Policier
Les femmes de la famille Jackson, Indiana et Amanda, mère et fille, sont très liées et très différentes. Indiana est guérisseuse dans une clinique de San Francisco. Séparée fort jeune du père de sa fille, elle est indépendante et épanouie. Elle hésite à refaire sa vie, soit avec Alan, riche héritier d'une grande famille, soit avec Ryan, ancien combattant, blessé en Afghanistan. Contrairement à Indiana qui ne voit le mal nulle part, sa fille. Amanda, comme son père, inspecteur à la Brigade des homicides, est obsédée par la face sombre de la nature humaine. Brillante, introvertie, lectrice passionnée, elle a créé un jeu de rôle en réseau, Rípper, pour résoudre les grandes énigmes de l'histoire criminelle. Quand la ville est secouée par une série de meurtres étranges et sordides, le jeu se transforme et vire au cauchemar lorsque Indiana disparaît...
Dans un tres residentiel quartier de New York , un cadavre est decouvert , lacéré de dix coups de couteau......et le docteur Samuel Rice , psychiatre , est bouleversé d'apprendre qu'il s'agit de George Bynum , un de ses clients.
Un truculent classique des années 1930 par une grande dame du roman policier. Des romans à énigmes remplis de rebondissements et d'humour.
Un truculent classique des années 1930 par une grande dame du roman policier. Des romans à énigmes remplis de rebondissements et d'humour.
Belle Palmer's old high school boyfriend, Gary Myers, moves to her Sudbury street - he's studying the behaviour of elk in the wilderness. He's soon found mysteriously drowned, while someone has broken into his cottage, taking a camera and laptop. A clipping about poisoning on reserves leads Belle, a real estate agent and amateur detective, to visit the place of his demise and find out what really happened to Gary.
Another winter peacefully descends on realtor Belle Palmer, but her tranquillity is disturbed when a friend is lost in a freak snowmobile accident. Belle suspects foul play, but a motive for the murder of such a fine young man is not obvious. Determined to find the truth, Belle is shocked when she discovers what twisted roots underlie this savage crime. Some descriptions of violence.
For Maddie Temple, a literature professor at a small Michigan university, the new school year gets off to a rocky start, with the death of a student (who plummeted from one of the library's top floors). Then a top university administrator dies under suspicious circumstances, with the disliked coordinator of the English department becoming the prime suspect. Maggie turns amateur detective to figure out who is behind the strange happenings and uncover a killer.
For Maddie Temple, a literature professor at a small Michigan university, the new school year gets off to a rocky start, with the death of a student (who plummeted from one of the library's top floors). Then a top university administrator dies under suspicious circumstances, with the disliked coordinator of the English department becoming the prime suspect. Maggie turns amateur detective to figure out who is behind the strange happenings and uncover a killer.
RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Drunk drivers, speeders and the occasional theft from tourist cars lead the crime roster, but her first day starts with a distress call. A scuba diver has found the body of a girl in the surf. A tragic drowning caused by a fall? c2008.
RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Drunk drivers, speeders and the occasional theft from tourist cars lead the crime roster, but her first day starts with a distress call. A scuba diver has found the body of a girl in the surf. A tragic drowning caused by a fall? c2008.
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