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By Michael Slade. 2005
When an allied raid forces SS General Streicher to abandon his V-2 rocket factory, it sets in motion a monstrous…
conspiracy that still lies hidden today. In present day Vancouver, the RCMP's Special X squad is on the hunt for a pair of Nazi-inspired killers. The cat and mouse game moves between wartime Germany and the manhunt in Vancouver. 2005.By François Blais. 2019
Le lac Adélard a toujours eu la réputation d'être hanté. Certains prétendent y avoir aperçu une étrange fillette portant une…
cage d'oiseau. D'autres y auraient vu une jeune femme couverte de sang. Élie ne sait pas trop s'il doit croire ces histoires. Ce qu'il sait, en revanche, c'est qu'une petite balade en quatre roues près du lac est un excellent prétexte pour inviter la belle Anna. Il est loin d'imaginer que cette expédition leur permettra de découvrir une partie de l'horrible histoire que cache cet endroit à la réputation inquiétanteBy Maxime Houde. 2008
"La mort de Kathryn, sa femme, a plongé Stan Coveleski dans une terrible dépression. Il a beau vouloir donner le…
change à Emma, sa secrétaire voit bien que son patron a tout abandonné... sauf l'alcool ! Certes, il mène un semblant d'enquête pour une cliente pas commode, mais l'affaire se présente mal et le détective récolte surtout des coups sur la tête, gracieuseté entre autres du lieutenant-détective Caron, un ancien collègue qui ne l'a jamais porté dans son coeur. Amoché, sans le sou, Coveleski ne réagit pas au départ d'Emma, qui n'en peut plus, ne se défend pas quand il est de nouveau tabassé par deux voyous, ne proteste pas quand il est évincé de son propre appartement..." -- 4e de couvBy David Helwig. 2006
A lovely, meditative novel, a story about memory, and about how what once was continues to affect what is and…
what will be. It is the story of a place -- a hotel on the shores of Prince Edward Island, of the family that used to own it, and the people who have been its caretakers.WINNER: DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER: ITV SPECSAVERS CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB BEST READ OF THE YEAR…
2014'A wonderfully complex book' PETER JAMESA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE... When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU... But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATHBy Charlotte Duckworth. 2021
'Dark, compelling and wonderfully creepy' Karen Hamilton'Duckworth's best yet' Rebecca Fleet'Wonderfully sinister and compelling' Caroline Hulse'A completely addictive read where…
no-one can be trusted and nothing is as it seems. I loved every page' Sophie FlynnThe jawdropping and twisty new thriller from the author of The Perfect FatherFour pregnant women. Three nights of pampering at an exclusive yoga retreat. One too many deadly secrets . . .On a remote farm in the deepest Devonshire countryside, four pregnant women arrive at an exclusive yoga retreat for a five-star weekend of prenatal pampering. The location is idyllic.Their host, Selina, is eager to teach them all she knows about pregnancy and motherhood. But, like Selina, each of the women has a secret.And secrets can be deadly . . .Praise for The Sanctuary'A superbly plotted thriller - I could not put it down' Celia Rees'A fast-paced, twisty thriller' Nikki Smith'A writer at the top of her thriller game' Louise Mumford'Compelling' Jess Ryder'Full of tension and secrets and so many twists!' Lauren North'Gripping' Emma Christie(P) 2021 Quercus Editions LimitedBy Peter May. 2013
WINNER: DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER: ITV SPECSAVERS CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB BEST READ OF THE YEAR…
2014'A wonderfully complex book' PETER JAMESA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE... When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU... But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATH(P)2013 Quercus Publishing LtdBy John Farrow. 2020
"Remarkable stuff. Fans of Bill James' Harpur and Iles saga of cops and robbers are in for quite a treat"…
- Kirkus Reviews Starred ReviewSergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set to spark a gangland war in Montreal.Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars attends the scene of seventeen break-ins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen toasters. Cinq-Mars suspects that the burglaries are a trial run for a bigger heist . . . until he discovers a body pinned to a wall with a machete in one apartment. When the former captain of Night Patrol, Armand Touton, receives a tip from an undercover informant in the Mafia, Cinq-Mars is ordered to intervene with a prisoner's release: the man must stay behind bars. He fails with the task and the immediate consequences are devastating. While trying to remedy his failure, solve the mystery of the break-ins and the case of the dead body, a chilling aspect emerges . . . gangland Montreal is bracing for war.WINNER: DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER: ITV SPECSAVERS CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB BEST READ OF THE YEAR…
2014'A wonderfully complex book' PETER JAMESA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE... When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU... But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATHWINNER: DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER: ITV SPECSAVERS CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUB BEST READ OF THE YEAR…
2014'A wonderfully complex book' PETER JAMESA detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met.IF YOU FLEE FATE...When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU...But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKERLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, A SILENT DEATHBy Michel Picard. 2020
Philippe, jeune neurologue, consacre sa carrière à la maladie d’Alzheimer. Sa seule motivation : prouver l’innocence de son père, atteint…
d’Alzheimer, d’allégations de complot terroriste, qui a coûté la vie à sa mère. Son acharnement l’amène à transgresser certaines limites au grand désespoir de sa sœur aînée, qui cache aussi un important secret. Les avancées lentes et difficiles du chercheur prennent une tournure inédite à la rencontre du directeur d’une entreprise spécialisée en neuroscience. Encouragé par l’apport de la société, dont l’ajout d’un patient quelque peu mystérieux, Philippe fait finalement les percées qu’il espérait. Nonobstant, Philippe pousse encore plus ses techniques de recherche sur la mémoire et pour protéger la vie, déjà fragile, de son père. Réussira-t-il à trouver le véritable terroriste dont l’identité se cache quelque part dans les ténèbres cérébrales de ses deux patients ? Publié en français.