A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms. Unless Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, can dig up new forensic evidence, the killings will continue...
Detective and mystery stories
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Author:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSummary: -
Author:Malton, H. MelSummary:This quadruple edition of the Polly Deacon mysteries presents all four hilarious Polly Deacon novels. Includes Down in the Dumps Cue the Dead Guy Dead Cow in Aisle Three One Large Coffin to Go
- Author:Lego, M.L.Summary:
Plus rien ne va à la banque! Suite à la commission d’un vol à main armée, les employés d’une institution bancaire disparaissent les uns après les autres, et ce, dans d’atroces souffrances. Reste à savoir qui se cache derrière ces crimes...
- Author:Rendell, RuthSummary:
Internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell offers a collection of unforgettable stories evocative of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and other masters of the chilling touch.
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Author:Agatha ChristieSummary:Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harboured a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Mr Morley's surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew...
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Author:McFetridge, JohnSummary:“An extremely good crime novel, brimming with historical verisimilitude . . . with a richly detailed protagonist and a seriously compelling mystery.” — Booklist on Black Rock
In the weeks before hosting the 1976 Summer...
- Author:Forand, ClaudeSummary:
Que feriez-vous si, en ouvrant le coffre d’une voiture, vous y découvriez un… cadavre ? Que feriez-vous si vous appreniez que les hommes tatoués qui rénovent la maison de vos parents sont… d’anciens criminels ? Que feriez-vous si on...
- Author:Rushford, Patricia H.Summary:
Helen Bradley is a journalist who uses both spiritual strength and investigative skills to uncover the facts for her articles. Now she has received an urgent request for help when the director of a prestigious convalescent home dies...
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
While on an all-expenses-paid cruise down the Nile, Vicky takes on a new case involving a plot to rob the Egyptian museum. With Sir John Smythe--reformed jewel thief and Vicky's lover--the prime suspect, she prepares for shipboard...
- Author:Pflugfelder, Bob., Hockensmith, SteveSummary:
Nick and Tesla are bright 12-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they're sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-...
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Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:Lawyer Foster Cobb prosecutes the mysterious Dr. Au, the West Coast’s primary drug trafficker. But Cobb — under pressure of a failing practice and a disintegrating marriage — has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit. With a...
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Author:Barnett, ColleenSummary:Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs, as well as for the...
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Author:Roy MacGregorSummary:Travis Lindsay, his best friend, Nish, and all their pals on the Screech Owls hockey team, are on their way to New York for an international peewee tournament. Excitement builds in the team van on the way to Lake Placid. First there are...
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Author:Périès, DidierSummary:À peine remises de leurs émotions, Erika Picbois et Olivia Beaumerle se lancent dans une autre enquête avec leur ami, Œil d’Aigle, et le libraire de l’endroit, Adam Jolicoeur. Encore une fois, elles se retrouvent au cœur du danger. Les...
- Author:COOK, RobinSummary:
A chilling novel about the perils of genetic engineering. Dr Victor Frank creates a superior being through genetically manipulating his own sperm and his wife's egg. The child, when born, is disturbing in its intelligence and...
- Author:Thompson, VictoriaSummary:
As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen birth and death, suffering and joy. Now she is about to take part in something more unusual in the crime-ridden streets of the teeming city--a...
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Author:Lewis, Mitchell ScottSummary:Astrological detective David Lowell must use his charts and knowledge to solve the murder of a federal judge in a New York City parking garage. Joined by his daughter, Melinda, a young defense attorney; his hacker sidekick Mort;...
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, a...
- Author:Houde, Nicole, Muszynski, LaureSummary:
Ce polar, au ton ludique, est porté par la truculence de Bérénice Fontaine, soupçonnée d’être l’instigatrice d’un complot au lac Brôme, où un cadavre a été découvert. Roman policier ? Thriller psychologique ? Un récit plein de...
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Author:Faucon, BenjaminSummary:Depuis des siècles, les grandes oeuvres d’art disparaissent. Un seul indice est retrouvé après le passage de ces mystérieux voleurs: de vagues témoignages mentionnant un homme masqué. Voilà le peu d’informations dont dispose Agnès...
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