Detective and mystery fiction
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Personne ne lui répondit. Son interlocuteur semblait s'être volatilisé, comme emporté par un coup de vent... En été 1999, à la veille de l'éclipse partielle du soleil dans le Sud de la France, un détective privé spécialisé dans l'irrationnel est engagé pour enquêter sur une série de disparitions inexpliquées. En effet, en quelques mois, des promeneurs, un couple de retraités, les clients d'un cinéma et même tous les passagers d'un avion de ligne ont mystérieusement disparus.
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Bruce Paris est policier à la Sûreté du Québec et chargé d'investiguer sur le sordide meurtre d'un agent de sécurité dans une porcherie, en Mauricie. L'enquête de routine prend une tournure inattendue. Une famille entière disparaît, des policiers sont soudainement animés d'une folie meurtrière, et un mystérieux enfant démon rôde dans la nuit... Tandis que les corps s'accumulent à la morgue, Paris découvre l'existence d'une prison clandestine, où une femme enceinte est maintenue captive pour des raisons innommables.
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POURQUOI AUTANT DE MORTS? QUI DÉSIRE TANT LA STATUETTE, QUITTE À SUBIR LES FOUDRES DE KALI? Une statuette de Kali, déesse qui aurait le pouvoir de vie et mort, est découverte sur le site de fouilles d'un temple hindou. Corinne Dulac, journaliste spécialiste de l'occulte, mène l'enquête, mais découvre que la sculpture a été volée. La progression de ses recherches est marquée par les morts qui s'accumulent sur les traces de la déité ensorcelée.
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Dans un village ancré dans le Québec rural, deux hommes se vouent une haine sans borne, prêts à tout perdre pour savourer leur vengeance. Lorsque l'un d'eux est l'objet d'une tentative de meurtre, les soupçons se portent immédiatment sur son ennemi juré qui, justement, vient de sortir de prison. Pour le détective Réal Jourdain, chargé d'éclaircir cette histoire, les indices sont trop évidents. S'agirait-il d'un coup monté? Si oui, qui aurait eu intérêt à tirer ces coups de feu sur la maison d'Armand Tellier?
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When Mabel slices her golf ball into the town cemetery. She and her best friend Violet think the worst that could happen would be a lost ball. That is until they discover a dead body, and it isn't six feet under. Mabel's golf ball lays in the middle of his forehead, it's murder. The ladies take it upon themselves to solve the mystery of the dead body in the graveyard. Using the information gleaned from Coffee Row, a collection of eccentric townspeople. Leads them to investigate golfers and relatives of the deceased.
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Canadian Electronic Library
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A Park Service backpacking trip turns deadly when hikers are caught in a steep canyon during a flash flood. Three hikers are swept away, but a rescue team recovers four bodies. Park Service Investigator Doug Fletcher teams up with rangers Jill Rickowski and Liz Carpenter, and Navajo Nation Policeman Jamie Ballard. They hike river bottoms and arroyos searching for the origin of the fourth body, leaning on each other to overcome their fears, cultural differences, and emotional baggage. In the process they forge bonds that will last past the end of the investigation.
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France 1945. MPs, Sergeant Jack Reilly and his partner Sergeant Frank Contini, find themselves closing in on a gang of thieves who have been pilfering military goods for the black market. In the course of arresting the villains, Jack is forced to kill one of the criminals. This man happened to be one of two brothers, high ranking members of the Corse Unione, the French mafia. The surviving brother, Guy LeRouche, is tried and convicted with a sentence of death. However, during the trial LeRouche threatens to exact his revenge on Jack and Frank for his brother's death.
Publisher (Source)
Canadian Electronic Library
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Julie Fox is on the run. A psychotic breakdown has shattered her career in Calgary, her marriage and her love for her child. Julie travels to California to search for her mother and learn the root of her problems. Clues at a cult-like retreat appear to hold the answers. As the retreat leaders lure Julie into their twisted game, her ex-husband tries to wrest her from their control. Trapped in a tangle of lies, Julie's grip on reality falters. Who will catch Julie Fox? Or will she break free, confront the truth about her past and set out on a new journey?
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The pieces of Christina Davidson's life have built up into place over the past few months, despite the one last secret she's trying hard to hide. When Leo Blue returns to town, then people from her past turn up, her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble and the only people who can help her now are the men of the Wild Blue Detective Agency.
Publisher (Source)
Canadian Electronic Library
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Doug Fletcher, a retired Minnesota detective, relocates to Arizona and a quiet life as a part-time National Park Service ranger. His plans change abruptly when a suspicious fall at a national monument plunges him into the world of stolen antiquities, ruthless drug smugglers, and shady antiques dealers. Working with Jamie Ballard of the Navajo Nation Police, Doug finds their investigation complicated by the demands of his visiting family, a new boss, an overly friendly neighbor, the FBI, and his new environment.