Résultats de recherche de titre
Articles 41 à 60 sur 12472
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 candlelight: Alethea Thomas is more than grateful when Dr Sarre van Diederijk saves her pride from being crushed…
by another man. So when Sarre asks her to marry him and become a mother to his children, Alethea accepts. Only when she gets to Holland does she realise the enormity of the task. A star looks down: Professor Alexander van Zeust's four young nieces and nephews need someone to care for them temporarily. As soon as he meets Beth, the professor knows she's the one to help him. Beth is kind, loving and gets on well with the children, so everyone's happy. Except Beth - who's fallen in love with her employer! 2003.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.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.Stone kiss: a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel (Peter Decker And Rina Lazarus Novel Ser.)
Par Faye Kellerman. 2002
The call is brief, but to the point. There has been a murder in the family of Lt. Decker's half…
brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine. Ephram Lieber, a Hassidic Jew and former drug addict, was found naked in a seedy Manhattan hotel, a single gunshot wound to his head, and Jonathan's niece, Shaynda, is missing. The Rabbi pleads with Decker to come to New York and help the family. He reluctantly agrees only to find that Shaynda's parents have changed their minds about involving him in the case. Faced with a hostile family, a strange city and a local police force mired in international problems. Decker is on his own, thrust into a world divided mercilessly into killers and victims. 2002.Song of my heart (Recorded Books inspirational)
Par Kim Vogel Sawyer. 2012
When Thad McKane, the new sheriff of Goldtree, Kansas, uncovers a connection between the crime he's investigating and singer Sadie…
Wagner, the woman he's courting, he wonders if she's as innocent as she seems. 2012.Stagestruck (Peter Diamond mystery. #11.)
Par Peter Lovesey. 2011
A pop star's face is burned by suspicious stage makeup during her stint at a Bath playhouse. The main suspect,…
the makeup artist, is found dead, and Diamond must conquer his own mysterious but deep-seated phobia to solve the crime. Sequel to "Skeleton Hill", followed by "Cop to corpse". 2011.So comes tomorrow
Par Essie Summers. 1995
Brodie Nicol returns to New Zealand to visit her friend Una. While driving to Una's home, Brodie is caught in…
a snowstorm and seeks refuge at a nearby farmhouse - only to find that the farm is being looked after by her ex-fiance, Guthrie. Clearly Una had planned a little matchmaking. But what Una doesn't know is why Brodie had ended her engagement to Guthrie two years ago. 1995.Stalker: a novel (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery. #12.)
Par Faye Kellerman. 2000
Detective Peter Decker's outspoken, Ivy League-educated daughter Cindy joins the LAPD, but has trouble fitting in with the blue-collar work…
force. During a rash of serial carjackings, Cindy realizes she is being stalked and suspects the danger comes from within the department. Bestseller. 2000.Some lie and some die (Inspector Wexford mystery. #8.)
Par Ruth Rendell. 1973
An Inspector Wexford mystery. Kingsmarkham doesn't have too many complaints about its first annual rock festival, but then in a…
nearby quarry two lovers find a body that makes even Reg Wexford's stomach lurch. All he can discover is that there is a strange connection with the star of the festival. Some violence. Sequel to "Murder being once done", followed by "Shake hands for ever". 1973.Skeleton Hill (Peter Diamond mystery. #10.)
Par Peter Lovesey. 2009
On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is…
annually reenacted. Two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them, a professor who played a Cavalier, is later found murdered. In the course of his investigation, Peter Diamond butts heads with the group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss Georgina is a member. Sequel to "The secret hangman", followed by "Stagestruck". 2009.Skinner's ghosts (Bob Skinner. #7)
Par Quintin Jardine. 2001
Suffering the strain of a marriage on the rocks, the last thing Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner needs is for…
his private life to be plastered across the front pages of a sleazy tabloid. To make matters worse, when a woman, already linked to Skinner by tragedy, is found battered, raped and strangled, with her young son a kidnap victim, his search for the killer becomes a personal quest. When a second brutal crime, and new allegations about the detective himself, make simultaneous headlines, he finds himself at the centre of a deadly maze of conspiracy. Includes violence. Sequel to “Skinner’s mission”, followed by “Murmuring the judges”. 2001.Skinner's festival (Bob Skinner. #2.)
Par Quintin Jardine. 1994
An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding…
political separation from Britain, but as atrocities escalate, Head of CID Bob Skinner realizes this is no gang of fanatics, but a highly professional team. Includes sex and strong language. Sequel to "Skinner's rules". 1994.