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The bodies left behind
By Jeffery Deaver. 2008
A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is…
cut short. A phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to the deserted lake to find out. 2008.The body farm (Kay Scarpetta Ser. #No. 5)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1994
The discovery of the corpse of an eleven-year-old girl sends shock waves through the small community of Black Mountain, a…
sleepy little town in North Carolina. Dr Kay Scarpetta, working on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice. Contains violence. 1994.The blue castle
By L. M Montgomery. 1980
To be 29 and unmarried is the ultimate in shame and misery in the small Canadian town where Valancy has…
grown up, and for years she has taken refuge in her imaginary 'blue castle'. Now she must face reality; a letter has turned her life upside down. It's time to leave home and seek freedom. 1980.Signe suspect
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2005
Le docteur Kay Scarpetta s'est installée en Floride. Elle a quitté la médecine légale institutionnelle pour l'expertise privée. Pourtant, elle…
va devoir revenir dans cette ville de Richmond qui lui a tourné le dos cinq ans plus tôt. Sur place, des surprises désagréables l'attendent. La démolition de ses anciens bureaux est presque achevée ; le médecin-légiste expert qui lui a succédé est un parfait incompétent ; son ancien assistant en chef est plongé dans des problèmes personnels qu'il refuse d'aborder. Privée de l'assistance de Wesley et de sa nièce Lucy, Scarpetta doit se résoudre à élucider les causes du décès d'une adolescente de quatorze ans. Elle doit démêler l'écheveau des pistes, traquer des signes suspects afin de révéler une vérité qu'elle ne parviendra peut-être pas à tolérer. 2005. Titre uniforme: Trace.The birth house
By Ami McKay. 2006
Young Dora Rare befriends Marie Babineau, the local midwife, who wants Dora as her successor. After initial reluctance and intensive…
training, Dora is left the practice on the eve of her marriage to Archer Bigelow. When Dr. Gilbert Thomas arrives with the promise of fast, painless childbirth, Dora is determined, despite fierce opposition, to protect the birthing traditions and women's wisdom that have been passed down to her. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. Descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2007 OLA Evergreen Award. Canada Reads 2011. 2006.The bishop's man
By Linden MacIntyre. 2009
Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist, for at his bishop's bidding he drives out priests who molest children to…
discreet clinics or far-off parishes. When MacAskill is sent to a rural parish in his native Cape Breton, he encounters a troubled young man who appears to be the victim of a notorious priest. MacAskill, struggling with his own demons, is determined to help this man, regardless of the consequences for the church. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize. 2009.The architects are here
By Michael Winter. 2007
When a freak accident blows out the windows of novelist Gabriel English's apartment, driving a billboard into his bed, he…
is forced to come to terms with the disappearance of his lover Nell. He returns home to Newfoundland with his childhood friend David, and discovers that Nell may be implicated in injuring David's father. The friendship between Gabriel and David is tested, there are revelations, confrontations, and a denouement with the Hurley clan, a family both men have feared since childhood. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex, some violence. 2007.Sweetland: a novel
By Michael Crummey. 2015
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now they are facing…
resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay on alone. That coot is Moses Sweetland, who refuses to leave. But in the face of determined opposition from his family and friends, Sweetland is eventually swayed to sign on to the government's plan. Then a tragic accident prompts him to fake his own death and stay on the deserted island. As he manages a desperately diminishing food supply, and battles against the ravages of weather, Sweetland finds himself in the company of the vibrant ghosts of the former islanders, whose porch lights still seem to turn on at night. Bestseller. 2015.Strong hollow: a novel
By Linda Little. 2001
After his drunken father's death, Jackson, alone in his big brawling family, tries to earn a living as a bootlegger.…
One summer he meets Ian, a fiddler, and for a few weeks he grasps the joy he has craved all his life. In the terrible wake of their affair, Jackson discovers that hollowness can be a source of power. Strong language, some descriptions of violence and sex. 2001.Sylvanus Now
By Donna Morrissey. 2005
Sylvanus Now, a young Newfoundland fisherman of great charm and strength, wants to woo Adelaide, but she longs to escape…
the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community. But her need of refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighbouring outport. Caught between his desire to please his wife and his strongly independent nature, Sylvanus must decide what path his future will take. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. Bestseller. 2005.Seeing red
By Anne Louise MacDonald. 2009
Frankie Uccello seems like just another average, normal fourteen-year-old boy, until he discovers that he can dream the future, especially…
when something bad is about to happen. But seeing the future is only cool in movies and TV; in real life, not only does everyone think you're a whacko, but the future doesn't look good. And then Maura-Lee starts hanging around: she can read minds, and she seems to be reading his. For junior high readers. 2009.Sea of tranquility: a novel
By Lesley Choyce. 2003
For Sylvie, Ragged Island is the only world she has ever known, and she plans to live out her years…
there. When the Nova Scotia government decides to shut down the ferry service to the island, the residents see their world beginning to disappear. Strong language. 2003.Smaller and smaller circles
By F. H Batacan. 2015
Southern cross (Andy Brazil Ser. #No. 2)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1999
Robbery, murder, incompetence and not enough parking spaces - just another day in the life of a big city's police…
department. Judy Hammer investigates as a virus crashes the police computer, freezing screens with a design of blue fish - the same one a gang called the Pikes claim is their symbol. Strong language. 1999.Speaking in tongues: A Novel
By Jeffery Deaver. 2000
A charismatic psychiatrist cleverly manipulates teenager Megan McCall and her divorced parents, kidnapping Megan and hiding her in an abandoned…
mental hospital. Her disappearance brings her parents together, but the doctor continues to wreak vengeance on her father. Strong language and some violence. 2000.Scotch River
By Linda Little. 2006
Cass Hutt, bull rider, has lost his rodeo partner, severing Cass's only ties to his world. With nothing and no…
one to hold him, Cass is led back East by the sudden arrival of a mysterious land deed, back to Scotch River, Nova Scotia, and the sketchy boyhood memories he left to die there. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and some strong language. 2006.Sans raison
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Andrea H Japp. 2006
Qu'y a-t-il dans la tête d'un psychopathe ? Basil Jenrette, patient de Wesley condamné pour plusieurs meurtres, accepte de se…
prêter à des expériences sur son cerveau. À l'Académie nationale des sciences légales de Floride, Kay Scarpetta est plongée dans un dédale de morts et de disparitions inexpliquées. Autant d'affaires qui semblent sans lien les unes avec les autres et dans lesquelles tous les indices divergent. Impliqués malgré eux dans ces enquêtes, Lucy, Marino, Wesley, comme Scarpetta, n'ont d'autres choix que de suivre les pistes sur lesquelles on les attire. Descriptions régulières de violence, beaucoup de langage grossier. 2006, c2005. Titre uniforme: Predator.Registre des morts: [une enquête de Kay Scarpetta]
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Andrea H Japp. 2008
Quinzième enquête de Kay Scarpetta. La célèbre pathologiste s'est installée à Charleston, en Caroline du Sud, pour y ouvrir un…
nouveau cabinet de médecine légale avec sa nièce Lucy et son enquêteur Pete Marino. Mais on cherche à saboter son travail et même sa vie. Elle est confrontée à une série de morts violentes - une jeune joueuse de tennis retrouvée mutilée à Rome, un enfant martyrisé, un meurtre rituel - sans autre lien entre ces affaires que la très toxique Marylin Self, psychiatre-vedette de la télévision. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, descriptions régulières de violence, et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2008, c2007. Titre uniforme: Book of the dead.Saints of Big Harbour
By Lynn Coady. 2002
Guy Boucher is a fatherless Acadian teenager, dominated by his alcoholic uncle, and also bullied at school and on the…
hockey rink. All he wants is to use his uncle's truck to attract a girlfriend, but when a courtship goes sour, Guy us caught up in violence and rumour fuelled by malice, booze and ennui. Strong language and descriptions of violence. 2002.Ruth, a portrait: the story of Ruth Bell Graham
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1997
Written by a popular crime novelist -- a family friend -- this account of the wife of evangelist Billy Graham…
begins with Ruth Bell's early life in China as a child of missionaries. Because she wanted to follow in her parents' footsteps, it took persuasion on Graham's part to convince her to marry him and become his helpmate. 1997.