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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 fiend in human: a mystery
Par John Gray. 2003
It's 1852 in London, and Edmund Whitty, dissipated tabloid correspondent, has just come up with the name Chokee Bill for…
the fiend who has been choking prostitutes with a white silk scarf. With the arrest of William Ryan for the crime, the city can breathe again, but Whitty discovers that the murders are continuing. While fighting off his creditors and his addictions, he endeavours to find the real Chokee Bill, greeted with hostility on all sides. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2003.The female of the species: tales of mystery and suspense
Par Joyce Carol Oates. 2005
From adulterers to murderers, the women portrayed here possess a killer combination of venom and vice. In "The Haunting," a…
mother reinvents herself after her husband's suspicious death. Mysterious late-night phone calls prompt an unhappy young wife to seek vengeance on her volatile mate in "So Help Me God." Explicit descriptions of sex and violence. Contains strong language. 2005.The eleventh commandment: A Novel
Par Jeffrey Archer. 1998
Connor Fitzgerald has worked for the CIA for twenty-eight years, although his family thinks he works for Maryland Insurance. Now…
his boss, Helen Dexter, is out to destroy him. After Connor manages to eliminate a Colombian presidential candidate, he is sent to Russia--supposedly at the president's request--to assassinate a candidate there. But Connor is the one scheduled to die. 1998.The house gun
Par Nadine Gordimer. 1998
Harald and his doctor wife Claudia are faced with a son who has committed the unimaginable, who has disregarded the…
sanctity of human life. The parents and Duncan find themselves in the hands of a flamboyant black advocate, in a country where the death penalty is still on the statute book. 1998.The client
Par John Grisham. 1993
Just before committing suicide, a Mafia lawyer tells 11-year-old Mark Sway something that the police, the FBI and the Mafia…
want to know. With a one-dollar bill, Mark retains his own lawyer, feisty Reggie Love. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller 1993.The ballad of Frankie Silver (Ballad Ser. #No. 5)
Par Sharyn McCrumb. 1998
Tennessee Sheriff Spencer Arrowood finds parallels between a nineteenth-century murder and one he investigated twenty years ago. In 1833 Frankie…
Silver was the first woman hanged in North Carolina. Another murderer is bound for the electric chair for a crime committed on the Appalachian trail. Both cases leave unanswered questions. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "The rosewood casket" (DC16270). Followed by "The songcatcher". 1998. (Ballad novels ; 5)Stone cold (Camel Club. #3.)
Par David Baldacci. 2007
Ex-CIA agent Oliver Stone gathers Camel Club members to help con artist Annabelle Conroy escape an enemy. But Stone soon…
learns he, too, is on a hit list--comprised of those involved in a long-ago assassination. Bestseller. 2007.Some reason in madness
Par Cathy Vasas-Brown. 2004
Fifteen years after helping to send rapist Frank Ventresca to prison, guidance counsellor Samantha Quinlan has a nearly perfect life:…
a job she loves, a boyfriend she loves, and a son she loves even more. But when Frank turns up again -- still obsessing, still delusional, and still dangerous -- Samantha's nightmare begins all over again. Some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. 2004.Second wind
Par Dick Francis. 1999
British television meteorologist Perry Stuart and a coworker find a sponsor to fund their lifelong dream of flying into the…
eye of a hurricane. They crash off Trox Island, where they wash ashore and encounter mysterious men in anti-radiation suits, who harbour a dread conspiracy. Some violence. Bestseller 1999.Pattern recognition
Par William Gibson. 2003
Cayce Pollard, an American design consultant with an international reputation, is offered a very intriguing assignment. She is to find…
the creator of the haunting, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet by a party or parties unknown. But during her search, things start going wrong around her. Some strong language. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.One good turn (Jackson Brodie mystery)
Par Kate Atkinson. 2006
After receiving an inheritance, British PI Jackson Brodie, from "Case Histories" (DC29826), retires and moves to France. While visiting his…
girlfriend in Edinburgh, Scotland, Brodie witnesses a road-rage accident. Later, as the bystanders are menaced, he investigates the incident. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. 2006.Next episode (New Canadian library)
Par Sheila Fischman, Hubert Aquin. 2001
As he awaits trial, a young separatist writes an espionage story in the psychiatric ward of the Montreal prison where…
he has been detained. He also reflects on his dissent and distress, and on the political realities of Quebec of the 1960's. First published in 1965. Winner of Canada Reads 2003. 2001. Uniform title: Prochain épisode.Next: a novel
Par Michael Crichton. 2006
Cancer survivor Frank Burnet and his daughter and grandson are targets of an unscrupulous drug company that wants to profit…
from their unique disease-fighting genes. Meanwhile other genetic-engineering experiments involving a boy/chimpanzee hybrid and a talking parrot have gone awry. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2006.Liars and thieves: a Tommy Carmellini novel (Tommy Carmellini Ser. #No. 1)
Par Stephen Coonts. 2004
CIA agent Tommy Carmellini stumbles upon a massacre at a safe house. Three escape: Tommy, a beautiful translator, and Russian…
defector Mikhail Goncharov. Evading assassins and the FBI, Tommy locates Jake Grafton of "America" for help. Explicit strong language and descriptions of violence, descriptions of sex. 2004.Lost girls
Par Andrew Pyper. 1999
Bartholomew Christian Crane is a dedicated criminal defence lawyer, but he's never had a murder trial. When a small town…
teacher is accused of murdering two of his female students, Bartholomew heads to the northern town to defend him. Barth begins to feel an eerie connection to the victims, whose bodies have yet to be found, and the distinction between dream and reality begins to fade. Strong language. 1999.Eminence (Panther Ser.)
Par Morris West. 1999
Secret passions and conflicts divide the Vatican, as the Pope lies in a coma, dying. With the media rife with…
reports of the pontiff's personal diaries, full of doubts about his papacy and the future of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Rossini's dubious past threatens to rise up and engulf him. Includes violence. 1999.Down river
Par John Hart. 2008
Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to forget. When he left North Carolina, Adam…
left for good. Now he has no choice but to return - and being remembered as a murderer doesn't help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hostility of those closest to him, including Grace, the young woman he cannot forget. And then people start turning up dead. Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders and he alone can clear his name. 2008.Killing floor (Jack Reacher novel. #1.)
Par Lee Child. 1999
Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the…
rain, just passing through. An arbitrary decision, a tribute to a guitar player who died there decades before. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. So the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Descriptions of violence and strong language. Followed by "Die trying". 1999. (Jack Reacher novel ; 1)If looks could kill
Par Michael Blair. 2001
Thomas McCall thought his busy life couldn't get any more complicated. Until Carla, his former lover, turns up and asks…
him to hide her for a few days. McCall reluctantly agrees, but Carla never turns up at the hideaway. Her new boyfriend, Vince, is frantic. Why has Carla run away? What will Vince do to her if he finds her? And why, against all sense, does McCall start searching for her? 2001.