B?ru ne bronche pas… Je lui file une bourrade et le Gros bascule contre la vitre. Alors,je sens une cohorte de fourmis envahir mon calbar et remonter le long de mon anatomie. J'actionne le plafonnier de la voiture et je vois une formidable flaque de sang sur la banquette. Le Gros a bloqu? une praline dans la r?gion du cou et il s'est ? peu pr?s vid?. Tel, il me para?t un peu mort. Toute l'affection que je lui porte me remonte ? la gorge.— « B?ru ! je balbutie. B?ru, vieux pote, joue pas au con… Tu m'entends, dis ? »
Also published as .Captain Augustine Washington and his team of navvies are driving a tunnel under the Atlantic in a heroic feat of construction. For Gus, a descendant of the infamous George Washington, executed as a traitor after the Battle of Lexington, this is a chance to redeem the family name.
Dubois, lui, tout en gobant ses marennes, m'expliquait en d?tail la gastro-ent?rite de sa femme de m?nage…C'est vous dire si la plus totale harmonie r?gnait dans la salle ? manger de ces bons amis !Et soudain, au moment pile o? la m?re Dubois se la radinait, portant triomphalement une gigantesque marmite recelant le cassoulet : vlan ! ou plut?t « dring ! » le bignou s'est mis ? carillonner…
Nebraska – and Jack Reacher, huge, hulking and with a freshly busted nose, is still trying to hitch a ride east to Virginia. He's picked up by three strangers – two men and a woman.Immediately he knows they're all lying about something – and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway. But they get through. Because the three are innocent? Or because the three are now four?Is Reacher a decoy?
From the author of comes a crazy case of matrimonial murder and a broken-hearted bride-to-be when a family guest gets hit over the head with a gift. The bad reception only gets deadlier for Houston PI Abby Rose, enlisted to resolve the wedding fiasco.
A collection of 21 crime stories by women writers, including Sara Paretsky, Amanda Cross, Liza Cody and Gillian Slovo. The stories include old favourites such as V.I. Warshawski, Jemima Shore and Kate Fansler.
When Lord Pasern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about. The band's devastatingly handsome but roguish accordionist, Carlos Rivera, has taken a rather intense and mutual interest in her precious daughter F?licit?. So when a bit of stage business goes awry and actually kills him, it's lucky that Inspector Rodrerick Alleyn is in the audience. Now Alleyn must follow a confusing score that features a chorus of family and friends desperate to hide the truth and perhaps shelter a murder in their midst.
S?o?ce ?wieci, na rynku ma?ego miasteczka w Meksyku panuje cisza i spok?j. Mimo to wida?, ?e wydarzy?o si? co? niepoj?tego, a Bess Grady, fotoreporterka, i jej siostra Emily mimowolnie znalaz?y si? w samym ?rodku katastrofy. W chaosie i zamieszaniu Emily znika, Bess za? staje si? zak?adniczk?. Poniewa? chodzi o ?ycie niewinnych ofiar, musi przysta? na wsp??prac? z dziwnym nieznajomym; jego motywy s? podejrzane, za nim ?ciele si? ?cie?ka zas?ana trupami. Do czego doprowadzi ta niebezpieczna gra?
A missing federal judge. A fugitive on the loose. And a deputy marshal who's already broken her own rules.On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend in New Hampshire, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart is viciously attacked at the lakefront cottage of her friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mac fends off her attacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggests he's a deranged drifter – until FBI special agent Andrew Rook arrives.With Rook, Mac broke her own rule not to get involved with anyone in law enforcement, but she knows he isn't up ...
Readers last saw Casey Jordan in The Letter of the Law, where she defended her law professor for the grisly murder of a student only to discover he was guilty. After, Casey left her high-powered practice and wealthy husband and opened a legal aid clinic.When an illegal Mexican immigrant is shot on a ranch outside Dallas, it makes the news, not because of the immigrant, but because of the shooter, Senator Tucker Dean. It looks like a hunting accident, and the well-loved young Senator spins the disaster artfully with his tearful press conference… until the sister in ...
Abracad?ver, mezcla de humor negro y ejemplar ejercicio de deducci?n, combina con gran habilidad la ambientaci?n de ?poca y el retrato de los personajes con una excelente intriga.En el Londres del siglo XIX, el sargento Cribb y el agente Thackeray -asiduos protagonistas de las obras de Lovesey-, investigan las siniestras y humillantes bromas de que est?n siendo objeto algunos de los m?s famosos artistas de music hall durante sus representaciones. Sin embargo, nadie r?e la noche en que una joven muere durante su n?mero de desaparici?n en un espect?culo de magia. Los polic?as de Scotland Yard se lanzan tras la pista del escurridizo asesino y deben poner a prueba su astucia en este duelo singular con una mente maligna.
The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island…and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning.In a novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, and one that is guaranteed to become a classic, S. J. Rozan masterfully ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as she dares you to ponder the bonds of friendship, the meaning of truth, and the stuff of heroism.
Durante el s?nodo de Whitby, en el a?o 664 d.C, la Iglesia romana y la Iglesia celta se encuentran m?s enfrentadas que nunca. De hecho, estamos ante lo que puede llegar a ser una guerra de religiones en la Europa de las edades oscuras.En ese ambiente, entre sacerdotes, doctores y reyes, empiezan a aparecer cad?veres brutalmente asesinados.Entre sospechas y recelos, se encomienda la investigaci?n a una monja de obediencia celta especialista en derecho, sor Fidelma, pero se le asigna como colaborador a un saj?n perteneciente a la Iglesia romana, Eadulf, de quien se desconocen las intenciones. Mientras, a las puertas de la abad?a la peste hace estragos y se prepara una conspiraci?n contra el rey de Northumbria.
