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By Chrystine Brouillet. 2015
Serial killer à ses heures, Louise n'aime rien tant que la douce routine en compagnie de ses chats. Lorsqu'elle apprend…
qu'une menace pèse sur le chic restaurant où elle travaille, son sang ne fait qu'un tour. S'attaquer au parrain d'une dangereuse famiglia est toutefois bien compliqué. Mais quand une jolie infirmière qui sème la mort sur son passage s'intéresse d'un peu trop près à Guido, le chef de Carte Noire, les masques tombent. Résolue à défendre les siens, Louise reprend du service avec la détermination qu'on lui connaît! 2015.By Kate Mosse. 2016
Sussex, 1912. À vingt-deux ans, Connie Gifford vit avec son père dans la vieille bâtisse qui hébergeait autrefois un célèbre…
musée de taxidermie. Désormais, les oiseaux empaillés ornant les salons des maisons bourgeoises sont passés de mode et les raisons de la fermeture du musée tenu par la famille Gifford restent mystérieuses. Connie a perdu la mémoire après un accident et ne garde aucun souvenir de cette époque. Lorsque le cadavre d'une femme est découvert dans un ruisseau derrière la propriété des Gifford, le passé ressurgit... Connie met dès lors tout en oeuvre pour démasquer les coupables et dévoiler enfin les secrets de ces années oubliées. 2016.By Parnell Hall. 2000
When wealthy widow Emma Hurley dies, her greedy heirs crawl out of the woodwork, but to their surprise, Emma didn’t…
leave a will but a puzzle. The first one to solve the puzzle will inherit Emma’s entire estate, and Cora Felton - local celebrity and famed author of a popular syndicated crossword puzzle column - must referee the contest. It’s up to Cora and her niece, Sherry Carter, who is the brains behind Cora’s “Puzzle Lady” persona, to unravel the bizarre riddle Emma Hurley engineered before her death. Some descriptions of violence. 2000. (Puzzle Lady mystery ; 2)By Gail Bowen. 2012
"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of us" – this was for many years…
the core of Joanne's political beliefs, and on the day she retires from her university teaching post, she has a dream about her first husband (murdered many years ago), and this line comes back vividly in it. Soon, she is forced to experience the truth of what, for most of her life, had just been a good closing line for a political speech. When terrible things begin to happen, Joanne begins to understand what it's like to live in a world where she can count on nothing. Includes sex and violence. c2012. (Joanne Kilbourn mysteries)By Janet Evanovich. 2002
Gone missing are the daughter and granddaughter of a next-door neighbour of Stephanie Plum's parents in Trenton, New Jersey. Several…
characters join bail bondsman Stephanie's search for the pair: her friend Ranger; her former fiancé, Joe Morelli; and the daughter's ex-husband and landlord. Bestseller. 2002.By Parnell Hall. 2009
Chief Harper comes to Cora Felton, asking her to solve a crossword puzzle found on the body of Old Man…
Overmeyer. Cora pokes into Overmeyer's death, hoping to prove he died of natural causes and soon learns the cranky hermit was the sole surviving member of a forty-year-old stock pooling agreement. 2009.By Sue Grafton. 1986
Bobby Callahan survived great injuries in a car crash that he thinks was no accident. Kinsey Millhone takes on the…
case, unearthing an elaborate blackmail scheme.1986. (Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 3)By Stephen Booth. 2001
When smart, sexy teenager Laura Vernon goes missing one long, hot summer in the Peak District, local police mount a…
full-scale search operation. But it's retired lead miner Harry Dickinson who finally discovers Laura's body, and he seems bent on obstructing their investigation. Even her parents are holding something back. But what could be more important than finding Laura's murderer? Ben Cooper, a young DC living with tragedy, has known the villagers all his life, but his instinctive feelings about the case are called into question by the arrival of Diane Fry, a ruthlessly ambitious DC from another division. As the investigation twists and turns, Ben and Diane discover that to understand the present, they must also understand the past - and in a world where no one is entirely innocent, pain and suffering can be the only outcome. Followed by "Dancing with the virgins". 2001.By Sue Grafton. 1986
Kinsey Millhone is given a case involving an absent sister and a will to be settled. It begins to look…
a bit less routine as she finds that the sister has last been seen draped in a lynx coat, headed for Florida, but never got there. Yet someone has got into her home and is squatting there. Kinsey is ordered to drop the case just before she discovers that a neighbour was murdered and, as she digs deeper, she finds a quagmire of conflicting facts and violent emotions. Sequel to "'A' is for alibi" (DC09008). Followed by "'C' is for corpse" (DC06422). 1986. (Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 2)By Parnell Hall. 2013
When an elderly boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it -…
except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects she's dealing with a cold-blooded killer who for some reason is copying the Cary Grant movie 'Arsenic and Old Lace', in which two old ladies who run a boarding house poison elderly widowers and bury them in the basement. Sequel to "$10,000 in small, unmarked puzzles". 2013.By Parnell Hall. 2004
Attorney Becky Baldwin asks amateur sleuth Cora Felton to investigate the twenty-year-old case of Darryl Daigue, who is serving a…
life sentence for a teenager’s murder. When more deaths occur the "Puzzle Lady" puts together a convoluted theory. Some violence and some strong language. 2004. (Puzzle Lady mystery ; 6)By Janet Brons, Frances Thorsen. 2014
The head of the Canadian High Commission’s trade section is found brutally clubbed and stabbed to death in the Official…
Residence in London, England. Scotland Yard’s Detective Chief Inspector Stephen Hay is called in to investigate, while RCMP Inspector Liz Forsyth is dispatched from Ottawa. There are a number of suspects from the diplomatic community: the High Commissioner and his beautiful wife, the smarmy head of the political section, the charming military attaché, the high-strung Deputy High Commissioner, and a deeply troubled engagements secretary. After a second murder, the case takes a turn and radical environmentalist Dr. Julian Cox becomes a suspect. The two investigators must overcome insecurities and suspicions as they find themselves wading into the murky waters of the diplomatic community. Followed by "Not a clue". 2014.By Parnell Hall. 2002
Puzzle Lady Cora Felton and her niece, Sherry Carter, volunteer for the local Christmas pageant. A cryptic message in the…
form of an acrostic appears on the holiday tree and foretells the murder of an actress. Cora investigates the case after Sherry becomes the main suspect. 2002. (Puzzle Lady mystery ; 4)By Donald Bain. 1996
The sixth mystery in the series based on the popular TV program finds Jessica Fletcher vacationing in the Hamptons, where…
she enrolls in an art class in which a lovely young model suddenly turns up dead. 1996. Uniform title: Murder, she wrote (Television program)By Parnell Hall. 1999
When the body of an unknown teenage girl turns up in the cemetery in the quiet town of Bakerhaven, Police…
Chief Dale Harper finds himself investigating his first homicide. A baffling clue leads him to consult Bakerhaven's resident puzzle expert, and soon Cora's meddling, mischief-making behaviour drives Chief Harper to distraction. But when another body turns up in a murder that hits much closer to home, Cora must find a killer - before she winds up in a wooden box three feet across, and six down. Some descriptions of violence. 1999. (Puzzle Lady mystery ; 1)By Sophie Littlefield. 2010
Stella Hardesty, avenger of wronged women, is getting cozy with Sheriff "Goat" Jones when a tornado blows Goat's scheming ex-wife,…
Brandy, through the front door. The tornado also unearths a woman's body, and the main suspect for dumping it is Neb Donovan. Stella doesn't believe that gentle Neb is the murderer and she and her assistant Chrissy look into the case. Descriptions of sex and violent, explicit strong language. 2010.By Sophie Littlefield. 2009
Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she's so…
busy helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends that she's barely got time to run her sewing shop. When young mother Chrissy Shaw asks Stella for help with her no-good husband Roy Dean, it looks like just another standard job, until Chrissy's two-year-old son is taken, and Stella finds herself up against a much more formidable enemy. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2009.By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2011
San Francisco. Newlywed police sergeant Lindsay Boxer searches for a newborn after its fifteen-year-old mother is discovered wandering the streets.…
Meanwhile, Yuki Castellano prosecutes a doctor for murder and reporter Cindy Thomas investigates a serial rapist. Bestseller. 2011.When young attorney Becky Baldwin hires Cora Felton to make a blackmail payment drop, it couldn’t go worse: she stumbles…
over a corpse and a puzzle, and someone steals the money. Becky won’t tell her who the client is, but the most likely suspect is Cora’s least favourite ex-husband, Melvin, who claims he’s being framed by a psychopath with a grudge. Soon Cora finds herself in a no-win situation. Solving the murder will either put Melvin’s neck in the noose, or incur the wrath of a cunning, cold-blooded killer who delights in playing deadly mind games and may be targeting her niece Sherry and Sherry’s new baby girl. Sequel to "The KenKen killings", followed by "Arsenic and old puzzles". 2012.By Gail Bowen. 2016
Joanne's husband, Zack, recently elected mayor of Regina, is optimistic that he can garner the public support necessary to make…
Regina a city that works. Their oldest son Peter is marrying Maisie Crawford, a woman as clever and forthright as she is lovely. Their lakeside wedding is a dream come true, but when a former lover of a member of the bridal party shows up, the dream becomes a nightmare. Before the bride's bouquet has wilted, there's an act of sickening cruelty; soon afterwards, there's a murder. It becomes increasingly unclear whether political agendas, shattered romance, or a secret buried deep in the past have motivated the crimes. Sequel to "12 Rose Street". 2016.