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Une écharde au coeur: roman
By Jean-François Coatmeur. 2010
" Dans une crique déserte de la baie de Douarnenez, Mara échappe à la mort : on a tenté de…
la noyer alors qu'elle prenait un bain de minuit. C'est du moins ce qu'elle raconte à Gwen, qui la recueille affolée, errant à demi nue au bord de la route. Bien qu'il se rende vite compte que la jeune femme ne dit pas toute la vérité, Gwen, à ses risques et périls, décide de l'aider et de la protéger. De mensonge en fausse confidence, Mara et Gwen, prisonniers de leurs secrets, se retrouvent impliqués dans une machination diabolique où un tueur sans visage se prépare dans l'ombre à frapper encore... " -- 4e de couvLe facteur sonne toujours deux fois (Le Livre de poche #137)
By James M. James Mallahan Cain. 1965
Faites-moi confiance
By Donald E. Donald Edwin Westlake. 1995
Satire réjouissante des milieux journalistiques, traversée par des événements farfelus que vivent des protagonistes devenus paranoïaques et stressés. L'incident criminel…
du début est finalement solutionné après une foule d'insolites découvertes. [SDMUn homme de 28 ans victime d'une fracture de la jambe ; une femme de 36 ans souffrant d'une rupture…
de ligament. Morts dans les 24 heures. Terreur à l'Hôpital général de Manhattan : des patients pour la plupart jeunes et en bonne santé meurent sans raison apparente après une intervention bénigne. Laurie Montgomery et Jack Stapleton, les deux enquêteurs médicaux de Vector, privilégient vite la piste d'un serial killer médical. Le médecin en chef de l'hôpital, qui s'est pris d'amitié pour Laurie et a appris qu'elle est porteuse d'un marqueur génétique du cancer du sein, insiste pour l'opérer. Mais ne risque-t-elle pas ainsi de devenir la prochaine victime ? Une fois encore, Cook mêle science et suspense en un thriller aussi criant de vérité que la une d'un magazine d'actualité. -- 4e de couvLa rivière rouge: roman
By John Hart. 2009
« En exil à New York pendant cinq longues années, Adam Chase a essayé de panser ses plaies et de…
pardonner à sa famille qui le soupçonnait d'être coupable dans une sombre histoire de meurtre. Mais lorsque son meilleur ami l'appelle à l'aide, il n'hésite pas à rentrer chez lui, en Caroline du Nord, dans ses terres rouges. Quelques heures à peine après son arrivée, il est agressé, battu, et quand on découvre un cadavre, la petite ville se retourne contre lui. Rien n'a changé pour Adam : il est de nouveau le premier suspect. » -- 4e de couvChâteau-l'arnaque: roman] / [1 (Château-l'arnaque. #1.)
By Peter Mayle. 2010
« Par vanité, le richissime Californien Danny Roth décide de dévoiler au monde une de ses plus belles collections de…
grands crus classés. Peu de temps après, sa cave est cambriolée. Sam Levitt, ancien avocat reconverti en détective privé et fin connaisseur en vins, est chargé de mener l'enquête. Il se rend donc en France, patrie du vin, de la bonne chère et des jolies femmes... » -- 4e de couvL'affaire du lieutenant Scott: roman
By John Katzenbach. 2009
« Personne ne s'évade du Stalag Luft n° 13. C'est du moins le message adressé aux prisonniers de l'US Air…
Force par leurs gardiens nazis. Dans ces conditions, survivre devient l'affaire de chacun - le capitaine Bedford l'a bien compris. Troc, marché noir, combines diverses : cet ancien vendeur de voitures n'a pas peur de ternir sa réputation d'officier. Il ne fait pas mystère, non plus, de ses opinions racistes. Et Lincoln Scott, lieutenant noir récemment fait prisonnier, ne tarde pas à en faire les frais [...]. » -- 4e de couvNation
By Terry Pratchett. 2008
After a devastating tsunami, Mau, the sole survivor of his island village, joins forces with Daphne, a shipwrecked English girl.…
Their beach fire draws other refugees who band together to rebuild a community based on what they value most. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2008The girl who stopped swimming
By Joshilyn Jackson. 2008
Laurel Hawthorne wakes to see the ghost of her daughter's friend Molly, who drowned in the Hawthorne pool that night.…
Molly's ghost helps Laurel discover what happened. Laurel also unravels the mystery surrounding another ghost who haunts her. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2008The Grub-and-Stakers spin a yarn
By Alisa Craig. 1990
Osbert and Dittany Monk, part-time deputies in a small Canadian town, are enlisted to solve the murder of a local…
mincemeat maker. The decedent's wife, Mother Matilda, has been guarding the secret family recipe for years and fears her husband was killed by industrial spies. 1990Rat life
By Tedd Arnold. 2007
Upstate New York, 1972. Fourteen-year-old Todd, an aspiring writer, befriends Rat, a young Vietnam War veteran, while they work at…
the local drive-in. After a body is found in the river, Todd suspects Rat has committed murder. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high readers. Edgar Award. 2007Tell me, pretty maiden (A molly Murphy Mystery Ser.)
By Rhys Bowen. 2008
New York, 1902. Private investigator Molly Murphy finds a beautiful young woman lying unconscious in snow-covered Central Park. As Molly…
visits local theatres and flophouses in an attempt to learn what happened, she is aided by her beau, Daniel--a wrongfully suspended police captain--and influential friends like reporter Nelly Bly. 2008The man within (Penguin classics)
By Graham Greene. 2005
Greene's first novel. Young Francis Andrews betrays his fellow smugglers and flees from them. He finds refuge in the cottage…
of a woman named Elizabeth, who persuades him to testify in court. Francis falls in love even as he is consumed by fear. Includes 2005 introduction by Jonathan Yardley. 1929Rucker Park setup
By Paul Volponi. 2007
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend J.R. was murdered, Mackey tries…
to decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened. Some violence and some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2007The widows of Eastwick
By John Updike. 2008
Three decades after The Witches of Eastwick (RC 20906, BR 5835), the divorcées--Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie--have moved away, remarried, and…
become widows. They renew their friendships during trips to Egypt and China and decide to return to Eastwick--where some still remember them and wish them ill. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2008Cocaine blues: a Phryne Fisher mystery
By Kerry Greenwood. 2007
Free-thinking Phryne Fisher leaves 1920s London for her native Australia to try being a perfect lady detective. Phryne soon finds…
herself embroiled in mysteries involving a drug-smuggling ring, corrupt cops, communism, a sexy Russian dancer, and a colonel's daughter suspected of being poisoned by her husband. 1989Orangutan tongs: poems to tangle your tongue
By Jon Agee. 2008
How to be bad
By E Lockhart. 2008
Florida teenage girls Mel, Jesse, and Vicks leave their summer jobs and head to Miami for the weekend to visit…
Vicks's boyfriend Brady at college. The three weather adventures including hurricanes and arguments about family problems but manage to remain friends. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2008Flying too high: a Phryne Fisher mystery
By Kerry Greenwood. 2007
Australia, 1928. PI Phryne Fisher juggles two unrelated cases involving kidnapping and murder. In one, Phryne searches for a lottery…
winner's missing daughter. In the other, Phryne sets out to exonerate a pilot charged with killing his brutish father. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1990Blood lines (Scott Brodie #2)
By Nelson DeMille. 2023
From New York Times bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, Blood Lines features the return of Army CID Special…
Agents Brodie and Taylor who are on the hunt for the cold-blooded murderer of one of their fellow agents. Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter. Now, in Berlin, they are reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and whose body was discovered in a city park in the heart of Berlin's Arab refugee community. The authorities suspect this is an act of Islamic terrorism, but Brodie and Taylor soon believe there is more to this case. The reason for Vance's presence in Berlin is unknown, and as Brodie and Taylor work to discover what the murder victim was doing in the days and weeks preceding his death, they become immersed in the many conflicts and contradictions of modern Germany—the Arab refugee crisis, the dark legacy of the Cold War and the Stasi secret police, and the imminent threats of a rising neo-Nazi movement. At the same time, they are butting heads with the authorities—both German and American—and facing a possible threat from American intelligence agents who fear that Brodie and Taylor might have learned too much about US clandestine operations during their mission in Venezuela. Ultimately, Brodie and Taylor realize that the murder of Harry Vance was merely the prelude to a much more sinister future event—unless they can unravel the mystery in time to stop it