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Les mystères de Harper Connelly: 4, Secrets d'outre-tombe
Par Charlaine Harris. 2011
"Nous revoici sur les routes ! Aujourd'hui, Tolliver et moi avons été engagés par l'une des plus puissantes familles du…
Texas, dont certains membres semblent douter des conditions dans lesquelles leur patriarche est décédé... La routine pour nous. Enfin, peut-être pas cette fois-ci. Surtout lorsque je découvre des recoupements étranges avec mon propre passé..."La chanson d'Arbonne (Dossiers documents)
Par Guy Gavriel Kay. 1995
Au pays d’Arbonne le soleil mûrit les vignes et fait éclore les chansons des troubadours qui célèbrent l’amour courtois. Au…
Gorhaut, terre austère du Nord où l’on adore le dieu mâle Corannos, règne le brutal Adémar, sous l’influence du primat fanatique du clergé. « Jusqu’à ce que meure le soleil et que tombent les lunes, l’Arbonne et le Gorhaut ne vivront pas en harmonie côte à côte. » Gouvernée par une femme, minée par la rivalité sanglante de ses deux seigneurs les plus puissants, l’Arbonne n’est-elle pas une proie tentante pour une guerre de conquête et de croisade du Gorhaut, d’autant – ignominie ! – qu’on y vénère une déesse ? Mais c’est en Arbonne que Blaise du Gorhaut s’est engagé comme mercenaire au service d’un baronnet, après avoir fui son pays et son père. Qui est-il, ce Blaise du Nord, et quel destin l’attend qu’il ignore lui-même ? Seule le sait peut-être Béatrice, la grande prêtresse aveugle de Rian au hibou sur l’épaule. La Chanson d’Arbone est une fantasy magistrale et envoûtante dans un monde parallèle à la Provence médiévale. « Aussi passionnant qu’un frileur et tendre qu’une chanson d’amour, avec une toile de fond aussi brillante, authentique et colorée que la tapisserie de la Dame à la licorne. » Michael de Larrabeiti.The after party
Par A. C Arthur. 2021
Venus McGee, Draya Carter, and Jackie Benson are coworkers with a lot in common. They're smart, independent, driven, and deserving…
of recognition--certainly more than they've been handed by a demoralizing boss. They all might wish they could get rid of the man, but when he's murdered they have to band together. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2021Five Decembers (Hard Case Crime book #HCC-150)
Par James Kestrel. 2021
"December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to…
investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U. S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor. This extraordinary novel is so much more than just a gripping crime story--it's a story of survival against all odds, of love and loss and the human cost of war. Spanning the entirety of World War II, FIVE DECEMBERS is a beautiful, masterful, powerful novel that will live in your memory forever." -- Provided by publisherKundo wakes up
Par Saad Z Hossain. 2022
"Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving…
the dying city of Chittagong--along with all its remaining residents to continue its inexorable fall into the sea. Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark on a tumultuous journey through an overwhelming maze made up of Chittagong's neighborhoods, the hidden backrooms of video game parlors, and the depths of cyberspace, culminating in the realm of the djinn themselves, in search of love, redemption, and a good meal." -- Provided by publisherFlame and Fortune: a Miss Fortune mystery (Miss Fortune Mystery #22)
Par Jana DeLeon. 2022
With New Year's in Sinful, the competition for the New Year's Queen is heating up as warring churches go head-to-head.…
Fortune reluctantly agrees to participate to help Ida Belle and Gertie best their nemesis who is sponsoring former mean girl RJ Rogers. When RJ's friend is found dead, suspects abound. Some violence and some strong language. 2022Jane and the prisoner of Wool House (Jane Austen mystery #6th)
Par Stephanie Barron. 2001
Jane employs her wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case of murder on the high seas.…
Somewhere in the picturesque British port of Southampton, among a crew of colorful, eccentric, and fiercely individual souls, a killer has come ashore. Jane must help her brother solve the murder. AdultThe unknown beloved: a novel
Par Amy Harmon. 2022
"From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two…
people whose paths collide against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression. Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there's more to the situation¿and to Dani Flanagan herself¿than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland. Fifteen years later, Michael Malone is summoned to Cleveland to investigate a series of murders that have everyone stumped, including his friend and famed Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, now Cleveland's director of safety. There, in a city caught in the grip of a serial killer, Dani and Malone cross paths once again. Malone is drawn to Dani and her affinity for the dead and compassion for the destitute. It doesn't take long for him to realize that she could help him solve his case. As terror descends on the city and Malone and Dani confront the dark secrets that draw them together, it's a race to find the killer or risk becoming his next victims." -- Provided by publisherNo hiding place: A Tamara Hayle Mystery (Tamara Hayle mystery #04)
Par Valerie Wilson Wesley. 1997
"With three electrifying Tamara Hayle mysteries, Valerie Wilson Wesley has become one of the hottest names on the female crime-writing…
scene. Her previous novel Where Evil Sleeps, "captivates mystery lovers to the hilt" (Vibe). With No Hiding Place, Wesley not only delivers another irresistible mystery, but tackles some of the more disturbing issues of our times. When Newark hoodlum Shawn Raymond is killed, his mother, Bessie, hard-earned money in hand, begs Tamara to look into the unsolved murder. According to Bessie, the cops just don't give a damn, but Tamara is enough of a realist to know the sad truth that gangsters usually end up getting what they deserve. She feels sorry for Bessie Raymond, but like the cops, it's hard for her not to think Good riddance, too. Yet she can also remember a time when Shawn Raymond was an innocent boy, loved and mentored by her dead brother, Johnny. She knows what the void left by Johnny's suicide may have contributed to the bad choices Shawn made. Tied to the Raymonds by grief and memory, Tamara finally agrees to take Shawn Raymond's case. But Tamara finds that the path to the killer leads not only through the city's mean streets and threatened middle class but into her personal life as well, in a terrible, shattering way. More blood will be spilled before Tamara learns her bitter lesson that when it comes to murder and the evil in people's hearts, there truly is no hiding place." -- Dust jacketThe poisoned chocolates case
Par Anthony Berkeley. 2010
"Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men's wives, and the list of…
people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard (we love saying this) is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of these solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, The Poisoned Chocolates Case is both a classic of the Golden Age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle-mysteries of all time." -- Dust jacketThe blushing bounder: A Dead Lands Fantasy Romance (Iron Seas #0.4)
Par Meljean Brook. 2014
While the search for a killer puts Constable Newberry's life in danger, he faces a danger of another kind: to…
his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay? Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011Brutale attirance, tome 2 (Brutale Attirance #2)
Par Shay Carrot. 2023
Bon retour à Uspia, pays où vivent des sorciers, des fées, des loups-garous, des vampires, ainsi que des hybrides !Chers…
lecteurs de ce tome 2,La curiosité est un vilain défaut.Cette fois, j'ai bâillonné Ludmilla pour éviter qu'elle vous dévoile les péripéties de ce deuxième tome, ainsi que les réponses aux questions que vous attendez.C'est donc Shay Carrot, l'auteure de ce roman, qui s'adresse aux petits curieux souhaitant connaître à l'avance ce qui se déroulera dans la suite de cette romance impossible et interdite.Sachez une chose : ça s'annonce brutal, mouvementé et sombre...J'ai pris la liberté de ne rien vous dire, poussant le vice un peu plus loin.Oh... ! Vous me détestez encore plus ? Parfait, ces mots ne sont que le commencement de vos tourments...AVERTISSEMENT : Roman classé « DARK ROMANCE ». Cet ouvrage fictionnel contient des scènes et propos pouvant choquer. Toute référence à des événements ou des lieux réels n'est utilisée que pour servir cette histoire. Tous les noms, personnages et événements sont le produit de l'imagination de l'auteure. Toute ressemblance avec des personnes et des événements serait totalement fortuiteMurder in postscript (A Lady of Letters Mystery #1)
Par Mary Winters. 2023
When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess Amelia Amesbury, who secretly pens the…
popular Lady Agony column, has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a charming new historical mystery series. Amelia Amesbury—widow, mother, and countess—has a secret. Amelia writes for a London penny paper, doling out advice on fashion, relationships, and manners under the pen name Lady Agony. But when a lady’s maid writes Amelia to ask for advice when she believes her mistress has been murdered—and then ends up a victim herself—Amelia is determined to solve the case. With the help of her best friend and a handsome marquis, Amelia begins to piece together the puzzle, but as each new thread of inquiry ends with a different suspect, the investigation grows ever more daunting. From London’s docks and ballrooms to grand country houses, Amelia tracks a killer, putting her reputation—and her life—on the lineLa plage des songes et autres récits d'exil
Par Stanley Péan. 1998
Publiée initialement en 1988, La plage des songes révèle les fondations d’un univers sur lesquelles Stanley Péan a su construire…
une œuvre solide. Si l’écrivain a bien évidemment évolué au fil de ses trente-cinq ans d’écriture, soulignons qu’il écrivait déjà magnifiquement. Les protagonistes de ce recueil de nouvelles sont tour à tour happés par leurs souvenirs, idéalisés ou cauchemardesques, de cette Haïti qu’ils traînent dans leur exil, telle une carapace de tortue. Oscillant entre tendresse et humour noir, entre compassion et terreur, La plage des songes retrace les itinéraires singuliers de ces personnages livrés aux caprices de forces surnaturelles et nous fait découvrir un autre visage du Québec contemporain. Un livre fondateur pour l’écrivain aujourd’hui célébré.Les grands crimes de l'histoire (Le Livre de poche #6245)
Par Pierre Bellemare. 1984
Une série de crimes commis dans l'enceinte d'un zoo appartenant à un monarque arabe épris de culture oxfordienne ont pour…
seul témoin un chimpanzé nommé Dinah. C'est là qu'intervient Wesley Morris, éminent zoologue anglais qui tente des tests d'aquisition du langage par les chimpanzés en essayant de leur inculquer des rudiments grammaticaux.A la brunante
Par 1844-1897 Faucher de Saint-Maurice. 1998
A la brunante rassemble probablement les plus belles pages qu'a écrites Faucher de Saint-Maurice (1844-1897). Sans conteste l'un des auteurs…
les plus prolifiques qu'a connu le Québec du XIXe siècle, Faucher de Saint-Maurice était un personnage haut en couleurs : tour à tour combattant au Mexique, prisonnier, condamné à mort, fonctionnaire, journaliste et député, il a longtemps milité, dans son coin d'Amérique, en faveur de la langue française est d'une littérature originale et différente de celle que l'on retrouve en France. Dans ses contes et ses récits, Faucher de Saint-Maurice atteint le sommet de son art. Ceux qui composent cet ouvrage mettent en scène des personnages qui sont tous plus étonnants les uns que les autres. Et chacune des histoires que nous raconte l'auteur renferme des surprises qui ne maquent jamais d'étonner les lecteurs qui les découvrent.L'écluse no 1
Par Georges Simenon. 1999
Après une soirée trop arrosée, le vieux Gassin, en regagnant son bateau, tombe à l'eau et est aussitôt agrippé par…
un deuxième homme en passe de se noyer. Ce dernier n'est autre que Ducrau, le patron de Gassin. On les repêche et on s'aperçoit que Ducrau a reçu un coup de couteau dans le dos avant de se retrouver dans le canal. On parvient à le sauver et il demande l'intervention de la police, ce qui déclenche l'enquête de Maigret…Divine rivals: A novel (Letters of Enchantment #1)
Par Rebecca Ross. 2023
"This captivating production will leave listeners wanting more."- AudioFile When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection,…
they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish—into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all the way to the front lines of battle: for her brother, the fate of mankind, and love. Shadow and Bone meets Lore in Rebecca Ross's Divine Rivals , an epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of loveA fragile enchantment
Par Allison Saft. 2024
In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a…
royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom. Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into fabric is the same magic that will eventually kill her. Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family, Niamh jumps at the chance to design the wardrobe for a royal wedding in the neighboring kingdom of Avaland. But Avaland is far from the fairytale that she imagined. While young nobles attend candlelit balls and elegant garden parties, unrest brews amid the working class. The groom himself, Kit Carmine, is prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a political pawn. But when Niamh and Kit grow closer, an unlikely friendship blossoms into something more—until an anonymous gossip columnist starts buzzing about their chemistry, promising to leave them alone only if Niamh helps to uncover the royal family's secrets. The rot at the heart of Avaland runs deep, but exposing it could risk a future she never let herself dream of, and a love she never thought possible. Transporting listeners to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world, A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue, unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages. A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday BooksMarvin and the book of magic
Par Jenny Pearson. 2024
Marvellous Marvin braves the stage to showcase the magic that can be found in true friendship in this hilarious and…
heartfelt tale from bestselling author Jenny Pearson. After being humiliated by a badly behaved squirrel on national television, Marvin has vowed NEVER to perform magic in public again. But when he acquires a mysterious book that promises to show those with the gift of magic how to use it properly, his best friend Asha persuades him to make a comeback in the school talent show. Watch Marvellous Marvin take to the stage to demonstrate the magic that can be found in true friendship!