Detective and mystery fiction

  • Fracture

    Creator

    Seymour, Johanne

    Abstract

    Dans le quartier populaire de Pointe-aux-Trembles, Samuel, Steve et Patrick, des amis d'enfance apparemment sans histoire, cachent un terrible secret. Quand une enquête est rouverte sur l'accident dont l'un d'eux a été victime huit ans plus tôt, le fragile équilibre sur lequel ils ont construit leurs vies s'écroule. Fracture est le récit de la spirale destructrice dans laquelle ces hommes sont entraînés depuis des décennies.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Libre Expression

    Not specified
  • Girls who burn

    Creator

    Pagano, MK.

    Abstract

    Jessica Goodman meets Jesse Q. Sutanto in this twisty enemies-to-lovers thriller, full of secrets, privilege, and murder. Eighteen-year-old Addie Blackwood regrets nothing more than one horrible, mistake-filled night last summer. Hours after she hurled the worst words she could think of at her sister, Fiona was found dead at the bottom of a ravine. The police ruled her death an accident, but Addie’s never bought it. Her ballet-prodigy sister didn’t slip and fall; she was pushed .

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Nancy Paulsen Books

    Not specified
  • Guide me home : Highway 59, book 3

    Creator

    Locke, Attica

    Abstract

    The case of a missing Black college student who has disappeared from her all-white sorority pulls Darren out of an early retirement; the third and final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Attica Locke. Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn’t sure he’s been a good cop, but believes he’s got a shot at being a good man—if he manages to dodge the potential indictment hanging over his head and if he, from here on out, pledges allegiance to the truth.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company

    Not specified
  • Heaven, my home : Highway 59, book 2

    Creator

    Locke, Attica

    Abstract

    In this "captivating" crime novel (People), Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child—but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target. Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him—and all goes dark.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company

    Not specified
  • His & hers

    Creator

    Feeney, Alice

    Abstract

    Soon to be a major Netflix TV series starring Tessa Thompson from the New York Times bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie. "Stunning. Addictive. This book should not be missed!" —Samantha Downing. "Deliciously dark...will have readers tearing through the pages." —Mary Kubica. "Gives Gone Girl a run for its money...I couldn't stop reading." —Christina Dalcher. There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Flatiron Books

    Not specified
  • Holly : Holly Gibney, book 3

    Creator

    King, Stephen

    Abstract

    #1 New York Times Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book and an NPR Best Book of the Year. Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling "exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil" (New York magazine) as she uncovers the truth behind multiple disappearances in a Midwestern town. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Scribner

    Not specified
  • Home before dark

    Creator

    Sager, Riley

    Abstract

    In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls? What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Dutton

    Not specified
  • Homicide and halo-halo : Tita Rosie's kitchen mystery, book 2

    Creator

    Manansala, Mia P.

    Abstract

    Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal—though not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Nor in her professional life, as she struggles to open her new café following the unsettling events that recently occurred at her aunt's Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie's Kitchen.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Berkley Prime Crime

    Not specified
  • L'affaire des montants : Surprenant, tome 8

    Creator

    Lemieux, Jean

    Abstract

    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.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Québec

    Quebec Amerique

    Not specified
  • Le défilé des mirages

    Creator

    Seymour, Johanne

    Abstract

    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.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Libre Expression

    Not specified