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Delafield (Kate Delafield Mystery #10)
Par Katherine Forrest. 2022
The most celebrated detective in lesbian literature returns in the most fateful case of her career . . . Four…
years retired, Kate Delafield has a twenty-year-old case roaring back on her, a case from which she had recoiled, withdrawn herself. A homophobic homicide far too reminiscent of a recent, haunting, life-changing investigation of the murder of a young lesbian at the Nightwood Bar. Now she suffers in secret, knowing she is personally culpable for the mishandling of evidence. The key decisions about the conduct of her life and her police career that have brought her directly to this time, this place in the high desert where she has taken herself. All she can do now, she resolves, is protect as best she can the people she loves most, especially Aimee, from this threat. And, until her time runs out, she can go back and investigate, determine who actually ended the life of fifteen-year-old April Shuster. But events, people, intervene. New people in her present life, some from her past. And they will take her in the most unexpected of directionsWonderland avenue: roman
Par Michael Connelly. 2002
Harry Bosch, inspecteur au commissariat d'Hollywood, doit enquêter sur la découverte de l'humérus d'un enfant apparemment enterré à la va-vite…
il y a une vingtaine d'années et après de nombreux mauvais traitements...The hunter
Par Jennifer Herrera. 2023
A riveting atmospheric suspense debut that explores the dark side of a small town and asks: How can we uncover…
the truth when we keep lying to ourselves? "Herrera has a gift for drawing vivid characters and rich settings. A voicey and compelling debut that is not to be missed."—Karin Slaughter After reckless behavior costs NYPD detective Leigh O’Donnell her job and her marriage, she returns with her four-year-old daughter to her beautiful hometown of Copper Falls, Ohio. Leigh had stayed away for more than a decade—even though her brother and a trio of loving uncles still call it home—because, while the town may seem idyllic, something rotten lies at its core. Three men in town have drowned in what Leigh suspects to be a triple homicide. She hopes that by finding out who killed them, she just might get her life back on course. Headstrong and intuitive, Leigh isn’t afraid to face a killer, but she has to do more than that to discover the truth about what happened to those men. She must unravel a web of secrets going back generations, and, in doing so, plumb the darkness within herself. Perfect for fans of Mare of Easttown , this taut debut is a haunting look at how the search for truth often leads back to the most unlikely of placesThe blackhouse: The lewis trilogy (Lewis Trilogy #1)
Par Peter May. 2018
From acclaimed author and dramatist Peter May comes the Barry Award-winning The Blackhouse , the first book in the Lewis…
Trilogy — a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past. As Fin reconnects with the people and places of his tortured childhood, the desolate but beautiful island and its ancient customs once again begin to assert their grip on his psyche. Every step toward solving the case brings Fin closer to a dangerous confrontation with the dark events of the past that shaped — and nearly destroyed — his lifeCity under one roof
Par Iris Yamashita. 2023
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise…
building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own motives for investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel. After a blizzard causes the tunnel to close indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the odd and suspicious residents of the town—all 205 of whom live in the same high-rise building and are as icy as the weather. Cara teams up with Point Mettier police officer Joe Barkowski, but before long the investigation is upended by fearsome gang members from a nearby native village. Haunted by her past, Cara soon discovers that everyone in this town has something to hide. Will she be able to unravel their secrets before she unravels?Bloody martini: A felonious monk mystery (Felonious Monk Mystery #2)
Par William Kotzwinkle. 2023
Award-winning and bestselling author William Kotzwinkle is back with the second in the darkly comedic Felonious Monk series featuring Tommy…
Martini, a Benedictine monk with an anger management problem. Felonious Monk was praised as "amiably satirical" (Washington Post) and "a whiplash adventure" (Wall Street Journal). Coalville is on fire—from below. The old mines are burning, and everyone has poison gas in their brain. Maybe that's why the town is so corrupt. Now that he's a Benedictine monk, Tommy Martini never wants to see the place again—hell-raisers there hold a grudge till they die, and he's on their wish list. But a girl he once loved has gone missing, and his best friend from childhood has been murdered. Among the living is a shy girl from Tommy's past, who wants to help. Together, they learn the secret of the elephant's graveyard, and it's not in Africa. At the heart of Coalville is Parade Square, with plenty of pigeons, drugs, and child prostitution. It's the new small-town America, where Dionysus is dancing once again. William Kotzwinkle's insight into this paradigm shift is shot through with the humor he is famous for, and the result is a spicy brew, a bloody martini—just one sip may keep you up all nightThe house on the cliff
Par Charlotte Williams. 2014
Jessica Mayhew is a sharp, successful therapist with a thriving practice and loving family. But the arrival of a new…
client, actor Gwydion Morgan, coincides with a turbulent moment in her life: her husband has just confessed to a one-night stand with a younger woman. The son of a famous stage director, Gwydion is good-looking and talented but mentally fragile, tormented by an intriguing phobia. When Jessica receives a frantic call warning that he is suicidal, she decides to make a house call. The Morgans live in a grand clifftop mansion overlooking the rocky Welsh coast. It seems to be a remote paradise, but there's something sinister about it too: Jessica learns that the family's former au pair drowned in the bay under mysterious circumstances. In her quest to help Gwydion, to whom she's grown increasingly attached, Jessica becomes ensnared in the Morgan family mystery, which soon becomes an explosive public scandal—one that puts her directly in harm's way. Meanwhile, Jessica is doing her best to keep her marriage and family together, but her growing attraction to Gwydion is impossible to ignore. Smart, stylish, and suspenseful, The House on the Cliff announces the arrival of a winning female protagonist in Jessica Mayhew and an exciting new crime writer in Charlotte WilliamsThe mysterious bookshop presents the best mystery stories of the year 2023
Par Amor Towles. 2023
Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.…
C. Boyle. Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, New York Times bestseller Amor Towles has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume. The volume also contains a "bonus story" selected from the bookshop's rare book room, featuring a look into the history of this illustrious genreFrom cradle to grave
Par Patricia MacDonald. 2023
Claire has it all: a handsome chef husband, a happy life on the coast, and a beautiful baby boy. But…
her picture-perfect life isn't what it seems. Days after the christening, her husband and baby are murdered. Then she confesses to the gruesome crime. But why? And did she really do it? The evidence against her is damning. The police are convinced they have their killer. But her best friend, Morgan, doesn't think she did it. But how well does she really know Claire? Soon she's putting her life at risk to find outRed queen: A novel (Antonia Scott #1)
Par Juan Gómez-Jurado. 2023
"Scott Brick narrates this addictive audiobook, which blends dark humor and thrills... Brick skillfully builds tension and suspense, drawing the…
listener into the investigation alongside the main characters."- AudioFile Magazine "...Scott Brick's sublime performance deserves to be savored."- Library Journal This program contains a bonus conversation between the author and narrator. Fan favorite and acclaimed narrator Scott Brick delivers an electrifying performance of this #1 international award-winning bestseller and thriller that has taken the world by storm. Introducing Antonia Scott—the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander—in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen , the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm. Antonia Scott—the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother—has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: Convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed retirement, protecting her and helping her investigate a new, terrifying case. The case is a macabre, ritualistic murder—a teen-aged boy from a wealthy family whose body was found without a drop of blood left in it. But the murder is just the start. A high-ranking executive and daughter of one of the richest men in Spain is kidnapped, a crime which is tied to the previous murder. Behind them both is a hidden mastermind with even more sinister plans. And the only person with a chance to see the connections, solve the crimes and successfully match wits with the killer before tragedy strikes again...is Antonia ScottStill waters (F.B.I. K-9 #7)
Par Sara Driscoll. 2022
In the latest page-turning FBI K-9 novel, Special Agent Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue Labrador, Hawk, find that a training…
session in the Minnesota wilderness becomes a fight for survival ... Keeping their search-and-rescue skills honed isn't just a job requirement for FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings and her Labrador, Hawk—it's essential to saving lives. A water search training weekend in the Boundary Waters area of Minnesota has attracted participants from all levels of law enforcement, each vying to win. The races are challenging, the rivalry is intense, and Meg is already under pressure when Hawk alerts to a scent in the water—and discovers the fresh body of one of Meg's fellow competitors. The contest is called off, but Meg's still feeling the heat. The victim had made an unfounded complaint about her, one that could cost Meg her job and see Hawk removed from her care. The field of suspects is daunting, and all of them are experts in throwing others off the trail. And though Meg's team flies out to Minnesota to help uncover the truth, they're on unfamiliar territory, pitted against a killer with the skills, and the motivation, to stay hidden in plain sightHeat 2
Par Michael Mann. 2023
Michael Mann, l'un des plus grands cinéastes contemporains, fait une entrée fracassante dans le monde du polar avec un premier…
roman explosif qui raconte l'avant et l'après de son film iconique Heat. Chris Shiherlis, blessé et fiévreux, tente désespérément d'échapper au détective Vincent Hanna. Quelques heures plus tôt, Hanna a tué son complice Neil McCauley lors d'une fusillade sur la piste de l'aéroport. Il est maintenant déterminé à éliminer Chris, le dernier survivant du gang. Des rues de Los Angeles aux quartiers de la mafia taïwanaise du Paraguay, en passant par la frontière du Mexique, Heat 2 nous propulse jusqu'aux événements du film et au-delà. Dans une guerre sans merci. Jusqu'à la mort. « C'est le meilleur polar de l'année – de loin, de très loin. On ne le lit pas. On le dévore. » François Forestier, L'OBS « Heat 2 est un roman brillant et captivant, aux personnages riches et réels, avec une narration forte : l'une des plus authentiques représentations de criminels et des flics qui les traquent que j'ai pu lire. » Don Winslow « Une prolongation de l'univers du film absolument exaltante, avec des détours par le Mexique, le Paraguay, le Vietnam et Las Vegas, et des décors à couper le souffle où l'on tire à balles réelles. » Rolling Stone « À lire absolument. » USA Today Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Nicolas Ancion et Axelle DemoulinThe lewis man: The lewis trilogy (Lewis Trilogy #2)
Par Peter May. 2018
In The Lewis Man , the second book of the trilogy, Fin Macleod has returned to the Isle of Lewis,…
the storm-tossed, wind-scoured outer Hebridean island where he was born and raised. Having left behind his adult life in Edinburgh — including his wife and his career in the police force — the former Detective Inspector is intent on repairing past relationships and restoring his parents' derelict cottage. His plans are interrupted when an unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog. The only clue to its identity is a DNA match to a local farmer, the now-senile Tormod Macdonald — the father of Fin's childhood sweetheart, Marsaili — a man who has claimed throughout his life to be an only child, practically an orphan. Reluctantly drawn into the investigation, Fin uncovers deep family secrets even as he draws closer to the killer who wishes to keep them hidden. Already an international bestseller and winner of numerous awards, including France's Prix des Lecteurs du Telegramme, The Lewis Man has the lyrical verve of Ian Rankin and the gutsy risk-taking of Benjamin Black. As fascinating and forbidding as the Hebridean landscape, the book (according to The Times ) "throbs with past and present passions, jealousies, suspicions and regrets; the emotional secrets of the bleak island are even deeper than its peat bog."Voir Naples et mourir: roman (Sang d'encre)
Par Neil Griffiths. 2004
Jim Wolf, un Anglais de 35 ans, choisit Naples pour passer des vacances forcées. Le hasard le tient à l'écart…
du circuit touristique et le conduit à retrouver une jeune femme dont il a été l'amant dix ans plus tôt à Londres et qui est maintenant mariée à un juge napolitain influent. Ce simple week-end à Naples devient vite dangereux, entre les pièges de l'amour et ceux de la mafia. Premier roman.Les démons de Bangkok: roman d'enquête (Le treize noir)
Par Camille Bouchard. 2005
Fabien, 25 ans, part en Thaïlande pour y retrouver son frère aîné. Il découvrira un continent complètement différent, qui le…
changera à jamais. La quête de son frère en amènera une autre: celle de retrouver une enfant de huit ans, enlevée par les Triades chinoises (la mafia), qui ont fait d'elle une prostituée dans les bordels de Bangkok. Camille Bouchard trace un portrait saisissant de la réalité, où émotions et action se conjuguent. Du même auteur, dans la même collection, Les Enfants de chienne a été finaliste au Prix Saint-Pacôme du roman policier en 2004.Le ruban de satin bleu (Le coquelicot)
Par Nicole Mercier-Thomasson. 2021
Léonard, un mercier et marchand de rubans ambulant, se voit accusé du meurtre d'un curé peu après que ce dernier…
a marmonné quelques mots incompréhensibles au moment de rendre son dernier soupir. Pour surmonter cette épreuve, le colporteur se replonge dans ses souvenirs, en particulier l'image d'une petite fille appelée Laurette, qu'il pense être sa fille.Hell.com
Par Patrick Senécal. 2009
« Depuis qu'il a pris la tête de la société immobilière de son père, Daniel Saul est devenu l'un des…
hommes d'affaires les plus riches du Québec. Dans la jeune quarantaine, beau, fonceur, intelligent et sans pitié pour la concurrence et les losers, Daniel a tout pour lui et ne se gêne pas pour prendre le reste. Quand Martin Charron, un financier et ancien confrère de collège, lui propose de devenir membre de Hell.com, un site Internet secret où tout - mais vraiment tout ! - est possible pour ceux qui le fréquentent, Daniel sait qu'il ne pourra refuser de s'inscrire. N'est-il pas un « puissant de ce monde », comme son père l'a été avant lui et comme Simon, son fils adolescent dont il a la garde exclusive, le deviendra à son tour ? Or, ce que Daniel Saul a oublié, c'est qu'on ne monte jamais aux enfers, on y descend ! Et leur profondeur, qui est abyssale, n'aura bientôt d'égale que celle de son désespoir ! » -- 4e de couvMeurtre en la majeur: roman (Actes noirs)
Par Morley Torgov. 2010
Quand un des nombreux parasites qui constituent l'entourage de Robert et Clara Schumann est assassiné dans d'étranges circonstances, l'inspecteur Hermann…
Preiss de Düsseldorf tente de résoudre le mystère, ainsi que l'énigme d'un "la" qui s'obstine à sonner faux sur le piano du maestro.Confortablement niché dans son manoir du XVIIIe siècle dans le Cambridgeshire, l'écrivain à succès de romans policiers sire Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk…
se plaît à tourmenter ses quatre enfants devenus adultes, en les menaçant de les déshériter. Puis, il annonce son dernier coup — il est fiancé à Violet, une belle veuve au passé douteux.Une panique stimulée par la cupidité s'empare bientôt de sa progéniture prête à se poignarder dans le dos. En quelques heures, le fils aîné, Ruthven, légataire universel, est trouvé mort dans la cave à vin. Cependant, ses frères sans pitié, sa soeur infortunée, et sa vile épouse n'ont qu'une chose en tête : qui remportera la loterie de l'héritage ?Le salon d'ambre: roman
Par Matilde Asensi. 2005
Si Ana n'était qu'une jeune antiquaire talentueuse, elle ne ferait pas partie de l'Organisation. Ils sont cinq, recrutés parmi les…
meilleurs. Leur rôle : s'approprier illégalement des œuvres d'art uniques dans le seul but de les revendre. Lorsqu'Ana, en charge de l'exécution de ces vols, quel qu'en soit le danger, découvre dans un château d'Allemagne une toile cachée ouvrant sur les mystères du salon d'ambre, elle en a le souffle coupé. Véritable légende de l'histoire de l'art, ce fabuleux trésor disparu durant la Seconde Guerre n'est autre que la huitième merveille du monde : plus de cinquante-cinq mètres carrés de panneaux d'ambre réalisés sous le règne du premier roi de Prusse, le Graal de tout un peuple, une fortune inestimable, une pure beauté. Des mystères de l'après-guerre aux secrets les mieux gardés, de Weimar au camp de Buchenwald, la jeune femme, aussi libre que séduisante, n'en finira pas de rencontrer l'Histoire.