspense thriller adventure film * ''Mystery, Alaska'' (1999), a comedy-drama film Genres * Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction * Mystery film, a genre in cinema Literature * ''Mysteries'' (novel) or ''Mysterie'', an 1892 existentialist novel by Knut Hamsun * ''Mystery'' (novel), a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub *'' The Mystery'' (1907), a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams Newspapers * ''Mystery'' (newspaper), an African American newspaper by Martin Delany Music Groups * Mystery (band), a Canadian progressive-rock band formed in 1986 Albums and EPs * ''Mystery'' (Blk Jks EP), 2009 * ''Mystery'' (Mystery EP), 1992 * ''Mystery'' (RAH Band album), 1985 * ''Mystery'' (Faye Wong album), 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Sister, The Serial Killer
''My Sister, the Serial Killer'' is a 2018 thriller novel by Nigerian writer Oyinkan Braithwaite. Braithwaite's debut novel, it was originally published in Nigeria as an e-book entitled ''Thicker Than Water'' in 2017, before being released in the United States by Doubleday Books on November 20, 2018. Plot In Lagos, Nigeria, Korede is a nurse with a close relationship with her younger sister, Ayoola. Ayoola is the more beautiful, favored sister, and possibly sociopathic. For the third time in a row, Ayoola has stabbed her boyfriend to death, supposedly in self-defense. Like the previous times, Korede helps dispose of the body and clean away the evidence. Her practicality and concern keep Ayoola from acting suspiciously about her “missing” boyfriend, such as by posting to social media when she should be mourning. Korede feels unappreciated as she constantly dreads that they will be caught and that Ayoola will kill again, confiding in none but a comatose patient in the hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of Bounds (McDermid Novel)
''Out of Bounds'' is a 2016 crime drama novel by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid. The novel is set during 2016 but because the main detective is in the Historic Case Unit (HCU) the crimes being investigated were actually committed in 1994 and 1996. Synopsis Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie walks the streets of Leith in the small hours. She cannot sleep as her lover and colleague, Phil Parhatka, was killed in the last outing in this series ( The Skeleton Road). At night she encounters displaced Syrian refugees in alleyways and under bridges gathered together to try and be a community, as since coming to Scotland, they have nowhere to meet up. In 2016, a group of joyriders crash their stolen vehicle and the driver ends up in intensive care. The DNA of the offender leads Pirie to an unsolved rape/murder of a hairdresser from Partick in 1996. Tina McDonald was on a night out with some friends in Glasgow when she disappeared from the group before being found dead the next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Career Of Evil
''Career of Evil'' is a 2015 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the third novel in the ''Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels and is followed by ''Lethal White'' in 2018 and ''Troubled Blood'' in 2020. Plot After murdering a woman, an unidentified man stalks Robin Ellacott, whom he sees as part of his plan to exact revenge against private investigator Cormoran Strike. Robin, having worked for Strike for a year, is now a full-time investigator in addition to being his secretary. Strike has developed a relationship with radio presenter Elin but continues to harbour feelings for Robin, whose fiancé Matthew disapproves of the work she is doing. One day, Robin receives a package containing a woman's severed leg and a message quoting the Blue Öyster Cult song "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)". Strike, who recognises the song as a favourite of his deceased mother, Leda, concludes someone from his past s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Let You Go
Clare Mackintosh is a British author and former police officer. Her novels are published in more than 35 languages and have sold more than two million copies worldwide. Novels Mackintosh's debut novel ''I Let You Go'' was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. It won Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016, beating J K Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith. In October 2016, the French translation of ''I Let You Go'' (''Te Laisser Partir'') won "best international novel" at the Cognac Festival Prix du Polar awards. In March 2017 publisher Little, Brown announced that ''I Let You Go'' has sold over one million copies worldwide. Her second novel, ''I See You'', was also a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, winning the readers' vote. It charted at number 1 in ''The Sunday Times'' original fiction list and was shortlisted for Crime & Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. In March 2018 Mackintosh published her third novel, ''Let Me Lie'', which charted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before I Go To Sleep
''Before I Go to Sleep'' is the first novel by S. J. Watson published in Spring 2011. It became both a ''Sunday Times'' and ''The New York Times'' bestseller and has been translated into over 40 languages, and has become a bestseller in France, Canada, Bulgaria and the Netherlands. It reached number 7 on the US bestseller list, the highest position for a debut novel by a British author since J. K. Rowling. ''The New York Times'' described the author as an "out-of-nowhere literary sensation". He wrote the novel between shifts whilst working as a National Health Service (NHS) audiologist. Plot The novel is a psychological thriller about a woman suffering from anterograde amnesia. She wakes up every day with no knowledge of who she is and the novel follows her as she tries to reconstruct her memories from a journal she has been keeping. She learns that she has been seeing a doctor who is helping her to recover her memory, that her name is Christine Lucas, that she is 47 years old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
61 Hours
''61 Hours'' is the fourteenth book in the Jack Reacher thriller series written by Lee Child. It was published on 18 March 2010 both in the United Kingdom and in the USA. It is written in the third person. In the story, former military police officer Jack Reacher agrees to help the police in a small South Dakota town protect an elderly witness to a biker gang methamphetamine deal. As Reacher and the police investigate the gang's compound, the threats to the witness escalate to murder and the involvement of a powerful drug kingpin. Plot summary Jack Reacher is hitching a ride on a senior citizen's tour through South Dakota in the middle of winter when the bus skids out on the interstate, disabling it. Together with the bus driver and the local deputy chief of police, Peterson, Reacher helps the elderly tourists get to safety in the nearby town of Bolton. Bolton is home to one of the largest prisons in the United States. Reacher learns that in the event of an escape or riot in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doors Open
''Doors Open'' is a 2008 novel by crime writer Ian Rankin. It was his first stand-alone thriller in over 10 years. The story was originally published as a serial novel in ''The New York Times Magazine''. Plot outline Mike Mackenzie is a software entrepreneur who has sold his company for a substantial amount of money, but is now bored and looking for a new thrill. His new-found wealth has funded a genuine interest in art so when his friend Professor Robert Gissing presents him with a plan for the perfect crime, he willingly helps set that plan in motion. With a vast collection but limited wall space, the National Gallery (on the TV adaptation, a Scottish bank) has many more valuable works of art in storage than it could ever display. The plan is to stage a heist at the Granton storage depot on "Doors Open Day" during which a selected group of paintings will be "stolen". The gang will then give the appearance of having panicked and fled without the works of art, but will have s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child 44
''Child 44'' (published in 2008) is a thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith. This is the first novel in a trilogy featuring former MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. Themes This novel, the first in a trilogy, takes inspiration from the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo, also known as the Rostov Ripper, the Butcher of Rostov, and the Red Ripper. Chikatilo was convicted of and executed for committing 52 murders in the Soviet Union, though his crimes occurred after the Stalin era. In addition to highlighting the problem of Soviet-era criminality in a state where "there is no crime", the novel explores the paranoia of the age, the education system, the secret police apparatus, orphanages, homosexuality in the USSR, and mental hospitals. The second and third books in the trilogy, titled '' The Secret Speech'' (April 2009) and '' Agent 6'' (July 2011), respectively, also feature the protagonist Leo Demidov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
