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Perish twice
Par Robert B Parker. 2000
In this sequel to Family Honor (RC 48857, BR 14400), Boston private investigator Sunny Randall is hired briefly by a…
lesbian to protect her against a stalker. A murder and puzzling loose ends keep Sunny unofficially on the case. Meanwhile, Sunny's sister and a good friend experience troubling breakups. Strong language. Bestseller. 2000The queene's cure: an Elizabeth I mystery
Par Karen Harper. 2002
London, 1562. Elizabeth Tudor seeks the best physicians to conquer the pox and pestilence that threaten her life and that…
of her subjects. Someone is taunting the queen with a smallpox effigy, and her loyal staff struggles to find the culprit. Sequel to The Twylight Tower (BR 13610). 2002Du sang dans la sciure
Par Joe R Lansdale. 2008
"Dans les années 1930, en pleine Dépression, la petite ville texane de Tyler survit grâce à la scierie de camp…
Rapture. Fils de la principale actionnaire de l'entreprise, Pete Jones est aussi le shérif de la ville. La surprise est donc générale lorsque sa femme Sunset, violentée une fois de trop par ce mari brutal, l'abat d'une balle dans la tête. Malgré son acquittement pour légitime défense, les commentaires vont bon train : comment une femme peut-elle se prétendre violée par son mari ? Et lorsque sa belle-mère, en alliée inattendue, confie à Sunset le poste vacant de shérif, l'étonnement est à son comble. Avec la découverte du cadavre d'une femme enceinte enterré sur le terrain du seul propriétaire noir et de la région, Sunset va devoir faire ses preuves, revolver à la main. Son enquête sur cet assassinat la conduit à explorer un univers de préjugés, de corruption et de cynisme, où une femme qui ne sait pas rester à sa place est à la fois considérée comme une menace et comme une cible'. -- 4e de couvBack story
Par Robert B Parker. 2003
Boston P.I. Spenser agrees to help actress Daryl Silver investigate the murder of her mother twenty-eight years ago during a…
bank robbery. Spenser and colleague Hawk face danger when they uncover ties between a radical hippie group, the mob, and the FBI. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2003Angel of mercy
Par Tracie Peterson. 2002
Los Angeles, 1904. Lawyer Kit Shannon reluctantly agrees to defend policeman Edward Hanratty on a murder charge. Kit also seeks…
divine help when her true love, Ted Fox, hasn't returned to the city and her aunt visits spiritualists. Sequel to Angels Flight (BR 14635). 2002Rumpole rests his case
Par John Mortimer. 2002
Collection of short stories featuring the British barrister in seven more cases. In the title piece, Rumpole collapses during a…
trial. Though his wife, Hilda, "She Who Must Be Obeyed," insists that he retire, he defends a wounded burglar he meets in the hospital ward. Some strong language. 2001City of Angels
Par Tracie Peterson. 2001
Los Angeles, 1903. Orphan Kit Shannon, with a New York law certificate, arrives in California to live with her wealthy…
great aunt Freddy. As criminal lawyer Earl Rogers's apprentice, Kit relies on her religious belief and successfully exposes a killer in her first trial. Prequel to Angels Flight (BR 14635). 2001Grail for sale
Par Gerald Hammond. 2002
Scottish historian Jeremy Carpenter has been selling off family heirlooms to pay for the upkeep of his grandfather's castle and…
health. When he meets American Hazel Tripp, an antiques restorer, he learns that he's been defrauded by the buyer. Together they hatch a scheme to outwit the swindler. 2002Red house
Par K. J. A Wishnia. 2001
Former NYPD cop and single mother Filomena Buscarsela joins a Queens private detective firm as a trainee. She investigates the…
disappearance of an illegal laborer, a shoot-out with the police, longtime squatters in an old factory, and a murder. Some cases pay, some don't. Strong language and some violence. 2001The last Kashmiri rose
Par Barbara Cleverly. 2002
Calcutta, 1922. Scotland Yard commander Joseph Sandilands investigates the strange deaths of army officers' wives. The governor's niece suspects that…
a serial killer is murdering them. With her help, Sandilands discovers the culprit and his motives. Some violence and some strong language. 2001Six easy pieces: Easy Rawlins stories
Par Walter Mosley. 2003
Seven interconnected short stories featuring Easy Rawlins in 1960s Los Angeles. Rawlins assists pals who are in trouble and encounters…
arson, murder, and mayhem. He also searches for his friend Mouse, who he suspects may still be alive. Some violence and some strong language. 2003How to cook a tart: a novel
Par Nina Killham. 2002
Overweight cookbook author Jasmine March's life is in shambles when her rich recipes become unpopular, her teenage daughter develops anorexia,…
and her husband takes a lover. After Jasmine discovers the lover's body in her kitchen, she hides it in unusual places. Some strong language. 2002Better to rest: a Liam Campbell mystery
Par Dana Stabenow. 2002
Alaska state trooper Sgt. Liam Campbell Fire and Ice (BR 12374) and his pilot girlfriend discover the remains of a…
WWII plane embedded in a glacier. Campbell's investigation links recent murders with past military secrets that would be better left buried. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002Spook: a "nameless detective" novel
Par Bill Pronzini. 2003
The "Nameless Detective," last seen in Bleeders (RC 54139), is semiretired. His partners Tamara Corbin and Jake Runyon, newly hired,…
investigate the execution-style murder of a crazy, homeless man named Spook, whose checkered past has evidently caught up with him. Violence and strong language. 2003Dragon rouge: roman
Par Thomas Harris. 2002
Roman criminel du style procédural où nous sont fournis, comme à l'enquêteur spécial du livre, Will Graham, tous les éléments…
nécessaires pour résoudre une situation horrifiante: des meurtres de familles entières (y compris de l'animal domestique de la maison) par un psychopathe insaisissable. L'on conçoit rapidement que, pour arrêter cet assassin irresponsable influencé par la pleine lune, il n'existe qu'une hypothétique façon de procéder: arriver à penser comme le meurtrier à partir des "traces" invisibles qu'il a pu semer involontairement dans ses massacres. Une réussite de 1981 et la première apparition du docteur Hannibal Lecter avant Le silence des agneauxThe lady in the lake (Vintage crime/Black lizard)
Par Raymond Chandler. 1992
A swaggering businessman hires hard-boiled Philip Marlowe to find his wife, who has been missing for a month. When a…
woman's body is pulled from the lake where the wife had been staying, and the caretaker's wife is also missing, Marlowe pieces the puzzle together. Some strong language and some violence. 1943Blood Lake
Par K. J. A Wishnia. 2002
New York P.I. Filomena Buscarsela, a former revolutionary, brings her daughter home to Ecuador for a family visit. When the…
local priest who had saved her life years before is murdered, Filomena uses her skills to avenge him. Strong language and some violence. 2002Some of us are looking (County Kerry #2)
Par Carlene O'Connor. 2023
In late summer, the Dingle Peninsula is thronged with tourists drawn to County Kerry's dark mountains and deep, lush valleys.…
For Irish vet Dimpna Wilde, who has returned to run her family's practice after years away, home is a beautiful but complicated place-especially when it becomes the setting for a brutal murder ... In Dimpna Wilde's veterinary practice, an imminent meteor shower has elevated the usual gossip to include talk of shooting stars and the watch parties that are planned all over Dingle. But there are also matters nearer at hand to discuss-including the ragtag caravan of young people selling wares by the roadside and the shocking death of Chris Henderson, an elderly local, in a hit-and-run. Just hours before his death, Henderson had stormed into the garda station, complaining loudly about the caravan's occupants causing noise and disruption. One of their members is a beautiful young woman named Brigid Sweeney, and Dimpna is shocked when Brigid later turns up at her practice, her clothing splattered in blood and an injured hare tucked into her jacket. Brigid claims that a mysterious stranger has been trying to obtain a lucky rabbit's foot. Dimpna is incensed at the thought of anyone mutilating animals, but there is far worse in store. On the night of the meteor shower, Dimpna finds Brigid's body tied to a tree, her left hand severed. She has bled to death. Wrapped around her left wrist is a rabbit's foot. Brigid had amassed plenty of admirers, and there were tangled relationships within the group. But perhaps there is something more complex than jealousy at play. The rabbit's foot, the severed hand, the coinciding meteor shower-the deeper Dimpna and Detective Inspector Cormac O'Brien investigate, the more ominous the signs seem to be, laced with a warning that Dimpna fears it will prove fatal to overlookJane and the final mystery (Jane Austen Mystery #15)
Par Stephanie Barron. 2023
The final volume of the critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Jane Austen as amateur sleuth March 1817: As winter turns…
to spring, Jane Austen's health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupil at the prestigious all-boys' boarding school, has been found dead in a culvert near the schoolgrounds-and in the pocket of his drenched waistcoat is an incriminating note penned by the young William Heathcote, the son of Jane's dear friend Elizabeth. Prendergast had been widely reviled for his ruthless bullying. Has William exacted revenge on his tormentor, or is there a larger conspiracy looming? Jane takes up lodging near the idyllic college in order to untangle the duplicitous testimonies surrounding the prefect's death. But Winchester College is a world unto itself, with its own language and rites of passage, cruel hazing and dangerous pranks. Can she clear William's name before her illness gets the better of her? This audiobook edition includes an exclusive afterword narrated by the authorFortitude
Par Larry Collins. 1985
Solide récit d'espionnage construit autour d'une opération secrète visant à intoxiquer les Allemands en vue de protéger les troupes du…
débarquement. Étalés de novembre 1943 à juin 1944, les épisodes alternés fournissent un rythme très vivant au roman. [SDM