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Qui est cet homme inconnu retrouve mort sur la plage par un frais matin d'hiver ? C'est la question a laquelle devra repondre le gendarme Louis Rimbault, assiste de sa jeune collegue Lea. Cette mort a-t-elle un lien avec la disparition, dix ans plus tot, d'une adolescente qui frequentait la colonie de vacances toute proche ? C'est ce que Samira, journaliste au quotidien regional, aimerait bien savoir. Sur cette petite ile d'apparence tranquille, le passe n'est jamais tres loin, les vieilles ranc urs peuvent ressurgir a tout moment, et l'inconnu de la plage pourrait bien faire...

"I realized this basic asymmetry implied that nothing - no evidence, no information, no facts or data - connected me to the stranger except for the evidence of my own personal observations which remained private as long as I kept them that way. And what did that mean? First of all, it meant I could influence the stranger's life in any way I wanted without him or anyone else suspecting my involvement. But what did that mean? Among other things, it meant I could disrupt this man's life in some rather extreme ways and never become a suspect in a subsequent investigation. Or did it mean that? I...

Thirty-five-year-old Kurt Morgan lives with his mother across the street from a graveyard. He becomes obsessed with a red-haired woman who visits the graveyard often, watching her through the telescope in his room, wondering whose grave she visits like clockwork. Meanwhile, his mother pressures him to write her memoir. She wants her book finished, and soon. Among these three - Kurt, the graveyard visitor, and Kurt's mother - a twisted triangle develops, with each person pursuing their specific obsession at all costs. Set one cold winter in upstate New York, Graveyard Love is a dark and...

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A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores.
East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon...

It isn't easy being the only transgender male detective in the Portland, Oregon police force in spite of the city's reputation as friendly to gay, lesbian and transsexual people. That's the experience of Detective Caryl (previously Carol) Fox who transferred out of Vice because he could no longer stand the pedophiles, pimps, drug dealers, meth addicts, hookers and sex traffickers. His experience was not so different from his sometimes partner in arms, J.J. a young woman who converted to Islam and wore her head covering even if it was accompanied by a bulletproof vest. She continued to labor...

When criminal genius Charles "Reader" Kincaid accidentally alerts a retired cop to the impending commission of the perfect crime, the crime becomes a lot less perfect. The plan is to wire a prominent banker with a remote control bomb and thereby capture untold millions from a dangerous drug czar. Or is the plan something else? The plot thickens as hidden family connections come to light and who is betraying who-and why-becomes a matter of life and death for perpetrators and victims alike. With wry wit and first-hand knowledge of the underworld, author Les Edgerton unleashes a cast of quirky...

None of the other guests could explain what she was doing in Crooked Lane during the night...

Beautiful Margaret Gask, guest at Scudamore Hall, was shot to death on the driveway of the estate. The mink coat that she should have been wearing turned out to be the first clue Scotland Yard had to work on. Then a man she knew, a receiver of stolen goods, turns up dead. Soon more shady characters are drawn into the story: receivers, jewel thieves, confidence men and convicted felons on both sides of the Channel.

Richardson, now Chief Constable, orchestrates the clues...

"There's one thing which I daresay you noticed--that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men's size."

"Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood."

A man went calmly about his work while his wife lay dead in the house. After he is arrested and accused of the murder, doubt is cast regarding his guilt. Richardson is assigned the case.

Richardson delves into the murdered woman's strange background, and becomes convinced that the law is holding an innocent man. With dogged persistence and courage he pursues the sinister...

"What are you looking for, sir?" he said.

"Bloodstains."

Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him.

The trail leads to France, where we discover why a French milliner chose to ride in a laundry basket, why the two American men are so interested in their wives' hat trimmings, and why it is so difficult for the French police to touch a criminal with high political connections. But the murder...

"I'm writing to you about the death of Mr. Dearborn. You bet the murderer's laughing up his sleeve now that he's got away with it."

An inquest is held in South Devon on the death of a man apparently killed in a motor accident on Dartmoor: the verdict is "Death from misadventure." But soon afterwards Scotland Yard and the Devon Chief Constable receive anonymous letters alleging that the verdict was wrong; that the death was caused by blows inflicted by a person, or persons, unknown.

The Chief Constable asks for help from Scotland Yard. Richardson is detailed, as Chief...

"The late Miss Clynes, sir? How dreadful. It must have been very sudden."

"It was."

Naomi Clynes was found dead, her head in the gas-oven. She left a suicide note, but Richardson, newly promoted to the rank of Inspector in the C.I.D., soon has cause to think this is a case of murder. With scarcely a clue beyond a postmark and a postage stamp, treasured by the deceased, he succeeds in bringing home the crime to a person whom no one would have suspected.

The Case of Naomi Clynes was originally published in 1934. This new edition, the...

He flung open a drawer and took from it a heavy dagger in a sheath with blood-stains upon it. On the blade were engraved the words, "Blut und Ehre "

Frank Everett was a rising young press attachE at the British Embassy in Paris - until he was found dead in his Rue St. Georges apartment, a knife wound to the throat. Was it a political assassination, a crime passionnel, or possibly even suicide?

The foreign office call in the redoubtable Detective Inspector Richardson, who travels to Paris and must work with the French police in solving the case. He soon...

In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from a wound in the head and her body was cold.

Richardson's second case begins with a murder and robbery at a quiet house in Laburnum Road, and goes on to include an escaped parrot and a seemingly perfect crime which threatened a scandal to shock all England.

Follow with Detective-Sergeant Richardson the fantastic story of an antiquarian's nephew, a pseudo policeman, and a stolen car...search with him for a man wanted for...

The D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. "That was a great case you brought us. You'll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der "

For eight years Basil Thomson headed the famous C.I.D., New Scotland Yard. He knew the Yard inside out. Now in this tale of mystery and detection we are taken behind the scenes. We are shown the greatest detection machine in the world in motion, and see how the Yard tracked down its man.

Stand, then, with young P.C. Richardson on the misty corner of Baker Street, while the traffic of the city swings by, and fate lays at his feet...

Maigret takes a case from a lively old widow whose maid has been poisoned. The thirty-third book in the new Penguin Maigret series.

The inexplicable murder of the wealthy Valentine Besson's maid leads the older woman to believe that she herself was the intended target. Inspector Maigret undertakes the investigation, meeting Mrs. Besson's dysfunctional family and a cavalcade of suspects. As he delves into the case, Maigret must unravel a tangled web of family politics--and confront Valentine's stepsons, who may be harboring dark secrets of their own.

In einer schwabischen Kleinstadt wird unweit der Donau eine Frauenleiche gefunden. Es handelt sich um Irma Duelli, eine Biologin und Naturfotografin. Wer hat die alleinstehende Frau umgebracht? Die engagierte Naturschutzerin war nicht gerade beliebt bei Jagern, Anglern und Landwirten, schatzte sie doch die wilden Tiere mehr als ihre Mitmenschen. Aber auch im naheren Umfeld der Ermordeten gibt es mehrere Verdachtige: Raul, der drogensuchtige Sohn von Irmas Schwester, der seine Tante immer wieder um Geld anpumpte und sie auch schon mal bestohlen hatte. Paul Boden, der Lebensgefahrte ihrer...

Extrait: J'avais chausse mes pantoufles et endosse ma robe de chambre. J'essuyai une larme dont la bise qui soufflait sur le quai avait obscurci ma vue. Un feu clair flambait dans la cheminee de mon cabinet de travail. Des cristaux de glace, en forme de feuilles de fougere, fleurissaient les vitres des fenetres et me cachaient la Seine, ses ponts et le Louvre des Valois. J'approchai du foyer mon fauteuil et ma table volante, et je pris au feu la place qu'Hamilcar daignait me laisser. Hamilcar, a la tete des chenets, sur un coussin de plume, etait couche en rond, le nez entre ses pattes. Un...

Detective John Schwartz plans to ease back into his job in the Crimes Against Children unit with the Fargo Police Department. He has taken some time off to deal with the death of his wife and hopes for a smooth transition back to work. His first case back looks simple on the outside, but it is anything but that. The case soon leads him to a discovery that Fargo, North Dakota has never encountered before; one that will enlist the attention of the FBI. John tries to balance his work and raise his two children, but he finds it harder and harder the further he gets involved in the case. As...

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in this heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed...

Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who's disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a...