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"Comme chaque été depuis trois ans, Tatiana passe les vacances chez les Belzil, en Gaspésie. Bien vite, la fillette blonde…
et pâle devient l'amie de son jeune voisin, Yvan. Mais celui-ci sent bien que Tatiana lui cache quelque chose. Pourquoi ne parle-t-elle jamais de sa vie au Bélarus ? Pourquoi est-elle si faible ? Quel est son secret ? Une histoire magnifique qui aborde avec sensibilité de grandes problématiques liées à l'environnement". -- 4e de couv
Des portraits de lui sont affichés un peu partout dans la ville. Une photo de classe, avec ces phrases :…
Avis à la population. Vous êtes priés de prendre garde à cet individu qui peut représenter un danger pour la sécurité de tous. Ce garçon est un tremblement de terre. C'est vrai que de temps en temps, là où il passait, il y avait une vibration, une secousse, une fissure. Et puis les choses se sont accentuées. Aggravées. À présent, les objets qu'il côtoie se craquellent. Les bâtiments dans lesquels il se trouve tremblent sans raison apparente. Il met tout le monde en danger. Il faut agir. Voir des spécialistes. Prendre des mesures. Des mesures graves, des mesures d'urgence. -- 4e de couv
" Depuis l'accident de bus, Joseph a mal à la tête et son comportement est étrange : d'où vient la…
boue sur le bas de son pyjama ? Et que fait-il sur le boulevard, les bras chargés de courses, alors qu'il devrait être à l'école ? " -- 4e de couv
At Boston Memorial Hospital, resident Robert Seibert finds a pattern of unexplained deaths following cardiac surgery. Most of the deceased…
patients were homosexual, mentally defective or terminally ill. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1983.
Pediatrician Marissa Blementhal has a thriving medical practice and a fairy-tale marriage, but she cannot get pregnant. When she discovers…
several other women at the Women's Clinic have the same problem, she and another doctor become suspicious. Some strong language. Bestseller 1991.
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta and homicide detective Pete Marino investigate the grim murders of four teenage couples. Some violence and…
some strong language. 1992. Winner of the 1995 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award.
All of the current cases before Virginia's chief medical examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, seem to be linked to a recently…
executed prisoner. A young boy's corpse is mutilated in the same manner as the prisoner's victim and then the prisoner's fingerprint appears at the scene of a supposed suicide. But when Scarpetta's assistant's murder also appears related, Scarpetta is shocked to learn that she is the prime suspect. 1993.
Surgical resident Abby DiMatteo is excited to be considered for the prestigious cardiac transplant team. But when she must oppose…
her colleagues' plan to divert a transplant from a dying seventeen-year-old to a billionaire's wife, she is discredited. As she fights to clear her name, she is shocked at what she learns. 1996.
Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist in Montreal, is used to visiting recently discovered burial sites. But her newest case is…
different. The dismembered body and its decapitated head remind her of another case, and she is soon plunged into a frantic investigation to find a serial killer who is about to strike again. Strong language, descriptions of sex, and graphic descriptions of violence. 1997.
As emergency-room doctor Toby Harper investigates the disappearance of a patient and some unusual deaths, she finds problems at a…
wealthy retirement home. Toby's suspicions lead her to a handsome medical examiner whose findings heighten the mystery. Meanwhile Toby has ongoing difficulties with her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. Some strong language and some violence. 1997.
Written by a popular crime novelist -- a family friend -- this account of the wife of evangelist Billy Graham…
begins with Ruth Bell's early life in China as a child of missionaries. Because she wanted to follow in her parents' footsteps, it took persuasion on Graham's part to convince her to marry him and become his helpmate. 1997.
New York Police Department criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his student Amelia Sachs lead the hunt for a serial killer who…
changes his appearance with each murder, except for a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing in front of a coffin. Descriptions of violence. Sequel to “The bone collector“, followed by “The empty chair“. c1998.
New Years Eve, 1999 and Washington D.C. is under siege by a madman. If 20 million dollars is not paid…
by midnight, random massacres will proceed every four hours. It is up to bookish document analyst Parker Kincaid to decipher the clues in the ransom note to identify and defeat the killer. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.
Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory, from Remote Control, is called in to care for a fifteen-year-old. Merritt Strait tried to commit…
suicide because her sister was denied experimental treatment by her HMO. Merritt and her friends are soon implicated in murder when the HMO's director is found dead. 1998.
Widowed Dr. Claire Elliot has opened a practice in Tranquility, Maine, in hopes of steering her son away from trouble…
in Baltimore. But Tranquility proves to be worse. As more and more of the town's teenagers become extremely violent, Claire races to find a medical reason. 1998.
Quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is in North Carolina for experimental surgery, when he and his colleague Amelia Sachs are recruited…
for a local case. An odd teen nicknamed "Insect Boy" has killed a youth and kidnapped two young women, and the cops can't find him. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to “The coffin dancer”, followed by “The stone monkey“. 2000.
In this sequel to "The killing game" (DC22109) Logan's late wife's vengeful half-brother, Rudzak, kidnaps an employee from Logan's research…
facility. Logan manipulates ATF agent Sarah Patrick and her search dog, Monty, into helping him track the hostage. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. Followed by "Body of lies". Bestseller. 2000. (The Eve Duncan series ; 3)
A charismatic psychiatrist cleverly manipulates teenager Megan McCall and her divorced parents, kidnapping Megan and hiding her in an abandoned…
mental hospital. Her disappearance brings her parents together, but the doctor continues to wreak vengeance on her father. Strong language and some violence. 2000.
Silicon Valley computer genius--and sociopath--Jon "Phate" Holloway plays deadly real-life video games: he hacks into computers and kills their owners.…
The state police Computer Crimes Unit turns to imprisoned hacker Wyatt Gillette, who traces his former colleague's moves. But a traitor exists. Strong language and some violence. 2001.
Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory and his wife, assistant prosecutor Lauren Crowder, agree to help an elite group of Washington, D.C.,…
investigators solve a decade-old murder of two teenagers. Suspicions fall on a congressman whose wife's mysterious death left unanswered questions. 2000.