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Le cruciverbiste: Emma Clarke Enquête (Emma Clarke enquête)
By Claire Cooke. 2015
Le monde immobilier de la Rive-Nord de Montréal est secoué. Joseph Dunstan, un de ses membres reconnu pour ses dettes…
de jeu, a été assassiné. Vedette de la Sûreté du Québec, la lieutenante-détective Emma Clarke hérite de cette affaire qui s'avère tout sauf simple. Car les cadavres ne tardent pas à s'empiler, et la policière se retrouve bien vite au centre d'un véritable casse-tête où se mêlent le latin, la religion et une mystérieuse grille de mots croisés qui lui parvient par fragments. 2015.Double disparition: [une enquête de Maud Graham] (Enquête de Maud Graham.)
By Chrystine Brouillet. 2011
"Maud Graham est chargée d'enquêter sur la disparition de Tamara, sept ans, fille d'une ancienne camarade de classe. Qui l'a…
enlevée ? Et pourquoi ? Les policiers de Québec se mobilisent pour retrouver l'enfant. Au même moment, à Rimouski, Trevor, un jeune homme, apprend au chevet de sa mère agonisante qu'il n'est pas son fils biologique. Bouleversé, il part à la recherche de sa mère naturelle à Québec, où elle vivrait. Deux enquêtes, deux quêtes qui semblent bien éloignées l'une de l'autre, mais dont l'impact sera ressenti sur chacun." -- 4e de couv.NYPD puzzle: a puzzle lady mystery (Puzzle Lady Mysteries Ser. #16)
By Parnell Hall. 2014
When young attorney Becky Baldwin hires Cora Felton to accompany her to New York City to meet a new client…
in his penthouse apartment, the Puzzle Lady jumps at the chance. But when she and Becky arrive at the apartment, they find the man is dead. There's a puzzle on his chest, and a prowler is searching the bedroom. Cora pulls her gun and gets off a shot as the intruder ducks out the window. The NYPD now think Cora is the murderer. Getting her off should be a breeze for Becky, but when the fatal bullet is too badly damaged to identify, Cora is lucky to get out on bail. 2014."O" is for outlaw (Kinsey Millhone mysteries. #15)
By Sue Grafton. 1999
When P.I. Kinsey Millhone buys items from a storage salvager, she is surprised to find an old letter exonerating her…
ex-husband, vice cop Mickey Magruder, of murder. Now Mickey has been shot and lies in a coma. Kinsey investigates the shooting and becomes the next target. Some descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1999. (Kinsey Millhone mysteries ; 15)Not a clue (Forsyth and Hay mystery. #2.)
By Janet Brons. 2015
In London, Detective Chief Inspector Stephen Hay of Scotland Yard heads up the investigation into the puzzling murder of a…
young Canadian woman travelling alone. Her killer was meticulous, leaving a serene-looking corpse and no clues. In Ottawa, RCMP Inspector Liz Forsyth searches for the murderer of a young Chechen woman, who was shot at the gates of the Russian Embassy. No one knows who would want to kill her, except, perhaps, the Russians. Separated by continents and responsibilities to their respective departments, Forsyth and Hay doggedly work their cases while still feeling the pull of their recent partnership. As Forsyth chases her case further into the complicated world of Russian and Chechen relations, Hay is at a standstill - until the murderer resurfaces. Sequel to "A quiet kill". 2015.Noir comme la mer: roman (Spécial suspense.)
By Mary Higgins Clark, Anne Damour. 2017
La croisière promettait d'être sublime. Mais peu après avoir levé l'ancre, le luxueux Queen Charlotte est le théâtre d'un mystérieux…
assassinat : celui de lady Em, une riche octogénaire. Et son inestimable collier d'émeraudes, censé avoir appartenu à Cléopâtre, a disparu... Le coupable est à bord, sans aucun doute. Mais qui est-ce ? Son assistante apparemment dévouée ? Le jeune avocat qui voulait persuader lady Em de rendre le collier à l'Égypte, son propriétaire légitime ? Ou Célia Kilbride, l'experte en pierres précieuses qui s'était liée avec la vieille dame ? La liste des suspects s'allonge au fur et à mesure que le Queen Charlotte fend les flots et que la croisière tourne au drame. 2017. Titre uniforme: All by myself, alone.La mort mène le bal: roman
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.La fille du taxidermiste: roman
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.Last puzzle & testament (Puzzle Lady mystery. #2)
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)Kaleidoscope: a Joanne Kilbourn mystery (Joanne Kilbourn mysteries.)
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)Almost blue
By Oonagh Stransky, Carlo Lucarelli. 2003
A serial killer is terrorising the students of Bologna. Rookie female detective Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case.…
Only one witness can positively identify the killer...and he's blind. Simone spends his days in solitude, listening to Elvis Costello's Almost Blue and scanning the radio waves of the city to eavesdrop on other people's lives. He likes to imagine what people are like - based on the tone and 'colour' of their voice - and his acute hearing sets alarm bells ringing upon hearing the voice of the killer. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003. Uniform title: Almost blue.Hoot to kill (Robyn Devara Mystery Ser.)
By Karen Dudley. 1998
When Robyn Devara goes into the field to research spotted owls near the remote logging town of Marten Valley she…
really doesn't expect any trouble. Then she discovers the body of a murdered logging foreman in the woods and things start to get scary. Robyn must deal with angry townspeople, her attractive male colleague, and the suspicion that she herself may have been involved in the murder. 1998.Hard eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum novel. #8.)
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.Eleven on top (Stephanie Plum novel. #11.)
By Janet Evanovich. 2005
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum quits her job, tired of being mistreated. While trying her hand at various menial…
occupations, she receives threatening notes from a criminal who is supposed to be dead. Stephanie investigates with the help of former colleague Ranger. Bestseller. 2005.Dead man's puzzle (Puzzle Lady mystery. #Bk. 10)
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."C" is for corpse: a Kinsey Millhone mystery (Kinsey Millhone mysteries. #3)
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 the time you read this (John Cardinal series. #4.)
By Giles Blunt. 2006
Detective John Cardinal of remote Algonquin Bay, Ontario is in mourning for his wife, an apparent suicide, when he starts…
receiving hate-filled notes gloating over his loss. Believing that his wife may have been murdered, he begins looking into who might be behind it. Meanwhile, his partner Lise Delorme is trying to track down the pedophile responsible for a cache of appalling photos featuring a possibly local girl. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Sequel to "Blackfly season", followed by "Crime machine". 2006.Black dog (Ben Cooper and Diane Fry. #1.)
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."B" is for burglar (Kinsey Millhone mysteries. #2.)
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)Arsenic and old puzzles: a puzzle lady mystery (Puzzle Lady mystery. #14)
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.