Deutscher Krimi Preis
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2012

winner (International) y separately published work icon Truth Peter Temple , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2009 Z1594714 2009 single work novel crime thriller (taught in 2 units)

'Stephen Villani is the acting head of the Victoria Police homicide squad. But his first months on the job have not gone well: two Aboriginal teenagers shot dead in a botched operation he authorised in the provincial city of Cromarty; and, no progress on the killing of a man in front of his daughter outside a private girls' school.

Now five men are found dead in horrifying circumstances on the outskirts of the city. Villani's superiors and the media are baying for arrests. To add to his woes, some of the country's richest people are alarmed by the baffling killing of a young woman in the high-security tower where they live.

Villani, a man who has built his life around his work, begins to find the certainties of both crumbling. As the pressure mounts, he finds that he must contemplate things formerly unthinkable. Truth is a novel about murder, corruption, family, friends, honour, honesty, deceit, love, betrayal and truth.' (from Quercus website)

Year: 2002

winner (International) y separately published work icon The Dragon Man Garry Disher , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1999 Z129546 1999 single work novel crime

'A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder—his.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Soho Crime ed.).

Year: 2000

winner (International) y separately published work icon Kickback Garry Disher , North Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1991 Z75140 1991 single work novel crime Thriller about a stylish bank robber whose inscrutable methods ensure he never gets caught - until he meets Anna Reid. (Source: Trove)

Works About this Award

Bookmarks Jason Steger , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 January 2012; (p. 32)

A column canvassing current literary news including a brief report on the success of the German translation of Peter Temple's Truth.

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