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Miracle at Indian River: stories
By Alden Nowlan. 1968
Blow fly (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries ; #12)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2003
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, forensics consultant, investigates the eight-year-old murder of a Louisiana socialite, while a serial killer is also operating…
there. Death-row maniac Jean-Baptiste Chandonne from "The Last Precinct" (EB68921) knows something about both situations and lures Kay to visit him. Bestseller. 2003.Galore: a novel
By Michael Crummey. 2009
A portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate…
and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish. The action is propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through the generations. 2009.The bodies left behind
By Jeffery Deaver. 2008
A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is…
cut short. A phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to the deserted lake to find out. 2008.L'apprenti
By Tess Gerritsen, Jacques Martinache. 2005
Depuis que Warren Hoyt croupit derrière les barreaux, l'inspecteur Jane Rizzoli, fleuron de la police criminelle de Boston, souffle un…
peu : ce tueur en série, surnommé le Chirurgien en raison de son habileté à manier le bistouri, lui a fait subir un calvaire qu'elle n'est pas près d'oublier. Appelée sur les lieux d'un nouveau crime, elle constate que certains détails rappellent les méthodes de l'actuel prisonnier. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier, descriptions régulières de violence, et descriptions explicites de nature sexuelle. 2007, c2005. Titre uniforme: Apprentice.Registre des morts: [une enquête de Kay Scarpetta]
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Andrea H Japp. 2008
Quinzième enquête de Kay Scarpetta. La célèbre pathologiste s'est installée à Charleston, en Caroline du Sud, pour y ouvrir un…
nouveau cabinet de médecine légale avec sa nièce Lucy et son enquêteur Pete Marino. Mais on cherche à saboter son travail et même sa vie. Elle est confrontée à une série de morts violentes - une jeune joueuse de tennis retrouvée mutilée à Rome, un enfant martyrisé, un meurtre rituel - sans autre lien entre ces affaires que la très toxique Marylin Self, psychiatre-vedette de la télévision. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, descriptions régulières de violence, et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2008, c2007. Titre uniforme: Book of the dead.Break no bones (Temperance Brennan mysteries ; #9)
By Kathy Reichs. 2007
In South Carolina Dr. Tempe Brennan traces recent bones from a Native American burial ground to a medical clinic. When…
Tempe's estranged husband, Pete, moves back in town to research a missing person's case, Tempe suspects a connection between her investigation and his inquiry. Strong language, and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2007. (Temperance Brennan mysteries ; 9)Bones to ashes (Temperance Brennan mysteries ; #10)
By Kathy Reichs. 2007
A young girl's skeleton found in New Brunswick reminds forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan of her own Acadian childhood friend…
who disappeared in her teens. Meanwhile Tempe's former lover, detective Andrew Ryan, is investigating a serial killer who may be connected to Tempe's case. Strong language, and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2007. (Temperance Brennan mysteries ; 10)The bishop's man
By Linden MacIntyre. 2009
Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist, for at his bishop's bidding he drives out priests who molest children to…
discreet clinics or far-off parishes. When MacAskill is sent to a rural parish in his native Cape Breton, he encounters a troubled young man who appears to be the victim of a notorious priest. MacAskill, struggling with his own demons, is determined to help this man, regardless of the consequences for the church. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and violence. Winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize. 2009.Blue water: a tale of the deep-sea fishermen (Formac Fiction Treasures Ser.)
By Frederick William Wallace, Brook Taylor. 2006
First published in 1914, "Blue Water" is set in the early 1900s and traces the adventures of "Shorty" Westhaver from…
boyhood to young manhood, in the dangerous and often tragic world of the Grand Banks fishery. c2006.Tolérance zéro
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Jean Esch. 2007
"N'importe quel crime, n'importe quand" est le leitmotiv de Monique Lamont, la procureur vedette du Massachusetts. Dans sa lutte contre…
le crime, la jeune femme choisit le meilleur enquêteur de sa brigade, Winston Garano, dont l'élégance et le caractère photogénique devraient parfaitement servir ses ambitions électorales personnelles. Mis au défi de résoudre sous le regard des médias un meurtre commis il y a vingt ans, l'inspecteur Win apprécie peu d'être utilisé comme un vulgaire pion dans cet imbroglio politique. Lorsqu'il reçoit des menaces personnelles, c'en est trop. 2007. Titre uniforme: At risk.The twelfth card (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #6)
By Jeffery Deaver. 2006
Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his…
protegee, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor. Sequel to "The vanished man", followed by “The cold moon”. 2006. (Lincoln Rhyme ; 6)Mistress of justice
By Jeffery Deaver. 2002
Taylor Lockwood juggles twin careers as a struggling jazz musician in seedy Manhattan clubs and a paralegal at the genteel…
Wall Street law firm of Hubbard, White & Willis. When a multimillion-dollar promissory note is stolen, dark secrets emerge behind the Victorian facades of the firm. Some strong language. 2002.The front (Win Garano novels ; #2)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2008
Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate…
the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. 2008. (Win Garano novels ; 2)At risk (Win Garano Ser. #No. 1)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2007
Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is…
instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority, he gets on with the task, unaware of the can of worms he will prise open. 2007.The lost highway
By David Adams Richards. 2007
Alex Chapman's lifelong feud with his tyrannical great-uncle James, and the ironic twists of his life, drive him to desperation.…
He blames his uncle for an old humiliation that prevented him from admitting his feelings for Minnie, the girl who loved him. He begins a treacherous intrigue against James, aligning himself with Leo Bourque, not realizing that their twinned descent will become deadly. Some descriptions of sex, strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 2007.Passage mortel
By Kathy Reichs, Laurence Ink. 1999
La découverte du cadavre gelé d'une religieuse morte il y a cent ans va mener à une secte bizarre de…
la Caroline du Nord. Mais le coeur de l'action se passe à Montréal et ses environs (Saint-Jovite pour être plus précis). Le point d'ancrage de cette sinistre affaire qui rappelle la tragédie de l'Ordre du Temple solaire ou celle de Waco au Texas. Beaucoup de langage grossier, descriptions régulières de violence, et quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1999. Titre uniforme: Death du jour.Dark jewels: a novel
By Rita Donovan. 1990
Murdoch MacFarland was broken when his first wife and eldest son died. Now he struggles against the hardship and isolation…
that exist in his second marriage. Then, like a dark jewel, a buried memory finally surfaces and speaks. 1990.The doctor's sweetheart and other stories
By L. M Montgomery, Catherine M McLay. 1979
A country doctor never loses faith in the young woman who swears to return to him; an estranged wife bets…
her future happiness on a horse race; two maiden ladies, scared onto a roof by a dog, ponder marriage to the dog's owner as the price of rescue. Contains 14 previously uncollected stories, published between 1899 and 1935. Grades 5-8. 1979.The Corrigan women
By M. T Dohaney. 1988
In 1914, Bertha Ryan arrives in a small Newfoundland town to work for the Corrigan family. Raped by her employer's…
son, Bertha becomes pregnant and eventually ends up with the Corrigan property. A saga of three generations of women. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1988.