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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.Scotch River
By Linda Little. 2006
Cass Hutt, bull rider, has lost his rodeo partner, severing Cass's only ties to his world. With nothing and no…
one to hold him, Cass is led back East by the sudden arrival of a mysterious land deed, back to Scotch River, Nova Scotia, and the sketchy boyhood memories he left to die there. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and some strong language. 2006.Keri
By Jan Andrews. 1996
Upset that her father sold their fishing boat, and unwilling to let go of her family's traditional way of life,…
Keri retreats into fantasies about an old story of an abandoned young girl and a beached whale at Riley's Cove in 1762. When Keri and her brother find a beached whale in the cove, their struggle to save it helps her accept the changes in her family's life. Grades 5-8. 1996.Anne d'Avonlea: roman (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; #2)
By L. M Montgomery. 1988
Anne Shirley vient d'avoir seize ans. Institutrice, elle n'en demeure pas moins aussi impétueuse qu'espiègle, commentant le monde avec cette…
naïveté lucide qui la caractérise. Suite de "Anne, la maison aux pignons verts" (FD01555). Suivi de "Anne quitte son île" (FD01774). Années 5 à 8. 1988, c1909. (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; 2) Titre uniforme: Anne of Avonlea.À tombeau ouvert
By Kathy Reichs. 2006
Tempe fonce tête baissée dans une nouvelle enquête qui la conduit en Israël. Ce qu'elle y découvre la place au…
coeur d'une immense controverse qui pourrait bien mener à la réécriture de 2000 ans d'histoire religieuse. Tempe est appelée à examiner le corps terriblement mutilé d'un homme trouvé mort à Montréal. Une intrigue extrêmement fouillée, un rythme soutenu et des connaissances anthropologiques fascinantes. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, descriptions régulières de violence, et beaucoup de langage grossier. 2006, c2005. Titre uniforme: Cross bones.Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; #1)
By L. M Montgomery. 1986
L'histoire d'une petite orpheline de Île-du-Prince-Édouard qui a envotée les jeunes et les moins jeunes. Anne, c'est cette fillette espiègle…
à la tête remplie d'idées saugrenues, qui s'émerveille face à la nature, jouie de la magie des mots, rit de ses propres défauts, nous fait découvrir un coin de pays pittoresque, et qui ne cesse de dérouter ses parents adoptifs. Années 5 à 8. Suivi de "Anne d'Avonlea". 1986. (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; 1) Titre uniforme: Anne of Green Gables.Anne dans sa maison de rêve: roman (Collection Littérature d'Amérique #5)
By L. M Montgomery, Hélène Rioux. 1990
Anne et Gilbert sont enfin mariés. Ils ont quitté Avonlea pour s'installer dans un village de pêcheurs où Gilbert pratique…
la médecine. Ils habitent dans la maison de rêve de l'inimitable Anne, qui connaîtra une existence parsemée d'incidents drôles, parfois tragiques, toujours émouvants. Suite de "Anne au Domaine des peupliers" (FD01753). Suivi de "Anne d'Ingleside" (FD02536). Années 4-7. 1990, c1917. (Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts ; 5) Titre uniforme: Anne's house of dreams.Anne quitte son île: roman (Collection Littérature d'Amérique #3)
By L. M Montgomery, Hélène Rioux. 1988
Anne a maintenant 18 ans; après avoir enseigné à l'école d'Avonlea, elle quitte l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard pour la Nouvelle-Ecosse afin de poursuivre…
des études universitaires. L'amour se présente à Anne, mais saura-t-elle le reconnaitre? Suite de "Anne d'Avonlea" (FD01626). Suivi de "Anne dans sa maison de rêve" (FD01941). Années 4-7. 1988, c1915. (Anne -- la maison aux pignons verts ; 3) Titre uniforme: Anne of the Island.First blood (A dr. George Barnabas Mystery Ser. #Vol. 1)
By Claire Rayner. 1993
Dr. George (for Georgina) Barnabas, an American forensic pathologist at a British hospital, extends her investigation of the apparently natural…
death of a writer and hospital patron, beyond the examination of the body. 1993.Vanish: a novel (Rizzoli And Isles Ser. #Bk. 5)
By Tess Gerritsen. 2005
Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and pregnant detective Jane Rizzoli stumble upon human trafficking when they assist a young woman…
from Belarus. Jane's husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, uncovers the mastermind behind the international sex scandal after Jane is held hostage. Violence and strong language. Edgar Award finalist 2006. 2005.Sans raison
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Andrea H Japp. 2006
Qu'y a-t-il dans la tête d'un psychopathe ? Basil Jenrette, patient de Wesley condamné pour plusieurs meurtres, accepte de se…
prêter à des expériences sur son cerveau. À l'Académie nationale des sciences légales de Floride, Kay Scarpetta est plongée dans un dédale de morts et de disparitions inexpliquées. Autant d'affaires qui semblent sans lien les unes avec les autres et dans lesquelles tous les indices divergent. Impliqués malgré eux dans ces enquêtes, Lucy, Marino, Wesley, comme Scarpetta, n'ont d'autres choix que de suivre les pistes sur lesquelles on les attire. Descriptions régulières de violence, beaucoup de langage grossier. 2006, c2005. Titre uniforme: Predator.The bone collector (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #1)
By Jeffery Deaver. 1997
Lincoln Rhyme is one of the world's foremost forensic criminologists. He is also a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down.…
The cop who could once look at a crime scene and find the clues about a killer that no one else could see is now strapped in his bed and actually planning suicide, when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner on the force. Some descriptions of sex, strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. Followed by “The coffin dancer”. 1998, c1997.Each man's son (The new Canadian library)
By Hugh MacLennan. 2003
Cape Breton Island. Dr. Daniel Ainslie yearns for a son - something he can never have. He comes to love…
young Alan MacNeil, the son of Mollie MacNeil and Archie, who deserted his family several years before to seek his fortune as a professional fighter. Now Archie returns, bitter and defeated, to wreak tragedy on his community. 1951.Tokyo
By Mo Hayder. 2004
Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the Nanking Massacre in which, in one city, the…
Japanese Army killed 300,000 civilians. But she finds herself increasingly desperate and alone in a nightclub catering for Japanese businessmen. One gangster dominates - an old man rumoured to rely on a powerful elixir that others want for themselves - at any price. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.The lesson of her death
By Jeffery Deaver. 1993
As Detective Bill Corde looks down at the beautiful face of the murdered girl in the mud, he cannot know…
that his own life is about to turn into a terrifyingly real nightmare. Before Corde knows it, the girl's killer is trailing him and his unsuspecting family - his wife, his teenage son, and his imaginative but vulnerable daughter Sarah. Sarah - who alone knows the identity of the man who took the life of the girl, the man who may be responsible for further deaths. And the lesson Bill Corde is about to learn - the lesson of her death - is an education that no one will ever forget. 1993.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)Trace (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries. book XIII #No. 13)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2004
Former medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, to advise on the mysterious death of a teenage girl whose…
father is associated with Homeland Security. Meanwhile Kay's lover, Benton, and niece Lucy investigate another case - which later appears connected to Kay's. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Bestseller. 2004. (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries ; 13)Make or Break Spring
By Janet McNaughton. 1998
In the spring of 1945, fifteen-year-old Evelyn McCallum finds herself competing with her best friend, Peter Tilley, and Stan Dawe,…
the golden boy of her school, for the scholarship that bears her father's name. Although he has been missing in action for three years Evelyn clings to the hope that her father might somehow still be alive. As the war ends in Europe and her final year of high school draws to a close, her life alters in ways that will change her forever. Sequel to "Catch me once, catch me twice" (EB67373). Junior and Senior high school readers. 1998.Mordoc
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Hélène Narbonne. 1998
Pour sa huitième enquête, la médecin légiste Kay Scarpetta est aux prises avec un assassin qui la poursuit personnellement sous…
la signature du titre. Un récit réussi dans la ligne du Silence des agneaux. c1998.Cold clear morning
By Lesley Choyce. 2002
After his childhood sweetheart Laura's drug-related death, Taylor Colby returns to their Nova Scotia coastal village to live once again…
with his noble but isolated boat-builder father. His mother, who has been battling cancer, attempts to reconcile with both her husband and son whom she deserted decades earlier. 2002.