The winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel of 2012 was announced a couple of hours ago — Saturday evening in New Zealand — with Neil Cross taking home the honor for his book Luther: The Calling.
Though the book, featuring a character Cross created for the television series Luther, was published earlier this year in the UK, it will only be published this coming week here in the US.
The Ngaio Marsh Award recognizes the best crime, mystery, or thriller novel written by a New Zealand citizen or resident.
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Luther: The Calling
Neil Cross
A John Luther Mystery (1st in series)
Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. He's a murder detective with an extraordinary case-clearance rate. He's obsessive, instinctive, and intense. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. And yet there are rumors that Luther is bad—not corrupt, not on the take, but tormented. After years of chasing the most depraved criminals in London's gritty underworld, he seethes with a hidden fury that at times he can barely control. Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, making him do things any other detective wouldn't and shouldn't do.
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