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The babes in the wood (Inspector Wexford mystery. #19.)
Par Ruth Rendell. 2002
As epic flooding descends upon Sussex, chief inspector Wexford investigates the case of the two missing Dade children, fifteen-year-old Giles…
and thirteen-year-old Sophie, and their weekend sitter, Joanna Troy. The trail leads to shady suspects and a strange motive while Wexford copes with his own daughter's problems. Descriptions of violence and strong language. Sequel to "Harm done", followed by "End in tears". 2002.The anonymous venetian (A commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par Donna Leon. 1995
Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made…
in Marghera - a body so badly beaten the face is unrecognisable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man, but he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. 1995.Temps glaciaires
Par Fred Vargas. 2015
" Paris. Une vieille dame, Alice Gauthier, est retrouvée morte dans sa baignoire, les veines des poignets tranchées. Suicide ou…
meurtre ? Le commissaire Bourlin est en charge du dossier, bientôt rejoint par le commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg et le commandant Adrien Danglard de la brigade criminelle. Une autre mort suspecte et paraissant liée les mène alors dans les Yvelines et jusqu'en Islande. "The alley cat: a novel
Par Yves Beauchemin. 1986
This novel, set in Montreal in the 1970s, recounts the struggle of Florent Boissonneault against the wicked and powerful Egon…
Ratablavasky who backs Florent's purchase of a restaurant and then steals it from him. 1986. Uniform title: Matou.The ambitious city (The macneice Mysteries Ser.)
Par Scott Thornley. 2012
If a local biker war isn't enough - 7 corpses are found buried on a farm - MacNeice receives a…
desperate phone call from the mayor of Dundurn. Dredging is nearly completed on the ambitious waterfront project the mayor hopes will revive his mini rust belt of a city, when 6 more bodies turn up at the bottom of the lake, and 2 of them, encased in concrete, are fairly fresh. The mayor wants MacNeice to fix things fast, but there’s another "visionary" on the loose in Dundurn - a serial killer who wants to rid the city of high-achieving young women of colour. Includes sex, violence and strong language. 2012.The abominable man (Martin Beck. #7.)
Par Thomas Teal, Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö. 1973
Simisola: roman
Par Ruth Rendell. 1995
La petite ville de Kingsmarkham a bien changé depuis les premières enquêtes de Wexford: le chômage, les sans-abris, les préjugés…
raciaux. La jeune fille de son médecin privé vient de disparaître. L'inspecteur se lance dans une poursuite parsemée de fausses pistes et de rebondissements, où le mystère s'épaissit à mesure que le lecteur croit le voir s'éclaircir. À partir de l'investigation sur le cas apparemment simple d'une disparition d'une jeune fille noire, l'auteure construit une intrigue d'une complexité croissante où la dimension sociologique s'imbrique étroitement au puzzle romanesque. 1995.Surgie de nulle part
Par Giles Blunt, Pierre Bondil, Nicolas Bondil. 2005
Algonquin Bay, en été. Une jeune femme amnésique, avec une balle de petite calibre dans le cerveau, débarque dans un…
bar. On la surnomme Red. Au même moment un corps est retrouvé dans une grotte. Ses tatouages permettent d'identifier Wombat Guthrie, biker et dealer. Même si à première vue rien ne lie les deux affaires, Cardinal découvre que Red est menacée par des bikers. Suite de "Sous un ciel de tempête", suivi de "Quand tu liras ces mots". 2009, c2005. Titre uniforme: Black fly season.Sous un ciel de tempête
Par Giles Blunt. 2005
Où l'on retrouve le policier de "Quarante mots pour la neige" face à un crime perpétré sur un ancien agent…
de la CIA et ayant des rapports possibles avec le mouvement FLQ de 1970. 2006, c2005. Titre uniforme: The delicate storm.Suspense (Stanley Hastings Mystery Ser. #Bk. 13)
Par Parnell Hall. 1998
Stanley Hastings, New York private detective, is hired by Maxine Winnington, wife of bestselling author Kenneth Winnington, to find out…
who's been calling her with death threats. During the investigation, Kenneth's ex-publisher and his current publicist are murdered. Hastings becomes a suspect - until his family is also threatened. Some violence and some strong language. 1998.Suffer the little children (Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. #16.)
Par Donna Leon. 2007
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a pediatrician, he is…
confronted with more questions than answers. Three men burst into the doctor's apartment while the family was sleeping, attacked him, and took away his eighteen-month-old boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state that was so violent it has left the doctor mute? As Brunetti delves into the case, he begins to uncover a story of infertility, desperation, and illegal dealings. Sequel to "Through a glass, darkly", followed by "The girl of his dreams". 2007.Strip Jack: An Inspector Rebus Novel
Par Ian Rankin. 1994
When Detective Inspector John Rebus participates in a raid on an Edinburgh brothel, he is surprised to find a member…
of Parliament, Gregor Jack, among the guests. Because the press seems to have known about the raid, Rebus suspects a setup. Then Jack's wife is found murdered near their cottage in the Highlands. Some strong language. 1994.Sun and shadow: an Erik Winter novel (A Chief Inspector Erik Winter novel. #1)
Par Laurie Thompson, Åke Edwardson. 2005
Erik Winter is the youngest Chief Inspector in Sweden; he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for…
jazz, and is about to become a father. In addition, he is dealing with aging parents while trying to solve a gruesome murder. The city of Gothenburg is preparing to celebrate the millennium and the particularly lurid double murder leads Winter into the world of Goths and the possibility that someone on the force is involved. Followed by “Never end”. 2005. Uniform title: Sol och skugga.Swing, brother, swing
Par Ngaio Marsh. 1994
The music rose to a climax; Lord Pastern aimed his revolver and fired. The figure in the spotlight fell and…
the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe the eccentric peer had let hatred of his son in law go too far, or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the party guests reveal another murderer? 2004.Surfeit of Lampreys
Par Ngaio Marsh. 1985
The Lampreys had plenty of charm, but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar and rather glorified in it.…
The double and triple charades, for instance, with which they would entertain their guests, like rich but awful Uncle Gabriel, who was such a bore. They thought that if they jollied him up he could bail them out yet again but Uncle Gabriel died instead and Roderick Alleyn had to sort it all out. 1985.Shipwreck (Detective Murdoch mystery.)
Par Maureen Jennings. 2010
1873, Nova Scotia. A storm has wrecked a ship on the shores of a fishing village, and people work bravely…
to rescue the crew - but many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all the deaths. Some descriptions of violence. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. 2010.Skin (Jack Caffery mystery. #4.)
Par Mo Hayder. 2013
When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the wounds on her wrists suggest an open-and-shut case of…
suicide. But Jack Caffery is not so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a connection to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries just outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator, someone - or something - that can disappear into darkness and slip into houses unseen. Working alongside Caffery is rough-and-tough police diver Flea Marley, but while pursuing her investigation, she stumbles upon something far too close to home that no one - not even Caffery - can help her face. 2013.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.Street of riches
Par Gabrielle Roy. 1993
The eighteen stories in this book centre upon the bittersweet experiences of a young girl growing up in the francophone…
community of St. Boniface, Manitoba. In the persona of her narrator Christine, Roy transfigures the incidents and characters of her own childhood, reflecting upon her youthful awakening to the beauty and the sorrow of life. 1957 Governor General's Award winner. 1957. Uniform title: Rue Deschambault.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.