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Stray bullets
Par Robert Rotenberg. 2012
Outside a busy downtown Toronto doughnut shop on a snowy November evening, gunshots ring out and a young boy is…
critically hurt. Detective Ari Greene is soon on scene, investigating: how many shots were fired, by how many guns, seen by how many witnesses? With grieving parents and a city hungry for justice, the pressure is on to convict the man accused of this horrible crime. Against this tidal wave of indignation, defense counsel Nancy Parish finds herself defending her oldest and most difficult client, but does anyone know the whole story? Includes sex, strong language and violence. 2012.Straight into darkness
Par Faye Kellerman. 2005
In 1920s Munich, homicide detective Axel Berg is called to the scene of a grisly homicide, the victim being a…
young society wife. Soon, a second body is uncovered; the discovery of a third indicates that Berg is dealing with an unimaginably evil killer. In the Germany of the time, the investigation cannot be straightforward. Hitler's power is growing, and the Nazis are a strong civic force in the city of Munich. Berg is thrown into a web of danger as senior officers work to their own agendas. Descriptions of violence. 2005.Stone kiss: a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel (Peter Decker And Rina Lazarus Novel Ser.)
Par Faye Kellerman. 2002
The call is brief, but to the point. There has been a murder in the family of Lt. Decker's half…
brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine. Ephram Lieber, a Hassidic Jew and former drug addict, was found naked in a seedy Manhattan hotel, a single gunshot wound to his head, and Jonathan's niece, Shaynda, is missing. The Rabbi pleads with Decker to come to New York and help the family. He reluctantly agrees only to find that Shaynda's parents have changed their minds about involving him in the case. Faced with a hostile family, a strange city and a local police force mired in international problems. Decker is on his own, thrust into a world divided mercilessly into killers and victims. 2002.Stagestruck (Peter Diamond mystery. #11.)
Par Peter Lovesey. 2011
A pop star's face is burned by suspicious stage makeup during her stint at a Bath playhouse. The main suspect,…
the makeup artist, is found dead, and Diamond must conquer his own mysterious but deep-seated phobia to solve the crime. Sequel to "Skeleton Hill", followed by "Cop to corpse". 2011.Stalker: a novel (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery. #12.)
Par Faye Kellerman. 2000
Detective Peter Decker's outspoken, Ivy League-educated daughter Cindy joins the LAPD, but has trouble fitting in with the blue-collar work…
force. During a rash of serial carjackings, Cindy realizes she is being stalked and suspects the danger comes from within the department. Bestseller. 2000.Some lie and some die (Inspector Wexford mystery. #8.)
Par Ruth Rendell. 1973
An Inspector Wexford mystery. Kingsmarkham doesn't have too many complaints about its first annual rock festival, but then in a…
nearby quarry two lovers find a body that makes even Reg Wexford's stomach lurch. All he can discover is that there is a strange connection with the star of the festival. Some violence. Sequel to "Murder being once done", followed by "Shake hands for ever". 1973.Skeleton Hill (Peter Diamond mystery. #10.)
Par Peter Lovesey. 2009
On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is…
annually reenacted. Two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them, a professor who played a Cavalier, is later found murdered. In the course of his investigation, Peter Diamond butts heads with the group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss Georgina is a member. Sequel to "The secret hangman", followed by "Stagestruck". 2009.Skinner's ghosts (Bob Skinner. #7)
Par Quintin Jardine. 2001
Suffering the strain of a marriage on the rocks, the last thing Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner needs is for…
his private life to be plastered across the front pages of a sleazy tabloid. To make matters worse, when a woman, already linked to Skinner by tragedy, is found battered, raped and strangled, with her young son a kidnap victim, his search for the killer becomes a personal quest. When a second brutal crime, and new allegations about the detective himself, make simultaneous headlines, he finds himself at the centre of a deadly maze of conspiracy. Includes violence. Sequel to “Skinner’s mission”, followed by “Murmuring the judges”. 2001.Skinner's festival (Bob Skinner. #2.)
Par Quintin Jardine. 1994
An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding…
political separation from Britain, but as atrocities escalate, Head of CID Bob Skinner realizes this is no gang of fanatics, but a highly professional team. Includes sex and strong language. Sequel to "Skinner's rules". 1994.Simisola (Inspector Wexford mystery. #16.)
Par Ruth Rendell. 1994
There are only eighteen black people living in Kingsmarkham. One is Wexford's new doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter,…
Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Against a background of rising unemployment and social change, Wexford is involved in a case which tests not only his powers of deduction, but his basic beliefs and prejudices. Sequel to "Kissing the gunner's daughter", followed by "Road rage". 1994.Singing in the shrouds
Par Ngaio Marsh. 1959
Silent victims (Det.Inspector Jane Tennison. #3.)
Par Lynda La Plante. 2013
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison expects hostility as she becomes the first female head of the vice squad in London’s…
Soho. Suddenly she is told how to handle the murder of a male prostitute, the newest case of her main assignment, Operation Contract. This is more than the hazing Tennison expected, and she is determined to discover why. Sequel to "A face in the crowd: Prime Suspect 2". 2013.Silence in Hanover Close (Thomas Pitt Ser.)
Par Anne Perry. 1989
In 1884 Robert York, an official at the Foreign Office, is found brutally murdered in the library of his home…
in Hanover Close, Mayfair, seemingly the victim of a burglar caught in the act. When, three years later, Inspector Pitt of Bow Street Police Station is asked to investigate, the murder remains unsolved. Pitt's brief is to clear the reputation of the dead man's widow, Veronica, who is now contemplating marriage to Julian Danver, a former colleague of her late husband. 1989.Seven days dead (Storm murders trilogy. #2.)
Par John Farrow. 2016
During an epic storm a woman races in a small boat through a torrential sea storm to Grand Manan island,…
located off the coast of Maine. She is determined to reach her dying father's bedside. Meanwhile, detective Cinq-Mars is enjoying a vacation with his wife on the island until he's caught up in the investigation of a murder. Long-held secrets start to emerge, and Cinq-Mars begins to wonder if the two deaths are related. Sequel to "The storm murders". 2016.Shake hands for ever (Inspector Wexford mystery. #9.)
Par Ruth Rendell. 1975
Housewife Angela Hathall is found murdered in her home with no evidence of a break-in. Chief Inspector Wexford interviews beautiful…
Nancy Lake, the last person to see Angela alive. But what begins as a routine investigation becomes an obsession that threatens to destroy Wexford's career and marriage. Sequel to "Some lie and some die", followed by "A sleeping life". 1975. (Inspector Wexford mystery)Set in darkness (Inspector Rebus ; #11)
Par Ian Rankin. 2000
Two unusual incidents in one day seem unconnected, until a third body - that of a prospective member of the…
Scottish Parliament - is found at Queensbury House. Inspector Rebus investigates, and uncovers old secrets that suggest Scotland's second attempt at devolution will be just as dirty. 2000. (Inspector Rebus ; 11)Service of all the dead (An inspector Morse Mystery Ser. #No. 4)
Par Colin Dexter. 1979
There is a murder in the vestry at St. Fridewide's. A second death follows, which seems to close the case,…
but a third death prompts Inspector Morse to investigate more closely. 1979.Search the dark (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par Charles Todd. 1999
Set in 1919, the walking-wounded survivors of WW1 crowd the English landscape, and among them is Inspector Ian Rutledge, who…
has been damaged by shell-shock. His latest case does not help his fragile state of mind as it involves another veteran accused of killing a woman thought to be his wife. 1999.Sanguine
Par Jacques Bissonnette. 2002
Julien Stifer est lieutenant à la SPCUM. Il y a deux ans, sa fille, Chloé, a mystérieusement disparu. C'est encore…
l'angoisse du père qui étreint Stifer lorsqu'il se rend dans le quartier Côte-des-Neiges, où une adolescente, Sanguine, et son amant, un petit trafiquant de drogues, ont été sauvagement assassinés. Stifer privilégie d'abord la piste de la drogue, mais la découverte d'inquiétantes photos mettant en vedette Sanguine l'amène à croire qu'il fait fausse route, que les meurtres ont peut-être plus à voir avec certaines déviations sexuelles qu'avec un simple règlement de compte. Descriptions régulières de violence, quelques passages où le langage est grossier et quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. c2002.Révélation brutale (Armand Gamache enquête. #5.)
Par Louise Penny, Louise Chabalier, Claire Chabalier. 2012
L'été s'achève et la nature réserve aux habitants de Three Pines un dernier éclat terrifiant. Un mort est découvert dans…
l'endroit le plus vivant du village : le bistro d'Olivier. De prime abord, personne n'admet connaître le vieil ermite assassiné. Armand Gamache et son équipe reviennent dans les Cantons-de-l'Est pour sonder les strates de mensonges et de non-dits que dissimule le vernis idyllique des lieux. Des sentiers oubliés les conduisent au fond des bois, là où se cachent des secrets et des trésors honteux. Le chaos s'est infiltré dans cette beauté sauvage et ce qui attend l'inspecteur-chef n'est rien de moins qu'une révélation brutale. 2012. Titre uniforme: The brutal telling.