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Justice pour une femme
Par Pauline Cadieux. 1990
Tout a-t-il été dit et fait pour que le souvenir de Cordélia Viau s'apaise? Il semble bien que non puisque…
Pauline Cadieux revient à la charge. Dans Justice pour une femme, elle réécrit l'histoire de Cordélia et y ajoute les faits nouveaux qui ont été portés à son attention depuis 1976. 1990.Cordélia: ou, La lampe dans la fenêtre
Par Pauline Cadieux. 1979
Le 22 novembre 1897, Cordelia revient de chez son père où elle a passé la nuit. Affreuse découverte; son mari…
gît dans son lit; assassiné. Elle ne se doute pas que bientôt, à Sainte-Scholastique, la rumeur publique l'accusera du meurtre. 1979.Le boiteux
Par Robert Cessieux. 1979
L'auteur a recueilli les confidences de celui que la maffia a surnommé le boiteux. Il s'agit d'un ancien trafiquant devenu…
agent double et auquel nous devons le démantèlement de plusieurs filières et réseaux de drogue Nord-Américains. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1979.De l'autre côté de la matraque: les dessous du métier policier
Par Martin Prémont. 2013
"Ce livre dévoile le côté mystérieux et méconnu du monde policier. Trop souvent mal perçus par l'ensemble de la population,…
les policiers deviennent, malgré eux, la cible de critiques sévères et de commentaires désobligeants. Jamais, ils n'ont l'occasion d'expliquer leur vision et les réalités auxquelles ils sont confrontés. Prisonniers du silence, les policiers ne peuvent se permettre le luxe d'exprimer à tout vent leurs frustrations et leur mécontentement. Bien qu'ils soient munis de leur plus épaisse carapace, malgré leurs formations et les meilleures connaissances techniques, certains événement laissent des traces, des cicatrices profondes dans les terres obscures de l'âme de ces hommes et ces femmes. Nul n'est constitué en béton ou en bois, pas même les policiers. Ces derniers sont tous revêtus d'un manteau qu'on appelle humain... " -- 4e de couv.La cyberintimidation: des conséquences sans fin, les paroles s'envolent, mais les photos et les écrits restent!
Par Marthe Saint-Laurent. 2012
Les temps ont changé : la technologie aidant, on peut aujourd'hui intimider sous le couvert de l'anonymat. Alors qu'autrefois, les…
injures parvenaient à une trentaine de personnes, elles sont aujourd'hui vues par des millions d'individus. Les réseaux sociaux permettent de détruire la réputation et l'avenir de n'importe qui. Ce livre vous met au fait de ce qui se passe dans la vraie vie, pas la vie virtuelle. Par exemple : Savez-vous que vos parents peuvent être poursuivis si vous nuisez à la réputation de quiconque ? Savez-vous que la police peut vous retrouver malgré votre pseudo, aussi subtil soit-il ? Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle et de la violence. 2012.One man's justice: a life in the law
Par Thomas R Berger. 2002
Tom Berger is best known for championing aboriginal rights, including early advocacy work that led to the precedent-setting Nisga'a Accord,…
but he has also often represented those not well served by the legal and legislative status quo. In a career that spans four decades, Berger has taken on the challenge of many controversial cases in order to test or transform the application of justice within the law. c2002.One day closer: a mother's quest to bring her kidnapped daughter home
Par Lorinda Stewart. 2017
On August 23, 2008, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped outside Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers’ demand was simple: pay millions or…
Amanda would be killed. For the next 460 days, Amanda’s mother, Lorinda Stewart, did everything in her power to get her daughter back alive. What was supposed to be a short negotiation stretched on, and weeks became months. As negotiations broke down, Lorinda found herself increasingly on her own. But she never gave up hope, even when the phone calls became more traumatic. Faced with the terrible possibility of her daughter’s death, Lorinda decided to bring in a private security company and raise money from donors to support the cause of bringing Amanda home. But would it be enough? Bestseller. 2017.Nous, les Seznec
Par Denis Seznec. 2006
Nowhere to run: the killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill
Par Mike McIntyre. 2003
Dennis Strongquill was an Aboriginal RCMP officer who had spent his life protecting society, but was helpless to fend off…
three ruthless killers who ambushed him on a dark Prairie highway. Robert and Danny Sand were two young brothers who had grown to hate authority, and Laurie Bell was a struggling junkie with a fatal attraction to Robert. Together, the trio embarked on a ruthless cross-country crime spree, leaving behind a trail of victims. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2003.On the farm: Robert William Pickton and the tragic story of Vancouver's missing women
Par Stevie Cameron. 2010
Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the…
disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killers gave Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years, but also to information unknown to the police, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. Bestseller. c2010.On the run: fugitive life in the American City (Fieldwork encounters and discoveries)
Par Alice Goffman. 2014
The War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has created…
a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives - family, relationships, jobs - into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. The author spent six years living in one such neighbourhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. 2014.Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
Par Janice Williamson. 2012
In 2002 a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier, later ending…
up in Guantánamo Bay detention camp. Some Canadians see Khadr as a symbol of terrorism in action; the book’s contributors see him as the victim of a jihadist father and Canadian complicity in the unjust excesses of the US war on terror. They analyze Khadr's background, his incarceration, the actions of Canadian authorities, and the implications raised by his legal case. Includes violence. 2012.Obstruction of justice: the search for truth on Canada's Highway of Tears
Par Ray Michalko. 2016
"The Highway of Tears" is a lonely seven hundred kilometer stretch of road that winds through the Coast Mountains wilderness…
of British Columbia. Over the last four decades nine young women have been murdered or gone missing from this remote highway. All but one were Aboriginal. To date not one case has been solved. Fueled by frustration with the police's inability to solve any of these crimes, inspired by the belief that someone somewhere knew something, ex-RCMP turned private eye Ray Michalko embarked on a life altering journey to unlock the secrets of these cases and, in the process, discovered as much about the crimes as he did the reasons they've gone unsolved. 2016.Les grands dossiers criminels du Canada
Par Jean-Claude Castex. 1991
Des récits authentiques bien documentés à l'intention de ceux qui aiment frissonner d'effroi. L'amour, la haine, la jalousie, l'ambition, le…
racisme, la cupidité, le sadisme, la pédophilie, le nécrophilie et le cannibalisme sont au coeur même des grandes affaires criminelles qui ont défrayé la chronique: Coffin, le Klu Klux Klan et l'incendie du Collège de Saint-Boniface, l'affaire Earle Nelson, etc. c1990-c1991.No claim to mercy: Elizabeth Bain and Robert Baltovich, a suburban mystery
Par Derek Finkle. 1998
When Elizabeth Bain disappeared in 1990, Robert Baltovich was convicted of murder despite there only being circumstantial evidence. He hired…
a private investigator to find out the truth, providing evidence for an appeal. Derek Finkle shows that the police failed to act on crucial pieces of information. 1998.My discovery of America
Par Farley Mowat. 1985
In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the…
McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban. 1985.Murder at McDonald's: the killers next door
Par Phonse Jessome. 1994
Jessome investigates the brutal murders of three McDonald's employees in Sydney River, Nova Scotia on May 7, 1992. He gives…
a detailed account of the police investigation and subsequent trial, as well as the effect the murders had on the town. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. c1994.Murder beyond the grave (Murder is forever. #3.)
Par James Patterson. 2018
True-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder Is Forever TV series. In 'Murder beyond the grave', wealthy Stephen Small is…
held for ransom, buried in a box, with just forty-eight hours of oxygen. In 'Murder in paradise', developers Jim and Bonnie Hood tour a rustic property they want to modernize, but the locals don't like rich outsiders changing their way of life. Soon everybody will discover just how to make a killing in real estate. Sequel to "Home sweet murder". 2018. Murder beyond the grave -- Murder in paradise.Murder, interrupted (Murder is forever. #1.)
Par James Patterson. 2018
Two true crime stories in one book. In Murder, Interrupted, rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and…
he is willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn on each other in a fight for their lives. In Mother of All Murders, television reports praise Dee Dee Blancharde as a single mother who tirelessly cares for her wheelchair-bound, chronically ill daughter. But when the teenaged Gypsy Rose realizes she isn't actually sick and Dee Dee has lied all these years, Gypsy Rose exacts her revenge. Followed by "Home sweet murder". 2018. Murder, interrupted -- Mother of all murders.Murder in the family
Par Burl Barer. 2017