Detective and mystery fiction
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Vendredi 20 décembre 2013. Quand un vieil ami lui demande de venir aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine pour élucider le meurtre d'une éleveuse de moutons et de son chien, André Surprenant s'envole sans hésiter, mais avec un certain sentiment d'urgence. Il a promis à sa blonde qu'il serait rentré pour Noël. Sur place, jumelé à une jeune enquêtrice de la SQ sans expérience mais douée, Surprenant commence le bal des interrogatoires.
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Serenity Gardens, un centre pour déficients mentaux, est un lieu magnifique entouré de jardins. La découverte du cadavre du docteur Claude Thérien, son fondateur et éminent psychiatre, crée un véritable tumulte parmi ses fragiles résidents. Le corps du médecin, tué d'une balle en plein cœur, est entouré de branches disposées en forme de pentacle. Kate McDougall, lieutenant enquêteur de l'Escouade des crimes violents, amorce l'enquête qui, dès le départ, devient un défilé de mirages où rien n'est tel qu'il apparaît.
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Un cosy crime à l'humour belge délectable. Emma Toussaint est la meilleure juge d'instruction de Bruxelles. D'une intelligence et d'une efficacité à en oublier parfois son savoir-vivre, elle forme un parfait duo avec son greffier, Fabrice Colet, aussi organisé et méthodique que sensible et dévoué. Ce matin, Toussaint vient de se voir confier le dossier le plus épineux du moment. Un avocat célèbre, soupçonné d'appartenir à un réseau d'évasion fiscale et de blanchiment d'argent, a été assassiné.
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A New York Times Bestseller * A Good Morning America Book Club Pick * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2024. "A world-class whodunit." — Stephen King. "An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills." — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author. "Laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty..." — Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author. What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too?
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Celadon Books, a division of MacMillan Publishers
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller! In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood. The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone.
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to air out all the dirty laundry in Shady Palms to catch a killer… Lila Macapagal's godmothers April, Mae, and June—AKA the Calendar Crew—are celebrating the opening of their latest joint business venture, a new laundromat, to much fanfare (and controversy).
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From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review. When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why and find the voles.
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[Place of publication not identified]
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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"I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame—murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor, and satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!" —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow. For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of Honor Girl.
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Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer New York Times Notable Book NPR's Best Books of 2021 Washington Post's Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year Goodreads Choice Award Nominee Book of the Month's Book of the Year Finalist "Provocative, violent — beautiful and moving, too." — Washington Post "Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times." —Michael Connelly "A
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A medical student with Asperger’s is drawn into a deadly mystery in this unique crime thriller from the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author. Winner of the 2014 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, Rubbernecker is a gripping thriller about a medical student who begins to suspect that something strange is going on in the cadaver lab. “The dead can’t speak to us,” Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things.