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La guerre, yes sir!: Roman
Par Roch Carrier. 1970
Pour éviter d'avoir à s'enrôler durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Joseph se coupe la main. Ce jour-là, un des siens…
rentre au village dans un cercueil, enveloppé du drapeau britannique. La nuit de veille sera explosive, ponctuée de larmes, mais aussi de rires, traversée par la tendresse et la violence brute, oscillant entre honneur et humiliation. 1970.Le torrent (Littérature)
Par Anne Hébert. 1989
Ces contes écrits au cours de plusieurs années attirent le lecteur dans le monde claustrophobe d'Hébert. Quant aux personnages, s'ils…
réussissent à s'en échapper, leur liberté ne leur apporte pas la joie, mais une écrasante réalisation personnelle. La première nouvelle de ce recueil est un puissant récit. 1989, c1950.Le facteur émotif (Romanichels)
Par Denis Thériault. 2005
Un facteur modèle s'adonne à des activités illicites. S'étant immiscé dans une correspondance amoureuse, le voilà forcé d'écrire des haïkus…
(lui qui n'en a jamais produit un seul !) et entraîné dans une aventure amoureuse qui se terminera d'une incroyable façon. 2005.Mystery Ink: an anthology of mystery stories by Ontario writers
Par Jake Doherty. 2007
A collection of 18 mystery stories, all of which capture both something criminal and various parts of Ontario, from Timmins…
to Port Hope to Gananoque. Authors include Eric Wright, Mary Jane Maffini, and Rick Mofina. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2007.Death spiral
Par James W Nichol. 2009
Wilf McLauchlin, a celebrated WWII Canadian Spitfire fighter pilot, returns home to a hero's welcome. Almost immediately afterwards, a series…
of bizarre murders begin occurring, and Wilf finds himself trying to solve them - and wondering if he is somehow causing them. Wilf follows his own trail back to when he was shot down over Germany, and makes the shattering connection. 2009.Forfeit
Par Dick Francis. 1968
Cold fear
Par Rick Mofina. 2001
While camping with her family in Montana's Glacier National Park, a 10-year-old girl disappears. As a multi-agency task force launches…
a massive search, the little girl fights to survive in the wilderness while her mother enters her own life-and-death race to rescue her child. Because someone else who knows a dark secret from the past wants to find her daughter, too. 2001.Blind alley (Eve Duncan series. #5.)
Par Iris Johansen. 2004
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan reconstructs a victim's face - one who eerily resembles Eve's adopted daughter Jane. While a serial…
killer targets Jane look-alikes, Jane's recurrent nightmares track the path of the murderer to her door. Bestseller. 2004. (Eve Duncan series ; 5)Weep no more, my lady
Par Mary Higgins Clark. 1987
Before testifying at the trial of the man accused of murdering her beloved sister, a distraught Elizabeth goes to a…
California spa. She is surprised to find the accused murderer there, and suspects she is being manipulated. Bestseller 1987.Une plage trop chaude ((Ado ; 40) #Vol. 40)
Par Chrystine Brouillet. 2008
"Natasha et son cousin pierre passent les vacances de Noël chez leurs grandsparents, en Floride. Ils se font vite des…
amis. Pierre tombe amoureux de Maia, tandis que Natasha s'éprend de Jeremy, si beau, si mystérieux. Mais les vacances prennent une drôle de tournure quand on repêche le cadavre d'un champion de natation. Soudain, les amis de Natasha et de Pierre deviennent très secrets, et même un peu étranges... Une plage trop chaude, une aventure policière brûlante oû Natasha prouve qu'elle n'a pas froid aux yeux." -- 4e de couv.Waiting for Gertrude: a graveyard gothic
Par Bill Richardson. 2001
Waiting for Gertrude is a love story, a whodunit, and a comic fantasy set in Paris's Pére-Lachaise cemetery, the final…
resting place of many celebrated personages. The story is told in a series of letters and portraits, written in the voices of Oscar Wilde, Isadora Duncan, Chopin, La Fontaine, Marcel Proust, and Alice B. Toklas, whose souls now inhabit the bodies of cats in the graveyard. 2001.Dr. No
Par Ian Fleming. 1958
Trace (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries. book XIII #No. 13)
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2004
Former medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, to advise on the mysterious death of a teenage girl whose…
father is associated with Homeland Security. Meanwhile Kay's lover, Benton, and niece Lucy investigate another case - which later appears connected to Kay's. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Bestseller. 2004. (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries ; 13)The price of love
Par Peter Robinson. 2009
Spadework: a novel
Par Timothy Findley. 2001
On a summer evening in Stratford, a gardener's spade errantly slices a telephone cable. The disconnection results in the failure…
of a call to reach the house, and a young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads to murder. And when a repairman arrives to mend the broken line, his irresistible beauty has explosive consequences. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2001.Cleanskin (Quick reads)
Par Val McDermid. 2006
When career criminal Jack Farrell's body is found washed up on a Suffolk shore, it looks to the police like…
a clear-cut case. Heartbroken at his daughter's death, he has drowned himself-- good riddance and one less crime to solve, according to CID. Then again, maybe not. For, one by one, Farrell's enemies are being killed. And the horrific manner of their deaths makes drowning look like a day at the beach. 2006.A judgement in stone
Par Ruth Rendell. 1978
The author alternates between a journalistic dissection of the mass murder and a dramatic evocation of character to tell the…
story of the suburban Coverdales, their maid, Eunice, and Eunice's friend, a former prostitute turned religious fanatic.The franchise affair
Par Josephine Tey. 1948
A pang of malaise surprises the middle-aged solicitor, Robert Blair. He does not ponder the cause long before he receives…
a frantic call from Marion Sharpe. Scotland Yard is investigating a claim that she and her mother abducted and imprisoned Betty Kane in their attic. As improbable as Miss Kane's story is, she describes the Sharpe home, the Franchise, in detail. Blair turns sleuth to investigate and, he hopes, to find justice. 1948.Old wounds
Par Nora Kelly. 1999
Historian Gillian Adams moves back to the home of her adolescence in order to care for her ailing mother. While…
there she investigates the murder of a promising young student at the college where she is a guest lecturer.A stab in the dark
Par Lawrence Block. 1997
Eight girls died at the hands of a psychopath armed with an ice-pick. But the killer has never been brought…
to justice, even though nine years have passed. Matt Scudder is hired to track down the maniac. But does following a trail so old mean that the killer is long gone, or just waiting in the scenes?