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Critical conditions (Dr. Alan Gregory Ser.)
Par Stephen White. 1998
Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory, from Remote Control, is called in to care for a fifteen-year-old. Merritt Strait tried to commit…
suicide because her sister was denied experimental treatment by her HMO. Merritt and her friends are soon implicated in murder when the HMO's director is found dead. 1998.Cousin Rosamund (Aubrey family. #3.)
Par Rebecca West. 1985
Bonheur d'occasion (Québec 10/10. 6)
Par Gabrielle Roy. 1983
Publié en 1945. Un grand classique de la littérature québécoise. Rappelons que "Bonheur d'occasion" raconte l'histoire d'un quartier pauvre de…
Montréal, Saint-Henri, et que les principaux personnages en sont une jeune serveuse de restaurant, un ouvrier de fonderie et un conscrit. c1945, 1983.Centenary at Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; #16)
Par Mazo De la Roche. 1958
Traces the activities of the Whiteoak family in the mid-fifties, a period climaxed by the 100th anniversary celebration of the…
oldest of the family residences. Sequel to "Variable winds at Jalna". 1973, c1958. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 16)Break no bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Ser. #No. 9)
Par Kathy Reichs. 2006
At archaeological field school, the students are working on a prehistoric graveyard on an island in South Carolina, when a…
much more recent burial is uncovered. Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan has to take the case. But her investigations soon have her in too deep, her entire view of humanity challenged, and the further she probes, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger. Some descriptions of sex, violence and strong language. 2006.Cold case (An Alan Gregory novel)
Par Stephen White. 2000
Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory and his wife, assistant prosecutor Lauren Crowder, agree to help an elite group of Washington, D.C.,…
investigators solve a decade-old murder of two teenagers. Suspicions fall on a congressman whose wife's mysterious death left unanswered questions. 2000.Birdman (Jack Caffery mystery.)
Par Mo Hayder. 2000
The Met's crack murder squad is called when five bodies are found, all young women, all ritualistically murdered, dumped on…
wasteland near the Millennium Dome. Detective Inspector Jack Caffrey, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing hostility within the force and echoes of his past. Tortured by a death long ago that he might have prevented, he now works around the clock, knowing that this sadistic killer will strike again. 2000.Bloodstream
Par Tess Gerritsen. 1998
Widowed Dr. Claire Elliot has opened a practice in Tranquility, Maine, in hopes of steering her son away from trouble…
in Baltimore. But Tranquility proves to be worse. As more and more of the town's teenagers become extremely violent, Claire races to find a medical reason. 1998.Blow fly (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries ; #12)
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2003
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, forensics consultant, investigates the eight-year-old murder of a Louisiana socialite, while a serial killer is also operating…
there. Death-row maniac Jean-Baptiste Chandonne from "The Last Precinct" (DC23508) knows something about both situations and lures Kay to visit him. Bestseller. 2003.Body double: a novel (Rizzoli And Isles Ser. #Bk. 4)
Par Tess Gerritsen. 2004
Pathologist Maura Isles - an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents - is confronted by…
the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. She launches an investigation, together with Detective Jane Rizzoli, into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This leads to a remote cabin in Maine, a killer who has been murdering expectant mothers for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country, and the kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.Black narcissus
Par Rumer Godden. 1994
Beginning work in the orchards and opening a school and a dispensary for the Himalayan mountain people, the Sisters of…
Mary are dependent for help on the English agent, Mr Dean. But his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. 1994, c1939.Ballet shoes: the story of three children on the stage
Par Noel Streatfeild. 1959
At risk (Win Garano Ser. #No. 1)
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2007
Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is…
instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority, he gets on with the task, unaware of the can of worms he will prise open. 2007.Antic hay
Par Aldous Huxley. 1923
À tombeau ouvert
Par Kathy Reichs. 2006
Tempe fonce tête baissée dans une nouvelle enquête qui la conduit en Israël. Ce qu'elle y découvre la place au…
coeur d'une immense controverse qui pourrait bien mener à la réécriture de 2000 ans d'histoire religieuse. Tempe est appelée à examiner le corps terriblement mutilé d'un homme trouvé mort à Montréal. Une intrigue extrêmement fouillée, un rythme soutenu et des connaissances anthropologiques fascinantes. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, descriptions régulières de violence, et beaucoup de langage grossier. 2006, c2005. Titre uniforme: Cross bones.A tangled web
Par L. M Montgomery. 1931
Over the years, members of the Dark and Penhallow families have married and feuded. When Aunt Becky, the eccentric matriarch…
of the Dark and Penhallow families, bequeaths an heirloom, a brown jug, many secrets are revealed. For junior and senior high readers. 1989, c1931.In "Rabbit, run", Harry Angstorm, nicknamed Rabbit, is 26 years old and demonstrating kitchen gadgets. Real life turns out to…
be intolerable and Rabbit runs. The Rabbit, of "Rabbit redux" rarely thinks of his bid for freedom and now it is his wife, Janice, who bolts. In "Rabbit is rich", our hero is tasting the delights of the 1980s' abundant materialism. 1990.1984: a novel
Par George Orwell. 1949
The temptations of Big Bear (New Canadian library)
Par Rudy Henry Wiebe, Robert Kroetsch. 1973
In 1876, Big Bear, a Plains Cree, refused to let the government push his people off their land and onto…
a reserve. While courageous, his stand brought starvation to his followers and tore apart the Cree community and eventually his own family. A fictional account of Big Bear's struggle and the culture and history of the Cree Indians. Winner of the 1973 Governor General's Award.Scarpetta (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries. #16.)
Par Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2009
Despite their troubled past, detective Pete Marino works again with pathologist Kay Scarpetta, her husband, and her niece, to expose…
the sadistic sexual psychopath who killed a graduate student who was a dwarf. Meanwhile someone trashes Scarpetta’s reputation online. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.