Murder

  • Heart of the city : Greene and Kennicott, book 5

    Creator

    Rotenberg, Robert

    Abstract

    In the latest thrilling crime novel from bestselling author Robert Rotenberg, Homicide Detective Ari Greene discovers the bludgeoned body of Toronto's most reviled developer behind his controversial new construction site. When Detective Ari Greene was charged with the murder of the woman he loved, he stopped at nothing to clear his name and uncover the real killer. After his acquittal, Greene fled to London to get away from it all, but now he's back. And he's not alone-with Greene is his twenty-year-old daughter, Alison. The child he never knew he had.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, Md.

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] RBdigital

    Non spécifié
  • 1922

    Creator

    King, Stephen

    Abstract

    The chilling novella featured in Stephen King's New York Times bestselling short story collection Full Dark, No Stars-soon to be a Netflix original film starring Thomas Jane and Molly Parker. A violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    [Distributed by] RBdigital

    Non spécifié
  • Breach of trust : Atlanta Justice, book 3

    Creator

    Dylan, Rachel

    Abstract

    Corporate litigator Mia Shaw suffers the shock of her life when she finds her colleague and friend brutally murdered. Grief-stricken and furious, Mia vows that she will do anything to seek justice and make the killer pay. The man accused of the murder is a friend of security tech guru Noah Ramirez, but the evidence just doesn't add up. To save his former ATF partner, Noah needs to convince Mia that the real killer is still on the loose. Mia soon has more than the criminal prosecution to worry about, however.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick, Md.

    [Prince Frederick, Md.]

    Recorded Books

    [Distributed by] RBdigital

    Non spécifié
  • Before she knew him

    Creator

    Swanson, Peter

    Abstract

    After settling with her husband outside of Boston, Henrietta has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she's found some stability and peace. But when they meet the neighbors next door, she spots a sports trophy that looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Could Hen's neighbor be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode?

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    HarperCollins

    Non spécifié
  • No tomorrow : Killing Eve, book 2

    Creator

    Jennings, Luke

    Abstract

    We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments. But they aren't finished yet.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Book Group

    Non spécifié
  • Prospect Avenue: border city blues

    Creator

    Januska, Michael

    Abstract

    West meets East as bootleggers and cops tangle with opium smugglers and corrupt officials in a new kind of gang warfare. Prospect Avenue is nothing more than a dirt road ending in bulrushes behind a roadhouse. It’s a popular rendezvous point along the Detroit River for bootleggers like Jack McCloskey. But there’s more than just rum-running going on these days; there’s a growing trade in opium and people, as McCloskey finds out when he rescues the survivor of a bad smuggling deal.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Dundurn

    Non spécifié
  • The pumpkin murders

    Creator

    Alguire, Judith

    Abstract

    Autumn returns to Ontario cottage country. Leaves redden. Pumpkins ripen. And Trevor and Margaret Rudley, proprietors of the Pleasant Inn, expect nothing more than a little Halloween high jinks to punctuate the mellow ambiance of their much-loved hostelry. However, the frost is barely on the pumpkin when Gerald, an old female-impersonator friend of the Pleasant's esteemed cook Gregoire, turns up, dragging his very frightened friend Adolph behind.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    Signature Editions

    Non spécifié
  • The girl in the wall

    Creator

    Preston, Alison

    Abstract

    After leaving the Winnipeg Police force, former Inspector Frank Foote has gone into home renovations. Tearing down a wall on a Norwood Flats job one day, he and his partner come across the skeleton of a small female who has been imprisoned there. They alert the police, who confiscate their tools and remove them from the crime scene. Frank doesn't tell them about the photograph he's found tucked in the wall space with the young woman. He may be retired, but his investigative instincts are still strong.

    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg

    Signature Editions

    Non spécifié
  • Rotten peaches

    Creator

    De Nikolits, Lisa

    Abstract

    Rotten Peaches is a gripping epic filled with disturbing and unforgettable insights into the human condition. Love, lust, race and greed. How far will you go? Two women. Two men. One happy ending. It takes place in Canada, the U.S. and South Africa. Nature or nurture. South Africa, racism and old prejudices - these are hardly old topics but what happens when biological half-siblings meet with insidious intentions? Can their moral corruption be blamed on genetics - were they born rotten to begin with? And what happens when they meet up with more of their ilk?

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Inanna Publications

    Non spécifié
  • Peacock in the snow

    Creator

    Mehta, Anuba

    Abstract

    Born to privilege and wed to her high school sweetheart Veer, a free spirited Maya feels trapped in a conventional upper class family with patriarchal expectations in India. Claustrophobic within the dark walls of the mansion she lives in with her spouse, Maya starts living precariously through the threads of her curiosity.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Inanna Publications

    Non spécifié