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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.

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.

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.

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?

The long-awaited new book in the award-winning cross-Canada adventure series finds fifteen-year-old Dylan Maples on the hunt for New Brunswick's Phantom Ship. Things aren't going so well for fifteen-year-old Dylan Maples. He's sick of his own reflection, his parental units are driving him nuts, and, worst of all, he's trying to come to terms with the unexpected death of one of his best friends. Now, to top things off, he's been roped into a family trip to stay with family friends in New Brunswick.

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.

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.

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.

A murder mystery set in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the Second World War. Halifax is struggling with the new demands placed on the city as, once again, it gears up to be the leading demarcation point for men and materials to support the war effort against the Nazis. Among the many new pressures that the police have to contend with, they are now faced with a murder. As Detective John Robichaud begins his investigation into two murders, he soon comes into contact with the city's growing criminal activities such as, bootlegging, prostitution, black marketeering.

The job was hard enough since Halifax became the focal point as the major staging area for the convoys supplying the war effort in England. Robichaud had his hands full dealing with the influx of people looking for work, foreign merchantmen looking for distractions from the perils of convoy duty and servicemen waiting transport across the Atlantic. Compounding his headaches was the growing shortages for affordable housing and the prohibitions on liquor sales in the city. Now he had a murder to deal with.