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Shadows of sin: a Jessie Drake mystery
Par Rochelle Majer Krich. 2001
Los Angeles detective Jessie Drake and her partner Phil Okum investigate the murder of a prominent plastic surgeon. Suspects include…
the doctor's family and some discontented patients. Jessie is also contending with the pregnancy of her sister, a former child abuser, and studying Jewish tradition. Some violence and some strong language. 2001Maigret and the Hotel Majestic
Par Georges Simenon. 1977
One of the guests at a luxury hotel in Paris is murdered. The body is found by breakfast cook Prosper…
Donge. Superintendent Maigret questions Donge and the other hotel staff and guests to discover who among them is keeping secrets. 1977Green Calder grass
Par Janet Dailey. 2002
In this sequel to Calder Pride (BR 13022), Ty Calder has recovered from a kidnapping attempt and is expecting twins…
with his second wife, Jessy. But Ty's former wife, Tara, becomes increasingly jealous and tries to reclaim her ex. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002Maigret at the coroner's
Par Georges Simenon. 1980
In 1949 French Chief Superintendent Maigret is in Tucson, Arizona, on a professional junket where he attends a trial. Five…
air force men are accused of causing the death of a woman they abandoned in the desert. Cultural differences continually intrigue the detective. Some strong language. 1952The bones in the attic
Par Robert Barnard. 2002
Matt Harper, former soccer-player-turned-media-reporter, discovers a baby's skeleton in his newly bought house in Leeds. The police date the death…
to 1969 when, coincidentally, Matt stayed with his aunt in the same neighborhood. He investigates and uncovers unsavory secrets about his childhood playmates. Some strong language. 2001Winter and night
Par S. J Rozan. 2002
Private investigator Bill Smith and his partner Lydia Chin leave Manhattan to help Smith's fifteen-year-old runaway nephew, Gary. Gary's family…
lives in the New Jersey suburbs where he is suspected of killing his drug-dealing girlfriend. But Gary's dad also has a secret. Violence and strong language. 2002This lullaby: a novel
Par Sarah Dessen. 2002
Raised by a mother who writes romance novels and had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy Starr believes in short-term, noncommitment relationships.…
But in the summer before college, she meets Dexter, a musician in a rock band, and begins to change her mind. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2002L'envol des anges: roman (Études québécoises)
Par Michael Connelly. 2000
Le détective Harry Bosch se voit confier une enquête explosive dans laquelle ses collègues constituent les premiers suspects et qui…
risque, à la moindre erreur, d'embraser tout le quartier Noir. Une intrigue brillamment tissée et qui tient en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page1st to die
Par James Patterson. 2001
A serial killer of newlyweds prompts an investigation by Lindsay Boxer, a San Francisco homicide detective recently diagnosed with a…
potentially fatal blood disease. She recruits a medical examiner, a journalist, and a district attorney (all women) to help find the murderer. Violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001La galerie des jalousies: roman / 1
Par Marie-Bernadette Dupuy. 2016
" La Grande Guerre vient de se terminer avec son lot de morts, de destructions et de malheurs. Dans le…
village minier de Faymoreau, un accident grave se produit lorsqu'un coup de grisou provoque l'effondrement d'une galerie, causant la mort de trois travailleurs. Deux autres malheureux, dont Thomas Marot, sont prisonniers dans les entrailles de la Terre et les chances de les sauver sont minces. Lorsqu'elle apprend la tragédie qui frappe l'homme qu'elle aime depuis toujours, Isaure Millet se précipite sur les lieux, car même si Thomas s'apprête à se marier avec une ouvrière polonaise, elle espère toujours qu'il changera d'idée. Or, l'événement prend une tournure inattendue lorsqu'on retire des décombres le corps d'une des victimes: elle a été assassinée d'une balle dans le dos... " -- 4e de couvFamily honor
Par Robert B Parker. 1999
Ex-cop Sunny Randall works as a Boston private detective while she completes her BFA and paints. She recently divorced her…
husband because of his family mob ties, but still cares for him. In her current case, Sunny is suspicious of the wealthy couple looking for their runaway daughter. Strong language and violence. BestsellerThe cabinet of curiosities
Par Douglas J Preston. 2002
Archaeologist Nora Kelly of the Museum of Natural History in NYC joins forces with FBI agent Pendergast and newspaper reporter…
Bill Smithback to find a murderer who's mimicking a nineteenth-century serial killer. This felon needs live victims to produce a life-extending elixir. Some violence and some strong language. 2002The importance of being Ernestine: an Ellie Haskell mystery
Par Dorothy Cannell. 2002
Lady Krumley has a family curse. Ellie Haskell and Roxie Malloy, posing as private detectives, agree to break it. Their…
task entails finding Ernestine, daughter of their elderly employer's former maid. Lady Krumley had mistreated the maid and seeks to make amends to the daughter--now forty years old. 2002Maigret bides his time
Par Georges Simenon. 1966
For twenty years, French chief superintendent Maigret has tried to catch and apprehend a jewel theft gang. When an elderly…
criminal is murdered in his wheelchair, Maigret gets a break in the case. 19652nd chance
Par James Patterson. 2002
Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer of the San Francisco police department enlists the help of her friends in the Women's Murder Club,…
from 1st to Die (RC 51887/BR 14208), to track down a serial killer. Meanwhile Lindsay's estranged father, a former policeman, reenters her life. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2002Maigret loses his temper
Par Georges Simenon. 1965
Maigret investigates the murder of a nightclub owner. As he pieces together the events leading up to the murder, he…
questions Montmartre's pleasure seekers. Maigret must discover more than the killer's identity when he finds himself the target of a trap. 1963Blessings: a novel
Par Anna Quindlen. 2002
Skip Cuddy, caretaker of elderly Lydia Blessing's country estate, discovers an abandoned newborn baby on the doorstep and, naming her…
Faith, is encouraged by his employer to keep her. Faith rejuvenates the household, but her presence is soon public knowledge. Some strong language. 2002The Grave Maurice: a Richard Jury mystery
Par Martha Grimes. 2002
Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard is hospitalized with wounds received in The Blue Last (BR 13764) when Melrose Plant…
intrigues him with an overheard conversation about missing horsewoman Nell Ryder--the teenaged daughter of Jury's surgeon. Under Jury's direction, Plant enters the sordid underground world of racing. Some strong language. 2002Crow Lake
Par Mary Lawson. 2002
After their parents accidently die, teens Matt and Luke Morrison give up their university plans to help raise their two…
young sisters, Katie and Bo, in the northern Ontario badlands. In twenty years Katie, a professor, returns to resolve past differences at a family reunion. Some strong language. 2002The high window (Vintage crime/Black Lizard)
Par Raymond Chandler. 1992