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The Blythes are quoted
By L. M Montgomery. 2009
Adultery, illegitimacy, misogyny, revenge, murder, despair, bitterness, hatred, and death - usually not the terms associated with L.M. Montgomery. In…
this her last work, Montgomery brought these topics to the forefront, in stories featuring a grown up Anne and her family around the time of the First World War. 2009.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.Rescue pup (Orca young readers)
By Jean Little. 2004
Shakespeare, a Seeing Eye puppy, is sent to the home of a troubled foster child, Tessa, whom he expects to…
love him on sight. Shakespeare soon realizes why his new owner is called 'Stoneface', and begins to teach Tessa to love. Before he knows it, Shakespeare finds himself in a variety of dangerous situations, from being attacked by Zorro, a very tough rooster, to nearly drowning in a creek. Grades 3-6. 2004.Mistress Pat: a novel of Silver Bush
By L. M Montgomery. 1935
When she was twenty, nearly everyone thought Patricia Gardiner ought to be having beaus - except Pat herself. For Pat,…
Silver Bush was both home and heaven, and she was too busy planning the Christmas family reunion, entertaining a countess, playing matchmaker, and preparing for the arrival of the new hired man. Yet as those she loved started to move away, Pat began to question the wisdom of her choice of Silver Bush over romance. 1988, c1935.Dust (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries. #21.)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2013
After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to…
recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. 2013.Cross bones (Temperance Brennan Ser. #No. 8)
By Kathy Reichs. 2005
When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in to figure…
out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus. 2005.Birdman (Jack Caffery mystery.)
By Mo Hayder. 2000
The Met's crack murder squad is called when five bodies are found, all young women, all ritualistically murdered, dumped on…
wasteland near the Millennium Dome. Detective Inspector Jack Caffrey, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing hostility within the force and echoes of his past. Tortured by a death long ago that he might have prevented, he now works around the clock, knowing that this sadistic killer will strike again. 2000.Body double: a novel (Rizzoli And Isles Ser. #Bk. 4)
By Tess Gerritsen. 2004
Pathologist Maura Isles - an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents - is confronted by…
the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. She launches an investigation, together with Detective Jane Rizzoli, into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This leads to a remote cabin in Maine, a killer who has been murdering expectant mothers for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country, and the kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.Scarpetta (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries. #16.)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2009
Despite their troubled past, detective Pete Marino works again with pathologist Kay Scarpetta, her husband, and her niece, to expose…
the sadistic sexual psychopath who killed a graduate student who was a dwarf. Meanwhile someone trashes Scarpetta’s reputation online. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.Life support
By Tess Gerritsen. 1997
The man Dr. Toby Harper admits to Springer Hospital is delirious and in a critical condition from an apparent viral…
infection of the brain. When he disappears without trace, a second delirious patient dies in hospital care. As Toby's hunt intensifies, and an unexpected tragedy hits close to home, she discovers the unthinkable: an evil, deadly purpose behind a terrifying epidemic.The vanished man (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #5)
By Jeffery Deaver. 2003
When a killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a…
classroom, the police have him surrounded within minutes. A scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. The ambitious Sachs, and the quadriplegic Rhyme, must work together to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed "the conjurer" and prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Sequel to "Stone monkey", followed by “The twelfth card”. 2003. (Lincoln Rhyme ; 5)The treatment (Jack Caffery mystery)
By Mo Hayder. 2006
In a pleasant London neighbourhood, a man and his wife are found tied up in their own home and their…
young son has disappeared. Jack Caffery is called in to investigate, but a similar tragedy from his own past makes it impossible for him to be scientifically detached. Descriptions of sex, violence and explicit strong language. 2001.Broken ((Grand format : thriller).)
By Karin Slaughter, Bernard Ferry. 2013
" Suite à un appel anonyme à Lena Adams, le corps d'une jeune femme est découvert au fond du lac…
glacé de Grant. Un mot griffonné sur une feuille de papier semble indiquer qu'il s'agit d'un suicide. Pourtant, il apparaît bien vite qu'il n'en est rien : Allison Spooner, 21 ans, a été poignardée dans le cou et enchaînée à des parpaings avant d'être abandonnée aux eaux du lac. C'est dans ces circonstances que Sara Linton, après une longue absence, revient en ville pour voir sa famille. Entraînée par une spirale d'événements, elle se retrouve mêlée à cette sordide affaire de meurtre. Le principal suspect, arrêté alors que Lena et ses hommes fouillaient la chambre de la victime, demande à la voir, mais lorsqu'elle arrive au commissariat, il est déjà trop tard : le garçon gît sans vie dans sa cellule, son cri d'innocence barbouillé sur les murs. Quelque chose cloche dans la déposition du suspect et Sara, qui n'a aucune confiance en Lena, appelle le Georgia Bureau of Investigation qui dépêche sur les lieux l'agent spécial Will Trent. Mais celui-ci se heurte aors à un mur de silence, car Grant County est une petite communauté qui protège ses secrets. Et la seule personne qui pourrait révéler la vérité est morte. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Broken.Stone soup
By Tony Bonning. 2001
A weary fox stops by a farm with the hope of getting some spare food, but when the stingy animals…
decide that they won't share with him, he resorts to his wily ways to get some. Asking for a "drop of water to make some soup," the fox pulls a pot from his backpack, lights a fire, and drops a stone into the pot. He then declares that the soup is "not quite right," wondering whether some salt and pepper, turnip, carrot, cabbage, and corn would enhance its flavour. Grades K-3. 2001.Speaking in bones (A temperance Brennan Novel Ser.)
By Kathy Reichs. 2015
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates what looks to be a typical missing person case, only to find herself digging up…
bones possibly left by a serial killer, a cult, or perhaps something not entirely of this world. Bestseller. 2015.The kill room: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #10)
By Jeffery Deaver. 2013
When a U.S. government sniper kills a suspected American terrorist, private investigator Lincoln Rhyme is tasked with building a case…
against those involved. Violence and strong language. Sequel to “The burning wire”, followed by “The skin collector“. 2013.The skin collector (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #11.)
By Jeffery Deaver. 2015
A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York - one more devious and disturbing than…
ever before. They call this butcher The Skin Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hidden deep underground. But instead of using ink to create each masterpiece, the artist uses a lethal poison which will render targets dead before they can even entertain the prospect of escape. Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate Amelia Sachs have little to go on but a series of cryptic messages left etched into the skin of the deceased. 2015.The Scarpetta factor (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries. #17.)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2009
It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her…
services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. Sequel to "Scarpetta", followed by "Port Mortuary". 2009.Bones are forever: A Novel (Dr. Temperance Brennan mystery. #15.)
By Kathy Reichs. 2012
A hospital report sends forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan to a patient’s apartment, where she finds the corpses of three newborns.…
Tempe and her two ex-lovers search for the infants’ mother. In remote Northern Canada the investigators stumble upon a related mystery involving diamond rights. Strong language and some violence. 2012. (Dr. Temperance Brennan mystery ; 15)Flash and bones: A Novel (Dr. Temperance Brennan mystery.)
By Kathy Reichs. 2011
Charlotte, North Carolina. As NASCAR enthusiasts arrive for Race Week, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is asked to identify the body…
found by the speedway. Brennan’s unofficial investigation leads to a long-missing female race-car driver and her boyfriend. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and explicit descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2011. (Dr. Temperance Brennan mystery)