Policier
When a drought dries up a reservoir that covers the abandoned English village of Hobb's End, a skeleton is found in a crumbling building. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and local detective Annie Cabbot untangle the World War II mystery that led to the young woman's death.
Kirsten, Martha. Deux femmes, victimes d'un viol, dont l'histoire nous est contée en parallèle.
Caroline Hartley, an actress in a local amateur production, is found brutally stabbed in the apartment she shares with her female lover. During his investigation, Inspector Banks visits the old London haunts that he patrolled as a young police constable. Winner of the 1994 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award for Fiction. Strong language, descriptions of violence.
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken, hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Inspector Banks soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth, he pushes his inquiries a bit too far. Warned about this by his superiors, Banks must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously, under the radar.
The murder of a 16-year-old girl from a wealthy family involves Banks in an investigation complicated by outside priorities. The new Chief Constable, a friend of the girl's industrialist father, presses for a quick arrest, and the police are led to Owen Pierce, a young teacher of troubled character. But Banks is not convinced -- there are too many loose ends, too many other suspects, too many secrets.
Un été torride frappe le Yorkshire, ou un lac artificiel s'assèche et révèle les ruines du village englouti de Hobb's End. Le jeune Adam y joue, adorant ces ruines féériques, jusqu'au jour ou il decouvre les os d'une main, sous la boue. Alan Banks, policier mis sur la touche, est envoyé pour délier cette affaire. Les archives et les langues se délient, le destin tragique du village fantome remonte à la surface...
A skeleton has been unearthed near Chief Inspector Alan Banks' home town, the bones of Banks' old friend Graham Marshall, who went missing in 1965. Finding himself a suspect in the old case, Banks investigates a similar one in Yorkshire, where a fifteen-year-old boy has been kidnapped. Working to clear his name and to find the missing boy, Banks finds the echoes of the past growing louder and more disturbing.
Boo et Junior, amis d'enfance, sont videurs dans un club. Lorsqu'une de leurs collègues leur demande de s'occuper de son petit ami violent, ils sont heureux de jouer les chevaliers servants. Mais quand ce dernier est retrouvé mort, ils sont les principaux suspects. ©Electre 2018
William Boo Malone et Darell Junior McCullough, videurs dans un club de Boston, sont inséparables depuis leur rencontre à l'orphelinat. Ces deux amis tout en muscles et en tatouages sont chargés de retrouver la fille du procureur qui a disparu. Une mission délicate car, loin de se contenter d'avoir fugué, celle-ci a également de très mauvaises fréquentations.
Après quatorze ans de silence entre les deux frères, tout bascule le jour où Gérard est sauvagement assassiné par un mystérieux commando : Christian reprend la tête des Éditions Callibaud et devient le père adoptif de Raphaël, son neveu en fauteuil roulant dont il ignorait jusqu’alors l’existence ! Devenu à son tour la cible des tueurs, Christian voit sur lui et les siens la menace se resserrer comme un étau...
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