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By David Adams Richards. 2006
Postwar New Brunswick. Mary Jameson, the widow of a lumber magnate, hopes to stymie the prophecy she receives from a…
fortune-teller - that her oldest son will be powerful and her younger son will bring glory upon the family, but they will be the end of the family. When Will, the brash older brother, suffers a fatal logging accident, and Owen, the intellectual younger son, returns a wounded hero from WWII, it seems the prophecy may come true. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2006.By Marie Jakober. 2007
1862. As the American Civil War heats up, Southern Confederates flood into Montreal and Halifax, planning secret missions against the…
Union, missions they hope will provoke a war between England and the United States. Erryn Shaw, a British aristocrat banished to the colonies, is convinced to spy for the British. On a mission to Montreal, he gets wind of a sinister plot - and he can't seem to find a way to stop it. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.By Alisa Craig. 1983
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.By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Hélène Narbonne. 1996
Une jeune femme est retrouvée nue, adossée à une fontaine de Central Park, à New York. Les recherches concernant son…
identité restent vaines. En revanche, Kay Scarpetta, Marino et Wesley devinent rapidement celle du tueur : Temple Gault. Mais le choix de la ville, de la victime et le changement de modus operandi les laissent perplexes. L'autopsie ne révélant aucune trace de contrainte, ils ne comprennent pas pourquoi la jeune femme a accepté de se déshabiller par ce froid glacial. Scarpetta lutte contre le découragement. A l'exception des dents de la victime, soignées de manière inhabituelle, les indices sont bien minces. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle et de violence, et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 1996. Titre uniforme: From Potter's field.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)By Thomas H Raddall. 1979
Set in Halifax, at the lone British fortress in North America, during the Napoleonic Wars. The bustling life of a…
peaceful place is invaded by the grim realities of war. 1979.By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1998
Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. Dr Kay Scarpetta is sure the…
nine murders are connected - but the tenth is different. A copy cat maybe. But Scarpetta is not happy with the investigation nor with the strange messages that start appearing on her computer. Sequel to "Cause of death" (DC15265). Strong language. 1998. (Kay Scarpetta ; 8)By L. M Montgomery. 1910
Life is full of surprises for a group of Prince Edward Island youngsters. Imaginative Sara is usually at the centre…
of things, whether publishing a gossipy magazine or spending a spooky night with the local witch. Sequel to "Story girl" (DC13160). Grades 5-8. 1986, c1910.By Carol Bruneau. 2007
Lucy and Harry Caines lose their house and first child in the 1917 Halifax Explosion, and carve out a life…
for themselves and their second child in a survivor's village of ramshackle houses, gambling, moonshine, and illegal fishing. Fifty-two years later, with Lucy's son married to the daughter of her worst enemy and her grandson Robert quitting school to go on a hippie pilgrimage, the family is forced to work together when Harry suffers a severe stroke, and gains a new perspective on the past. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. 2007.By Kathy Reichs. 2002
When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the…
scene. As a forensic anthropologist she serves on the response team. The task that confronts her is a sad and sickening one. Sequel to "Deadly decisions". Followed by "Grave secrets" (DC24553). 2002. (Temperance Brennan mysteries ; 4)By Jeffery Deaver. 2002
Recruited to help the FBI and the INS perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, manage…
to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as "the Ghost." But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a horrifying race against time. Descriptions of violence. Sequel to “The empty chair”, followed by “The vanished man“. 2002.By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1994
The discovery of the corpse of an eleven-year-old girl sends shock waves through the small community of Black Mountain, a…
sleepy little town in North Carolina. Dr Kay Scarpetta, working on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice. Contains violence. 1994.By L. M Montgomery. 1980
To be 29 and unmarried is the ultimate in shame and misery in the small Canadian town where Valancy has…
grown up, and for years she has taken refuge in her imaginary 'blue castle'. Now she must face reality; a letter has turned her life upside down. It's time to leave home and seek freedom. 1980.By Kathy Reichs, Viviane Mikhalkov. 2002
L'alliance magistrale des connaissances de l'anthropologue judiciaire et de la puissance narrative d'un auteur majeur du roman policier. On y…
retrouve son intrépide héroïne, Tempérance Brennan. Et Tempérance n'a pas fini de nous étonner car sa spécialité, l'anthropologie judiciaire, est de plus en plus sophistiquée. Aujourd'hui on sait, certes, faire parler les fragments d'os mais aussi le sang: les projections, les éclaboussures..., tous ces détails scientifiquement analysés "racontent" comment un meurtre s'est déroulé. Ensuite il ne reste plus qu'à trouver le coupable. Dans la guerre des gangs de motards qui secoue Montréal, deux membres des Vipères ont été déchiquetés par une grenade. Impossible d'identifier les victimes. Tempérance Brennan est donc appelée à la rescousse par l'escouade de police "Carcajou", chargée de ce dossier brulant. Descriptions régulières de violence et beaucoup de langage grossier. 2002, c2000. Titre uniforme: Deadly decisions.By David Adams Richards. 1993
Jerry Bines, acquitted of the murder of Buddy Savoie, is out of jail and comes home. He may be dangerous,…
and his past has given him a kind of celebrity. But when he learns that Gary Percy Rils has escaped from prison, he fears for his and his family's safety. Sequel to "Evening snow will bring such peace" . 1993. (Miramichi trilogy ; 3)By Ami McKay. 2006
Young Dora Rare befriends Marie Babineau, the local midwife, who wants Dora as her successor. After initial reluctance and intensive…
training, Dora is left the practice on the eve of her marriage to Archer Bigelow. When Dr. Gilbert Thomas arrives with the promise of fast, painless childbirth, Dora is determined, despite fierce opposition, to protect the birthing traditions and women's wisdom that have been passed down to her. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. Descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2007 OLA Evergreen Award. Canada Reads 2011. 2006.By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1990
Dr. Kay Scarpetta has two problems. The first one is that a serial killer is strangling women in their own…
bedrooms, the second is that not everyone is thrilled that a woman is chief medical examiner. She uses computers, fingerprint-matching processors, and DNA-testing equipment to identify the killer. Violence and strong language. c1990.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.By Michael Winter. 2007
When a freak accident blows out the windows of novelist Gabriel English's apartment, driving a billboard into his bed, he…
is forced to come to terms with the disappearance of his lover Nell. He returns home to Newfoundland with his childhood friend David, and discovers that Nell may be implicated in injuring David's father. The friendship between Gabriel and David is tested, there are revelations, confrontations, and a denouement with the Hurley clan, a family both men have feared since childhood. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex, some violence. 2007.