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The front (Win Garano novels ; #2)
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2008
Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate…
the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. 2008. (Win Garano novels ; 2)The first quarter of the moon
Par Michel Tremblay. 1994
Marcel and his cousin experience the mystical arrival of summer on the final day of exams at Ecole Saint-Stanislas. While…
Marcel is in the class for "slow learners," his cousin is part of the "gifted" program. It is only towards the end of exams that Marcel's cousin recognizes Marcel's own special type of genius. Sequel to "The fat woman next door is pregnant." 1994. Uniform title: Premier quartier de la lune.The fat woman next door is pregnant: a novel
Par Michel Tremblay. 1981
It is May 2, 1942 in Montreal. All the women on Rue Fabre are pregnant; the fat woman next door…
is pregnant with the author himself. Tremblay has created the period in which many of the well-known characters in his plays were born. Prequel to "The first quarter of the moon" (DC15399). Canada Reads 2009. 1981. Uniform title: La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte.The empty chair (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #3)
Par Jeffery Deaver. 2000
Quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is in North Carolina for experimental surgery, when he and his colleague Amelia Sachs are recruited…
for a local case. An odd teen nicknamed "Insect Boy" has killed a youth and kidnapped two young women, and the cops can't find him. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to “The coffin dancer”, followed by “The stone monkey“. 2000.The heart is an involuntary muscle
Par David Homel, Fred A Reed, Monique Proulx. 2003
Florence doesn't like writers, books, dogs, alcohol, old people, pleasure, or love, only her partner Zeno - though she'd never…
admit it. The two of them run an Internet business that puts lesser known writers and artists back in the limelight. Zeno sends Florence to find his favourite author, the mysterious Pierre Laliberté, in this novel of literature and the people who create it. Strong language. Canada Reads 2004. 2002, 2003. Uniform title: Cœur est un muscle involontaire.The devil's teardrop: a novel of the last night of the century
Par Jeffery Deaver. 1999
New Years Eve, 1999 and Washington D.C. is under siege by a madman. If 20 million dollars is not paid…
by midnight, random massacres will proceed every four hours. It is up to bookish document analyst Parker Kincaid to decipher the clues in the ransom note to identify and defeat the killer. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.The Colorado kid
Par Stephen King. 2005
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only…
the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. 2005.The coffin dancer (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #2)
Par Jeffery Deaver. 1998
New York Police Department criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his student Amelia Sachs lead the hunt for a serial killer who…
changes his appearance with each murder, except for a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing in front of a coffin. Descriptions of violence. Sequel to “The bone collector“, followed by “The empty chair“. c1998.The cold moon (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #7)
Par Jeffery Deaver. 2009
Quadriplegic New York criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs search for a sadistic serial killer called the Watchmaker who…
leaves clocks beside his victims. Amelia is also involved in proving a businessman's suicide is actually a homicide and finds herself targeted for murder. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to “The twelfth card“, followed by “The broken window“. 2006. (Lincoln Rhyme ; 7)Si cet endroit pouvait parler!: roman
Par Liliane L Gratton. 2001
Premier roman d'une auteure originaire de l'Est de l'Ontario. C'est dans ce milieu rural qu'elle situe son récit qui, autour…
du personnage central d'Angélique, évoque les secrets d'une famille et un drame amoureux. 2001.The blue nowhere: A Novel
Par Jeffery Deaver. 2001
Silicon Valley computer genius--and sociopath--Jon "Phate" Holloway plays deadly real-life video games: he hacks into computers and kills their owners.…
The state police Computer Crimes Unit turns to imprisoned hacker Wyatt Gillette, who traces his former colleague's moves. But a traitor exists. Strong language and some violence. 2001.The bone collector (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #1)
Par Jeffery Deaver. 1997
Lincoln Rhyme is one of the world's foremost forensic criminologists. He is also a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down.…
The cop who could once look at a crime scene and find the clues about a killer that no one else could see is now strapped in his bed and actually planning suicide, when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner on the force. Some descriptions of sex, strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. Followed by “The coffin dancer”. 1998, c1997.The broken window (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #8.)
Par Jeffery Deaver. 2009
Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. The evidence clearly shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees to check things…
out. It turns out that the cousin along with other people has been wrongly convicted because the true killer knows every single detail about the lives of the victims he kills and the men he sets up to take the fall for those crimes. This allows him to get close to the victims under false pretenses, murder or rape, and escape safely. And then he sets up others to take the fall for his crimes, planting incontrovertible evidence. Rhyme, Sachs and the rest of the team have to find out who at the huge, ominous data mining company is getting access to this information. Meanwhile the villain - known only by a number to us - realizes he's being pursued and turns his knowledge of data and information into a weapon. Sequel to "The cold moon"; followed by "The burning wire". Includes strong language. 2009. (Lincoln Rhyme ; 8)The bodies left behind
Par Jeffery Deaver. 2008
A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is…
cut short. A phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to the deserted lake to find out. 2008.The body farm (Kay Scarpetta Ser. #No. 5)
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1994
The discovery of the corpse of an eleven-year-old girl sends shock waves through the small community of Black Mountain, a…
sleepy little town in North Carolina. Dr Kay Scarpetta, working on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice. Contains violence. 1994.Stornaway: l'âge du bois
Par Jean O'Neil. 1996
Récit dans lequel l'auteur s'attache à illustrer l'histoire d'un village des Cantons-de-l'Est et celle d'une famille d'habiles entrepeneurs de l'endroit…
: les Legendre. La période évoquée, 1852-fin des années 1940 environ ("l'âge du bois"), précède "l'âge de bière" et succède à "l'âge de la fourrure." Pour amateurs de récits généalogiques québécois. 1996.Tante Anna (Collection Témoignage)
Par Colette Verreault-Milot. 1981
Contre toute attente, la douce et timide tante Anna ose se révolter et refuser ce foyer du troisième âge ou…
on l'a reléguée, hors du champ des "vivants." L'auteur nous raconte cette révolte d'une manière vraie et crue, sans complaisance ni fausse pudeur. 1981.Signe suspect
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2005
Le docteur Kay Scarpetta s'est installée en Floride. Elle a quitté la médecine légale institutionnelle pour l'expertise privée. Pourtant, elle…
va devoir revenir dans cette ville de Richmond qui lui a tourné le dos cinq ans plus tôt. Sur place, des surprises désagréables l'attendent. La démolition de ses anciens bureaux est presque achevée ; le médecin-légiste expert qui lui a succédé est un parfait incompétent ; son ancien assistant en chef est plongé dans des problèmes personnels qu'il refuse d'aborder. Privée de l'assistance de Wesley et de sa nièce Lucy, Scarpetta doit se résoudre à élucider les causes du décès d'une adolescente de quatorze ans. Elle doit démêler l'écheveau des pistes, traquer des signes suspects afin de révéler une vérité qu'elle ne parviendra peut-être pas à tolérer. 2005. Titre uniforme: Trace.Tempête sur la Caniapiscau (Ethnos ; #3)
Par Diane Bergeron. 2006
Qajack est un jeune Inuk de 15 ans très attaché à son coin de pays et aux coutumes ancestrales. Quand…
une tempête s'abat sur la rivière Caniapiscau, Qajack devra puiser dans les enseignements de son grand-père pour aider sa communauté à rétablir le fragile équilibre naturel le long du cours d'eau obstrué de barrages. Quelques descriptions de violence. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2006.